Lesia Zgharda • Tropical Leaves

Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

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Hello and happy mid-week! Even being not a big fun of tropical theme (and everything that is related to summer which I dislike) I still got in love with new Lesia Zgharda using tropical leaves from January release. Making a background by white embossing them and then inking over with green ink added a bit winter look to them.

Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

I’m a winter person and tropical theme is not my cup of tea. But I just fall in love with these leaves (monstera here and here, palm – here, here and here) and had to use them. The card is pretty simple. I used old and classy white resist technique for it.

First onto a white panel I white embossed several different leaves keeping them to the bottom and right. I was embossing by a couple of leaves at a time. As white embossing on white cardstock is not very visible it was easier to control the result. For overlapping sold stamps I didn’t care to mask them off or remove embossing powder from overlapped areas, as they were just melted together.

For outlined images after adding embossing powder I was removing it from overlapped areas, to achieve the look as if they were positioned one behind another.

Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

After that I inked the embossed area with distress inks. Sprinkled some water using my beloved Tim Holtz Distress Sprayer, waited a couple of seconds to let ink move and blotted off with paper towel.

I die cut hello word out of the panel as well as cut several hellos from white cardstock. Adhered all them together to create a DIY chipboard.

Next the panel was adhered onto a white card base and the hello chipboard was inserted into its negative space. I also kept all inside pieces when was cutting hello and inserted them into corresponding spots, achieving continuous design.

Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

Lastly I added several clear droplets which I think match perfectly distress blots.

Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

One of my friends said that this card looks both tropical and freezing. That’s who I am, even tropical cards I made wintery like haha.

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Tropical leaves with winter feel. Card by @s_shayevich

This post is also available in: Russian

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2 Comments

  1. Reply

    Tara Prince

    February 22, 2017

    So pretty!!

  2. Reply

    Karen L K

    February 22, 2017

    Very nice! You did a great job too considering tropical is not your thing.

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