Rustic Scarecrow Embellishments

Finished the Scarecrow Embellishments I was working on.... 

Wanted to have a base for the embellishment so I decided to pull out an old Sizzix steel rule die "Picket Fence" from the stash. Used recycled flat cardboard and cut out the fence pieces. Then cut out a backer piece from brown card stock to finish it off and make it more sturdy. Once the fence pieces were cut out and glued to the brown base pieces I used a dauber and brown ink and put the brown ink at the top, sides, and bottom of the fence pieces. 

Wanted some corn stalks for the front of the fence on one side so I used the dies from the Honey Bee die set "Farmhouse Fields Pumpkin Patch Add-On". Used yellow and green card stock for those. Sponged the green pieces using green ink and a dauber and then used liquid glue to put the green piece on the yellow piece. Set those aside to dry. 

Wanted to make a pumpkin for in front of the corn stalks and I wanted the pumpkin to be beefy and round looking. I used pumpkin colour card stock for the pumpkins but first I used three background stamps and ink to stamp that card stock. This way each pumpkin piece will have a stamped image on it to add more dimension to the pumpkins. Here is a photo of the stamped card stock before I made my pumpkin pieces:

I used a 7/8" circle punch and for each pumpkin I used three circles. Once all the circles were punched out I sponged the edges of them all:

Used liquid glue to put two circles next to each other and the front pumpkin piece was added using a large glue dot. I wanted to add leaves to the top so I used a small leaves die from my stash and cut those out from green card stock and then tapped green ink on those using a dauber. Cut out a stem piece from brown card stock scraps using scissors. Here are the items ready for assembly:

Here is one of the embellishments:

For the corn stalks I put those onto the fence front piece using thin tear and tape. For the pumpkin I put that on the fence, in front of the stalks, using the heavy duty foam mounting tape from the Dollar Tree. (At my store the heavy duty foam mounting tape is sold in the automotive aisle not the craft aisle). To add the scarecrow I used tear and tape on a couple of fence posts on the fence piece. Once they were all done I decided to add clear Wink of Stella to the leaves on the pumpkins and I also added it to the leaves by the sunflower on the scarecrow's hat for some sparkle and shine:

Here is a photo of the die set I used for this scarecrow from Waffle Flower - "Cheerful Scarecrow Die Set":

And the rest of the embellishments:

Fun project to put together and happy to use up more of my scraps as well as other die sets in the stash to make them.