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One of our Global Scrapbook designers, Sharon Dalton chose our theme for September. She chose "Anything Goes". I can use any theme or technique I choose. I had just sorted a stack of pictures and chose the fall ones to do my pages with this month. The leaves are starting to fall so I guess I'm leaning into fall. It's strange to think that our scrapbooking friends in Australia are welcoming Spring!
I decided to use the Season of Green and Gold DSP, not a fall DSP. It isn't really even fall colors bit is so beautiful with gold foil in the designs on one side. As beautiful as the foil makes the design, I chose mostly unfoiled papers! I started off with a Crushed Curry base and layered 3 strips of the DSP across it. The photo mats, title and leaves are from Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry and Garden Green.
There is a new stamp and die set called Autumn Leaves that I wanted to use to embellish the pages. It also has a couple of label dies, one that was perfect to mount the letters of my title on.
I wanted to make the die cut leaves stand out so I embossed the stamped design in gold. It just didn't look right to me. I die cut a new set of leaves and stamped them with the same color ink pad as the cardstock for each kind of leaf. I ran the Versa Mark ink pad around the outside of each leaf and embossed it with gold embossing powder. I liked that look much better. I cut the veins from gold foil cardstock to make them extra blingy. After I decided that the copper foil looked better on some of the colors I thought I should have used copper embossing powder on those leaves but it really looks OK with the gold so I didn't redo them.
I had a lot of photos to go on this layout so I practically filled the second page with the pictures of my yard during fall. The die set has some small leaves too so I scattered them around.
The first picture is of my husband and I at a Halloween party, the second, in the yard burning the brush pile. The bottom 2 pictures are of our granddaughter helping us rake leaves. With as many trees as we have, there are LOTS of leaves to be raked every fall!
I hope you enjoyed my fall pages. Now it's time to hop on over to the next blog, I know you will love what Sharon has created! There are quite a few participants this month so enjoy all the creative inspiration!
