Autumn's Blessings

Hi everyone, I know it's Autumn as the leaves are already falling - earlier than last year I'm sure. Our new theme at Try It On Tuesday is 'Autumn's Blessings' and the Design team are definitely counting their own Autumn blessings - please take a look at them here.

I love seeing the colours in fallen leaves and have made my own little pile of leaves on my journal page.

I stamped my pile using masks to allow the leaves to overlap onto a background made with watercolour pencils and a water brush.Some smaller Crafty Individuals leaves were stamped around the larger leaves - Paper Artsy stamps, designed by Courtney Franiche. All were stamped using Distress Inks and then I added some text (another Courtney stamp) and a quote was stamped onto a scrap and torn in half.

My final touch was a spattering of copper coloured metallic paint and touch of additional colour top some of the leaves.

I hope this theme inspires you to join us. As usual the Try It On Tuesday challenge runs for two weeks and all kinds of entries are acceptable as long as it fits the theme.

I must confess to being very tempted when I saw this pile of leaves in a Paris park last week - I would have loved to run right through them.

Thank you for looking, Chris