Victorian Fall Fan by Lis Whiting

This is a very pretty Victorian fan featuring Victorian ladies and gold embossed maple leaves.

The Ladies:
You can download pictures of Victorian ladies by doing a Google search. There are many websites which allow this for free. Choose six pictures, copy them to your hard drive and print them out on heavy vellum. Use an oval punch to punch out the profiles [McGill Oval Punch 1 5/8 x 2 1/8]. Use the next size up McGill oval punch to punch out gold glossy cardstock for the mat. After you punch out both ovals, use a Xyron to run the vellum through, and then affix these to the gold glossy. Take a string of small ivory pearls and outline the pictures.

The Maple Leaves:
Choose 4 colors of confetti cardstock in fall colors (tan, gold, maroon and rust). Stamp 36 maple leaves using the Serendipity Maple Leaf (large). Emboss using VersaMark and gold embossing powder. Punch out the maple leaves using the McGill Maple Leaf Punch. (Serendipity Stamps has coordinated some of their stamps to fit the McGill punches including the leaves. This makes it very easy to produce high quality cut outs without the time of hand cutting.)

The Domino:
Take a Mahjong tile and sand the backside of it until the shiny surface is gone. Color dust in ochre [Marvy]. Heat set. (You need to do the color dusting first otherwise you will smear your stamping.) Stamp using StazOn in Rusty Brown and Forest Green. Use Fancy Corners from the Link Letters [Missing Link Stamps] on the corners in Forest green. Stamp FALL in Rusty Brown. Heat set. Line the edge with gold microbeads.

The Fan Base:
Draw a long oblong (5 inches) for your template (use Eclipse Paper) and cut out six fan “blades” from heavy black cardstock. Make sure that the blade is not too wide because we only want to see the maple leaves. Punch a hole at the base. Punch the hole about 3/4 inch from the bottom edge. You will use this to fasten the blades together. Do not fasten the blades together until the leaves are mounted.

Putting Your Fan Together:
Glue the leaves to each fan blade. Alternate the colors and overlap them as if they are falling from a tree.
It is easiest to start from the bottom next to the punched hole and work your way up. Use six leaves for each fan blade. Use a flat topped brad to fasten the blades together. The domino will be glued on top of this.

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