Jun 23 2008
ISC Wood and Leaf - Tutorial
I’m continuing on with the ways to use a leaf image week here on my blog. Why Leaf week, because I can, lol. No, really I love leaf/nature images. There is something comforting and peaceful about an image of a leaf. At least that is how I view them. :) They shouldn’t just be used for fall cards, as I have been so very guilty of in the past. This creation ended up looking masculine to me, which is a plus in my world, since I’m surround by men.
The images used today are from Innovative Stamp Creations. Here is a link to their online store: http://www.innovativestampcreations.com/ischomepage.html
I also made this card, but I don’t have a tutorial for it. My camera battery died after the first shot when I was making it. I would probably be willing to recreate it, but only if there is enough interest in the tutorial. So if you are interested in the tutorial, please leave a comment on this post or if you are getting this by e-mail click on this link to leave a comment. http://zindorf.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/2008/06/23/isc-wood-and-leaf-tutorial/
Let’s get started on the tutorial. 
Supplies:
Stamps: Innovative Stamp Creations “Wood Grain” & Fall Leaves
Paper: SU Whisper White, Basic Black, Blush Blossom & Really Rust
Ink: Palette Noir Black, SU Basic Black & Handsome Hunter, Adirondack Peach Bellini & Ginger
Assessories: Prismacolor Markers Forest Green & Spearmint, Brayer, Versamark Marker, Clear embossing Powder, heat gun, Sponges, Brads, ticket corner punch, Piercing tools, White Gel pen, Grunge board hinges.
Stamped leaf on Whisper White card stock with Palette Noir Black ink.
Note: I used this ink because I am going to color the image with solvent based markers and the Palette ink will not smear with this medium.
Colored the leaf image in with a Prismacolor Spearmint marker.
Colored part of the leaf with a Prismacolor Forest Green marker.
Colored over the entire image again with the Spearmint marker to soften and blend the colors together.
Added a bit more Forest green at the bottom of the leaf. I love these solvent based Prismacolor markers because, just like I’ve shown here with just two markers, you can layer the colors to get a whole lot of variation in shading. Fun huh?
Colored over the entire image with a Versamark marker and heat embossed using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.
Brayered over the entire card stock with Peach Bellini ink.
Brayered Ginger ink on the right side of the card stock.
Using a large unmounted stamp, such as this Wood Grain stamp, is so very easy. I just put them on my work surface face side up. Ink them by swiping my ink pad across the top. Put my card stock face down on the rubber stamp. Put a scrap piece of paper over it and rub it with my hand to transfer the image onto the card stock.
Note: After inking the wood grain stamp, I used a sponge and swiped from top to bottom on the rubber stamp to get more of a stripe in the wood image.
Sponged Basic Black ink heavily at the Right side of the card stock.
Sponged a little Handsome Hunter ink at the left side of the black ink to soften the black edge.
Sponged Ginger ink at the bottom of the leaf image to create a shadow.
Outlined the top of the leaf image with a white gel pen to add some highlight.
I got this Grunge board by Tim Holtz from Innovative Stamp Creations and decided to give it a try today. First of all, this is not like chip board it is so flexible. I was amazed at how it took ink too. I inked my hinge pieces with basic black ink.
Used a ticket corner punch on the corners of my main image panel.
Assembled the card and pierced along the top, bottom and left side of the Really Rust Panel with my piercing tools.
Here is my finished card measuring 5″ x 6.5″.
Thanks for hanging out with me today while I continue on with my Leaf excursion. Hopefully, you will start to see leaves in a whole new light too.
May your day be filled with the tinkling sound of Aspen leaves.
Until my next post. . . . . . .
Michelle
Michelle,
Woo-hoo, I’m the first to post!lol Love both cards, and yes I would love to have you do the tutorial of the second card. I find it very interesting on how you did it. You do an amazing job, wish I could make my cards at nice as yours, my seem to lack something along the way.
Have a great day, and keep bringing us all your beautiful cards.
