Having got a few colour sprays, inks and paints out the other day to make a birthday card I found that I didn’t want to use the usual autumnal colours this time and then I remembered that I had already created a background page that would be just what I was after.  I had made the background paper last year and it had been on a day that mum was visiting and we were playing around with my gelli plate.  Mum had brought round some of her paints too and  we both made some lovely background papers.  This one was made using dried Acer leaves from my garden and some fibres and the little accent leaf is just a copper peel-off that I coloured with a dark reddy/brown pen then stuck it onto a portion of the same background paper then cut it out.