Grateful for Autumn 

Hello friends! Today's card was created for a few challenges: Double Trouble's Challenge #94, Use your Stuff Challenge #433 and Sunday Stamps Challenge #267. In addition, I am planning on sending this card to a fellow member of the Foiling Snobs Club as part of their card swap, with the October theme of grateful. 

Supplies used: 

• Stamps: Catherine Pooler's Front Porch Pumpkins and Painted Leaves sets
  

• Dies:  A cover die with six-sided stars from my stash, Catherine Pooler's Front Porch Pumpkins die set, Simon Says Stamp's CZ Design Bold Thankful wafer die, Catherine Pooler Painted Leaves die set, Altenew's Tropical Leaf Mix die set
  

• Ink: Peacock Feathers Distress Inks, Summertime VersaFine Clair, Catherine Pooler Tiara ink, Gina K Red Hot die ink

• Paper: smooth white cardstock paper, blue patterned paper, Yupo paper colored with yellow, red and orange alcohol ink, copper glittery paper from Concord & 9th's Summer Glitter Paper pack

• Embossing Powder: Ranger's Copper embossing powder

• Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers: yellow, red, cobalt blue and orange

• Wink of Stella clear pen
  

• Technique Junkies' Miami Vice Shimmering Bliss spray

• Sequins: Catherine Pooler's Soda Springs sequin mix
  

• Gansai Tambi Starry Colors watercolor set

• Liquid glue, Altenew Instant Dimension Foam Tape and Scor-Tape 0.125 inch crafting tape

• Dimensional leaf sticker in my stash

 

To make this card, I pulled a few items out of my stash: a blue patterned background piece of paper that I had previously sprayed with Miami Vice Shimmering Bliss Spray and die cut with a cover plate die in my sash for another project and Yupo paper previously colored with yellow, orange and red alcohol inks. 

Next, I spent some time stamping the pumpkin and heat embossing it with copper embossing powder. I then used orange, cobalt blue, yellow and red Zig markers to color the pumpkin, and then went over the pumpkin itself with Wink of Stella for some additional shimmer. Then I stamped three leaves from the Painted Leaves set in Red Hot (Gina K), Summertime (VersaFine Clair), and Tiara (Catherine Pooler) ink and then allowed the ink to dry before stamping a second time with the second layer of each leaf, heat embossed with more copper embossing powder and die cut with the coordinating dies. Additional leaves were created by cutting the Yupo paper as well as the sparkly copper paper with the Altenew Tropical Leaves Mix die set. 

The sentiment was created by die cutting more of the sparkly copper paper from Concord & 9th with the thankful die and then gluing a piece of handmade paper behind the die cut to make it easier to read. 

 

To assemble the card, the cover die cut (blue background) was glued onto an A2-sized white card base. I then ink blended Peacock Feathers Distress ink around the edges of the cardbase. Next, I arranged and glued the leaves together so they overlapped each other and then used some double sided tape  to help keep the arrangement together and adhere the whole thing to the card base and blue die cut panel. Next, I attached the pumpkin with foam tape over the leaves. The sentiment was added next towards the bottom of the card. To finish the card, I added some Soda Springs sequins around the card, glued the dimensional leaf sticker over the bottom right part of the pumpkin, and splattered some white gold watercolor from the Starry Colors watercolor set around the card.

Thanks for reading!