Spellbinders Falling Leaves

Hello Friends, and welcome back! Thanks for joining me to check out today’s project featuring the new Falling Leaves from Spellbinders and Kelly Bangs. This was a fun project, so let’s go ahead and run through the details.

NOTE: all supplies are linked to multiple sources in the thumbnails at the end of this blog post.

I began this project by grabbing a panel of watercolor paper and some Simon inks. The colors that I chose to use were Guava, Honey, Pearfection and Clay. The process basically involved ink smooshing, using one color at a time. I smooshed the ink pad onto my glass mat and spritzed it with water, and laid the paper into the puddle. I repeated this process with each color, until I was satisfied and until my panel was covered. Once done with the inks, I dried the panel using the low setting on my heat tool.

I went ahead and die cut the leaves from the panel, die cut the stems from Peridot and Green Apple cardstock, and die cut the acorns from Desert Storm. I adhered the stems to some of the leaves and did some ink blending on the acorns using Gingerbread and Mocha inks. I assembled the acorns, added some detail with a brown colored pencil and set everything aside while I figured out the background.

The background was created using the Nested Postage Labels & Tag set, along with the Scribbled Letter Embossing Folder. I gold splattered the background, as well as some of the leaves to tie everything together. The sentiment was created using the new Documenting Labels set.

The background was adhered to the card base and then I began adhering to the leaves, tucking them in around the acorns. The acorns were adhered using foam tape, and the sentiment was secured with liquid glue to finish up.

That does it for this card. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! I really love how these leaves turned out! I still have some of my ink smooshed panel left, so I might have to create another card! Thanks again for stopping by, and I hope you have a wonderful day!

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