A while back I asked the readers of this blog to leave me a comment telling me their most favorite thing about Autumn.  Close to half of the comments mentioned walking through fallen leaves, feeling them crunch beneath their feet.  I agree whole heartedly that it’s a wonderful thing in the Autumn months.  Today’s card is my version of fallen leaves to try to echo that feeling and put it on paper.

Let’s get started 🙂

Supplies:

Stamped acorns by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Close to Cocoa ink before stamping it on a 4.5″ square piece of Whisper White card stock.

Heat embossed the images using fine detail clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored the bottom half of the acorns with a Prismacolor Sienna Brown marker.

Colored the top half of the acorns with a Sand marker.

Stamped leaves by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Really Rust ink before stamping them.

Heat embossed the leaves with fine detail clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Colored the leaves with a Burnt Ochre marker.

Let the marker dry and then went over the darker parts of the leaves again with the Burnt Ochre marker to give a bit of variation in color.

Colored over the leaves and acorns with a Versamark marker and heat embossed the images with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Stamped the leaves a few more times by first loading my stamp with Versamark and then loading it with Always Artichoke ink before stamping them.  Heat embossed the images using clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Note:  There is no need to wipe the Always Artichoke ink from the already embossed images before heat embossing them.  Once you heat emboss the Always Artichoke leaves the ink will magically disappear from the already embossed images.  Try it you will see.  🙂

Colored the green leaves with a Limepeel marker.

Added Light Olive marker to the darker parts of the green leaves.

Colored over the green leaves with a Versamark Marker and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder and a heat gun.

Sponged, using a circular motion, Chocolate Chip ink all over the card stock.

Decided I wanted a warmer tone to the background so I sponged Really Rust ink all over entire piece of card stock.  A girl can change her mind if she wants, right?

Over stamped the entire card stock with the leaf stamp using Chocolate Chip ink to create the look of brown leaves under the more colorful leaves.

Let the Chocolate Chip ink dry a moment and then wiped the Chocolate Chip ink off of the embossed images using a soft rag.

Sponged Basic Black ink around the edge of the card stock.

Ok, I’m not one for a bunch of embellishments.  It’s not that I don’t own a ton of embellishment.  I have drawers and drawers full of them.  I usually just can’t figure out what to do with them, lol.  I can spend more time trying to place just one embellishment on a card then it took me to create the rest of the entire card.  So I usually don’t embellish.

This is probably the most you will ever see me embellish, lol.

I added punched corners.

Used my Crop-a-dile to add eyelets.  Man those eyelets haven’t seen daylight in over a year, lol.

If you want a cheap solution to ribbon for your fall cards try Raffia.  🙂

Added Raffia and a Tim Holtz embellishment that has the sentiment of Wonderful on it.

Frayed the raffia ends.

Pierced holes in two sides of my out card-stock layer using the Tim Holtz ruler and a push pin.

Dimensionals, Wow!  I really haven’t popped something up for the longest time.

I used lots of them, especially in the middle of the main panel so it wouldn’t cave in.  🙂

Here is my finished card front, popped up and embellished.  It measures 5.5″ square.

Hope you are able to get out today and enjoy the sites and sounds of a beautiful Autumn day.

Until my next post. . . . . . . . . . .

Hugs,

Michelle

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