Autumn Leaves

Hello friends, here's a little project made to fit in with the challenges listed below. I decided to make a couple of ATC's and a wallet to house them. My wallet is very simply an envelope folded in half and turned upside down so the flap forms the pockets and a simple ribbon closure to keep it folded together, it does look like a  mini book. I also went for an Autumn theme. 

I decided to get inky rather than painty and pulled out the Distress Inks, using Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Mustard seed and gathered twigs.

Other supplies used are Andy Skinner Baroque Stencil, Paper Artsy Mini96 Flourish, Sizzix Tim holtz leaves n twigs strip die and sewing room die for the buttons. Encore gold ink, TH Crackle paint Rock Candy, alcohol inks, labelling machine, book pages ribbon,

I've basically used the wrinkle free distress technique, putting the inks on my craft mat and swiping and dipping my envelope and ATC's into it. Then stencilling inside, outside and the ATC's, stamping and more ink around edges. I've coloured the words printed from my labelling machine with alcohol inks and edged with gold pen. The leaves have been die cut from paper coloured with various ink sprays and also book pages before being painted with crackle paint. This project took a while as I just couldn't get it looking right, but this was sorted by crackle glazing the book page leaves which were originally just inked, using less words than planned, then bam, it all came together. well kind of, lol.

I do hope you like my little project.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

 

Stampotique Designers challenge #120-
Fashionable Stamping Challenge 58 - use stencil or mask
Feeling Crafty challenges -  October Autumn theme
C.R.A.F.T Challenge #228 autumn. Halloween. Thanksgiving
Heck of a Challenge - October Autumn

 

A little notice too: Dawn's card swap is starting again beginning November,

 

 

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Happy Crafting,

luv Dawn