Autumn Days

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Autumn is one of my favourite seasons, looking forward to the rich colours of the changing leaves, squirrels busy collecting fallen acorns, fungi raising their heads above ground and seeing sunflowers still in bloom.  This card was made for a September birthday.


I made my own background panel (pictured below) with two distress oxide inks smooshed on it before dry embossing with a layered leaves stencil. Stencilled on top of the raised embossing with various dye inks then used the second layering stencil to just ink the tops of the acorns.  Panel matted on burgundy cardstock.  Wanted to use a recent sale purchase of an Apple Blossom die set which creates a circular shaped puzzle centrepiece and chose a sunflower patterned paper from a recent magazine along with the same burgundy cardstock for the frame.  Once paper pieced back together this was mounted on the background panel.


The fungi and butterfly are printed transparency images which were gifted to me, these I've arranged and added behind heat embossed die cuts for 'logs' before carefully using small dots of pva glue to adhere.  Fungi heads and butterfly wings are not stuck down, decided to leave them 'floating'.  Printed sentiment die cut into a leaf shape, edged with same EP.
I've used - 6x6" white card base
Apple Blossom Perfect Puzzles Circle die set
Funky Fossil Layered Leaves two stencil set
Sunflower Collection paper pad from SC&P issue 259
DO inks: peacock feathers, evergreen bough
Distress Inks: old paper, scattered straw, rusty hinge; Impress lemon yellow dye ink
WOW! copper mine EP
unbranded birch tree die; Xcut leaves die
Linking up with -
Four Seasons                                           The Paper Funday                              I Spy With My Little Eye
Sept Fall Season                 #69 ATG/opt twist create your own background       #18 Something from the Garden
                     
Thank you for visiting - I'd love you to leave a comment if you have time - Steph x

Comments

  1. As.I.Do.Rodos.Thursday, 05 September, 2024

    A beautiful card love the Autumn colours Ginny x

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  2. crafty-stamperThursday, 05 September, 2024

    Fabulous Autumn card and background, love the fungi and butterfly against the beautiful sunflowers. Autumn is my favourite Season too.
    carol x

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  3. Donna WallsThursday, 05 September, 2024

    Lovely Autumn themed card, I love Sunflowers and Mushrooms in Fall designs. Thanks for playing at The Paper Funday Challenge and best of luck in the draw!
    Donna xx
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  4. Melanie HungerfordFriday, 06 September, 2024

    Love the colors you used to "smoosh" your background in, looks wonderful with the embossing. Great card, thanks for sharing with us at the Paper Funday Challenge!

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  5. Karen LetchworthFriday, 06 September, 2024

    This is beautiful, Steph. It's like looking through a window and seeing all these amazing things God created. SO lovely and just a really wonderful card. Thanks so much for sharing with us at The Four Seasons. This card captures exactly what we're looking for in our challenges. We appreciate you very much, and hope that you'll join us again soon.

    For another fun challenge, I hope you'll come join us at Word Art Wednesday. www.wordartwednesday.blogspot.com for your chance to win some awesome prizes. Have a blessed and creative week.

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  6. Pauline CFriday, 06 September, 2024

    Beautiful vibrant card Steph with fabulous garden elements. Thanks so much for sharing with this month’s “I Spy With My Little Eye” Challenge..
    Pauline xx

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  7. Darlene Sunday, 08 September, 2024

    OH WOW ... this is just awesome and absolutely beautiful! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Four Seasons Challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back again soon.

    Darlene
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS
    Co-Owner … Can You Handle the Pressure, Double D, Four Seasons, Peace On Earth, Stencil Fun, Simply Clean & Simple, Two Old Bats, Triple B, Word Power, Love Those Pretty Papers

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  8. EllibelleWednesday, 11 September, 2024

    Such a great designs with wonderful details!
    Thank you so much for joining in the fun at "I spy with my little eye" challenge and Four Seasons challenge too!
    Ellie
    Ellibelle's Corner

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  9. EmmaTSunday, 06 October, 2024

    Gorgeous autumnal make, so full of rich colours and the fungi looks fabulous, adding a different texture x

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