We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
"Little Gidding"
T S Eliot

Monday 7 September 2015

Hello Autumn ...

It is time for the September Craft Barn calendar challenge, and the key words are brown and trees/leaves.

I think it is too cold for September - so the colour should be icy blue!

Anyway, took to my Brushos (again!), and sprinkled and spritzed some autumnal colours.  I then found some Glassine paper - that brown crunchy stuff that came out under the Tim Holtz name some time ago.  I bought a pad of it at the time, and it has been sulking at the bottom of a drawer ever since.

I die-cut some leaves, then stamped some, scrunched some, and used a bit of gilding wax too; created a cascade of dry leaves - reminiscent of my childhood love of running through a pile of leaves (not the soggy ones though!).



Again, I was inspired to write another haiku -

Autumn leaves the tree
Cloaked in impetuous hues
Bold in winter's face

7 comments:

  1. A great pile of scrunchy leaves and you reminded me I have some of that glassine somewhere too. Loving the brusho background too!!

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  2. I've gone for die cut oak leaves too but with brown paper rather than glassine. I like your Brusho background.

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  3. Glorious leafy page and the background is fabulous. Your haiku is brilliant! bravo! :D

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  4. Very convincing leaves. It really captures the essence of autumn.

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  5. Great idea to make the leaves out of this paper, they look pretty realistic and the Brusho background is lovely too!

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  6. Wow, i thought the leaves were real! Thank you for joining in The Calendar Challenge.
    Jane x

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