Michelle,
Love the new cards, please do a tutorial on the other card. I would love to know how you managed the circles.
Linda
Wow! When I first looked at it I thought the leaf was popping off the card. Stunning!
Oh I haven’t used the wood bg stamp yet. I love this!
Another nice use of a leaf! I would love to see the tutorial on the second card cause it too made me go “Ohhhh, wow”!
Amazing cards again,
Please tell us how you did the circles !
Yes, please make a tutorial. I love everything you do and seeing how you do it helps soooooooooo much.
That card is awesome. How love how the leaf jumps out of the card. Beautiful.
I would love to see the other one.
I love this card. It looks like the leaf is just sitting on top of wood. I too love to do nature cards. Your tutorials are great and I thank you for answering questions so fast. I too would love to know how you did the circles, that as your others, is just a stunning card. If you have the time, please do that tutorial also.
Thank you so much for all of these tutorials.
Please do a tutorial on the other card–I’m dying to know how you did the circles! Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your blog.
I love your work. Please do the tutorial on the other card.
Yep, we are not going to give you a break.ha ha Yes I want ot know how in the heck did you do those circles?????? If you have time I would love the tutorial for the second card sometime. Am loving these leaf cards……….
Evelynn
These cards are amazing. When the first one came up on the screen I just kinda stared at it because it was so dimensional. My first thought was holy moley how did she do that? Then oh yeah, read the tutorial!!!!
After I saw your first leaf card I had a moment to search through my stamps and I never realized how many leaf stamps I do have!! So, I’m on my way to do a little idolizing of nature via my leaf stamps. Your art, as always, is stunning. Thank you so much for the enlightenment and opening new doors of appreciating nature.
Yes, I’d like to see a tutorial of the card you made but couldn’t share as your battery died. (Don’t ya just hate when that happens?)
Very Cool! I Love both of them! Bummer that your battery died…I hate it when that happens…seems to happen a lot with digital cameras.
While I LOVE your tutorials, boy, that seems like a lot of work to re-create that card…maybe can you explain how you made it? But, by all means, if you really don’t mind making a tut…I’ll certainly be here to read it!!
Have a glorious day.
L
you mentioned you used a coluzzle to do the circles, I’d love to know how. P.S. I learn so many tips and tricks from you posts. Keep them coming.
LOVE both your cards - stunning - just stunning. And I am loving Leaf Week
!! Also if it isn’t too much trouble, I would love to see how you did the other card - esp. the circles.. Great Cards!!
Add me to the list of those wishing for the “circle” tutorial. That card is lovely!
Beautifulcards. I am a devoted daily visitor to see what wonderful thing you have produced! I am very intrigued as to how the circles are made so awaiting the tutorial.
Yes please, I would love to see a tutorial on the cicle and leaf card.
I like that you have used different colours for this card. I was captivated by the 3D effect of the leaf and so glad to know now how to do it. Excellent tutorial!
Wow Michelle! Both cards are fabulous! Yes, I’m sure we all want to know how you did your circles!
I looked at today’s card and wondered if you did the leaf using some kind of paper tole, but no, you just did a fabulous job of shading! Can you come to my house and show me just how you create? Perhaps in person a little bit of the magic will rub off on me! 
Beautiful work again. I would have sworn that the leaf had to be a separate piece very carefully cut out. I was shocked to see that in fact it was part of the original piece of cardstock. I am interested in how you did the circles, so if you don’t recreate this card, I would love to see you do something similar. Thanks as always, it is a pleasure to view your work.
All of your tutorials are fantastic!! Each tutorial teaches a different technique and I would love to know how you did the circles. The only problem is every time you use a stamp set my friends and I LOVE the cards and we want to buy the stamps. Its a race each morning to see what you’ve posted and hope that its stamps we already have so we don’t have to buy more, LOL! I love your posts please keep them up.
