Leafy Luminary

Hi again, I'm back with my mid-month post for Our Creative Corner.  Can you believe it's already the middle of September?  Is it fall where you are?  This will be our first fall in Gainesville, Florida, having moved here from Miami last December.  We are greatly anticipating the arrival of some cool weather.  We actually had two mornings last week when it was 68 degrees - first time it's dropped below 70 and I enjoyed having coffee on my screened patio.  

You probably already know that fall crafting (and home decorating) is my favorite.  Our challenge theme this month at Our Creative Corner is Forgotten Things, as in forgotten stash.  So I pulled out several tools and supplies that haven't seen any use in a good long time.  My Tattered Leaves die is one of my all-time favorite dies but I don't use it much until fall comes.  Then it seems to get quite a workout.  I LOVE making vintage style leaves.  So I decided to use some of my leaves to decorate a candle.  I had some thick black wire (I think it is 22 guage) which I painted with Aged Bronze Vintaj Patina paint (from the Ancient Coin Collection).  The leaves were cut from plain white card stock and stamped in Jet Black archival with Tim's Ultimate Grunge stamp set (another forgotten thing).  The leaves were all sponged with two colors of Distress Ink using colors including Rusty Hinge, Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Barn Red and Aged Mahogany.  Then I spritzed them with water, crumpled them up a bit and dried them with my heat tool.  Once they were nice and crisp again, I sponged the edges with Vintage Photo DI.  Then each leaf got a light misting with Heirloom Gold Perfect Pearls (another forgotten thing).  Glue dots were used to adhere the leaves to the wire.  

The candle is battery operated so I didn't have to worry about flame or fire.  It made a lovely fall home decoration piece which is also a luminary.  

The products below used to make this project can be purchased at The Funkie Junkie Boutique where Tim Holtz/Ranger products are always 20% below MSRP.

Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Rubber Stamps - Ultimate Grunge	Ranger Archival Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Rusty Hinge	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Peeled Paint	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Scattered Straw
Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Aged Mahogany	Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Vintage Photo	Ranger Vintaj Patina Kit - Ancient Coin Collection	Ranger Perfect Pearls Mists - Heirloom Gold
Sizzix Alterations Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves Die

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Our Friday Focus products this week are Maja Design designer paper. All the fabulous Maja collections in stock are 15% off this week (through September 12th).   It was my turn to make a Friday Focus project and here is a teaser photo.  It's an accordion fold table decoration made with the absolutely GORGEOUS autumn collection Walking in the Forest.  Check out my post over at Frilly and Funkie for all the details or head over to The Funkie Junkie Boutique and purchase your Maja Design collections at 15% off.