Saturday 27 August 2011

Nearly, But Not Quite, Autumn

It's nearly autumn. I can feel it in the air and I am so excited. Every year I eagerly anticipate the return of thick tights, scarfs and woolly jumpers. And, of course, the return of slightly colder weather and the odd rain storm that make me feel justified in staying indoors to craft and drink copious amounts of tea!

I busted out one of my autumn stamp sets earlier today, just to start playing around with some ideas that I've had in my head for a little while.

Happy Fall

I used just one of my stamp sets from Make The Day Special (Unity's Harvest Of Memories) to create the card, because it comes with so many different little leaf stamps and the perfect sentiments. To make sure that I could easily stamp the leaves in a circle, I actually cut apart one of the longer stamps to make each leaf an individual stamp. Shock! Cutting my stamps!

The resulting card isn't quite what I was expecting. It's one of those projects I think is 'nearly, but not quite' but I'll definitely going to be trying this again with some different colours, techniques and probably a bit more layering. It's good to experiment, right?

*** By the way, if you've not visited Make The Day Special for a little while, be sure to take a peek at Emily's new stock - there's new Zig Pens from Kuretake, Papersmooches Stamps from Kim Hughes and there's some fantastic reductions in the August Sale. ***

9 comments:

  1. This is amazing, I love it! I didn't realise it was stamped until I read your post - they look like lovely leaf embellishments stuck down. Really beautiful.

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  2. It has such a lovely autumn-y feel to it! i like it very much

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  3. I love it! It would be nice framed on my wall I think! I love autumn, it makes me feel excited when the leaves start changing colour! X

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  4. I love autumn, my favourite season! Definitely coming earlier this year x

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  5. What a lovely card. I'm excited at the prospect of Autumn too :o)

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  6. Cutting up stamps is good! Lovely card

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  7. ooo, another autumn fan! I love it too. this time of the year is just my happy time. and this card is the perfect accompaniment to that feeling. great job.

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  8. Such a wonderful full of autumn card! I love it!

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