I printed two card panels using Alex Syberia’s gorgeous Autumn Leaves border image and I typed out the sentiments myself using fonts I have within my Silhouette Studio.

If you’ve been to my blog or other socials before, you’ll know that I love me some good foiling!! And in a sort of waste not – want not mentality I keep the negative pieces left over from each time I’ve foiled. I have built up quite a collection of these odds & ends so I decided to try to use them up! ??

After one of the techniques I tried in my last foiling tutorial worked so well, it spurred another idea that used that same technique. I was really hoping it would work so I decided to try a little experiment.

I have to admit that it worked even better than I hoped and I’m so excited by the results!!!

Once I had my foiled card panels I decided to keep one as it is to let that foil really shine and I added some Fall colour to the second.

I used several CP inks to add colour over the leaves; I wasn’t overly careful about where the inks were, allowing them to bleed out of the images towards the centre of the panel. I used Mandarin Spice, Peppermint Scrub, Eucalyptus and Green Tea.

Once I had done that I wanted to give the leaves themselves a bit more definition, so I grabbed my Arteza coloured pencils and added some extra colour over the top of the inking. I really like how that brought back the definition of the images.

I matted each foiled panel onto a piece of black cardstock, leaving a very thin border before attaching to an a2 card made from 110lb Neenah Solar White.

I had a black box round one of the sentiments and I popped it up on foam tape to my coloured panel. I trimmed the second sentiment a little smaller and then matted that onto some more of the black card, this sentiment went in the same position on the un-coloured panel.

I finished both cards off with some sparkly black sequins from Kat Scrappiness!