Autumn leaves

 I love Autumn…..all the colours, walks all wrapped up…..

So today I’m inspired by the Allsorts challenge #748

Leaf fall embossing folder, a strip of the gorgeous new SU papers,

and some autumn leaves, for an autumn birthday.

Hope you have a lovely weekend

Lesley

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Thanks for taking the time to visit, and leave your comments.

A one layer musical leaf

I'm going to get you singing on this one!

I created a mask using Leaflet Framelits.

Laid the leaf mask on my topper, stamped in Versamark and embossed Sheet Music in copper powder.

Added happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, this is where you start singing :)

Laid the background mask, so just the leaf shape aperture showing,

added yellow ink, then a moon mask, more ink, more colours, gradually building up shade and depth,

Stamped parts of Nature Sings, the deer and trees, coloured them in with marker pens

to make them stand out a bit, added some twine over some new copper ribbon.

It's all one layer, but hope it looks a bit 3-D ?

Might need a bit more practice......take a look at Barbara Gray from Clarity Stamps

for some much more professional projects.......

Hope the birthday boy liked it....he's very into his music....

are you still singing?....

"happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear...."

Lesley

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Leaflet

This one uses the dinky little leaf,

that I think might be my favourite.

I do like simple little things......

This again uses the same colours of Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive,

although my photographic skills make it appear black.

I hope I haven't bored you too much

with all the similar ones this week,

but just to prove they're all slightly different....

Have a fab weekend!

Lesley

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more leaves

Here's another leafy design,

with double linen thread between scored lines.

Only one more to go this week promise!

You can see why I love this set though can't you?

Happy Crafting

Lesley

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Many thanks

Slightly different to yesterdays,

more scored lines,

and some snippets of card to layer up the leaves,

and a snippet of linen thread to tie it all together.....

I've been playing, but short on time,

so went with what was on the desk,

so hope you're not too bored yet,

there's a couple more to come!

My last visit to the Playground this week,

as I'm grounded for a few days lol.

Lesley

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Feel Better

Love Sassy Salutations for sentiments just that bit different,

including this get well alternative.

Blackberry Bliss and Old Olive was on the table,

and you must know the set by now?!

Stamped a row of leaves between scored lines

(that you can hardly see),

a die cut one raised on dimensionals,

and added some thick twine.

Hippity Hop to the Playground again

with the card and twine snippets.....

New Weekly Deals out today too,

so lots of feel good factor !

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Hello

I needed to send a card to a Gent who's moved to a new house,

just to say we are thinking of him.

I took a snippet of Neutrals paper stack,

some snippets of old olive and blackberry bliss,

and a few stamped and die cut leaves.

Perfect for a gent, and for the time of year.

Have I mentioned I LOVE this set?!

Vintage Leaves.....awesome.

Lots of snippets mean a hop skip n jump to the Playground!

Lesley

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Vintage Leaves

Have I told you how much I love this set yet?!

It often happens, that when I finally get a new set out of the box,

I can't put it away!

For a friend who loves the great outdoors and walking...

I inked a piece of card, die-cut leaves, added more ink round edges,

gathered and made a 'bouquet'.

I cut strip of burlap in half, pulled out some threads to make a frill,

used the threads to tie a knot.

Lots of bits used here, so off to the Snippets Playground!

Lesley

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Lovely as a Tree Vintage Leaf

Was at High Halden craft club,

limited palette of inks,

and possibly my favourite stamp set of all time

Stampin' Up!'s Vintage Leaves

In case the pic is so awful, there's green, purple and brown,

so I grabbed similar pro-markers and coloured a leaf to match,

added a linen thread bow, purple heart (using owl punch),

and simple sentiment.

Going to make this number 3 of the autumn challenges,

 Penny Black, 

Stamping Sensations.

and hop skip to the  Snippets Playground.

Then, I really, really, must do some blog hopping.

Anyone got any spare time for sale?

Lesley

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Vintage Leaf meets Lovely as a Tree

The lovely Sarn shared a project recently,

that inspired this one.

I did this technique a long time ago,

but Sarn went to one of Eileen's workshops,

and as usual Eileen has taken it to another level.

Ink a bright....very bright..... background,

black out surrounding area and stamp into the shape.

I chose the all time favourite Stampin' Up! stamp set ever

(Lovely as a Tree), into the shape made with Leaflets Framelits.

I then stamped the edges of black with some little leaves from 

Perpetual Birthday Calendar.

Anyone know the name of this technique?

Is it black magic?

May as well enter the same autumnal challenges again!

 Penny Black, 

Allsorts challenge, 

Stamping Sensations.

Lesley

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