Quixotic Cards had a challenge to use leaves somewhere in your creation. I was very excited, because when I was reorganizing all my craft stuff, I found a package of gorgeous iron-on leaves that I bought at Michaels when I worked there. I worked at Michaels in university! That package has been sitting, unopened, in my craft bin for years. 6 years? Something like that. So, I’m finally using them!

The colour inspiration came entirely from the diamond-patterned paper (Michaels brand!). I gave Tilda an orange dress, which was awkward to blend – I have one orange marker, and one yellow marker (YR04 and Y02 respectively), but I got a look I was happy with eventually.

For some reason I got it in my head that I wanted to put eyelets in the leaves (yes, I just bought a Crop-a-Dile). At first I was going to eyelet them to the paper, then I realised that I couldn’t get the Crop-a-dile that far in to the paper, so I put eyelets in all the leaves I wanted to use, then strung them on some vintage seam binding.

The seam binding is taped down (yay scor-tape!) but the leaves are still free, so you can slide around them a bit. The card layout was inspired by Sketch Saturday’s sketch #93.

The red piece was cut with a the largest Labels 7 Nestability, and was actually the leftover bit from another project. That project is now in the recycling bin, but I’m using the scraps!

One of my favourite parts of the patterned paper that I drew into the rest of the project was the touches of aquamarine. That’s why Tilda’s shoes are blue, and the reason for the blue gems. As it is March, Aquamarine’s month, that’s the prompt at Daring Cardmakers right now.