Fall Birthday

Happy Wednesday!!  It's time for another challenge from The House That Stamps.  This week we have a beautiful inspiration photo for you:

And here is the card I created:

I LOVE the colors in the photo, unfortunately, I don't have any of those shades in my collection.  So, I really played off the leaf theme and used some of the darker colors in the palette.  I stamped the postcard stamp on the rust colored background where it would show through in the leaf cut out on the dark gray layer.  After I die cut the leaf, I ran the panel through my machine with an impression plate to give it a subtle texture which you can see if you look really closely.  I notched the side to wrap some twine around and added a button and sentiment to finish everything off.

Thanks for stopping by!  Make sure you head on over to The House blog to see what the rest of the Design Team has done with this photo.  And if you "need" any of the stamps I used, check out my 10% off your entire order coupon code over in my lift sidebar.

Supplies:

Stamps: Repeat Impressions "Postcard", "Happy Birthday"
Dies: Papertrey Ink maple leaf; Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"

Challenges:
Retro Rubber #124--tic tac toe (I used the bottom row: birthday, masculine, twine)
Use Your Stuff #384--mood board (I was inspired by the dark rusts and grays and the leaves)

Creative Fingers #175--anything goes
Crafty Catz #483--anything goes with the optional twist: birthday
Southern Girls--anything goes
Crafty Creations #402--anything goes
Crafty Gals--anything fall goes
Addicted to CAS #172--birthday
Crafting with an Attitude #57--anything goes