Rachael sent something that looked like this in October - with pumpkins - and I figured I could just leave out the pumpkins and make it a nice leafy design. I thought her vines were maple leaves - which if I was paying attention I would realize that maples are not vines. Her leaves had pointy outlines and when I went to outline - my leaves turned into oak leaves. I love drawing leaves - so it was fine that they morphed and the oak leaves looked better with the stamp.
When I emailed something to Rachael about the maple leaves morphing into oak leaves - she told me that the Oct vines were supposed to be poison ivy. Well, of course - they were clearly vines and they were clearly in a formation of three - leaves of three, let them be. I've known that forever.
I had to learn how to identify poison ivy - with something more specific than the 3-leaf thing - because we have a couple weeds that look 3-leafy. My BigHelpfulBrother pointed out that our local variety of poison ivy had leaves with asymmetrical sides. One side is smooth and the other side is sawtooth.
This is way more than anyone needs to know to do a leafy vine-y design. I predict that I will do more of these.
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