What better way to celebrate Autumn than with two of the iconic images of the season: Acorns and Oak Leaves! It’s Sunday and time to play with The Paper Players.
It’s color week at The Paper Players! For PP763, the talented Jan is our amazing hostess. She is treating us to a delightful quartet of hues: Early Espresso, Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze, Old Olive. I couldn’t wait to celebrate the season with another leafy, fall card. What about you? I can’t wait to see what YOU create. But as I always say, before you gather up your stamps, papers, and inks, please stop by and leave my incredible “Teamies”, who work so hard to inspire you weekly, some “Comment Love”. It truly does brighten our day!
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I have never regretted living in a neighborhood that is blessed with so many trees, even when it’s time to rake. The ash tree in our backyard just finished dropping the last of her leaves this past week. We also have maple trees in our side and front yard, while our neighbors have oaks and sycamores. Although the ash may be finished shedding her crowning glory, the mighty oaks have just begun.
The leaves and acorns image on today’s card is from the Amber Autumn stamp set. I inked the image in Versamark followed by Early Espresso and stamped it onto Very Vanilla cardstock. It was then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The leaves were colored using Old Olive, Mossy Meadow, and Cajun Craze Stampin’ Blends, with just a tinge of Pumpkin Pie. After all, what is fall without a little Pumpkin Pie (wink). Extra color was lifted off as needed. For the acorns, I used a Blender Pen and Early Espresso ink, removing most of the ink from the blender pen before shading the acorns. The image was die cut out and placed upon an Early Espresso Spotlight on Nature circle, accented with a gold hoop and a bow crafted from Mossy Meadow & Gold ribbon. The Gathering Leaves embossing folder provides lovely texture for the background. The sentiment was stamped in Early Espresso and die cut using a Stylish Shapes die. Three Flower Accents provided the perfect finishing touch.
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I love that we can literally see these oak leaves changing colours before our very eyes on this card Ann – so realistic, I could be walking in my local park, which is full of huge oak trees. The dark circles are a great way to highlight them and another beautiful embossed background too. Fabulous!
Such a pretty image of leaves and acorns, and beautifully colored as always. Your blending of the three colors on the leaves is perfection, Ann! Love the embossing in the background and those dainty little flower accents too.
Our neighborhood is filled with trees that the developer planted 20 years ago, and while it’s not a tree I’m familiar with, I do love the gorgeous orange leaves that we have right now. And then the raking will commence lol!
I love leaves too, even if they fall all over my yard, blow on to my patio and settle right in front of my porch steps, LOL! Yours are beautiful too…and I just love that embossed background. That EF is one of my favs!
Your card is so pretty & elegant!! I love the “Autumn” font & the embossing folder, too! Really nice color combo as well!
The variegated leaves are so pretty and I do like the texture in the background. The gold ring and the glittery ribbon are super little touches of warmth and richness. Thanks for making the colours look so good!
This is such a pretty fall card
It really shows the fall colors. 💜
Gorgeous card, Ann! I love how the embossed vanilla background lets your beautiful leaves and acorns shine with all the pretty colors. Most of the trees in my neighborhood have dropped their leaves, but we still have a few spots of color here and there. Much better than where I grew up in Texas, everything just seems to go brown there! Have a great week!
Love the coloring on the leaves! Beautiful Fall card!
Gorgeous!