Falling Leaves - Thank You - Technostamper #241

I'm finally caught up getting my products ready for the next craft show- which is this weekend.  I sold out of a lot of things the last show (1 week ago) so I had to get my gear in action and create, create, create!!  Today it is so nice to say, I'm caught up - and now I can get caught up with my challenges.
This card is for the Technostamper sketch challenge here
I wanted to make a fall card as I had leaves left over from another project.

 

Technique:   The leaves were die cut using Very Vanilla card stock and the Autumn Accents die.  Each leaf was folded in half and laid on the Woodgrain folded at a 45 degree angle and run through the big shot.  After carefully opening each leaf (they tear easily), each was sponged with Riding Hood Red, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, and the edges sponged with Soft suede.  They were then spritzed with gold smooch.  The acorn was made in 2 stages.  Two acorns were die cut - one in Very Vanilla, and one in Soft Suede.  The Soft Suede acorn was embossed with the Square lattice folder, and the top cut off.  The Very Vanilla one was sponged and the Soft Suede top was adhered to it. The entire acorn was then spritzed with gold smooch.

The leaves were attached to the card with dimensionals.

Stamps: Perfectly Penned

Inks: Riding Hood Red, Daffodil Delight, Lucky Limeade, Soft Suede

Papers: Island Indigo, Orchard Harvest DSP, Very Vanilla

Accessories:  Autumn Accents die, woodgrain folder, Square lattice folder, Gold smooch, dimensionals

Fall Leaves - Thank You & Embossed glitter ribbon

I was making an Autumn wreath and had some leaves left over - and I never like to throw things out.
So, I made a card, which was inspired by a card made by Selena Kempton over at Stamping 411.

Technique:
The Autumn Accents die was used to cut out some leaves in Summer Starfruit, Old Olive, and Soft Suede.
The leaves were folded in half and laid at right angles in the Woodgrain folder and embossed.  They were then sponged with Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red, Lucky Limeade and spritzed with water to blend the colors.  After they were dry, they were spritzed with gold smooch.  Two acorns were cut -one in Old Olive and one if Soft Suede.  The top of the soft suede one was cut off and glued to the Old Olive one.  After sponging with soft suede ink, Crystal effects was applied to the bottom half of the acorn.  When dry it too was spritzed with gold smooch.
While the leaves were drying I prepared the rest of the card.

The card base is Island Indigo, layered with Very Vanilla and then a layer of Early Espresso core'dination card stock embossed with the Woodgrain folder and sanded.
The designer paper is from Orchard Harvest.

Ribbon: The white Organza ribbon was first colored with a Crumb Cake marker, then covered with Versa Mark ink and sprinkled with Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  The ribbon was heat embossed very carefully as the ribbon will melt.  The ribbon did wrinkle a bit, but I just pulled it to straighten it out.
Sentiment: From Itty Bitty Banners and die cut with the coordinating framelits.

The leaves were layered and attached to each other and the card using dimensionals.

Thank you Selena for your inspiration.

Falling Leaves - Try Stampin' on Tuesday #79

The weather is definitely cooler!  Can you feel Autumn in the air?  I thought I would take a break from making Christmas cards and make some Fall/Thanksgiving cards and to do this, I used the sketch challenge with Try Stampin' on Tuesday here
I have been fascinated by the Autumn Accents die and have been trying different things to give the leaves dimension and I think I succeeded.  But, I'm ahead of myself.
Here is the card:

 

Technique:

After die cutting the leaves in different colors, I folded them in half and laid them at an angle in the woodgrain folder.  The edges were sponged with Early Espresso, and then the leaves were spritzed with gold smooch.  The acorn was made by cutting the top off a Soft Suede one, embossing it with the Square lattice folder, and then attaching it to the top of the Summer starfruit acorn.  I learned this technique from Frances Martin (Frenchie).  The leaves and acorn was attached to a 2 1/2" circle using dimensionals.

Stamps: Grateful Greetings (retired)

Inks: Early Espresso

Papers: More Mustard, Crumb Cake, Comfort Cafe designer paper, Cherry Cobbler, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit, Very Vanilla

Accessories: 2 1/2" circle punch, Autumn Accents die, Woodgrain folder, Square Lattice folder, Neutral buttons, 1/4" Early Espresso grosgrain ribbon (retired), dimensionals, glue dots, gold smooch