An Autumn Anniversary - CASology and CAS-ual Fridays

Well, it seems like forever since I've played along in a challenge!  I finally had a little time to spend at my craft table today so I created a card for 2 challenges.

CASology - the Cue Card is Autumn

CAS-ual Fridays - CFC115: Fall Colors & a Leaf

Here is my take on both challenges.

 

I found this leaf on our front lawn late last summer and thought it was beautiful.  It's extremely fragile and thin.

I had no idea what I would do with it, until just a few days ago when I saw the challenge theme at CAS-ual Fridays.  Use a leaf?  Of course!

Since this leaf would never survive the postal service, I knew I wanted to use it on a card that I would deliver in person.  What better recipient than my husband?  Our Wedding Anniversary is coming up in a few days.  So....I actually get to keep my lacy leaf card.  It's a win-win situation, don't you think?

Anyway.  In order to protect the leaf AND cover as little of it as possible, I used a piece of clear card stock (acetate) over the leaf.  When I adhered the sentiment panel, I used scor-tape beneath that area of the acetate to adhere it all to my card base.  By the way, fragile leaves and static-y acetate are bit challenging to work with.  Trust me.

Thanks so much for taking a look!

Supply list ~
card stock: crushed curry, cajun craze (SU), clear card stock (Heartfelt Creations)
ink: onyx black versafine
stamps: simple sentiments (PTI)
other: brights candy dots (SU), leaf from my lawn