This is one of two hops I’m participating in today. If you’re looking for the Power Of Practice hop, you can find that here. This card is for the Autumn Inspiration YouTube hop, the theme of which is Autumn and hope, and I chose to make an Autumnal encouragement card, taking inspiration from some previous projects by Jennifer McGuire.
I started with a panel of alcohol inked vellum (from a large snippet) that I had made some time ago and set aside as I felt the colours were too muddy. I decided it would work well for leaves though, which is why I pulled it out for this project. I wanted to make the vellum sturdier before die cutting so I coated the back of the entire panel with double sided tape and adhered it to some white card.
With the panel ready I started on my die cutting. I used two leaf dies which I got in an old Love From Lizi card kit – small leaf, and small maple leaf. I didn’t worry too much about which part of the panel I cut with which, just trying to get as many leaves as possible from the piece.
Having cut all my leaves I started arranging them on a panel of white card cut to the size of an A2 card base, so 4 1/4″ by 5 1/2″. I wanted them arranged such that there were gaps in between, creating the see-through card front, but also with some overlapping areas so that I would be able to adhere them together. In hindsight I should have actually overlapped them a little more than I did as my final arrangement ended up quite delicate.
Once I was pleased with the arrangement I used washi tape to hold the leaf panel together. Press n Seal would be a better option if you have it. I cut away the pieces of leaves which went beyond the bounds of my card panel, then used Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue to assemble my panel by adhering all the overlapping areas of leaves together.
When all the overlapping pieces were adhered, completing the panel, I placed it into my paper trimmer and scored the top of the panel. I then added Tombow Mono Multi Liquid Glue to the back of the scored area so that I could adhere the leaf panel to the white card panel, creating the card base.
The last element I needed for my card was a sentiment panel. I die cut a snippet of white card with a stitched circle die from Kat Scrappiness’ Crafters Essentials I die set, then stamped onto it with a sentiment from Unity’s Spring To Go stamp set using Hero Arts Just Rust ink. I adhered the circle over my leaves, then opened the card and attached a second circle directly behind it to hide the adhesive. I then took a third circle and lined it up to adhere to the inside of the card, directly behind the other circles, in order to make an area that the message to the recipient could be written on.
I really love how this card turned out, even if it’s a bit more delicate than I would prefer. The alcohol inked panel works so perfectly for these leaves. I did learn from the process (which is important!) and if I were to make this again one of the main things I would do differently is that I would build the leaf panel around the sentiment circle. That way I would have had a sturdy starting point to work out from, and I wouldn’t have ‘wasted’ leaves by having them hidden behind the circle.
Don’t forget that this is part of a hop. Head over to YouTube to continue hopping!
Love,
Lady Joyful
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Challenges:
Art Impressions – To Die For
Classic Design Challenge – Anything Goes
Crafter’s Castle – Anything Goes
Crafty Gals Corner – Fall Colours
Double D Challenges – Colourful
Meant To Be Sent – Just Because
Pixie’s Snippets Playground – Use Snippets
STAMPlorations Summer Challenge – Anything Goes
The Sisterhood of Crafters – Autumn
Try Stampin’ On Tuesday – Inspiration Image (edit: where it was picked as Top 3!)
What a beautiful card, Charlotte! Love the colors and sentiment! Backing the vellum with white cardstock before die cutting was brilliant!!! Thank you so much for sharing your creativity and beautiful card with us at Try Stampin’ on Tuesday!!! -Donna
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Beautiful Fall Colors! Your leaves are fabulous! Thanks so much for playing along with us at the Double D, Colorful Challenge, Donna, DT Member.
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Holy Autumnal Glory, Charlotte! This is going to be in many winning galleries. Your leaves are so realistic, it’s unbelievable! I thought they were either real or that it was a piece of expensive designer paper. LOVE the design just the way you did it! Hugs, Darnell
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Thank you so much! That’s really kind of you to say Darnell ❤
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Just stunning Charlotte! Love it! Love it! Love it! 🙂
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Thank you Helen! 🙂
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Beautiful
Fall card, gorgeous colors! Thank you for joining our challenge at Double D!
Diane DD DT
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What a beautiful Fall leaves creation! Great job! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Colorful’ challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Wowza, Charlotte, AMAZING leaf collection, and what a gorgeous sentiment to go with! Thanks so much for playing at TSOT!
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Me again and I still think this is GORGEOUS! The colors on those Fall leaves are fabulous! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Sisterhood of Crafters challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.
Darlene
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Beautiful card and soooo perfect for fall! Your leaf die cuts are amazing and I love the alcohol ink idea!!
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Wow Charlotte – what a fabulous card this is. I adore your videos and always come away inspired. BTW, Press and Seal is stocked by Amazon UK if you ever order from them. I bought mine there a while ago – it’s also useful for food wrap – grin!
Hugs
Di xx
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Thank you 🙂 That’s good to know about the Press and Seal! Hopefully I can get my hands on some soon.
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Most beautiful designed creation, the colours are stunning, love your AUTUMN INSPIRATION . Many thanks for joining us in our current challenge at The Sisterhood Of Crafters Challenge.. good luck with your lovely entry.[aNNie design team member for The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenges
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Fabulous leaves!!!
This is a smashing project!
We do love to see all the entries at Classic.
Thank you for sharing in our challenge at Classic Design Challenge we really appreciate you joining in.
Jackie DT
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Wow! Absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for entering our Challenge at Crafter’s Castle this week. Good luck!
Blessings, Jeanie Ellis DT
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