Inlaid Leaves

Ooooooookay the house is pretty much as clean as it's going to get, I have two more loads of towels to wash and I'm done!  Which means I have a little bit of time to spend in my craft room before the hordes descend : p

Thought I'd try something different with the Tropical Layers dies and do an inlaid design.  I only used two colors of cardstock, Bermuda Bay and Coastal Cabana; I sponged on the insides of the leaves to make a darker version of Bermuda Bay.

Check out this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

Which I paired with the color challenge from CAS Colours & Sketches:

Then I worried that my card wasn't CAS enough, and I really liked those colors together, so I made this:

Yep, definitely more CAS this time.  For the Bermuda Bay leaf, I inked up the stamp with Versamark, then Bermuda Bay ink, and heat embossed with clear embossing powder so I could watercolor without the ink running.  The background leaves are cut out of silver foil paper; I cut the one on the left backwards (with the foil facing down instead of up towards the die) so I could have the leaves facing different directions.  The upside-down one ended up having more texture than the normal one, so I put the normal one back on my die cut machine facedown and ran it through with no die.  My cutting plates are well-used (like, a LOT) so doing that gave me some nice texture on the silver paper.  I used a blending brush to make a light Coastal Cabana background for my leaves and popped the sentiment on there.  Done!

Okay, the washer is squawking that it's done.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!, first card:
Stamps:  Artfully Layered
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Versamark
Paper:  Bermuda Bay, Coastal Cabana
Accessories:  Tropical Layers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Silver EP, silver gems that are retired, Dimensionals

Supplies, all SU!, second card:
Stamps:  Artfully Layered
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Versamark
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Coastal Cabana, Silver Foil
Accessories:  Tropical Layers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, white EP, clear EP, Dimensionals