I love fall, the crisp air, falling leaves and all things feeling like a new beginning. To me nothing screams fall more than pumpkins. When this weeks sketch challenge was posted for the
Global Design Project blog I wanted to add my own personal challenge to it and to use the sketch to create a fun fall themed card. Here's the sketch for this weeks challenge:
Right off the bat, I knew I wanted to stick close to the sketch provided. I loved it and its a great base to work with. So many possibilities of what I could use, but I choose to use the new designer series paper: Frosted Floral. Here's what I came up with:
Blackberry Bliss is such a rich vibrant colour and I love the way it combines with Old Olive. I wanted the pumpkin to be the POP on my card so I decided it needed a layer between it and my floral background. Here's how the card came together.
I started with a Blackberry Bliss base and added a layer of the Frosted Floral designers paper. I next adhered a strip of Old Olive cardstock. I embossed my cardstock with the new Swirls & Curls embossing folder and placed it about 3/4 down on my card front. I next wrapped some linen thread over my Old Olive strip.
Next I took a scrap of Crumb Cake and embossed it with the Tin Tile embossing folder. I took my Soft Suede ink and a sponge and sponged over the cardstock to give the embossed image more dimension. I then tore a section of it to give it a rough edge. I made sure that my torn section would be large enough to show around my pumpkin. I adhered this piece to my card base using Stampin' dimentionals. I placed it towards the right side of the card.
I next took my Stitched shapes framelits (honestly a set everyone should have - its such a great value for what you receive) and die cut the smallest oval three times using Pumpkin Pie cardstock. I layered my ovals side by side and used Stampin' dimentionals for the middle oval to pop it up. I cut out a stem from Early Espresso cardstock and adhered it to the top centre of my pumpkin.
I added some greenery at the top of my pumpkin by die cutting some Old Olive cardstock with a die from the Detailed Deer thinlits. I next added some bunched up Gold metallic thread to the centre of my Crumb Cake piece and then adhered my pumpkin over top.
I stamped my sentiment from the Rooted in Nature stamp set using my Blackberry Bliss ink and cut out the strip thinly. I flagged the ends and added it over top of my pumpkin.
Next I added some elements to the top left corner of my card. I again bunched up a small amount of Gold Metallic thread and adhered it to my card base. I cut out a small banner from what was left of my die cut Crumb Cake piece and adhered it over the gold thread using Stampin' Dimentionals. I then die cut the stitched heart from the stitched label dies out of Pumpkin Pie cardstock and adhered it off kilter from the banner.
I finished the card by spritzing some Wink of Stella over my entire card.
I was so happy with my finished card. I love the combination of colours. It's not something I would of normally combined together but love the results.
There are some great cards this week posted and you can check them all out
HERE.
Happy fall to everyone - have fun stamping and see you next time!
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