Autumn Wishes

Getting back into the craft room has taken me longer than I hoped. Earlier this week I finished a very important birthday card which I’ll be sharing later this week. Today, however, I finally had time to make a card for several challenges all focused on fall colors. While we were in Wisconsin, an order from The Greetery arrived, and in that order was the “Curio: Autumn” collection of dies. I pulled it out this morning and die cut quite a collection of the leaves and other fall items. I pulled out my Altenew 36 pan watercolor set and painted them in a variety of colors. Today, you’ll see just three leaves, but I have an envelope with others that I hope you’ll also be seeing soon.

The design of this card comes from last week’s Freshly Made Sketches. It was designed by Cécile whose card designs are among my very favorites. I had hoped to get this card made in time to enter it in her challenge, but there was no way I could manage that. But I’m happy to adapt it here. The three squares were die cut with Ellen Hutson’s “Essential Dies: Squares.” Her Essential shape dies are among my most used dies. I adhered two of them directly to the card, and added dimensional tape to the third. The colorful leaves are from the Curio set and the sentiment from a very old Papertrey Ink set “Friendship Jar: Fall Fillers.” (Another good investment!)

I’m entering this into four challenges all focusing on fall colors:  Inspired By: Colorful Fall, The Paper Players: CAS Fall Fun, and a second entry into Addicted to CAS: Leaf, and CAS Mix-up: Autumn Colors and Watercolor.