Hi Guys! For todays blog post (also on Butterfly Reflections Ink blog) I'm using Honey Bees Lovely Layers Maple Leaf Die. This die set is AMAZING & makes creating leaves so easy! This die set was a gift to myself, for my birthday TODAY!! lol :)

 To start off I grabbed some Alcohol ink panels that had "Autumn Colors" and I used the shadow die and die cut it. Then I grabbed some white & Gold cardstock and die cut the top layer (2 white & 1 gold). I glued them all together. I added a gold bow on top of the stem base using Altenew Metallic Thread and glued it onto my base panel (pierced die plate) which was added to 110lb Kraft Cardstock.

I made a few cards with slight variations (Background, sentiments & embellishments)

The one above (sentiment) is Altenew Label Love  & the Embellishments are the AMAZING Satin Gold From Trinity Stamps. 

What's great about this die from Honey Bee is you can use anything as your shadow layer.  I just happened to use Alcohol inks because I had them made. You can make a striped layer with scraps, a patterned paper layer, mirrored cardstock or anything!

Here's a 3rd card I made below. So easy & fast to put together!

 This one I left plain & the background is Memory Box Pinpoint leaf. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have an awesome UnbeLEAFable day🍁❤🌞

Crafty Palette 🎨with Alcohol inks

I totally love making Alcohol ink pieces but I tend to collect them and then I think "now what?". So with these cards I used my Alcohol ink "strip" pieces I made in my recent video. 

Making Alcohol ink strips is a great way to stretch Yupo paper and have fun without wasting full sheets and collecting them. And a good way to see what colors you like too!😍

So heres what I did to make these cards....

I love alcohol inks, love love love!

I made some other colors too (seen in video) but I tend to gravitate to 🌈's. 

I also made a strip of Teal with gold and a black/gray with gold. 

I die cut them using MFT Artist Palette die set 🎨🖌 and I used their watercolor stripes for the background panel with Gina K Barely there ink on Neenah 80lb cardstockfrom Cutcardstock. The Hello friend Sentiment is from MFT and Eat, sleep,craft repeat sentiment is from Echo Park. 

The cardbase is 110lb Neenah from Cutcardstock as well.  

I used a Gina K Obsidian for my sentiment and Wow gold embossing powder for the Gold version. 

More details are up on my YouTube channel 🎨💕🖌✂️🖍 stay crafty my friends!🌞