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1. Place the colors that you wish to use in a paint palette.
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2. Paint on to the backside of a fallen leaf. Start with a base color and then add highlights of other colors.
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3. Turn the leaf over and first press it slightly on a newspaper to get the excess paint away. If you don’t do this, you risk that your print looks like a glob.
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4. Now press the leaf onto the underground you wish to print. A leaf may be used more than once.
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Illustrated Craft Tutorial - Crafting with Leaves - Method 2 - Using Crayons
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1. Select your leaf and place it ontop of a newspaper stack with the vein side up.
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2. Place your paper over the leaf.
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3. Take your crayon and use the side of it.
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4. Rub the crayon slightly over the paper to catch the leaf details. Do not rub to heavy.
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5. Once your rubbing is finished, take the leaf and place it exactly over the rubbing. Take a pencil and trace around the leaf. This will help when you are ready to cut the leaf out to enable you see better where you should cut. Sometimes they do not turn up so well with the crayon rubbing.
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6. This is now how it looks. When cutting it out, cut inside the pencil line so it cannot be seen on the final cut leaf.
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7. Using paper in fall colors looks pretty especially if you make a great amount of leaves.
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