Turning over a New Leaf

Hi & welcome on what has become a rather gloomy afternoon here at our house. The day started off very pretty & sunny, but now is looking as though it could rain at any moment. (None has been predicted however). DH is out raking up some leaves that he blew into a pile yesterday afternoon. My suggestion was to just run the mower over the leaves, let them mulch into the yard. He must be really bored, cause neither of us likes raking leaves. Somebody in the neighborhood is burning, so - HA HA - I can't go outside to help!!! Bad me.

The image on the card today has been colored for a while, and I got round to matting it for a card last night.

- Stampability House Mouse - Turning Over a New Leaf - colored with copics, edged with DI Stormy Sky, then again with Faded Jeans. The distressing looks much darker IRL. Die cut with S/B Label 11, then faux mat from a Dylusions piece that was handy. I liked the reddish tones of the mat against the blue distressing. I am never happy with my coloring on the HMice if I use the brown tones. I seem to do much better if I stay with the grays - not sure why this is so. I did like the way the leaves in the image turned out.

- Cream colored card base embossed with Crafts Two EF (Leaves). I rubbed Memento Peanut Truffle ink pad over the folder prior to embossing, and I like the effect this color created.

- Copper leaf was made with the mini torch technique using thin copper sheet (as done so beautifully in this card), and the die is a Memory Box leaf. This piece is an offcut of the die. Beneath the copper are 2 silk leaves from VOS (very old stuff) that I found hiding in a storage box.

- Sentiment from a clear set, which I separated in order to just stamp the Thankful, (Memento Rhubarb). Used oval hand punch, then edged with the DI Faded Jeans. Too white against the creamy card base, so used DI Tea Dye to smudge up the white.

That's it! Hope you like it.

Yesterday I worked on house chores, so feel good about getting some of those aggravating things accomplished. Today was cleaning bed linens, other catchups. Now I'm off to visit some nice bloggers who have left comments for me, and I want to see what they've been up to. And my plan for the rest of the day (if I don't succumb to the recliner..which is a tendency when our days are a bit gray)..well, I'm going down to the messy stamp area. Maybe I can put away a few things and hope I can find some missing items when I start to clear away.

Enjoy your afternoon, Big Hugs from me. As always, thanks so much for your visit this afternoon.