well you probably know the ending to that saying...................lol
I have really taken a liking to the fall season since I have moved back to WY from FL. The cooler temperatures are so awesome. I am still able to have the windows open a little bit at night, there is a fabulous cool breeze that blows through, I love it!
The leaves have started to fall from the trees and soon the colors will become so vibrant that I will need to make another trek up to the mountains (oh darn!) to see them all. In the meantime, I have created a little reminder as some home decor. Somewhere in my travels I ended up with this great frame and when I unpacked here I put it on a hook in my living room, knowing that sooner or later I would find something to put in it. Well, it hung there long enough without anything in it that a good friend made comment to me, something about an empty picture frame hanging on the wall, lol!
So, I decided to change that. Here is what I came up with
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| I started with a plain piece of chipboard from the back of a tablet. Covered it with gesso and then some Distress Stains in autumn colors. Then I added some 'bricks' with some embossing paste and one of the Tim Holtz stencils and inked them up as well. |
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| I found some little wooden letters in my stash and was quite tickled to find the actual letters I needed (FALL). I added some Distress Stains to them in Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade and then sprayed them with water to make the colors bleed together. Then I inked the edges with Vintage Photo. The 'has' was printed from a label maker and the 'fell' was from one those old Dymo label makers so no stamping here. |
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| The leaves were made from the Tim Holtz Layered Leaf die and embossing folder. I first smeared out some distress inks on my craft sheet and sprayed it with water and swiped a manila folder through it to get the coloring. Then I cut out the leaves and embossed them and inked them with Walnut stain. |
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| I added a piece of wire mesh under the letters but over the top of the bricks for some dimension and a few embellishments in the top right hand corner. I also found a metal leaf in my stash and hung it from the mesh. It just kinda spoke to me when I found it, lol. |
I wanted to enter it into the
Frilly & Funky Challenge Blog Stamps be gone, hence no stamping here! This will make a great home decor item for years to come!
