Fall Leaves in Shades of Orange

It is getting to be fall here.  The heat has broken but don't put away your summer clothes.  You dress in layers because it can be chilly in the morning but much warmer by lunchtime making you regret wearing that heavy sweater you left the house in.  The leaves on a few trees are just starting to turn and folks are putting up Halloween decorations.  The theme for the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge is fall, the Cut It Up challenge wants to see embellishments, and the AAA Birthday challenge wants to see Ombre shades.  I am also playing the Seize the Birthday. A Place to Start, and Die Cut Divas anything goes games.  I should mention that the optional twist for A Place to Start is Pumpkins which are a fall theme, but I am not playing that option.  

I started by using the Simon Says Stamp Vine Background die and copper foil paper to cut an outline of leaves and glued it to a panel of Vanilla card stock.  Next I put a few dabs of red and yellow acrylic paint on different ends of my gel press and brayed the paint with the goal of creating a blend of color from yellow orange to red orange and then lifted the print on heavy weight printer paper.  I used the same Simon Says Stamp die to cut the print and used the leaf pieces to fill in the outline.  I used dies from Gina K Designs' Lace Flowers set first to cut three "birthdays," one in copper foil and two in white cardstock which I stacked and then the shadow from dark green cardstock.  I stamped the happy belated sentiment from the same set and embossed it in copper.  I glued everything on a dark green panel and glued that to a Vanilla card base. I finished the card off with some green sparkles.

The thing about the Vine Background die is that you end up with a lot of extra pieces.  I had an orange background, a copper background, an orange outline, and of course, some copper leaves left, so I made another card:

 

 

I will figure out what to do with the rest of the pieces later.  In the meantime why don't y'all go by the challenges above to check out the other entries and perhaps be inspired to enter yourself.  Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time, Hansi