CAS Mix Up MM Botanical Prints

Time for our CAS Mix Up (MM) October Botanical Prints Challenge 

hosted by our awesome DT girl,  Bonnie😃 We also have creative cards by our

 very creative Guest Designer Izzy ........to inspire you.

Bonnie's Message

This month I'd like to find leaves, flowers, ferns, etc. from the yard and bring them into the craft room to use on a card.  You can put them between 2 pieces of watercolor paper and run them through the Big Shot, or use them on a gel plate, or even paint a leaf and press it onto cardstock.

I can't wait to see what you do with what grows in your space!

Video Tutorials:

Gel Print Leaves by Heather Telford (9:11)
Golden Leaves by Olga Direktorenko (6:30)

Stamping Real Leaves with Distress Oxide Ink by Gina K. Designs (8:22)

Press Leaves with Big Shot with France Martin (6:11)

Press Flowers with Big Shot with Karen Titus (3:53)

My card using my version of Gina K. Designs Stamping Real Leaves Video!

The differences between my technique and Gina K's Stamping Real Leaves

 with Distress Ink's was that I did not use a dried maple leaf and I then added Bister's Mahogany, Red and Yellow powder to my glass mat and spritzed with water.  Gina used Distress inks directly onto her leaf.  I then placed leaf over the inks and smooshed the ink onto the leaf until well covered.

Next I placed maple leaf onto Strathmore MM paper and placed a large acrylic block over leaf

and pressed down with my hand.  Removed leaf and smooshed and and reapplied more ink onto

leaf and placed carefully over 1st layer of ink and pressed down with acrylic block.

You can see some of the veins and stem.  The maple leaf image was not distinct so when leaf 

was dry I placed it over the dried ink and traced around the leaf with an 03 Art Pen.

I did the same thing with the seed pod.

Next used one of my favorite techniques...fussy cutting both images with my SU papersnips:-)

Then popped up the maple leaf with craft foam and placed leaf and seed pod 

onto SU die cut Basic White 100# Retired Framelits Square Collection.

Added image to SU 5" square Pumpkin Pie cardstock.

Then stamped sentiment with Smile all Season sentiment using Archival Jet Black ink

and Done!  Loved the result:-)

Hope you can play along.  You have until the 24th to add your Botanical Print:-)

Love and Hugs...Stay Safe dear friends...

Supplies:

Stamps: Penny Black "Smile all Season" sentiment.

Paper: SU Pumpkin Pie CS.  SU Basic White 100# CS.  Strathmore MM. 

Inks: Bisters reconstituted powders with water on glass mat.  Bisters Mahogany, Red and Yellow.

Archival Jet Black ink.

Accessories: SU Framelits Square Collection.  SU Regular and Mini Dimensionals.  SU Papersnips.

03 Art Pen. Real Vine Maple Leaf.