Autumn Blessings

Welcome to The Card Concept #100 Challenge! Thank you, Susan, for inviting me to join this milestone occasion 🙂

And here is the inspiration photo for this challenge:

I was inspired by the non-traditional gold and pink color combination. And when I started my card, I also chose to add some aqua/teal.

To create this card, start with a 3.75″ x 5″ panel. Stamp a sentiment like the one I used from Catherine Pooler’s Autumn Blessings with embossing ink and then heat-emboss with gold embossing powder.

Using the same set, Autumn Blessings (or pumpkin stamps you may already have in your stash), stamp a couple pumpkins on full-adhesive sticky notes or masking paper to create some masks. Cut those out and use them to stamp a line of pumpkins, as shown in my card, to make the first layer of pumpkins. I used Coral Cabana and Skylight and then Midnight for the leaves and stems.

On a separate piece of white cardstock, stamp your top layer of pumpkins and hand-cut those out. I used three different methods to add gold accents to the pumpkins. I cut one of the masks in half horizontally, masked off the upper half of the pumpkins and then heat-embossed with gold powder. One of the pumpkins was given three horizontal lines with Nuvo Gold Crustal Drops, and the rest were accented with a Nuvo Gold Glitter Marker. Attach these to your panel a little lower than the first line of pumpkins with dimensional adhesive foam tape.

Now to make the snowy “ground,” use a Ranger Emboss It Brush Pen to fill in the ground area and then emboss with WOW Opaque Bright White Ultra High Powder which gives a puffy effect.

If you’d like, add a little highlight to your pumpkins with a Sakura Decorese White Pen. I also added a some Lawn Fawn Cord to the corner. Mount your panel on to a black-on-white card base, which will bring out the stems and leaves.

Be sure to check out the other participants to this Challenge HERE 🙂

Supplies

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Autumn Blessings Stamp Set –… [ CTH ] Coral Cabana Ink Pad and Refill by… [ CTH ] Skylight Ink Pad and Refill by… [ CTH ] Midnight Ink Pad and Refill [ CTH ] Acrylic Grid Stamping Block 2-3/4″… [ CTH ] Purple Tape by iCraft – Catherine… [ CTH ] Nuvo Metallic Bright Gold Crystal Drops [ SBC ] Metallic Gold Rich Embossing Powder… [ CTH ] Metallic Gold Sparkle Embossing… [ CTH ] AmazonSmile: Ranger Perfect Emboss It… [ AMZUS ] AmazonSmile: Wow Embossing Powder… [ AMZUS ] Nuvo Glitter Markers Exclusive 9… [ SBC ] Amazon.com : Sakura Ballpoint Pen for… [ AMZUS ] Lawn Fawn Aquamarine Cord Lawn… [ SBC ] Hero Arts – Wagner – HT400 Precision… [ SBC | AMZUS ] AmazonSmile: Cutterpillar CPC-CROP… [ AMZUS ] AmazonSmile: Bertech Double Sided… [ AMZUS ] Mono Multi Liquid Glue by Tombow –… [ CTH | SBC ] Catherine Pooler Premium White Card… [ CTH ] Catherine Pooler Premium White… [ CTH ] Premium Midnight Cardstock – 8.5″ x… [ CTH ] Tonic Studios Tim Holtz Glass Media Mat [ SBC ] AmazonSmile : Post-it Super Sticky… [ AMZUS ]