When Autumn Leaves Start To Fall - CD Sunday

It's time for a new theme at CD Sunday - am I the only one who thinks the weeks are just flying by?
The last challenge at CD Sunday didn't attract many entries, are you all knee deep in making your Christmas cards? It is only 9 weeks to the big day so perhaps I ought to join you LOL! Margaret will pick her top three winners and there is a prize for her first choice. The winner will be announced in 2 weeks time on Sunday 5th November - oooh that's Bonfire Night LOL!

The CD Sunday challenge is all about making items using craft CD Roms. You can use other craft items on your card/project but you must include something from a CD. So if you like colouring stamped images or digis you can still enter the challenge but you must include something from a CD such as a backing paper, a sentiment or a butterfly for example. In your blog post you must give the name of the CD you've used. This is especially important if the items you've used can be bought as a download as well as a CD as the Design Team can't tell which has been used unless you tell us. Your card can't be considered for a prize if you haven't used a CD or if you haven't told us the name of the CD in your post. The Design Team still leave comments on the blogs but there's no chance of winning if the above hasn't been followed. 

This time it's Jocelyn's turn to pick the theme and she's gone for 'When Autumn Leaves Start To Fall'. I knew straight away what I wanted to make as I've previously made a similar card for a monthly card swap (back in September 2013!).

The first stage was to make an stepper card. I have a set of dies that make a side stepper card but I wanted the 'steps' to be a certain height so the first attempt made using the dies went in the bin. I then searched the net for templates and instructions for various designs but after my fourth attempt ended up in the bin I made my own!

I then cut mats from dark brown card to fit the three sections. I used rectangle dies with a stitched edge from The Works (£5!). The dies weren't quite long enough so I only ran the card part way through my machine then moved the die to the length I needed and run it through the machine again. The second mat is a design printed from a CD and the same process used to lengthen the mat. The backing paper design I used is from DoCrafts Digital Designer and is called Woodland Folk and Friends. I used the Woodland Folk section called Everyday but lightened it a touch.

I inked up a piece of white card with 4 Distress Inks - Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Festive Berries and Vintage Photo. I left it to dry overnight and then used it to die cut all the leaves. These large leaves were cut using Creative dies that were free in a craft magazine. The words 'Autumn' and 'Leaves' are cut using Tonic DuoCap Initials - Pretoria Dies.

The tree was cut out three times from card and all glued together to make it stronger as I wanted it to overhang the edge of the card. It's glued to the card using silicon glue to raise it up from the card. The tree die is from Die'sire called Four Seasons and these leaf dies are from a Signature Collection - Autumn Morning by Sara Davies called Tumbling Leaves.

This pile of leaves were cut using dies in the set with the tree die. The acorn die is an XCut set called Woodland Gift Tags. There's lots of tiny dies in this set - perfect for using on ATCs. The hedgehog was a free die with Papercrafter magazine issue 111.

I'm really pleased with how the following leaves turned out. I think the colours of the Distress Inks worked well. I bent the edges of the leaves up and only glued along the middle vein using silicon glue so they stood out from the card.

But my favourite part of this card is this little hedgehog!

Isn't it cute? Hubby and I have several hedgehogs visiting our garden and put food out for them. 

This theme runs until Saturday 4th November at 13:00 and Jocelyn will choose her top three favourites from the entries. Her chosen number one will receive a prize so make sure you get your entries in on time and to include something printed from a craft CD - Good Luck!