Late Fall Birthdays

In the midst of creating Christmas cards, I needed to stop and make two cards for late November birthdays. Later this week I’ll be back with cards for early December birthdays. Interestingly, there are two challenges now that are looking for fall inspired cards: The Card Concept: Fall Leaves, and Seize the Birthday Topping: Fall Items. I used only the theme from the Card Concept as neither of my cards showcase the colorful leaves in their inspiration photo.

The Card Concept always asks you to identify the style of your cards. In both cases, I think Clean and Graphic best describe these cards, although they are quite different. 

First the birthday card for my nephew:

This card was quick and easy to create: one die cut (Papertrey Ink’s Bold Borders: Foliage,) cut with a lovely piece of specialty paper that was in my stash, and one stamp from The Greetery’s Arched Sentiments.

You can see the detail in the die in this photo more easily, but the subtle color changes of the paper didn’t photograph well.

The second card went to a friend of mine and is much more colorful. I started by embossing stamps from Altenew’s Leaf Canopy with white embossing ink on black watercolor paper. I used my metallic watercolors to color each of the leaves in hues that reminded me of fall leaves. 

I used some deep gold text weight paper (again from my stash) to border the leaves, and adhered it to some purple shimmer paper. I used the same papers to create the banner sentiment which comes from Pink and Main’s Special Day which I embossed in gold.

This angle captures the beautiful shimmer of the metallic water colors from the watercolor set by Paul Ruebens which I purchased on Amazon several years ago. 

It seems a lot more like fall than early winter here–very gray, very chilly and very wet. Altogether a great day to be creating or reading!