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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Slimline Card - "I Love Fall"


Hello and welcome!

I was working on some fall cards today and came up with this slimline "I Love Fall" card.
I used the Altenew October Challenge photo for my inspiration:


I really wanted to recreate the vertical lines made by the trees in the photo and I was playing with some birch tree dies that I have, but that idea quickly went by the wayside!
Instead I took three mini Distress Ink in the closest colors I had to the image and dragged them down the length of a thin tall panel of card stock.  After that I took the Altenew "Beautiful Day" stamp set leaves and stamped them in the same colors along with Versafine Clair Pinecone ink.
Since I don't have the matching die for the leaves, I fussy cut them out and added brown marker to the outside edges.  Here's a closer look at my card:


I added the ink striped panel to a tan panel then adhered it to my card base, off center. Next I added thin strips of dark brown card stock on either side.  I die cut the letters (also Altenew) from white, tan and dark brown, and stacked them slightly off center from each other so you can see all three colors.  After adding the letters to the card, I stamped the "I Love" sentiment from Altenew's "Penned Rose" stamp set.  The sentiment is really "I Love You", but I cut off the "you" part - a little stamp surgery in the craft cave today!

Here's a closer look:


Next, I added the leaves to the card, adhering the bottom stem directly to the card and then popping up some of the leaves on foam tape.  To finish off my card, I added clear droplets in a few places. I hope you like my card, let me know what you think in the comments below and thanks so much for stopping by!


I will enter this in:

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9 comments:

  1. This is so gorgeous. Makes me wish I was Up to making cards now.

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  2. The background piece is wonderful. Love the entire card but the background is perfect to me.

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  3. This card is a Fall beauty, no doubt about it. I love everything about the card and I applaud you for cutting out those leaves, not the easiest thing in the world. So glad you could join us at Die Cut Divas for our Autumn (also Halloween) challenge at https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2020/10/thoughts-of-autumn-fill-air-from-bugaboo.html

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  4. Wunderschön. Die Farben gefallen mir. Eine echte Herbstkarte. Klasse.
    Danke für deine Teilnahme bei creative friday!

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  5. Wow! This is wonderful! Love the lettering. Thanks for joining us at Papercraft Challenge.

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  6. Wow, this is just gorgeous. Everything on this card comes together so perfectly. Thank you for sharing this gem at Creative Friday! Love, Kat

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  7. great work!Thanks for joining us at creative friday.

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  8. Wow your card looks so beautiful :)
    Thanks for joining us at Papercraft Challenges.
    Anja

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