Leaves are falling...

Falling leaves…

This card was fun to make and it was even more fun to see what my card club ladies came up with. You need a colonial-white cardstock base of 8 ½ x 5 ½ folded in half. A 4 x 1 ½ piece of the same cardstock color will be stamped with cocoa ink and edged with chocolate ink. I also used a 2 ¼ x 5 ½ piece of burlap ribbon and 9-10 stamped leaves in different colors. (I used Garden Green, Olive, Sunflower and Autumn Terracotta). Now cut your leaves out and start to play.

You can either attach the leaves as seen on the card, then use glue dots to adhere the burlap ribbon. Glue the sentiment onto the burlap and your fall leave card is done.

Here are some varieties my card ladies did…

1) Place burlap and sentiment onto the card and adhere just 4 leaves to the card. 3 in the upper right corner and partial tucked under the burlap and one leave in the lower right corner.

2) Push your leaves all together in the middle of the card. Cut about 1” off of the burlap ribbon and center it on the card above the leaves. Your leaves will only peak out around the ribbon.

3) Have your leaves go over the edges of your base, just as if they were falling of the tree and landing on your card. The only problem with this version is that you can’t use a standard envelope anymore.

4) Just try your own layout and let me know what you came up with…