Orange, Yellow, Green & Brown- Another Leaf Has Fallen Down

Fall is here!  The leaves are turning, the weather is getting cooler 

and summer is pretty much gone.  Summer is my favorite season

and as much as I hate to see it go, there are good things about fall.

Although I don't celebrate the holidays, my card is about the

fall  and the things I do like about it. I HATE the cold, but when

things turn colder, my work slows down and I have more

time to craft!  Always a good thing!  When the leaves

change it really is beautiful. I love Fall colors! It is ironic

 because with growing up in the 70's when our entire house

 was brown orange gold and avocado, I hated those colors. 

  We call them other colors now, but they are the same colors.

  I often get the the urge to bake when the weather turns cold. 

Since I cannot have gluten I have an awesome 

GF apple pie and pumpkin cake recipe.  (The reason for the 

pumpkin picture) So even though I hate to see summer go

my card is to represent the positive things fall brings.

Plus I can't do anything about it so I have to deal with it!
I will be giving this to one of my good friends
that loves fall.

Close up of the leaves.

Close up of bow

Jewels- Fixed the crooked ones after the picture was taken.

Image as I was working on the coloring.

Inside

Inside- Thinking about you-  Ribbon- no wrinkles!

Have to give a tip on the ribbon.  I probably did not come up with this 

idea, but it feels like I am the only one that ever thought of this! LOL

Years ago, before ribbon boxes came out for the whole spool, I

used to take my ribbon off the roll and put it in embroidery

boxes.  So the ribbon gets all wrinkled.  I have seen

ribbon ironers and thought they were silly.  Then

today when I took this ribbon out, and it was all

wrinkled, I wished I had one.  What to do, what to do.

I thought about dragging out the ironing board and iron, 

but my husband would have had a fit if he came home

and I was ironing ribbon, because I hate to iron.

I decided to try my hair straightener.  It is a thin one

that does not get super hot.  It worked perfectly.

I was very impressed and pleased with myself!

Supplies Used:

Green Cardstock: Bazzill - Brown & Orange- From my stash

Designer Paper: Memory Boutique

Buttons and Ribbon- Orange and two different brown velvet- From my stash

Jewels and Flower- Recollections

Ovals- Spellbinders- Nestabilites oval dies

Sentiment- TPC Studio- Greeting clear stamp set with Walnut Distress Ink

Leaves- Paper Flowers by Bazzill

Digital Image- Freebie by Karen's Doodles colored with Prismacolor Pencils

Challenges I would like to enter this in:

Our Creative Corner- Beautiful Fall Colors- 

Baby Bud Designs- Fall

Stampin' for the Weekend- Autumn Colors

Craftalicious- Autum Colors 

Sentimental Sundays- Autumn

Charisma Cardz- Autum Colors

Stamp Man- Autumn

Kaboodle Doodles- Fall Colors

Digi Doodle Shop's Best- Orange

Totally Papercrafts- Buttons and Bows

Digital Tuesday- Digi, Ribbon, Buttons, or Bling

Gingerloft Challenge- Bling

Paper Playtime- Ribbons, Buttons, or Rhinestones

Paper Sundaes- Something From My Stash-  Paper, Buttons, Ribbon

Stamptacular Sunday- at least 5 Layers

Karber- Digital Image

Cowgirl's Sunday Stamp'en Challenge- Anything Goes