Fall is my absolute favorite season of the year. I love watching the leaves change colors. Our drive in and out of our neighborhood each day turns to fire when the trees are putting on their full display. Have you ever thought about the trust a tree has in its Creator when it falls into a deep sleep through fall and winter to awaken and begin anew in the spring? The fall season always makes me think of this verse in Proverbs and it seemed fitting to incorporate in today’s card.
Today, we’re combining the old and new to make this lovely card. Our design today uses a modified Cut and Twist Fun Fold to create the perfect layout for our fall foliage.
We get started with a base of Cajun Craze cardstock cut so that our score mark is at the top in the portrait orientation. Our cut and twist panel is the standard 3-inches and will serve as the mat for our embossed panel. To connect our two smaller top and bottom panels, we’re using a quarter-sheet of the vanilla Season of Elegance gold foiled specialty paper. Each smaller panel then has a strip of Copper Clay Tartan Foil. The embossed panel starts with a piece of the pinkish woodgrain pattern from the Country Woods designer series paper pack. This is then embossed with the Leaf Fall embossing folder. I then used my finger and Copper Clay ink to go over the embossed leaves, giving them more depth and dimension against the woodgrain. The embossed panel is matted with Rose Gold textured specialty paper and our cut and twist panel and is adhered to the card front with dimensionals. The sentiment from Courage & Faith is heat embossed in copper on Cajun Craze cardstock and then diecut with the Autumn Leaves die using the extension method. A piece of the Rose Gold textured paper serves as the mat for the sentiment panel. To add some additional pops of color, I diecut leaves from Garden Green and Blackberry Bliss cardstock using the Autumn Leaves dies and adhered them to the sentiment panel with dimensionals. I added a twist of the Blackberry Bliss & Gold textured ribbon behind the sentiment panel before it adhering it to the card front with two layers of dimensionals. I scattered copper sequins across the card front to draw the eye diagonally across the design.
Isn’t this a fun twist on some techniques? I really love how everything works together and really gives you the fall vibes. Tune in tomorrow for another installment in our Sketchy Fridays series.
Products used in today’s card:
Cajun Craze, Garden Green, Blackberry Bliss cardstock
Tartan Foil, Country Woods, Season of Elegance, Rose Gold textured DSP
Courage & Faith stamps
Autumn Leaves dies
Leaf Fall embossing folder
Copper embossing powder
Blackberry Bliss & Gold textured ribbon
Copper neutrals sequins
Dimensionals
Adhesives
Song Sparrow Papercrafts 