Bring Autumn vibes to your cards by using the Stained Glass Cover Die to add interest and texture to your fall cards.
Today’s amazing fall design is from Dominique who said, “I feel as if summer just started, yet here we are at the beginning of September. Here in Pittsburgh, the mornings are crisp and the kids are buzzing by on school busses. Autumn will be here in a few short weeks. So why not create some autumn-inspired cards.” Today we will be sharing how Dominique created four cards using patterned paper and a background die. Follow along to see how to use a stained glass cover die for fall cards.
- Select your paper.
- For my card panels, I will be using two different leaf patterned papers from The Paper Cut Autumn paper pad. I’ll be using the one with the pear shaped leaves and also the one with the Maple leaves. I also used one sheet of black card stock. I cut it in half to make it easier for die cutting.
- For the card base, I used sheets of cardstock that matched the colors of the leaves; rust and dark mustard colored paper.
- For the sunflowers I selected dark mustard, dark green, rust, and brown colored card stock.
- You will also need some white cardstock.
- Die cut your components.
- Die cut 5747-03D Sunrays-Stained Glass Dies from both of the black card stock sheets and also both patterned papers. We will be using all pieces from what is die cut, so make sure you are organizing all the cuts. As you can see in my picture below, I am using stack-n-sort trays from scrapbook.com.
- Using 5726-02D Large Sunflower Die, die cut the flower head pieces from the dark mustard colored paper, cut the stems and leaves from the dark green paper, cut the solid circle center from the rust colored paper, and cut the seeded circle center from brown paper. You will want to repeat these steps two times, as we will need two flowers.
- Using 5802-03D Dot Dash Nested Rectangle, die cut the two smallest rectangles from white card stock.
- Create more interest by adding ink to your elements
- Using a large ink blending brush, ink blend the flower centers with Pumpkin.
- Using a large ink blending brush, ink blend the dot dash rectangles with Autumn.
- Stamp your sentiments
- Using the Thankful and the For Your Friendship stamps from 36057 Thank you, stamp onto white card stock using Pumpkin ink. Complete this step two times. Then die cut using the coordinating die set, 36057D Thank You Die.
- Select two sentiments from 36053 Autumn Sunflowers. Stamp them onto your dot dash rectangles.
- Assemble your card
- Take the frames from 5747-03D Sunrays-Stained Glass die and glue them to your card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card base. For the black framed cards, mix and match the pieces of the patterned paper, and like a puzzle, glue the pieces in place. For the patterned paper frames, repeat the steps using the black pieces.
- Assemble your flowers and adhere them in your desired location on the card. Add the Thankful For Your Friendship sentiment at the bottom of the flower.
- For the other two cards, adhere the two dot dash rectangles to your desired location on the card.
And there you have it—four autumn-inspired cards to celebrate the season! We’d love to see what you create—share your designs in the comments or tag us on social media!
