Handmade Card Instructions - Fall Leaves Card
by Wendy Kennedy

Description: How to make an easy handmade card for fall.

Materials:

- Rust Cardstock
- Karen Foster Checked Weathered Wood Paper
- A maple leaf stamp
- A stamp saying 'Fall' or stamp letters
- Dark Brown Ink Pad
- Caramel Ink Pad
- Red/Green rainbow ink pad
- Light Brown ink pad
- Adhesives

Instructions:

- I used a 5.5" x 8.5" piece of Cinnamon Bazzill cardstock folded in half for my card.

- Cut a piece of the checked weathered wood paper 5.5" x 4.25". Tear the edges so it's smaller than the card front. Ink the edges with dark brown ink.

- Stamp several maples leaves randomly in caramel, then red/green, then dark brown, then light brown. Overlap & go different directions, have some only partly on the paper.

- Attach to the front of the rust paper.

- Stamp 1 dark brown maple leaf and the word 'Fall' on another piece of checked weather wood paper.

- Tear out the word 'Fall' and ink the edges with dark brown.

- Cut out the brown stamped leaf (leave a narrow border).

- Stick 'Fall' and the leaf to the front of your card wherever you think they look good.

NOTE: If you don't have the Foster paper - it's a wood background that looks aged & has some random slightly darker squares on it. You could use a beige wood paper & stamp the squares. Or you could just use a beige or mottled beige paper.

More free layout and card instructions available at http://www.cndcountrygifts.com