Our current challenge here at Cardz 4 Galz, is to use leaves as your theme. My card is using a new stamp set from Your Next Stamp and I paired the images with a few sprays and leaves from an MFT set, along with a sentiment from a Joy Clair set. Using some CS that has a grain that looks like subtle embossing I created a slimline card base and stamped the various images after marking where the circles would be cut. After I had coloured everything with watercolour pencils I used an MFT slimline stitched circle die to create the openings. Setting the die cuts aside temporarily, on the inside of card front I added foam tape, to which I added an additional piece of CS. Then I paper pieced the die cuts into the openings ensuring they lined up properly but were slightly set back due to the popped up card front. In retrospect I should have doubled up on the foam tape so it would have lifted a little more but I still got the look I was going for. I curved the sentiment slightly so it fit around the circle edge in two places.

I did see somewhere that a card creator named this as a reverse eclipse technique. So far I haven’t tried the original eclipse technique although I plan to. I am quite pleased with how this turned out and it was a fun way to make a card.

Thanks for stopping by and a Happy Fall to everyone. In our case we hope for some rain as we really need it.