Eco print cards

Good day friends!

A few weeks ago, I suddenly had a desire to do some

eco-printing.  I saw the beautiful leaves that were falling

and wondered how they would work on some prints.

So I gathered up some leaves from the ground and some 

that hadn't fallen yet and set myself to work.

Here are a few that I did with some leaves from our
"burning bush" that gets bright red leaves in the fall.

I laid the leaves on a piece of card stock,

laid another piece of card stock over it and 

ran them through my Cuttlebug.
This is what I got and I just love how they turned

out.

I thought I may as well experiment a little more,

so I put another piece of card stock over the leaves 

and ran it through again.

This more muted piece is what I got from the second pass.

Here are the cards I made with those first 

prints.  Just trimmed them to size,

adhered to some colored card stock and

then onto a card base.

This was just the start of the prints I made with leaves and

some flowers that were still hanging around, but

I haven't had time to make anything with the other

prints.  I'll show those in another post.

But I did learn that even though the leaves have fallen

from the trees, as long as they aren't dried and brittle,

they are worth give a try running through

the cuttlebug.

I found some just didn't work as well, some gave

very strong colors and some were more muted.

You just have to give them a try, it's surprising the colors

you may get.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I appreciate that you spend time here.

Come again soon,

until then,

try some eco-printing.

Use leaves, flowers, grass whatever you can

find in nature that will go through your machine.