Falling Leaves

Hello again!  So today we really are at the last of the launch night samples using EAB04 The Autumn Edition.  And along with the Fabulous Fungi I think these are my favourites out of the autumn samples (the Haunted Churchyard and All is safely gathered in make up the rest of the Autumn Edition sample collection), and maybe out of the whole lot.

It's another trio of tags... triptyches and pairs turn up a lot round here.  It's how my creative brain seems to work very often.






The backgrounds here are Distress Oxide and Distress Ink combinations from some of my earliest experiments with the Oxides.













You can see more of how they were made in Drip, Drip, Drop, Little Oxide Showers, posted back in April.

They've been hanging around ever since waiting for their moment in the sun, and now their time had come!













For the leaves, I sprayed a piece of off-white cardstock with Distress Sprays in various autumnal colours.













I'm guessing Rusty Hinge and Vintage Photo are involved, and maybe some Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey and/or Gathered Twigs.  It's a while since I made these!













I then stamped the gorgeous Scrapcosy leaf from ESC05 multiple times - some in Sepia, some in Coffee, some in a combination of the two...














... and clear-embossed the image for added definition before cutting them all out.















I played with the leaf positioning - two and one, one and two, two and one again.














And then had a fiddly time coiling and twirling some thread around underneath as I stuck them down.














I also played around quite a bit with the words.  The middle tag has the whole of Cornelia L. Tuthill's lovely quote, sliced up into phrases and positioned between the falling leaves.














The other two tags have John Burroughs' glorious words divided and overlapped between them.  So the first has the first two sections of the three part thought...















... and the final tag has the middle section repeated, and then the final part added on.

As you see, you can use these quotes in their entirety (as I did with this Burroughs quote over at A Vintage Journey recently), or just pick the parts you really want to use.








The wild cotton thread weaves its way in and around the falling leaves.  (Click on the photos for a larger view.)

I hope it adds a sense of whirling movement to the leaves tumbling through the air.









The matted frame is made from kraft card spritzed with some more of the same Distress Sprays (and this is what left the leftovers from which the frame of All is safely gathered in was made). 














The dark frame provides contrast for those shabby edges as well as giving the tags a nice sharp look for the display boards, not to mention the sturdiness you get with another whole layer stuck on behind.

Simple rustic twine finishes things off again, and we're all done with The Autumn Edition samples.








Just one more sample post to go - the last of The Winter Edition makes.  There are a couple of festive tags still to share, but I think they can go together in one post.  And I might leave that one until we're just a little bit closer to Christmas... let's finish with Halloween first, shall we?!

I've been catching sight of the word stamps around Craftyblogland and it's an absolute thrill to me to see how they are inspiring other crafters.  I haven't got time to be quite such a diligent visitor as I used to be, so if I've missed a project where you've used the quotes, do give me a nudge - I love seeing them in action in other people's hands!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and I'll see you again soon.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
William Allingham