Dawn
I still think you should write a book! I would love to have all of these instructions in color at my fingertips!!! (I guess i do, don’t I???…….) Anyway, I would love a tutorial of the leaf in the pond with the ripples…by the fern or trees or leaves…….. I love to see the steps of you applying color and your method of getting the circles to merge so nicely and not just look like a bunch of circles next to each other………
Thanks yet again for your wonderful visual masterpiece- I love them all!!!
Wow, I LOVE the card with the leaf in the water. I love the detail…especially how the leaf is half under the water. BEAUTIFUL (as usual!). Thanks for sharing!
Ok Michelle……. Silly question, OF COURSE, I sure do want a tutorial.
I am kind of addicted to and collect anything with a leaf on it, so I’m lovin these cards.
TFS
um yes please for the tutorial on the second card! If you wanted to keep yourself entertained too you could do it in a different colour combo and just put the original colours in brackets or something. That way it could be two - two - tutuorials in one! And you would have two different cards to show for it instead of two the same just to please us, your adoring fans! The cards are both awesome!
Ya, sure, you betcha we’d love to learn that technique in Minnesota!! I wake up thinking about the cards I’ll make with your inspiration!!! (-:
Beautiful!
Um…WOW..these cards are B-eau-ti-ful!!!! Love, love, love them!!! Thank you for the amazing tutorial. Your leaf really has dimension, and your the shading on the wood grain is so realistic too. I’m really liking those hinges you added to the card too. I would be very interested in seeing a tutorial on your beautiful leaf, water ripple card
I really can’t get over how pretty both of these cards are!
Incredible cards! I would love to see the tutorial on the second one!
Michelle, love both cards. would like to see a tutorial on the other card if possible. trying to figure out how it seems to appear dimensional. like it is floating. how do you do it!!!! Beautiful!!!
Blessings…
I would love to see a tutorial on the other card. You are one of the most artistic people I know.
Another vote for a tutorial on the leaf under water- i need some sympathy cards, and that style seems like it would be terrific for that. (Not that mine would look as stellar as yours, but I keep trying!)
Both cards are stunningly beautiful, and as always I thank you for your willingness to share your creativity. You are a stamping goddess!
Oh, wow. These are absolutely stunning! Your work is by far the best I have seen. You are an amazing artist! Yes, please post the other tutorial!!
As usual, just beautiful! I would like to know how you got the water effect!
As always stunning - love your work and would be very interested in knowing how the other card was made. Thanks so much for all your lovely art.
How much better can you get, Michelle. These leaf pictures are awesome. The one on the wood grain WOW! It looks like leather and real wood and the leaf looks like it has something under it to poof it up in the middle. It is so 3D looking. Magnificient. I like the other card too with all the rings. Just gorgeous.
Yes I would love a tutorial - both are stunning.
And I agree - there’s something about a leaf!!
I love your cards. Your tutorials seem to be very good - I gotta try one of them for sure. The circles baffled me and I would love to see how you do it. Your cards are gorgeous. I would love to see you recreate Raku (pottery) leaves on paper with tutorials. The hinges were perfect with the wood grain too. Thanks so much for sharing your talent!
Michelle,
I never tire of your tutorials and will read every one that you are willing to create. Hence, my vote is for a tutorial if you have the time and energy (and a new battery)! :o)
Thank you so much for the ones that you have provided thus far. They provide much needed insight for those of us who don’t have any ‘color’ training.
BettyAnn
I would love to know how you did the circles in the second one. It looks like someone dropped a leaf into water.
I hope you will do a tutorial on the second card. Both of them are terrific! Thanks.
I am having so much fun trying to do the tutorials that you are doing. I am just amazed at your art. I would love to see a tutorial on the circle card. I hope you get enough responses to do one. Thanks for sharing all your talent with us. Smiles–Gloria
i would watch a tutorial on anything you would like to offer, so if you are of a mind, please show the tute on the leaf with circles! thanks, sandyh
Awesome circle leaf card - would love to see a tutorial and try to follow along. Thanks for offering. Linda
Yes please. I would love to learn the technique. I absolutely LOVE your work!
