Who said leaves have to be green?

Morning Crafty friends

It's Wednesday so hopefully all of the children are back to school and we are returning to a bit of normality and routine.  I have had a lovely 6 weeks with my children and we even managed a couple of mini holidays.

Now it's time to get back to the fun of stamping and creating and I have a card to share with you. 

As you will have seen in a previous post I am a big fan of the Parrot paradise stamp set that Lydia Evans designed for Altenew. I love tropical leaves and the holiday vibe they give off.

I decided to go down a different route with my colour options this time and opted for blue tones and golden peach highlights.

I applied a very light covering of blush ink through the sketched lines stencil and then stamped the leaves in a circular pattern using the Deep blue seas inks from Altenews recent release.

I die cut a circle with a stitched border and placed this on foam pads. My sentiment is also from the Parrot paradise set, this time I chose to heat emboss it with the Golden peach crisp embossing powder, I also added a strip of peach embossed card at the bottom to tie the whole look together.

I was luck enough to have sequins in my stash that match the peach colour so added a few using glossy accents to adhere them.

Here's links to the items I used in case you want to add them to your stash.

Sketched-lines-stencil

Parrot-paradise-stamp-set

Golden-peach-crisp-embossing-powder

Deep-blue-seas-mini-cube-set

Blush-crisp-dye-ink

Thanks for stopping by today, I'd love to know what you think of the blue leaves in the comments below.