Give a Cheer
I've created a landscape card using one pass through the diecutting machine with a gorgeous Spellbinders Embossing Folder called Oak Forest. It's a 3D embossing folder, so the depth and dimension of the embossing is really gorgeous and quite honestly, they had me at Oak Forest! I love Autumn, it's my favourite season, Spring is a close second but I'm an Autumn girl at heart, so working with this folder is just blissful to me! I inked the panel before embossing it and the way I inked it, meant there was quite a different colour gradient across the entire piece. Once I was done, I realised the panel was large enough to cut into two A2 cards, so I cut the panel in half. But first, I had fun trying out some mediums to bring out the embossing. I tried some Weeping Willow Lunar Paste on the more orangey end of the panel, the top portion. The Lunar Paste didn't shine quite as much as I expected with such a thin coat, so I came back with some Honey Bee Gold Ink and ran over the highest points, which was nice, because it caught the acorns mostly, which added some lovely variance in the highlights. I used my finger to lightly paint some Lunar Paste on the raised parts of the design. Once it was dry, I went over that very lightly with a gold ink pad to add a second highlight, as the paste I used was quite dark and didn't shine quite as much as I expected, with such a thin coat. The Weeping Willow Lunar Paste is a yummy warm chocolate colour, but over the Autumn hues, needed the second application of gold just to lift the design a bit. I had a bright yellow felt doily in my stash, which I treated with some Walnut Stain Distress Ink to tone down the brightness for the base of my design cluster. I diecut a cute pumpkin from some cardstock I'd treated with Spiced Marmalade Distress Spritz by Tim Holtz. I also cut some cute flowers and the band of the witches hat from the same cardstock. I used the lovely Nichol Spohr set for Spellbinders called Faux Embroidered Pumpkin for this. It comes with this lovely pumpkin die, a witches hat and some sweet flowers and foliage. I also had a second cardstock panel I'd treated with some Mica Spray Stain in Harvest Moon which I cut the rest of the sweet flowers from. The hat I cut from some brown felt and the little leaves and pumpkin shoots I cut from moss green felt. The buckle for the hat I cut with gold cardstock. I thought this made a sweet Autumn scene. I have a second diecut of the hat in black and a second pumpkin cut from that lovely orange mica spritz panel, so I may need to do a 'take 2' version of this card. I diecut a sentiment from gold iridescent cardstock that had been first covered with double sided adhesive, to make the adhering of these narrow letters a little easier. This is a great trick for very narrow diecuts like this. It was easy to peel up and lay over the shadow base then. I had some already cut in black and though in retrospect I probably ought to have cut one from brown cardstock to match my card base, I wasn't unhappy with this option and I think it finished the card very sweetly. Autumn hugs!
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