![Printing with Leaves 1 Printing with Leaves 1](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_1.jpg)
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1. Place the colors that you wish to use in a paint palette.
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![Printing with Leaves 2 Printing with Leaves 2](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_2.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 3 Printing with Leaves 3](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_3.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 4 Printing with Leaves 4](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_4.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 5 Printing with Leaves 5](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_5.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 6 Printing with Leaves 6](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_6.jpg)
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2. Place your paper over the leaf.
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![Printing with Leaves 7 Printing with Leaves 7](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_7.jpg)
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3. Take your crayon and use the side of it.
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![Printing with Leaves 8 Printing with Leaves 8](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_8.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 9 Printing with Leaves 9](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_9.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 10 Printing with Leaves 10](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_10.jpg)
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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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![Printing with Leaves 11 Printing with Leaves 11](../assets/images/Printing_with_Leaves_11.jpg)
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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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