Fall has finally come to Colorado! The highs are finally only going to be in the 60’s so I can finally get my long-sleeves and jeans out! Woo Hoo!
This lovely fall card made with Stampin’ Up!’s Gorgeous Leaves stamp set and the Intricate Leaves Dies was my inspiration for today’s Make It Mine Monday.
I love how Linda masked portions of the card before stamping her background of leaves. So pretty! To do this take a piece of scrap paper and with either washi tape or a removable adhesive, adhere the scrap paper to the portion of the card front you don’t want stamped. Don’t use too much adhesive, just enough so the scrap paper doesn’t move while you are stamping. On this card, you want to mask both at the top and the bottom.
Confession time….I wanted to try to recreate Linda’s card but it just wasn’t working. My background just didn’t turn out as nicely as hers the rest of the card wasn’t working out the way I wanted so I really changed things up.
To start with, I stamped my leaves background vertically instead of horizontal and kind of framed it with strips of cardstock. As I liked the masked edges on Linda’s card, mine wasn’t working but when I added the frame of Old Olive cardstock it really made my leaves background pop.
Then instead of using the intricate leaf dies to add a leaf to my card I stamped the leaf and die cut it before adhering it to the card from. This added a little bit of dimension to the leaf.
I definitely made Linda’s card my own. The only thing on my card that remotely resembles her card is the leaf background. That’s ok though. I was inspired! I may just have to take another run at recreating Linda’s card. Her design is so “clean”.
Trying to recreate Linda’s card reminded me that even when you’re trying to recreate someone else’s card as close as possible it’s ok to go off on your own tangent. Go where your creative juices are leading you!
Have a great day! Take care and Happy Stamping!