Colours of Autumn

 Wow I can't believe it is now September, where did the summer go?

We had many plans for the Summer, but it all seems to have chaotically passed us by. Now we are counting down to my daughter moving to University. My craft space is full of her stuff and I don't know if I am coming or going.

Anyway on to the September colour challenge. It is my choice this month. The choices were made in December 2024 so that we can be organised. So of course I was rushing last minute as ever! I had thought about it well in advance and thought I had a plan, but it didn't work when I tried it, so I had to think up a plan B, then a plan C! So much for trying to be organised.

This is the image I gave everyone to take inspiration from.

The first issue was actually finding enough shades of orange. I have drawers and drawers of card, but never seem to have what I need for a project and for some reason there is not a lot of orange card around. There will probably be more now we are going into Autumn and people are making things for Autumn and Halloween. Orange is my favourite colour and it does work well for craft things.

The next issue was that I thought it would work better to display array of colours if I made a framed item rather than a card which is restricted by size.

This is what I came up with

    

The top photo is in the frame and bottom one out of frame as it photographs better.

The background is made up of 1 inch wide strips of card, overlapping to form a triangle, then the four triangles are spliced together.  It took a little bit of working out how to manage the areas where the edges meet and then the centre.  It is a bit like some of the techniques I have used in quilting.  The letters are cut in black on my Gemini die cutter.

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