Vellum leaves

Hi everyone!  My son's baseball game was cancelled for rain, so I had a chance to make a fun card die cutting vellum.  First, using the Labels Eighteen and and nesting Oval dies, I made a frame that I placed slightly off center.

I love this technique because by layering your dies, you can make custom frames using any pattern papers or cardstock you have on hand.  In this case, I used some pattern paper scraps I had laying around.

For the vellum branch, I die cut vellum using the branch die from the Sprigs set.  Before I took the vellum out of the die, I stenciled in the leaves with some Versamark ink.  Then I carefully removed it, sprinkled it with some white embossing powder and viola!  A cool side effect is when you heat emboss vellum it gives it a slight curling, so the leaves are slightly raised and curled!  I adhered them down using a glue dot which I hid behind the white embossed parts of the leaves.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!  Here is a close up picture of the embossed detail.

Card Deets: 
Spellbinder dies: S4-430 Sprigs Shapeabilities®, S4-310 Labels Eighteen, S4-110 Classic Ovals LG and S4-112 Classic Ovals SM Nestabilities® 
Paper: Bazzill Paper Basics, Marshmallow Card Shoppe cardstock; Vellum cardstock; American Crafts, Dear Lizzy 6x6 pattern paper

Ink: Tsukineko, Versamark and Versafine Onyx Black
Embellishments - Stamp Simply Ribbon Store: May Arts silver cord, white embossing powder, sequinshttp://stampsimply.com/shop/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=sequins&search_in_description=1&x=3&y=8
Adhesive - Tombow USA Mono Multi liquid glue; Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L Foam Squares 

NOTE: You can also find Spellbinders Die Templates and vellum cardstock at the The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.