Hello, my Doodlebugs friends! Michele here again - so that must mean it is FRIDAY!! Yay! I have a beautiful card for you today - by now you must know how much I love leaves? This one from Pinkfresh called Detailed Leaf has many means of making it: stenciled, stamped, die cut, or foiled. I wanted to see if it could stand up to just one - stenciling - but it fell quite flat for me. Oh, it's pretty enough, but with a few extra steps you can get to this:

from this:
BTW Here's a tip - don't waste that lovely ink after blending the first stencil!
Just give it a spritz of water and flip it over onto a piece of cardstock...
I continued to spritz and flip until I achieved the inky look I wanted then, after drying, used one of the Spellbinder Essential arched dies to cut then adding my favored Altenew Dotted Swirls debossing:
Die-cutting, and adding the stamped image to the stenciled one really
brought life to the leaves! This sentiment is part of the stamp and the coordinating die set cuts it so perfectly in one piece.
But what if those lines were foiled? Even when stenciled in shades of grey, the foiling really added gorgeous details!
The sentiment on this masculine version comes from Fancy Script Words - foiled and cut with the coordinating dies. I've added just a little more interest to the background using my Pinkfresh Diagonal Stitched Plaid die.
I hope I've brought a little fun into your day with these gorgeous leaves! Wishing you the best crafty weekend, my friends!
=] Michele
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