This card was made using a leaf stamp from the Sweet Strawberry stamp set and a Stamparatus.

I started with a strip of white card, 14.9 x 4.5 cm. I put this in the Stamparatus and started stamping with the plate on the 5th position along from the corner. I did it this way and worked my way inwards as I wanted to start with the lightest green ink first and go darker with edge image I stamped.

My first colour was Soft Seafoam. Then I moved the plate one hinge closer to the corner and stamped again with Pear Pizzazz. I didn’t need to clean the stamp in between inking as I was going from a lighter colour to a darker colour each time. The next colours were Old Olive, followed by Garden Green and finally Shaded Spruce.

When I finished the row of leaves, I filled them in with another stamp from the same set. I used the corresponding ink colours to fill in each leaf with second generation stamping. (This is by stamping first on your scrap paper and second on the image). It gives a lighter shade by doing it this way and allows the veins of the leaves to still show clearly. I didn’t use the stamparatus for this as it is easy to line up with the photopolmer stamp.

I mounted the strip of white card onto a 6 cm wide strip of Garden Green. Then I adhered that to a folded A5 Pear Pizzazz card. I stamped Thank you in Shaded Spruce ink.