Hello Fall

Still playing with my (new to me) stitched leaf wreath......here's another card featuring it!  (I probably should have combined both posts today into 1)

supplies: Hero Arts pool layering paper, watercolor paper, kraft card stock, and lots of printed design papers, Simon's Stitched Leaf Wreath, Stampendous Autumn Words background, VersaMark and white embossing powder, peacock feathers distress ink diluted with water, sentiment from Sugar Pea Fall Fox, twine, MFT stitched tag, adhesive foam squares

I started by cutting out my wreath die from a panel of watercolor paper.  After removing the leaves, I overstamped the panel in VersaMark, heat embossed it in white powder, then washed it with some diluted peacock feathers distress ink.  Then I cut more leaves from a plaid paper, and popped them into place above my stitched wreath, and then fit more leaves (left over from this card) under the plaid ones to fill the wreath out.  Here's a closer shot to show you the dimension.  At this angle, you can see in the bottom right where the wreath die originally was cut from the background.

To finish I just stamped and cut a stitched tag and tucked it in, along with a twine bow.

I'm pleased with the way this turned out - love the combo of fall colors and aqua/teal/turquoise, and mixing text into anything always pleases me!