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Hi all! I’m on the Pinkfresh Studio blog today with a new card I made with their beautiful new Fall Leaf die. This design has some spikey leaves on a slender stem that will be loads of fun to include on my autumn cards this year. For this project, I went with a soft pink and blue, along with a caramel-y brown for my leaves, and placed them on a dark gold, threaded wreath. I love the bohemian style of this card!
I started by die-cutting out several leaves, using heavyweight white cardstock. Then I used my blending brushes to color them. I used Ballet Slipper and a little Coral Reef… but mostly Ballet Slipper for the pink leaves. I used a light hand with Slumber for the blue leaves, then went over that lightly with Misty Coast. And for the Caramel-y leaves, I brushed on some Warm Buff, trying not to color the tips of the spikey leaves, then went over them with Peach Fuzz and/or Apricot. I just kept changing it up to see what it looked like. I love to use some orange on top of either browns or reds sometimes; it changes the hue slightly by brightening them up. Start with a light hand and give it a minute for the dye ink to sink in before applying more.
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After I had a bunch of leaves colored, I set them aside and pulled out Pinkfresh Studio’s new Dotted Chevron coverplate die. I used it with a panel of white cardstock and glued it to an A2 cardbase. Then I used the Stitched Scallop Circle die set with specialty cardstock for my two wreath circles. I did double those up with additional die-cuts for strength. Then I adhered them down to the cardbase with pieces of foam tape with space between them so I could thread some ivory and gold string around the scallop circles. I also used the Garden Wreath die set for some small floral pieces to place on the wreath, left them white, and bunched them up on the wreath here and there.
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For the Fall Leaf die cuts, I decided to adhere two separate bunches together to place on the wreath. I glued them together on the stems, where they overlapped. Then I arranged them on the card on one side of the wreath. I used another piece of string to attach the sentiments: I used the Wonderful in Every Way stamp set (“Always Here for You) along with the new Shaker Tag Book die set for one of the sentiments and Basic Banners: Everyday stamp (“Sending Hugs”) with the Basic Banners: Celebrate die for the second sentiment. Knotting the ends of the strings at the last minute added a fun detail!
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I thought the blush glitter drops were perfect; just scattered around the leaves, and I was done with my card!
I hope some of these design choices have inspired you to make something new today. Thank you so much for stopping by!
-Anne
I can’t get the link to the blog hop to load ? but I saw the card you made in thus blog post, so I wanted to let you know how pretty it is! And thank you for always sharing your creations!❤️❤️❤️
That’s so kind of you, thank you so much for coming by Jennifer! ?