Coming Soon… Fall

The First Day of Fall is rapidly approaching and frankly, it can’t come soon enough. I much prefer cooler temperatures to the sweaty 100′ heat we had today. I pulled out my Fall Wreath today hoping I could convince Mother Nature to give us a little break on the heat.

I have a lot of seasonal decor that I’ve made through the years and this Fall Wreath is one of my favorites. I actually made this last Fall, but I haven’t had a chance to share this here yet. The Vintage Leaves stamp set and Leaflits Framelit dies are still current along with most of the colors that I used. The one retired color is Hello Honey. That was such an awesome color. The ribbon and patterned paper is retired as well.

Here is a close up shot of the all the leaves. To make this wreath, you will want to stamp a bunch of leaves. I can’t even guess how many I ended up die-cutting. But I know it was dozens. To get all the different looks, I stamped some leaves on colored card stock and some on vanilla card stock. I die cut all them. Plus I also die cut a couple dozen of just card stock leaves with no stamping. Then every leaf was crinkled and inked individually. This is a good project for when your bored, or in front of the tv, or stuck on a soccer sideline most of the weekend. 🙂

Placement of the leaves does take some planning and sorting. Once everything was stamped and die cut, I sorted each type of leaf into it’s own pile. By the time I was finished sorting, my glue gun was heated and ready to go.

I started by wrapping the burlap ribbon around the wreath. Then I picked a spot for the bow in the bottom center. Then I placed each leaf individually with the hot glue gun. Since I had all the different colors and styles in different piles, it made it easier to pick and choose which leaf would go where. I worked out from the middle going in both directions at the same time. Add a couple on the left, then add a couple on the right, then more on the left and more on the right. Keep going until you have the desired look. After I was happy with the leaves, I realized the top half was a little bare so I filled it in with the Fall tags.

In making this project I ended up with dozens of leaves. Literally. Dozens. I still have pile of leaves left over from this project. I do have a plan to use up the rest of them this year. I might swap out the Hello Honey leaves for ones in Delightful Dijon. But then again, I might just go ahead and use the Honey leaves. I do love that color.

What are you doing to encourage Fall weather to come a little faster? Have you dug your sweaters and jackets out the back of the closet yet? Have you started planning your pumpkin decorating yet?

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Here are the current Special Offers for this week. The Special Offers changed Thursday morning at 12:01 AM MT. Remember to place your order by next Wednesday evening if you want to get any of these items. Again, these are some pretty good deals and this is the last round of Special Offers for now. Note that some of these specify the “French” version. I don’t have clarification yet on whether that means only the French version is on sale or if both the English and French versions are on sale. Be sure to look closely if you decide to order any of those items.

Item #	Product Name	Retail Price	Discounted Price
141706	Layering Ovals Framelits Dies	$35.00	$26.25
141666	Good Vibes Project Life Card Collection	$16.00	$12.00
142684	Good Vibes Project Life Accessory Pack	$18.00	$13.50
142686	Ondes positives Project Life Accessory Pack (French)	$18.00	$13.50
141668	Hello Lovely Project Life Card Collection	$16.00	$12.00
142687	Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack	$18.00	$13.50
142689	Hello Lovely Project Life Accessory Pack (French)	$18.00	$13.50
142690	All Year Long Project Life Accessory Pack	$18.00	$13.50
142692	Toute l’année Project Life Accessory Pack (French)	$18.00	$13.50
140564	Oh Happy Day Card Kit (French)	$35.00	$26.25