ColourQ Challenge 156: Fall Birthdays

I have six birthday cards to make for October and nearly as many in November. As soon as I saw the most recent ColourQ challenge I knew I wanted to get started with making the cards. These are such beautiful fall colors. It’s been really difficult to find time to craft recently, and the last several cards I’ve made have taken much, much longer than usual. This first one was no exception. And despite color correction in PSE, I can’t quite get the colors of my card to show accurately. The raspberry is a bit darker than the challenge color, but the lighter orange leaf is much more true to the challenge than it appears.

I started by cutting the leaves with my Silhouette (all American Craft cardstock). Then I embossed a Rustic White card (PTI) with the Woodgrain Impression plate (PTI) and adhered them all on an orange textured card (American Craft). The border was also cut with the Silhouette and the sentiment and twine are both Papertrey Ink.

I had some leaves left on my desk and decided to make a second card. This one doesn’t meet the challenge requirements because I added the black frame cut from one of the Fabulous Frame dies by Papertrey Ink.

The leaves seemed a bit flat in this one so after I had arranged everything, I added some Tim Holtz Distress Stains. I’m not sure I like them, but it’s a done deal. The banner was cut with the Double Ended Banner die from Papertrey Ink, and the sentiment came from “Birthday Basics.” I used the Herringbone Impression plate on the Rustic White card and added a few AMuse Creative Candy pearls.