More leaves for Country View Challenges

It's time for my 2nd DT make for our September challenge over at Country Vie which I am hosting this month. My theme is "the leaves begin to fall" so I would like to see leaves as a main part of your project, no tiny single leaves please! As always there is a fab £20 voucher up for grabs for one lucky randomly selected winner to spend on the website.  You can find all the details of the challenge and more examples made by my talented teamies here.

If you missed my first make you can find it here. There are live links to the shop website in my post so just click on them if you would like to purchase anything. If Susan is out of stock of anything just fill in the email reminder and she will contact you when they are beck in stock.

This is what I got up to;

For today's make I was torn between using my awesome new Tim Holtz Sizzix 3D oak leaf die or my Visible Image stamped leaves. I couldn't decide which so I decided to use both! The oak leaf die is awesome and makes the most realistic detailed leaves. I used some inky mop up card and die cut the leaves. 

I then added some brown distress inks and finished them off with the awesome new distress mica stain sprays. I used the gold and copper from The halloween set #1 

The sheen is so incredible in real life, always so difficult to show in photos.

 I also stamped and cut out some leaves using my Visible Image Erika's maple set using inky mop up card. 

I decided that all these leaves would make the perfect nest for one of the brand new hedgehogs from the gorgeous  Hedgehog hugs set

So I stamped him out ( I always stamp out a few so that I have spares for other cards) I coloured my hedgehog with watercolour pens and then cut him out.

I sprayed some watercolour card with a few distress oxides and stains to make a background and stamped the grass from the  hedgehog set and also I stamped and matted the Visible Image Happy birthday sentiment.

 I then put everything together. The finishing touches were a few sequins.

Here is my finished card;

with a close up

and one final shot. 

I hope I may have inspired you to join in with our September "the leaves begin to fall " challenge. You can use any stamps/products, the choice is yours. 

You can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with other challenges. There is also a £20 crafting voucher up for grabs to the lucky randomly selected winner to spend over on the Country View Crafts on line store. Once again all the details for the September challenge can be found here. 

Remember that the Country View Crafts website has FREE UK postage for any orders over £7.50 and international postage is very reasonable.  I wrote a post for the shop recently sharing all the new Visible Image stamps, you can check it out here.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Take care and stay safe. I will be back to share my 2nd design team project on Friday. 

I would love to see you over on Instagram where I share new creative makes nearly every day. This is my link/profile @jane.tyrrell

Sadly these days I just don't have the time to blog everything! 

Bye for now

Jane x