Didn't take long at all

Well, my son has only been in school since last Wednesday. Yesterday when he got off the bus he had a really runny nose and looked pretty tired. Last night was his first flag football game. We went to that and I didn't think too much about the runny nose until I looked over on the sidelines and he was lying there....and he looked like if he held still for about 30 more seconds he'd fall asleep. I was a little frustrated. Not with him, but with school germies. My son's pretty good at hand-washing and sanitizing {for an 8-year-old boy anyway}, but obviously you can't avoid all germs and sicknesses. But I thought we'd make it past the first week before we caught something. He woke up with a fever and still looked completely lethargic, so he's home today. Thank goodness my little kindergartener wasn't nervous at all to ride the bus by herself this morning. We could have had a disaster on our hands. Anyway, on to my card:
When previews for Papertrey Ink's fall sets started popping up last month, this little leaf was shown as a preview. I loved the little swirls in it so much. I actually did try to talk myself out of this set though. I have a Hero Arts set from last year with a cute little leaf that I never used last year. So I tried to make a cute little leaf card so I wouldn't want to buy anything new. Well, the darn leaf had a defect, the rubber was missing a chunk out of the outline, and stamped horribly. So this set made it onto my list anyway. This card was totally inspired by a card here on Susan's blog (the second card down). I like it so much I'd have done a straight case, but didn't want to have to try and figure out what size envelope to use for a card like that. So I changed it to something I could handle. Plus, Susan is really great at one layer cards. I can handle "clean and simple," and find myself drawn more and more to that style. But the art of one layer cards is a totally different thing.

Stamps: PTI Fall Elegance
Ink: PTI Melon Berry, Pure Poppy, Ripe Avocado, Summer Sunrise
CS: PTI Kraft, Rustic Cream, Summer Sunrise