prize ribbon distress: tropical leaves card

Hi there creative friends! Today I am sharing a card I created with the newest color in the Distress family, Prize Ribbon. Have you gotten your hands on this fun color yet? I have shared a bunch of my makes along with tips, tricks, techniques and favorite color combos over the last few weeks and I will link to the other Prize Ribbon creations I have posted so far at the end of this post. 

Today’s card features a fun, vibrant color combo to create a card framed with Tropical Leaves. I used a combination of Distress Inks and Oxides to make little papers that I could run through my Sidekick to cut out the leaves. I have made these little Distress Ink papers in advance, and then I just added some Oxide Ink layers to them. 

 
I used the Tim Holtz Tropical Thinlits dies, (sadly retired but you may still be able to find them out there) along with Funky Floral 3 and Funky Foliage. You can use any combination of leaf dies, so get creative with what you have! To create the leaves, I cut leaves from my stash of inky papers. I inked the edges of all my leaves with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink. 

To complete my card, I added the leaves to a 3 3/4 x 5 panel of Kraft Mixed Media Heavystock and then added the leaves to the panel (some with foam tape to give the card more dimension). Then I turned the panel over and trimmed off any excess hanging over the edges and added some spatter with Prize Ribbon Distress Ink. I added a sentiment from the Observations stamp set with foam tape and also foam taped my main panel to an A2 card base. 

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