Today I took the day off to have a mini-retreat at home. My main goal is to not feel guilty for not doing the laundry or dishes. 🙂 I also wanted to try and play with a few techniques. The Picture Perfect challenge at Paper Smooches was a great chance.
Isn’t that picture gorgeous?!? Sometimes it’s easier to be inspired by a picture than others and this time was a piece of cake! I especially love how the colors blend into one another. Distress Inks will be perfect for this.
Hopefully you can see the glimmer on the leaves in this closeup.
SO fun to make! The patterned paper is from the Basic Grey Hey You! collection. I used the Paper Smooches Leafy Greens stamp set for all the leaves that I stamped on vellum. Since Distress Inks don’t dry well on non-porous paper, I needed to seal them and this was a good excuse to also use the Distress as an embossing ink. I used clear embossing powder to seal them all and then added a couple dewy drops of Glossy Accents on a couple of them. The sentiment is also from Paper Smooches called Word Salad. I made enough leaves so I have extra and can add them to something else. I’m also entering this into the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp. Off to my next challenge!
OHHHH! This is gorgeous!!!!!!!! I love the background paper and the water drops! WOW! You nailed this photo! THANKS so much for playing along with the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge! Hope you join in the fun this week for the STRIPE trend watch challenge;)
Your leaves look AWESOME! So pretty! Thanks so much for playing along with us over on the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge Blog!
Thanks! I think I’ll have to make some more of those. They were fun.
Your leaves are sooo amazing!! I love how translucent and glittery they are….. Just gorgeous :0)
Thanks for joining in the challenge at PS Sparks this week :0)
I absolutely love this. Beautiful colors and great use of vellum and embossing powder. Also love your layout. Nice work.
Beautiful!! Yay for a personal YOU day!! =)
Thanks! 🙂 Watching “bad” cheerleader and dance movies!