Circles and Leaves

Hi and welcome!  Today is the first time since I finished work for the holiday break that I've actually wanted to make a card.  It really irritates me that when I get the opportunity to make cards every day, I don't want to!  Of course, it does take time to decompress after the working year and this is day 8 so I guess about a week to unwind and relax is normal. 

Anyway, onto today's card.  I was scrolling through Pinterest and was drawn to a print I found there and that gave me the impetus to actually go into my craft room and start creating.  This is the result:

I started with a gray panel and using a circle stencil and some circle masks I die-cut from stencil material, I stenciled the background.  On some of the circles, before removing the stencil, I would flick on some gold, black and/or white ink.  Once it was dry, I die-cut it with a stitched rectangle die and adhered it to a white card base.

For the foliage, I die-cut various leaves from both black and gold cardstock and arranged them onto the card panel.  The large black leaf die is popped up on foam tape.  The sentiment was hot-foiled in gold onto black and popped up with foam tape.

Thanks for visiting.  I am going to link this card to the All Occasions challenge at Krafty Chicks as well as the Anything Goes stencil challenge at Happy Little Stampers (so sorry to see they are going on an indefinite break - but totally understand.  Running a challenge is hard work - let alone running several).

Products used:

Ink:  Eucalyptus, Green Opal, Lemonade Stand, Caramel Toffee, Mangrove Root (Altenew), Unicorn White (Hero Arts), Black Soot Distress Ink

Cardstock:  White, Black, Cement Gray (MFT)

Dies:  Infinity Circles (Hero Arts), Standard Circles, Hexi-Gem Sentiments Hot Foil, Sealed Botanical Sprigs (Spellbinders), Tattered Leaves (SSS), Stitched Rectangle Stax (MFT)

Accessories:  Basic Shapes - Circles Stencil (MFT), Gold hot foil, Gold Color Shine (Heidi Swapp), White Acrylic Paint.

Cheers

Karren