Autumn beauty

Hello, crafting friends!

One of the great pleasures of autumn is seeing the leaves turn into beautiful ambers, reds, golds, tans and every shade in between. You do get a lot of wind and rain but every now and then Mother Nature seems to take a breath, and the sun comes out, and you get to see the glowing colours of autumn against a pure blue sky. That's what inspired today's card:

I started by sponging some Tumbled Glass distress ink onto a card panel and stamping leaves from WPlus9's Modern Roses over it. The panel was trimmed to size with a stitched rectangle die from Heffy Doodle.

The leaves were stamped again on some offcuts of card stock, coloured with alcohol markers in shades of orange and each individual leaf cut out. The leaves were then glued over the stamped leaves on the card panel - this makes them really pop against the background. I added a bit of detail by clapping wet hands over the panel and, when it was dry, stamping a sentiment from Clearly Besotted and some blue sequins.

CHALLENGES

I'm linking this card up with Inkspirational, where I was inspired by the leaves against the sky in the inspiration photo; Color Hues, where the colour duo this fortnight is Orange and Blue; and Watercooler Wednesday where it's Karen's turn to host the Occasions challenge.

AND IN OTHER NEWS

Thank you to everyone that has been lovely about Eva. She is definitely on the mend. The swelling on her ear flap is beginning to come down already and doesn't seem to bother her at all - she doesn't scratch or paw at it or shake her head. Her ear infection seems to have cleared nicely too although I will continue to monitor her ears.

Getting wet is not the best plan for Eva at the moment but the weather can be pretty unpredictable here. Here she is with her pal Jasper after an eventful walk in torrential rain with an added thunder storm! Those ears had to be extra well-dried today!

Sending hugs,