Pumpkins Please! Echo Park I Love Fall

Hello there I am back with an autumn project, even though summer is still hanging on here!  I have been using the beautiful autumnal Echo Park I Love Fall alongside some mini distress ink pads and a golden shimmer spray.

Firstly I had a chipboard cutout of a pumpkin in my stash that I covered with Coconut Swirl Bazzill paper to have a completely blank canvas.  I am sure you could use a cutting machine to cut out a large pumpkin shape and use several layers to create the same shape that I used.

I then used Mowed Lawn combined with Cracked Pistachio, Fesive Berries, Spiced Marmalade mixed with Mustard Seed and Dusty Concord Distress ink colours to create a blended background.  I didn't have any particular order in mind, I just wanted to create an autumnal colour pallette.  I then put droplets of the Shimmer Spray Vanilla Custard onto the background and sprinkled large droplets of water onto the distress inks.

I used two small leaf dies to cut out various leaves from Plump Pumpkins, Crisp Fall Air, Fall Is Here and Elements of Fall and layered them on top of each other to create two clusters either side of my photograph.  I felt it needed some glitter, I always need glitter, so I added a little dash of glue here and there to the leaves and sprinkled some larger glitter onto the leaves.  I finished the piece with a sticker from the Element Sticker sheet.

I am so pleased how this piece turned out and will be using it as some autumn decor in my house.  I hope you join me later this month for a 3d autumn project!