Autumn Leaves

I'm having to schedule posts on my blog  at the moment as having a bit of a traumatic time  so am going to cheat a bit here too. I made this tag last month for a tag swap that has now winged its way to America and as it fits the theme this week am showing it again on Tag Tuesday. Hope that is ok.

  



The backing paper is from Stitchy Bear Digital Stamps Fallfoliage Autumn Papers which you can purchase from them. The leaves are stamped (from a freebie stamp from The CraftStamper magazine) and then cut around, coloured with distress inks using autumn colours.( I stamp the ink pad onto my non-stick craft mat, smoosh with a little water, stir together with a paint brush and then lay the images straight on top. Press down well and then turn over to do the other side. I made the pine cones from my Tim Holtz Alterations Tattered Pinecone die. The instructions that come with the die are only pictures of the process but if you log onto  the Sizzix site and look under the die number you can download a pdf file whih is much better at explaining. I used a mix of two distress brown inks to acheive my pine cone colour. The pine case was left over from collecting up nuts for Mr Squirrel last yr to see him through the winter.



There aren't very many acorns around this year ( has any else noticed? There was an abundance of them last year) so Mr Squirrel will have to make do with shop purchased monkey nuts!