Beautiful, Glorious Fall!

Well, it's been here for a few days anyway... since when exactly? September 21st? Is that when Fall season starts? I can't tell... I'm in Texas. When I lived up northeast... I knew when it was fall! lol It became a totally different country! If you've never been, you should go... especially during the fall season! It's an experience that will stay with you forever! You'll grow old talking about the time you went up to the northeast... before that... folks might want to strangle you cause that's all you can talk about! lol I jest! I hope anyway! Cause I lived up there for... I don't know... I think maybe six years? Let me see... we arrived May of 2002... and we left March 2008... so yeah almost six years. Gosh, I've got to remember that! lol Cause when I tell folks I often tell them we were up there about seven or eight years! Boy howdy! I need to learn to count! But anyway... I always tell them about the fall season and how beautiful the countryside is! It's breathtaking! It's a wonder I didn't kill myself the first few years we were up there... oh... I know why I say we were there seven or eight years! I'm counting the two years we were in Connecticut! We lived in New Hampshire the rest of the time. So... it makes sense in my maddening world. :) Anyway... when we lived in Connecticut, I worked about an hour from our home and the first time I drove to work after the leaves started changing... it was hard to keep my eyes on the road. It was just so gorgeous! 

But I am getting WAY ahead of myself here... I'm here to tell you about this week's challenge at My Time to Craft Challenge Blog! It's Die-Cuts only... no images allowed... only sentiments... which proved to be a HUGE dilemma for me! I've not invested a lot of my hard earned money into die-cuts... ssooo... I had to dig deep! And this is what I came up with:

 

 

Ssooo... do you see why I went off on fall? lol It's been too long since I've seen leaves changing color so I went by what I could remember... I hope I got it right! 

Card Recipe:

Sentiment: Hello Beautiful Glorious Fall from Create with TLC

Pattern card stock from Story Tellers Club (retired)

Spellbinders Shapeabilities Collection - Assorted Leaves (discontinued)

Plain card stock from my stash

Inks: Tim Holtz Distressed Inks in Wild Honey, Crushed Olive, Vintage Photo, Barn Door and Peeled Paint

Metallic Rubons: Metallic Rubons Kit #1 in Copper and Emerald and Metallic Rubons Kit #4 in Sunburst, Apple Green, Amber and Russet from Craf-T Products, Inc.

I colored the leaves in a two step process. First, I used the TH inks with a dauber to give the leaves color. I then followed this with metallic rubons to give the leaves some shimmer and a deeper tone. I also scrunched the leaves to give them a more weathered look.

I'd like to enter my card into these challenges:

The House That Stamps Built - Repeat Impressions Blog: DCC924 - Fall

Ruby's Rainbow: Challenge #89 - Autumn Leaves

Word Art Wednesday: Challenge #152 - Anything Goes

Die Cut Divas Challenge Blog: Change of Seasons - Spring/Autumn

Ladybug Crafts: October Challenge - Autumn and/or Halloween
Scrapping4Fun Challenges: Challenge #27 - Seasons (Spring or Autumn)

Thanks for stopping by my place today. I hope you'll have time to pop on over to MTTC CB and play along with the current challenge!