The sweet leaves of autumn

What colours are the fallen leaves of autumn? Brown? Gold? Yellow? Look closely, and you will see all those colours and many more besides: deep red, orange, scarlet ... even silver. So here is my tribute to the multicoloured spectacle that's at its height right now in the Northern Hemisphere - and also my contribution to the Sweet Leaves Blog Hop which starts its journey around the world at Sandy Diaz's blogspot here.

My leaves have been created using a variety of quilling techniques: closed coils, open and 'S' coils, wheatears, huskings and anything else that came into my head! Some of the strips are crimped, some are double-wound with complementary colours, and for the teardrop-shaped leaf I used a strip that's graduated from green to white. Autumn leaves come in so many shapes, sizes, colours and textures that they seem to provide an endless source of inspiration. Who needs written-down patterns for quilling when Nature provides so many of her own?

And the background for my leaves? This was digitally quilled in Photoshop Elements using 'virtual' quilled shapes which I re-sized, rotated and coloured on-screen to create a leaf-like printable background image. If you'd like to know more about digital quilling, please click here.

And now - on with the Hop! You're currently visiting Philippa's blog, Quilliance, at the end of the European section. You can continue your journey by referring to the 'route map' here:

AFRICA Jacquline http://cutekipepeo.blogspot.com ASIA Syaz http://syazcards.blogspot.com/ Suganthi http://papercraftss.blogspot.com/ Anastasia http://anastasiaw.blogspot.com/ Lin http://azlina-lin.blogspot.com/ Thusitha http://craftsimagery.blogspot.com/ Miez http://miezam.blogspot.com/ Amna http://alfardh.blogspot.com/ EUROPE Cristina http://cristina-funquilling.blogspot.com/ Suzana http://quillingwithfun.blogspot.com/ Finnuala http://quillingowo.blox.pl/html Pritesh http://quillingmesoftlee.blogspot.com/ Philippa http://quilliance.blogspot.com/ NORTH AMERICA Jennifer http://www.creativequilledcreations.blogspot.com/ Paula http://chillinwithquillin.blogspot.com/ Linda http://www.myquillingnest.com/ Shruti http://eenzybeenzy.blogspot.com/ Melissa http://sleeplesswonder.blogspot.com/ AUSTRALIA Bronwyn http://quillme.blogspot.com/ SOUTH AMERICA Regina http://regina-ribeiro.blogspot.com/ Natilde http://natiquill.blogspot.com