The Beauty of Autumn Leaves

by Julie Warner - The Write Stuff

Happy Friday!

I hope your first week of fall has been "fall like". It's a bit cooler here...not saying a lot when we really haven't had much of a summer anyway. What we have had is a record allergy season around here. With the unusually high amount of rain and cooler temps, the ragweed and goldenrod and every other sniffles causing weed is in overdrive. I'm ready to just wear an astronaut's helmet and air tanks. Or at least buy stock in tissues, zyrtec and allegra, lol. 

For my fall card, I will tell you, except for the card itself, it was made entirely of left over pieces and scraps. Don't know if I've mentioned it, but I tend to save a lot of scraps. For the most part, they do get used and most of my layouts are because of the size or shape of the left over I'm using. I used a fine pattern woodgrain embossing folder on the rusty brown piece and on the long narrow white strip, I inked up the silhouette leaf with a few colors of ink then stamped them twice each time, without reinking. On the lighter versions, I stamped the open leaf on top with the clay ink. I also stamped a couple of extra leaves (open leaf stamped over the silhouette) and a fall leaf w/ acorn on another scrap then added a bit more color w/ Copics. 

I used the clay ink and splatter bg on top of the leaf strip for a little more interest. The greeting was stamped below directly on the 5.50 x 4.25 card front.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Supplies:

stamps: Medium Silhouette Leaf, Open Leaf, Fall Leaf w/ Acorn, Splatter Bg, 1 Line Beauty of Autumn

paper: white, rusty brown, dk maroon

ink: Memento inks in tuxedo black, potter's clay, cantaloupe, Morocco, bamboo leaves

accessories: Copic markers, embossing folder (Paper Studio)

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