Pretty Pink Posh - Fall Cornucopia

Hey there,

Let's wrap September up with this bright and beautiful autumn card featuring the Fall Cornucopia die set by Pretty Pink Posh. I've said it recently, I used to be uncomfortable with "only die cutting" cards, but I've been liking to create this type of cards recently, and I actually really love cutting, coloring (or not) and arranging all those big and smaller pieces on my cards.

To make today's card, I started off by creating the background using one of my all-time favorite techniques, which is stenciling a kraft panel with white pigment first, and then adding colors using oxide inks. So this is what I did here, I cut a 5,5 x 4,25 inches kraft panel, and used the Layered Woodland stencils along with white pigment ink.

I covered the whole panel with white woodland elements, cleaned my stencils, put them back onto my panel, shifting them a little bit towards the bottom right hand corner, and then applied the following oxide inks: fossilized amber, candied apple, vintage photo, ground espresso, spiced marmalade, pumice stone, frayed burlap.

I die cut several Fall Cornucopia elements out of different colored cardstock, and added a little bit of shadows on each piece using oxide inks and sponge daubers to make them more interesting and give them more character.

Next I worked on my two-part sentiment: I gold foiled the Thankful Script Hot Foil greeting on dark brown cardstock, and cut it using the Thankful Shadow die. And I white heat embossed the "Happy Fall" greeting from Sentiment Strips: Fall which I cut into a slim Sentiment Strips banner.

I cut a vellum panel slightly smaller than my Layered Woodland kraft panel, attached all my elements (die-cuts + greetings) on top of it using 1mm and 2mm foam squares, and then I stuck my vellum panel to the kraft panel using liquid glue, but only behind the greetings and images. And as always I finished my card by adding highlights and details to the die-cut elements using a white gel pen.

PRETTY PINK POSH SUPPLIES

- Fall cornucopia die set

- Layered woodland stencils

- Thankful script hot foil

- Thankful shadow die

- Sentiment strips: fall

- Sentiment strips die

OTHER SUPPLIES

- Oxide inks: fossilized amber, candied apple, vintage photo, ground espresso, spiced marmalade, pumice stone, frayed burlap

- Copic opaque white ink

- Sakura white gel pen

- Gold foil by Spellbinders

- Clear embossing ink by Lawn Fawn

- Fine white embossing powder by Hero Arts

- Kraft cardstock by Lawn Fawn

- Vellum by Lawn Fawn