Fall Is In The Air

 Savannah finally has some cooler weather so I wanted to start decorating the house for fall.  I have been seeing alot of  projects with the "lollies". You might be wondering "what's a lollie?"  It is a flower made out of paper.  Stampin' UP! just introduced the Simply Scored Tool which can help you make lollies.  The scoring base of the simply scored tool can fit paper up to 12"x12" and features score tracks every 1/8".  I love how easy it is to score the lines with the stylus.  The tips on the stylus come in two sizes....I used the smaller size.  The lollies ranged in sizes.....1 1/2" x 12" to 2" x 12".  For this project I used the Spice Cake DSP .   This is my favorite DSP right now...I just love the colors!!!!!  To score the lollies, I scored one side every 1/2"  and then turned over the paper and then scored every 1/4".  It creates the valley/hill effect that helps crease the paper together.  Once you crease your folds together, I added tombow glue to the ends and held them together for about 10 seconds.  I punched out a 2" circle and put tombow glue on it and then laid the lollie down on the circle.  I used my largest clear block to put pressure on the lollie until the glue dried. 
Another great new stamp set that I'm in love with is "Gently Falling".  This stamp set is very realistic and is a 2 step stamp set.  I just love 2 step stamping!!!!!  I used more mustard, early espresso, old olive and crumb cake colors to make the leaves.  Once the leaves were stamped, they were cut out and adhered to the lollies with dimensionals.
For the letters, I adhered Spice Cake DSP to cardboard and ran them through the big shot with the serif letters.  I adhered them to the plate with dimensionals.  I decided to decorate the plate instead of the wreath.  It looked better with the colors in the paper.  I love how it looks on my buffet with the rest of the vignette.