Fall Happy Thanksgiving Free Card Making Tutorial

This Fall Happy Thanksgiving card was created just in case a reader wanted to make the card from the previous post, but didn’t have a die cut machine. You’ll get to use the same time saving technique for color application that was used in the previous post.



Materials

Cardstock: White and Brown

Stamps:

Happy Thanksgiving

Stampland Chicago Aspen Leaf and Oak Leaf

Stephanie Barnard Colorbox® Premium Dye Ink Pad : Banana, Tangerine, Artichoke, Spearmint, Strawberry, Chocolate

Color Duster

Cosmetic Sponge

Zip Dry™ Paper Glue by Beacon Adhesives

Instructions

1-Create Card Base. Cut a piece of white cardstock into a rectangle that is 8 1/2″ length X 5 1/2 ” width. Score the card creating a folded card that is 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″.

2-Develop focal panel. Cut a 3 3/4″ X 5″ rectangle from white cardstock. Apply ink to the panel with a color duster in the following order: Banana, Tangerine, Artichoke and Spearmint.

3-Apply ink with cosmetic sponge: Strawberry, Tangerine, and Chocolate. You can apply more of the other colors using the sponge, if you think it needs it.

4-Stamp leaves on panel. To create interest, you should vary how you stamp the leaves onto the card. You can change the direction of the stamp and how much of the image get stamped onto the paper. Stamp the Oak leaf using Artichoke and stamp the Aspen using Chocolate.

5-Create the frame for the focal pane by cutting a 4″ X 5 1/4″ rectangle from brown cardstock .

6-Stamp Happy Thanksgiving–ink up stamp with chocolate dye. Stamp on white cardstock. Trim creating a 1/4″ border.

Assemble Card

Refer to photo for placement of components. Using paper glue, glue the following:

Brown panel to the white card base

Focal panel to the brown panel

Happy Thanksgiving to the focal panel