Happy October, my favourite time of year. It’s also Design team challenge day, and this month’s challenge is to have a pumpkin on our cards. I decided to make an anniversary card with an autumn theme.
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I haven’t made an accordion card for a while so I decided to make a Landscape Rectangle Accordion card. I cut out three panels and brushed red ink around edges. I cut out the centers as shown.
I cut out 3 panels from the Fence Add on. I added shading to the bottom and right sides with an alcohol marker. I also added highlights to the left and the top sides with a white gelly roll pen. Then added to the red panels as shown. (Karen has a video tutorial on the product page at the link ⬆️ ) the grass (shown in a later panel) is also cut from the fence add on.
I started to assemble the base then remembered that the first panel will shown from the front and the back so I added red ink to the front of the red panel as shown. I used a mask so I would not get ink on the fence.
I cut out the Happy Anniversary from brown and green. I cut out the orange pumpkins, the apples and acorns from the Autumn Elements. The yellow pumpkin is from the Halloween Elements. The layered labels are from the Greeting Labels. I added shading with alcohol markers and white highlights to all the pieces. I sponged a little bit of brown ink to the cream coloured ovals. The stamped greeting is from the Stage Scenes Clear Stamps and I curved the stamp when putting it on the block to match the curved in the oval. I cut skinny strips of green cardstock and wrapped it around a large needle to make the swirly vines. I added all the elements to the card as shown.
I found that once I assembled the card the base got a little warpy as it was a thinner red cardstock. So I cut three more panels, trimmed out the middle to add to the back side of the card. Because the card was assembled I had to cut the corners of 2 of them to get them around the fence pieces.
All done, now to get it in the mail…….
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