Years ago I bought an autumn-themed paper pad by Tim Coffey and I liked it so much, I kept all the leftover snippets after cutting into the sheets. I decided to make a background with those strips by weaving them together. I placed it on a sage card base and die-cut a GMD stitched oval for the main panel. The leaf is a die-cut from Spellbinders that was sponged with a lot of autumn-colored distress inks and finished with some versafine ink and an overall clear embossing powder coverage. The Tags 4 You sentiment is by SU! and I added a few gemstones for interest. I shredded a strip of dsp and wrapped it around a pair of tweezers to curl it, then attached it to the leaf along with a neutral twine bow.
I'm entering this into these challenges:
The Shopping Our Stash SOS #375 challenge - give thanks
Craftyhazelnut's October 2018 Patterned Paper challenge - use patterned paper
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C455 - make a card for WCMD a/g
Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great day whatever you do!
Carol
The background is amazing, as well as your sentiment and leaf. Just gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful Carol, I love the background you have created - a super Thanksgiving card.
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A great technique for a fall card. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteWow this is stunning Carol!! Your leaf there looks so life like! Love the way you've woven your papers for the background! Some of that paper looks familiar to me and of course I probably have some somewhere in my stash! LOL!! I love this card! Thanks for sharing! HUGS
ReplyDeleteWhat a Glorious card, LOVE the colours and design. That piecing is superb.
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Fantastic woven background! What patience to weave them together. A lovely autumn card with the pretty leaf and tag.
ReplyDeleteWow Carol, what a lovely fall card! I love the way you used your snippets, of course I think you are queen of using up snippets. lol It is beautiful paper and I can see why you hung on to those snippets. I love that leaf, you have inked it to look so realistic, love the curlie cue too. The SU sentiment is just perfect on this card. I really love this one! Hugs, Brenda
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card!! I love that maple leaf!
ReplyDeleteFabulous woven background and a great idea for using scraps-love the beautiful Autumn leaf
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Beautiful!! I have that paper pad too, and once again I LOVE that leaf!! You rocked the inks such a pretty fall blend. And I agree you are the Queen of using snippets!
ReplyDeleteThe background is gorgeous. I can see why you kept all the snippets.
ReplyDeleteWow! Amazing design and your recycling of stripes is awesome! A lot of work for it, but such fabulous result! That big leaf is wonderful with all that sparkling, and I'm sure that is also much more sparkling IRL! :D LOVE the stunning detail of that tiny curled stripe, so creative !!!
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WOW!! that is one amazing way to recycle all of those scraps, weaving them must have taken a lot of work but the results are stunning.
ReplyDeleteThe leaf looks so real that you could have picked it up from your back yard.
Thank you for sharing your gorgeous card with us at SHOPPING OUR STASH, hope you come and play again soon.
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Carol, this card is amazing! Love how your mind works to create such things of beauty! That leaf is amazing and so it the paper weaving! I haven't made a card using the paper weaving technique in ages! Love how this card gives a Fall feeling with that gorgeous paper and twine bow. Gorgeous colors, too! Wowzers and well done, my friend! :)
ReplyDeleteGorgeous. When I first looked I honestly thought that leaf was real and the colours are so realistic. Fabulous design so love this one and the criss cross paper background...brilliant idea.x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful fall card! Love that woven background - gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! I love that leaf. Thanks for joining us at The Paper Players!
ReplyDeleteYou are so talented with repurposing stamps!! Love the use of the burlap. Both your cards are beautiful. Have a great weekend and enjoy the cooler weather!
ReplyDeleteThat paper is perfect for a Thanksgiving card!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for "giving thanks" with the crew from SHOPPING OUR STASH this week!!
Just got a glimpse of this one when looking at your later card. Now that's clever to use the snippets of this fall theme paper to weave a card front for the gorgeous maple leaf. Golly, what a good designer you are! This is a perfect autumn card! (I thought it was going to be one of your fab quilt cards when I saw just a portion of it!) TFS
ReplyDeleteThis totally caught my eye at SOS this week. The subdued fall colors and that realistic leaf just appeal to me so much! And then to see your woven background... Sold! Love it! Very creative!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, Carol. Thanks for joining us at the ATSM Challenge this week. Marsha DT
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