Autumn leaves

I've been meaning to take part in the weekly ABC challenge for some time, but haven't been able to find time until now. This week's challenge was D is for Die cuts. The challenge classes punches as die cuts, so here's my entry with punched leaves.

Stamp: Penny Black 'Swirling Leaves'
Ink: VersaMark
Chalks: Pebbles Inc. 'Basic brights'
Punches: EK Success / Make me / Woodware
Patterned paper: DCWV 'Pocketful of Posies'

I wanted to get softly blended muted colours for the leaves so I stamped the image with Versamark and randomly dabbed and buffed green, orange, yellow and red chalks on it. This also gave the image a lightly coloured background, I just used rubber to remove some extra colour.