autumn sonata

i didn't think i was going to get to play along with the fusion card challenge this time, because somehow every time i started my card it morphed away from the sketch or the inspiration pic or both. but suddenly this morning it all came together:

leaf painted with artist loft watercolors on strathmore paper and outlined with faber castell pitt xs pen; small panels are torn sheet music glued to a scrap of watercolor paper and stamped with tim holtz harlequin, rhonna farrer flourishes and purple onion text block, then distressed with various ranger distress and archival inks; patterned paper: k and co; black twine from my stash; adhesives: elmers brand gluetape runner, 3m foam tape, sewing machine

i guess i should've showed the inspiration first, but here it is now; they call it "something wicked this way comes...or not"... surely one of the best challenge names of all time, don't you think?

i had actually stamped the half-music, half-text background for something else, but then didn't use it. the leaf was painted late one night when i was fooling around with my watercolors. in retrospect it seems silly that i never thought of combining them, but i really didn't; luckily they were both sitting on my worktable and when i shifted some things around and saw them together i thought, "AHA!" after that, the whole card assembled itself in about five minutes.

another AWESOME use of five minutes would be to head on over to fusion and check out the massive dose of design team (and readers' gallery!) eye candy, and think about how you could approach one (or both!) sides of the challenge! ♥