The maple leaf falling into the water is a great card.
I wasn’t sure how you stamped the wood image so I am glad I could see that technique.
Thank you for two fantastic cards today.
Your cards are gorgeous!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all the tutorials you do for us already… I am very interested in a tutorial on the second card if you get the time… Thanks in advance!
Michelle, I love both of the cards and would love to see today’s 2nd card done as a tutorial!!! I think your stuff rocks, and I hope to be as talented as you are some day!!! I have a very loooonnnnggg way to go!!! Keep the good stuff coming. I look forward to the daily tutes!! Hisses, Rockin Robin Caldwell
I love your cards - The leaves are beautiful. I hope you do a tutorial for the last one (or at least the one when your camera died). Looks like rings around the moon.
Please do the tutorial, the card is lovely!
I would love a tutorial for the leaf in water card. It is absolutely gorgeous! Thank you so much for all you teach us…it is invaluable!
These are both beautiful. I would love to see a tutorial on the second card also.
Thanks for sharing.
Your cards are always so beautiful. Please send me a tutorial of the other card and/or anything else you are willing to share. You are my favorite stamper and your tutorials can’t be compared to any other.
I’ve learned so much from your tutorials and I’ve only been getting the emails for a short time. You are an amazing artist! I too want to know how you made the circles on the other card. Very creative. I’m so glad I found your blog.
I would love to see the tutorial on the second card…I am totally intrigued on how you did the circles! Oh and did I mention how much I love all of your cards!! Just beautiful - thanks for sharing!!!
I love your leaf series, I was the same in thinking only of fall leaves. I would like the tutorial on the leaf in the water also. I use the Cuttlebug a lot but yours was really great. I will have to try that. Thank you for all you do. Larie
I would like to see the Tutorial for the water and aspen card too. “It is so Pretty!” Love it love it love it. You are so talented and sweet for sharing so much with us. You are no doubt my favorite # 1 spot to see and check out daily. I am hooked on your site with hook, line and sinker. Thanks so much
Debi
OMG…you are so talented! Yes, I would love your tutorial on the second card. Please.
Wow Michelle - another stunner!!! Love the leave series that you are doing!!! The leaf looks like it can blow right off the paper!
You just amaze me with the things you come up with, these two cards just jump out at you, they are fabulous. Thanks for sharing
Michelle, Both cards are beautiful! I would love to see how you water ring effect. I think “nature week” is a great idea.
hope you’re having a great day.
nina
I read every tutorial you provide Michelle so if you made the tutorial for the leaf in the water I’d definitely read it!! These cards are awesome as all your cards are!
Both cards are gorgeous. I would love to see a tutorial for the second one. I love how the leaf looks partially underwater. I always look forward to seeing your work!
Yes! I can echo what the others are saying … I read every tutorial and love seeing your creations every day!! Thank you for sharing your talent with us. You are an inspiration!!
Michelle, your art is fantastic. I tried brayered skies last week for the first time and having read all your tutorials helped me so much. I would love to see a tutorial with the circles as even if I think I can work it out its always better to actually see how you do it. You are an inspiration. thanks
Michelle,
Both cards are awesome. Maybe you could do an explanation of how the circles were done. Of course, I would love to see a tutorial If that isn’t too much trouble.
I am in awe of your talent. You inspire me to step outside of my comfort box. I love both cards, and hope for a tutorial on the second.
I just can’t get enough of your fabulous cards and tutorials! I love the woodgrain pattern on this card with the leaf, and those hinges are awesome! I don’t know how you continue to come up with all these incredible ideas for cards, but I am so thankful that you share your expertise with your readers! I’ve learned a wealth of information from your FABULOUS blog. TFS!!! BTW, I’m always interested in another tutorial from you!!
