Falling Leaves

Imagine my delight when I got home from work tonight to find not one - but TWO jiffy bags on the mat, from the Stamp Attic!!  Racing upstairs, I ripped them open - oh sorry, sounding like a novel...

Here's what was inside :
A fabby Paperbag Studios sheet of rubber called  "doodles and daters" - check out the Stamp Attic blog for some stunning samples using these.


AND Tim's Tattered Leaves alterations die. Oh yum, I have died and gone to heaven.

Now, you will say, "more shopping" - but no, these don't count cos they were on pre-order so... no?  Not a valid excuse?  OK, shopping then!!

So, after dinner (tuna pasta bake, also yum, if I say so myself!) I set to play.

I did something I have been building myself up to for some time - found an old paperback book on one of the shelves that I could use the pages from - and tore out some pages.  I can justify it by knowing it was one of my ex husband's (yes, books got left behind as well as the wine in the dining room, lol).

I stuck a page to some grungepaper and when it was dry, put it through the die and coloured it with distress inks. I used crushed olive and wild honey on the tag, round a paper leaf (I cut some extras from ordinary paper) to create a mask effect. Curled the grungepaper leaves and stuck them to the tag with some foliage idea-ology, for some contrasting texture. The leaf stamped round the edges of the tag, in rusty hinge is by Wendy V.

In between doing bits to the tag, I also cut out and mounted the Paperbag Studio stamp set (yucky job, hate it, and haven't done this lot particularly well) I hope to get to play with THEM tomorrow!!
Night night!