Thanks for checking out our October Creative Card-iology Team Blog Hop! Our theme this month is anything relating to the fall season! You can hop on over to my teammates’ blogs for some more autumn inspiration by clicking on the links toward the bottom of this post.
Our team creative
challenge this month is “My favorite color is October,” and I decided to create
my blog project around this theme as well.
I do love the fall season for a lot of reasons, not least is the turning
of the leaves from green to the gorgeous autumn colors.
The Hello Harvest
bundle was a perfect choice to highlight the October theme. I love the sentiments and images in this
bundle!
I also decided to
use a fun book-fold design for my card. Directions
for creating the card are below.
Cutting Instructions:
- Card Base – 4 ¼” x 11” Blushing Bride Cardstock
- Layer 1 – One 4” x 4” and One 1” x 4” Cherry Cobbler Cardstock
- Layer 2 – One 3 7/8” x 3 7/8” and One 7/8” x 3 7/8” Texture Chic Designer Series Paper (DSP)
- Inside Layer and Die Cuts – One 4” x 4”, Two 3 ¼” x 3 ¼” and One 1 ½” x 4” Basic White Cardstock
- Real Red 3/8” Ribbon – One piece approximately 4 ½” and one piece approximately 4” long
Stamping, Die
Cutting and Assembly Instructions:
1.
Score
card base at 4 ¼” and 5 ½”.
2.
Fold
card base in half at 5 ½” score. Fold
cardbase along the 4 ¼” mark so that the card front folds up as a book
would.
3.
Tap
leaf image on Blushing Bride ink pad and apply Cherry Cobbler ink around edge
of stamp with Blending Brush. Then stamp
image on white cardstock. Repeat for
second leaf image.
4.
Stamp
pumpkin and small flower images in Cherry Cobbler ink on white cardstock.
5.
Die
cut pumpkin, leaves and floral image using Rustic Pumpkin Dies.
6.
Die
cut a circle using the second largest circle die from the Stylish Shapes Dies
collection.
7.
Stamp
“Hello” sentiment at the top and toward the right of the circle die cut, and stamp
“You are such a blessing” sentiment and small flower images on white inside 4”
x 4” layer.
8.
Outline
pumpkin image with Light Cajun Craze Blend.
Color all of the inside of the image with Light Pumpkin Pie Blend, and
then add some shading around edge with Dark Pumpkin Pie Blend. Color pumpkin stem in same manner with Dark
and Light Old Olive Blends.
9.
Color
small flower with Petal Pink Blend. Add
shading with Light Flirty Flamingo Blend at center of flower and base of
petals.
10. Color Real Red ribbon pieces and three
pearls with Dark Cherry Cobbler Blend.
11. Adhere Layer 2 pieces of Texture Chic
DSP to coordinating Layer One pieces of Cherry Cobbler cardstock.
12. Adhere ends of longer ribbon piece to the
top and bottom of the thinner matted layers.
13. Adhere larger square matted layer to
the right side of the scored card front, and adhere thinner matted layer to the
left part of the scored card front.
14. Adhere stamped circle to the top right
of card front.
15. Apply mini glue dots to back of
pumpkin image and adhere to card front, overlapping the bottom left of the
circle. Apply mini glue dots to back of leaves and adhere to bottom of pumpkin. Apply mini glue dots to the back of the
flower and adhere the flower to the center of the leaves.
16. Place colored pearls on circle as
desired and our card is finished!
I would love to hear what you think of this project or if you try it out yourself! You can leave a comment below!
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Thanks
for hopping with us today! Don’t forget to check out my teammates’ blogs
by clicking on the links below!
Products used for my card project are listed below.
Product List
