Instructions 

Step 1: Gather the supplies listed.

Step 2: Begin by stamping the tree branches from Mr. Frostie onto the top right and bottom left of an A2 piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock. Stamp it in Distress Scorched Timber Ink, followed by Distress Embossing Ink. Then cover with Distress Embossing Glaze Scorched Timber and heat. When the glaze is dry, spray the paper with water and Distress Stain Lost Shadow and let dry. Once it is dry prepare for step 3 by getting out the Flourish THS032 stencil Micro Glaze, and a Blending Tool and Blending Foam.

Step 3: Lay the stencil over the right side of the paper. Dip the blending tool with blending foam into the Micro Glaze, just getting a small amount on it. Work it into the foam on the media mat. Add more when necessary. Blend the Micro Glaze through the stencil and onto the background. Repeat on the left side of the card. This won’t really be visible, you just have to trust it is there. Finish by spraying the entire piece with a bit of Hickory Smoke Distress Sprits and Lost shadow Distress Stain. Let dry and soak up any excess that pools or beads on the Micro Glaze areas.

Step 4: You should have a background with tree branches and a gray shimmery background with swooshes made by the flourish stencil and the Micro Glaze Resist. Set it aside to finish drying.

Step 5: Get ready to make the frosty leaves. Choose two leaves from Sketchy Leaves stamp set, Pumice Stone Distress Ink, Embossing Ink, and several fall colors of Distress Embossing Glaze. The colors used were Aged Mahogany, Crackling Campfire, Rusty Hinge, and Fossilized Amber.

Step 6: Cover a piece of Distress Watercolor paper with Anti-Static powder. Stamp the leaves in Pumice Stone Distress Ink, followed immediately by Distress Embossing Ink. The Pumice Stone allows you to see the shape of the leaves and the Embossing Ink gives you a little time to add the Glazes. Add the different color glazes in little pinches here and there over the leaves until most of the images are covered.

Step 7: Tap the paper from underneath with your fingers to move the glazes around and get the entire image covered. You will have a mixture of all the glaze colors you used so dump the extra glaze off and lightly tap the back of the paper.

Have your Heat Tool and Distress Rock Candy Glitter ready for this next step.

Heat the Embossing Glaze on one of the leaves and immediately dump some Distress Rock Candy Glitter over it while it is hot. Dump the excess glitter and reheat the glaze quickly to set the glitter in the glaze. Repeat with the other leaf. Fussy Cut around both leaves.

Step 8: Locate the word background from Thankful Silhouettes. Put some anti-static powder onto a piece of Distress Watercolor Cardstock, then stamp the word background onto it in Scorched Timber Distress Ink, followed by Distress Embossing Ink, then cover with Scorched Timber Distress Glaze. Heat the glaze, then fussy cut each of the words out. Choose the one you want for this card. The sample used the word November.

Step 9: Make an A2 card base out of a piece of Distress Kraft Cardstock. Ink the edges with Distress Ink Scorched Timber.

Trim the Tree Branch background down to 4x5.25 and ink the edges. Stitch around the outside edge with stitching machine if desired. Adhere to the front of Kraft Card Base. Attach the leaves directly to the background and pop the sentiment up on foam squares.

Step 10: This is what the final piece looks like. If you have all of your supplies out and ready to go, it is a fairly quick and easy card to make.

Thank you so much for following along with the tutorial. I hope you will give this a try!