Good Wednesday morning and welcome to the CLASSroom. One of my favorite styles of cards is white on white with small touches of color. I especially love to use this style with pops of red and green for Christmas holiday cards. I thought it would be fun to create an all white fall scene and adding a handful of brightly colored oak leaves. For my project today I used the newly released Impression Obsession Tree Frame, Oak Leaves and Rake and Bushel of Apples. The frame was created using the Nesting Card Templates.
I know I showed this leaf coloring technique on my last CLASSroom project but I thought I would go ahead and show the pictures since I was coloring leaves on a much smaller scale. I used three colors applied in three sections on the leaves- Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint and Fired Brick.
Apply each color ink with a mini applicator.
Assemble bushel basket pieces with glossy accents. Attach leaves in basket with glossy accents starting with the front leaves first and working backwards to fill. Hint: I love using the tweezers from my Accessory Tool Kit for this job.
Insert one (or as many as you like) colorful leaf in the basket.
Attach several white leaves and a few colorful leaves to the tree branches with glossy accents.
Cut a single frame and apply ATG adhesive to the back.
Hand cut a small ground section and apply to the back of the frame.
Attach the frame directly over top of the tree frame.
Apply thin strips of mounting tape to the back of the frame and trunk and branches of the tree.
Attach the framed tree to the card base.
Attach the basket of leaves behind the ground section with a piece of mounting tape. Create a pile of leaves around the trunk of the tree and basket by arranging and attaching with glossy accents.
Attach a few colorful leaves swirling and falling in the free space and a few more in the tree branches and ground area to finish.
Here’s a closer view. It is really hard for me to capture good photos of white on white. I love how the leaves pop off the all white background.
I hope you have been inspired to create a white on white project for your fall and holiday cards. Thanks for coming by and I will look forward to seeing you next time.
Card size” 5.50” x 4.25”
