When Nature Turns to Gold-Card Tutorial #4

     Hey friendship! Welcome back to the Fall card series! (I've decided to separate Fall and Halloween in to Falling Leaves and Halloween Haunts).  I loved doing a little Copic coloring on yesterday's card, so I decided to do some more today mixed with embossing.  Let's get to it!

Some warm colors for this upcoming season

     I knew I wanted to do a little experimenting with my coloring, so I started by cutting my patterned cardstock and preparing it with my embossing buddy.  I proceeded to stamp and emboss leaves from my Inkadinkado fall set with Versamark ink and Recollections gold embossing powder.

Embossing over my powder tray 

     I used four Copic markers to color in the falling leaves; E21, E23, E25, E59.  I was actually super pleased with the results. I love how you can see a little bit of the penmanship peeking through under the coloring!

A little Copic fun

     After the coloring, I went rifling through my ribbon drawer, finally selecting a white ribbed ribbon and tan (lacy?) piece.  I ended up using double adhesive to secure these on to my patterned paper.  Glossy accents is adhesive for ribbon, though I added some traditional tape just to add extra security.  

It's not pretty, but it's effective

     I embossed the sentiment with the same gold embossing powder on to a hand cut tag.  I've been dying to use my Recollections button brads, as they just scream 'fall' to me.  Additionally, my itch to use bakers twine was creeping up on me again, so I decided a nice bow was going to be necessary.  Using my Tim Holtz Tonic Craft Pick, I pierced the paper to insert the brad and make room to tie the bow.

The craft pick works much better than a hole bunch for smaller brads

     Finally, I was ready to adhere the entire decorated portion to the card base using foam tape.  I elected to use a white standard size card base, just to keep everything from getting to brown. And finally...

The whole shebang

     Thanks for stopping by, friends.  I hope to see you again soon. Happy Fall!
estimated time: 40 minutes