I am also amazed at your art. It’s beautiful. and I’ll add my “yes”, I’d like to see a tutorial on the second card.
thank you
Sandra
Oh yes! Please, please, please post a tutorial on that second card! Both cards are gorgeous, and I love to see how you do what you do!
ENOUGH INTEREST???!!!yes PLEASE! I love your cards and tutorials and am so thankful you share them with us! I love getting my e mails to see if you have posted yet… thanks so much… I would LOVE for you to share the second card tutorial as well… thanks so much!
I actually gasped when I opened your blog feed! That woodgrain card and leaf is GORGEOUS! Of course I would totally love a tutorial for the second one… but no Pressure!
Diane
Wow! I am a big fan of leaves also and when I was sent your blog I about fell off my chair! PLEASE do the second tutorial; I woudl love to know how you did the circles. You have such an amazing way of bringin nature to teh next level in a paper format! Thanks so much for sharing your talent with us!
Definitely! Would love to see a tutorial for the 2nd card!
PLEASE do a tutorial!! I would love to see how you did the circular background!!
Your work is beautiful!!
That leaf looks so 3D it is amazing and the grungeboard hinges give it a more masculine feel. Love you other card too so pease do a tutorial. Thank you for all the time you give us.
I’d love to see a tutorial for your leaf on water technique. At least that’s what it looks like to me. I think it’s absolutely beautiful!!!!! I love the wood and leaf card as well, but you already gave us a beautiful tutorial for that.
Absolutely beautiful! I am amazed by your talent. You make me want to CASE every card I’ve seen. And yes, I would be interested in the tutorial on the “water rings” card technique. Another beautiful card. I now have a much larger wish list than I had before I found your BLOG! Keep stamping to inspire the rest of us!
Stunning cards, I would love to see the tutorial on the other card as well. It is very inspiring.
Wonderful! I would definitely be interested in a tutorial on the “ripple” card! I think it is absolutely gorgeous and I would love to CASE it!
Ummm, had enough yet? lol Seems pretty obvious to me that your adoring fans want that ripple tutorial!
I thought it was a grand idea to do it in another color(s?) with the original color(s) listed in parenthesis, thus givig us two - two tutorials in one! Yay!
Awake in the night and cannot sleep. Decided to get some inspiration for the week so I began to jump around on blogs to see if my eye can catch some new ways. I´m really happy that I came across your blog and I have stayed much longer then I should at your place. Thanks a million for all the inspiration.
http://www.digiscrapp.blogspot.com
BRILLIANT artwork……as usual…. Thanks for the tutorials!
I would definitely like to see a tutorial for the second card. I look at your cards and they seem like they would be impossible to duplicate. Then after reading your tutorial, I always say to myself, “So that’s how she did it. I bet I can do that too.” Please continue your wonderful tutorials. I have learned so much from you.
Michelle, once again you have outdone yourself. Your cards are just amazing! For the first time, I tried to re-create your first leaf creation from your tutorial. The tutorial, as always, was SO easy to follow. Mine didn’t turn out too bad, but nothing as exquisite as yours!
Michelle:
Just found your blog…all I can say is WOW!!! Your tutorials are great, how wonderful to watch your step by step techniques, & creativity. You are most definitely in my FAVS & thank you soooooo much for sharing.
Hi Michelle,
I’d be interested in the tutorial on the second card as well, but I think (after staring at it for awhile) that I could figure it out. I’m assuming that you brayered the lightest color blue and then made small to large circles and sponged the edges? Let me know if that is correct. Thanks so much!!
please do your tutorial on the second card love the blue in this falling leaf as it were cannot wait to see it thanks you for all the information that you give to all that see your work. p.s what a wonderful picture you took I guess you can say girls night out you guys were sitting at a table keep up the good work. WISH I LIVE NEXT DOOR TO YOU Earline
YES — I would love a tutorial on this card!!
I am loving Leaf week, I’ve gotten some new ideas for using all those leaf stamps I own! And if you would recreate the tutorial for the other card that would be great too. I’m sure I’d learn something there too! QP