Falling Leaves Spinner-Slider

Hello Autumn

Hi. Thanks for dropping in.

I love trees and leaves and I really enjoy using those in my cards. Creating a falling leaves effect seemed like a fun challenge.

I painted red, orange, and yellow watercolor paint onto my media mat and spritzed it with water (first image). Then I pressed watercolor paper onto the paint repeatedly until there was color over most of the paper . It was allowed to dry, then I repeated the process until I had some interesting blends and splotches of color (image 2). As you can see, the process is not pretty. Remember not to mix warm and cool colors or you’ll end up with a muddy brown mess.

I used leaf dies to cut from the most interesting areas of the dry paper. A bit of brown blended along the edges (image 3) helps give the leaves some depth and contrast from the background paper.

I cut the slider from my background paper twice to create two sliding tracks. One was cut shorter using a partial die cutting technique. Then I laid the cut paper over my card base and set-in and glued only the pieces that had been cut out.

I adhered the birdhouse to the card front, then added thick foam tape on the back making sure not to interfere with the sliding elements. The white slides were added and it was adhered to the card base. Then the watercolored leaves were glued to the top of the slides using a small dot of Glitter Glue. While it was drying, I carefully moved the slides within the track to make sure they weren’t glued down.

Once the sliding elements were dry, I added leaves and other details around the birdhouse.

I hope you get the feeling of falling leaves from this card. Is this something that you’ll try? I’d love it if you’d leave a question or comment. Thanks for visiting!

Di

• Supplies
• Elizabeth Craft Designs* Floral Foliage 1 SKU #2087
• ECD* Turkey #1905 (leaves)
• ECD* Rustic Winter paper #C013
• ECD* Watercolor Palette #WC01
• My Favorite Things On the Move Slider
• My Favorite Things Spin & Slide Discs
• Waffle Flower Water Media Mat