The Autumn season is upon us and the fall foliage is the perfect inspiration for your next handmade greeting card.
Today our fabulous designer, Shelly, made a simple autumn card using neutral colors with a ‘pop’ of darker browns. We love these leaves and her blending is giving us true Autumn splendor. Follow along and make this gorgeous and elegant autumn leaf card with us.
- Start with using white cardstock and vellum and die cut leaves using the 5510-06D Fall Leaves die set.
- Using blending brushes, add ink to the leaves except for the vellum leaves. (For the primarily white leaves, just add the lightest shade of ink around edges. For the brown leaves, start with the lightest shade of ink to the darkest shade, then add the dark grey around edges.) (Color fuse Ink colors: Mocha, Caramel, Cinnamon, Pecan, and Hearth.)
- On the brown ink blended leaves only, splatter/spritz water onto them and let dry.
- Set leaves aside.
- Using white cardstock die cut cardstock using the 5013D Nested Rectangle Small Stitch die. (largest die)
- Arrange leaves onto card panel and then adhere.
- Set aside.
- Use the 5807-01D Classic Edge cuts die with white cardstock. (you want a wide enough strip to stamp sentiment on and long enough to fit the card panel and use edge die on both top/bottom of the strip.)
- Stamp on sentiment using the 36064 Autumn Splendor stamp set in black ink.
- Set aside.
- Going back to the card panel, add splatters using the Pecan ink color with water and a paintbrush. Let dry.
- Add a double layer of foam tape in the center of the card/leaves.
- Add sentiment strip onto card.
- Adhere the card panel to a white cardbase.
- Adhere two small leaves to the sentiment strip, along with burlap twine.
- Finish card off with gold matte pearls/gems.
Products used: 5510-06D Fall Leaves die, 36064 Autumn Splendor stamp set, 5807-01D Classic Edge cuts die, 5013D Nested Rectangle Small Stitch die, Color Fuse Ink Set #3, Color Fuse Ink Set #12, Large Blending Brushes 4 pack, Detail Blending Brushes 4 pack.