Fall Wreath

Hello friends.  Does it still feel like Fall to you where you live?  The past few days here in West Michigan have been very windy and a good portion of the colorful leaves are all over the ground instead of being on the trees yet...ie, LOTS of raking to be done!!  I raked up a few leaves here in my craft room and made a Fall wreath to play along in a couple challenges, and here's what I came up with...

 This past Summer my sweet friend Bobby gifted me a Tim Holz Festive Wreath die set and I've been having more fun with it...it's meant for Christmas and I've already made a Halloween card with it (HERE), and now a Fall card. I guess I need to get busy and make a Christmas card with it, but I'm not ready to wish Fall away just yet!  So anyway, for this card I started with a piece of rustic white cs (PTI) and embossed it with an ancient Cuttlebug embossing folder with all sorts of Fall words on it (rustling leaves, hot apple cider, thankfulness, Autumn, blessings, etc.). Then I started building my wreath by die cutting all the small pieces that Tim is so famous for. Here's a closer up so you can see better...

The base of the wreath is kraft card stock using the grapevine die, but I also added another layer to the wreath using one of the dies from PFS's Tied with Cheer die set from a darker green cs.  I used a lot of scraps of the Sizzix sandable cs for the pinecones, orange slices (I LOVE those!!), berry sprigs (in orange & purple), leaves, and more greenery sprigs. Other than the background ef and the one layer of the wreath using the PFS die, everything is from the Tim Holtz set.  I did not add a sentiment as there are already words embossed from the ef and I didn't want to clutter up the card with anything else. Lots of fiddly work on this card but I love the way it turned out! 

Kim over at the Freshly Made Sketches challenge has a wonderful sketch that works beautifully for a wreath, so I will be entering my card over there, as well as with the gals over at the Double D Challenge where they are looking for Fall Wreaths.

Thanks for stopping by today ... I love it when you do!