Leaves for all Seasons

 I just love the versatility of the new leaf stamps from Jam'n Stamps and Texana Designs.  Use bright colors and you can have a lovely, bright spring card.  Change to a deeper green and you can just feel the heat of the Texas summer.  Ah, then change it to the look of autumn.

I was having too much fun playing with the new Sizzix Flip-Its die cut.  It is a great die cut that makes a 5" square swing card.  Two-sided paper works great, but solid papers are just as much fun.  The really hard part is getting the movement captured in a photo.  You really have to play with it to have all the fun.

Spring Card

Texana Design Stamps:  Oak Leaf - large, Oak Leaf - small, Oak Leaf - mini, "Welcome" and "There's no place like TEXAS in the Springtime." 
Cardstock by Core'dinations
Green Patterned Paper by Paper Studio
Judikins Metallic Bronze Embossing Powder
Sizzix Movers and Shapers Large Dies Kit
      Card, Square Flip-Its

Fussy cut various leaves and sizes from the patterned paper to decorate your card.

Summer Card

Texana Design Stamps:  Leaf 1 - small,  Leaf 1 - mini, 
     "Welcome"
Green Cardstock
Green Patterned Paper by Paper Studio
Judikins Metallic Bronze Embossing Powder
Bleaching on some small leaves 
Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze - Wicked for highlighting
     bleached leaves
Sizzix Movers and Shapers Large Dies Kit
    Card, Square Flip-Its

Fall Card

Texana Design Stamps:  Oak Leaf - small, Oak Leaf - mini,
    Leaf 1 - mini,  "Welcome" and "There's no place like TEXAS
    for the Holidays!"
Cardstock - Duo Tones - Olive
Judikins Metallic Bronze Embossing Powder
Bleaching on the front three stamps 
Versafine Ink - Sepia for border stamps
Sizzix Movers and Shapers Large Dies Kit
    Card, Square Flip-Its






Below are the six cards I made.  This card die cut can easily be trimmed on two sides to make the card fit in an A2 card envelope.

 Here's the card that I had the most fun with.  I had no idea how much fun bleach could be.  And it worked great for these stamps and this Duo-Tone paper.  All but the front three leaves on the square flip-it are simply stamped, embossed and bleached.  The three small oak leaves under the ribbon were stamped and embossed on light weight yellow paper, then colored with various shades of Tim Holtz Distress Stains.

 

Welcome...

What could be more welcoming than a bluebonnet wreath on your front door? I love the Jam'n Barbed Wire Wreath with the bluebonnets. I designed a front door using Sure Cuts Alot just for this stamp. I stamped the wreath and the "welcome" on acetate with staz-on for a clear background or glass window. For the wreath I flipped the acetate over and colored the flowers and bow with copic markers. I used a silver paint pen to shade the wreath. When I turned it over the flowers were too transparent, so I stamped the flowers again and colored them with stardust gelly pens. I adhered them slightly offset on top of the acetate. Now I have more 3-D and a little shadowing also. A small silver brad nail holds the wreath in place and a larger silver brad makes the doorknob.

I wanted something like wallpaper on the inside of the card and found an ancient piece of paper in my stash that looks like stucco. It just need a little Texas greeting wall hanging. The barbed wire heart and "Home is Deep in the Heart of Texas" stamps worked beautifully. I stamped it on thin wood scrapbook paper and paper pieced it on the wall.

Enjoy!