CAS on Friday Challenge with ALTENEW's Rustling Leaves!

Hi all!

It's Friday, so you know what that means...it's a new challenge day at CAS on Friday!  This time, we are wanting you to show us you're ready for a change of seasons...create a clean and simple card with LEAVES.  Easy enough right?

I chose to pull out my favorite leaf set from Altenew called Rustling Leaves.  The great thing about Altenew products is they have coordinating products for nearly every item they have.  This is not a stamp set, but actually a betterpress plate.  This plate does have coordinating dies, an embossing folder and stencil set.  I chose to use the stencil and press plate for this project.  

To keep this card in-line with seasonal colors, I choose the Fall Harvest color family of Altenew crisp dye inks.  I last used this set in April and realized I may not have cleaned it well before I put it away!  When the initial inking with Butternut ink was done, there were little flecks of black ink in the press.  It looked pretty cool, so I continued on and did a second press with Yellow Ochre so the leaves would appear to be in the foreground.

The rest of this card was so easy with the coordinating stencil set, I inked the foreground leaves with Pumpkin Pie and Olive inks and that was it!  The sentiment from the stamp set was added with the same Yellow Ochre ink and a few enamel dots to complete the card.

Now, let's see what you will create for our LEAVES challenge!  Have a colorful day!