The leaves begin to fall

 Welcome to September, wow autumn is just around the corner now and I am the host of the brand  new challenge over at Country View challenges. I thought that I would chose, "the leaves begin to fall" as the theme for the month. 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.

The leaves on my potted acers in my garden are already changing colour and served as my inspiration for my first DT make. 

I have added live links for you to click for those items in stock on the website. I really love all things leaves and for my first make I turned to on old Tim Holtz die (no longer stocked) called tattered leaves and his fun Snarky cats stamp set.

I made a slimline birthday card using the great Visible Image birthday sentiment from the Lost for words sentiment set

This is what I got up to; I used one of my distress ink shaving foam marbled backgrounds from my stash.

I used the small size Tim Holtz leaf stencil and added some distress inks. 

I die cut my leaves and stamped my Snarky cat.

I added some text stamping to the leaves using archival ink.

I then stamped the birthday sentiment. Then it was time to put everything together. 

Here is my finished birthday card

with a close up;

and one last 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. 

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