Autumn wings

Whilst in Kew Gardens a couple of weeks ago I was struck by all the different colours and shapes of the leaves and I collected several that had left their trees. Theme Thursday's challenge of 'seasons' has given me kick-start to do something with them. I wanted something to complement the leaves and these Tim Holtz images just seemed to fit.

The Three Muses challenge this week is 'wings on things' (I hope people count as things!), so this piece is my response to to challenges.

To start, I laid down several layers of acrylic paint on 10 x 7 inch piece of acrylic paper. I used six different colours - yellow, burnt sienna, green, orange, red and titan buff - to give the autumnal background. Once dry I stamped and embossed the gold flourishes at the top and bottom and edged the paper with a gold Krylon pen. Having stamped the images onto a browny gold paper I stuck them on using matte medium. I varnished the leaves and sprayed some of them with solar gold Radiant Rain. Once dry, I then stuck them to the background using tacky glue. This was the hardest part, due to their unusual shapes but I did manage to get them to stick with a bit of perseverance. Not sure how I'm going to dust it as the leaves are pretty delicate ........