It’s the 25th of the month, so it must be the monthly Papertrey Ink Blog Hop, one of my favorite challenges. This month’s inspiration piece features a chalkboard sign, pumpkins, and gourds among other fall motifs.
The main focus is the chalkboard sign, and it’s been a long time since I played around with the chalkboard look on a card. I started there and once the background was “chalked,” embossed a sentiment from “Giving Thanks,” a new to me Papertrey set. I absolutely love the fonts in this sentiment; it’s one of the reasons I added the set to a recent order. I attached a “Pierced Frame” in black to the chalkboard and tucked a pumpkin and two gourds from “Simply Gourd-eous” within the frame. Although I used the coordinating dies to cut the pumpkin and gourds I ended up fussy cutting them to eliminate the thin white borders from the dies.
I originally thought I’d mount both pieces on a top-folding black card, but when I looked again at the inspiration piece, I decided to use Scarlet Jewel cardstock to mimic the frame on the chalkboard in the photo. It’s hard to see, but I used my Chai distress cube to distress the Scarlet Jewel cardstock much like the frame in the photo.
The pumpkin and gourds needed a little more definition so I added some Polychromos colored pencils to areas to enhance them a bit. Off to PTI to see what others made of this photo.
I’m also entering this in the current Time Out Challenge. It’s a quote this time about gratitude; perfect timing.
Such an understated beauty. I love that you picked up on that burgundy frame.
Oooh…… LOVE, love this chalkboard look! Beautiful colors/coloring and the perfect, lovely sentiment!
Beautiful!! Love the chalkboard look.
Lovely, lovely card Karen! Your chalkboard frame with the wonderful gourds and fabulous sentiment are just PERFECT!! :0)
Beautiful card, Karen. I love the chalkboard background and your pretty gourds!
Just perfect!
Love this!! Your gourds are Gorgeous!!
Your crafting is perfect for this hop! I love the colors you chose and yay, for both of us to use the pierced frames (just arrived on Monday).
Beautiful card, Karen! The framing is just gorgeous!
Beautiful card, love how you have the gourds placed in the frame!
What a beautiful card! Love the colors.
A wonderful chalkboard design – love the bold sentiment and pretty layer of gourds!
Beautiful card, Karen!
This is wonderful Karen! Your chalkboard looks so realistic…and the pumpkins stand out nicely against the dark BG (perfect).
Karen, this is very striking! I also thought about mimicking the chalkboard easel but went a totally different direction. Love your gourds (think I need that set) tucked in your Pierced Frame and the richness of Scarlet Jewel. That sentiment & font is a favorite of mine, too.
Karen, your card is so striking with the bright colors on the chalkboard. You did a great job with coloring and layering the gourds. Such a beautiful design. Thanks for the nice comments on my blog : )
Wow, your card goes so perfectly with the photo for the Papertrey Ink challenge and is also perfect for ours too (love it when that happens!!). The chalk-board effect is done so amazingly and love how you kept the colours just to the pumpkins. Its a fantastic card and I’m so glad you shared it with us at TIME OUT!
Love that chalkboard look of the background… The orange pumpkins pop from it perfectly! The frame adds a lot of detail and dimension too! Thank you for joining us at Time Out!
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