Today’s card is all about  monochrome colors combined with natural elements, both of which work well for fall cards. I saw the Acorn paper from Gilded Autumn and I wanted to do something with a woodsy look and a harvest theme. Because the card was so monochromatic, I used a lot of texture in the die cuts and the embellishments to give the card its interest. Dark brown accents in the ribbon and the stamped sentiment gave the design a little punch. It was a simple card to put together and perfect for sending a harvest themed card.

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For today’s card, I needed a little inspiration and the card sketch at Case This Sketch #390 was just the thing. I had seen this sketch on another blog and loved the layout.  I wanted to make it a harvest theme card and some of the new 2020-2022 In Colors helped me do just that, I think!  To see more of the fabulous designs using this sketch, just click on the image below.

I wanted to stay true to the sketch, so Forever Fern is always my “go to” for botanical designs. I just love this stamp set. You can work in so many color stories with it. And because there is such a variety of stamps, the layout possibilities are endless. Once I did the background, I thought it needed more. I considered an embossing folder, but I wanted something different. The stitched border die in the Stitched Leaves die was just the thing to give the open space a little texture.

The sentiment is stamped on a strip of Vellum card stock. I am terrible stamping on Vellum, so I use Stazon Black ink. This ink stamps on vellum with no smears every time I use it. I used a sentiment and border from Celebration Tidings stamp set to reinforce the harvest theme.  Then colored it in a bit using Stampin Write markers in the coordinating colors.

I stayed with In Colors and finished off the card with some Cinnamon Cider ribbon and scatted a few Bumble Bee Enamel dots. Layered on a pice of Cinnamon Cider color DSP from the Flowers for Every Season DSP pack set the stamped panel off perfectly.

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It’s starting to feel like fall and as the sentiment from Banner Year says, “Happy Fall Y’all”.  It will be a few weeks until leaves start turning here, but the cool nights are back and there’s a freshness in the air you feel only when the temperatures and humidity begins to fall.

This card started from a pile of “pieces” I had on my desk from making other cards. The heart with the Linen Thread bow was an used piece from another design and it was sitting on top of a plaid punched apple from another, quite by accident! I looked at it an thought the bow looked so cute on the apple, I just had to make a card with it.

Because I had the heart with the bow already cut out, I had to find a paper that would be perfect for it. The plaid apple it was sitting on was a completely different color scheme with no Bumblebee yellow in it at all. After going through my swatch book of plaids, I decided this was my favorite choice.

The rich Merry Merlot plaid is a perfect background for Bumblebee yellow. Its a great “light-dark” story. And while the stripes in the plaid may be a shade of Mango Melody, I think it works perfectly with Mango Melody!  I put the punched apple on a Bumblee yellow background that was die cut and embossed. Then I used a sentiment from Banner Year along with one of my new favorite things, the Banners Pick a Punch.

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