Fall Friends Card Making IG Hop - Week 3

Hello again friends; I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday. I'm back with my card for Week 3 of the 'Fall Friends' IG card hop organised by my lovely friend Kelly. For Week 3 we want to see 'hayrides and fall festivals'. so think tractors, pumpkin patch, scarecrows, apple picking etc and come and join in the fun.

I had a few different images to choose from but sometimes too much choice is worse than none and I stamped quite a few before settling on this gorgeous pumpkin stamp.  I knew I wanted to use the pumpkin background stencil so didn't want an image too large to cover too much to it.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the pumpkins:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping my image onto alcohol marker friendly card and coloured it with Promarkers.  I don't think there is a die for this image so I fussy cut it out.  I found a sign stamp in another set from my stash and some small word stamps in a different set so mashed them together to make my pumpkin patch sign.  I forgot that I stamped the words in Versafine ink so they did smear a little when I coloured them with Promarkers but I think it looks like a weathered sign so left it as it was.  I again fussy cut out the sign.  I stuck the sign behind the pumpkin image with liquid glue so that it looked like one image.  I then went onto stencilling my background; I cut a white piece of card 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and wanted a multi-colour background so used a combination of mini and detail blending brushes to colour them in.  I am really happy with how it turned out and the soft colours look beautiful in real life.  I cut a mat layer from dark brown card and adhered them together with double sided tape.  When I placed the pumpkin on top of the background it looked a little lost so I die cut a scalloped border piece from white card and a mat layer from the brown card as a grounding panel for my image.  I adhered them together with liquid glue and then added it to the background with double sided tape.  I stamped a simple happy fall sentiment in kraft ink on the right side and then adhered the pumpkin image towards the left side with foam squares.   The panel was then added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I again cut a white panel and brown mat layer; I stencilled the lower third of the white panel with the pumpkin stencil and added a thin strip of the brown card as a border.  I adhered the panels together with double sided tape.  I stamped a sentiment in the centre with the kraft ink.  The panels were then added to the card base with double sided tape.  I'm really happy with the finished card and I hope you like it too.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Cardz 4 Galz challenge - any colouring medium (promarkers)

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional twist autumn/fall

Cut It Up challenge - colours of fall/autumn

Day of The Month Card Club challenge - autumn stroll day

Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge - inspiration photo

I Love Promarkers challenge - ATG/gnomes

Inspired By challenge - fall (I was inspired by the colours)

Papercraft challenges - fabulous fall

Simply Create Too challenge - fall or autumn

Stencil Fun challenge - anything stencil goes optional fall frenzy

The Four Seasons challenge - fall

Tic Tac Toe challenge - spring/fall, free, markers/pencils

I hope you will pop over to Instagram and check out the hop; use the hashtag #fallfriendscardhop2024 to see all the gorgeous creations and also if you want to participate we will be able to find you.  

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge so I hope you will pop back and check it out.  Until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.  

Love and hugs, 

  

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - everything nice mini stamp

Promarkers

Gina K Designs ink pads - jelly bean green, fresh asparagus, honey mustard, sweet mango, kraft

Pretty Pink Posh - pumpkin background stencil

Time for Tea Designs - hooray hamster stamp (for sign)

CC Designs - Cinnamon with pumpkin (for outside sentiments) - retired (but available as a digi stamp)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - scalloped edge die collection - retired

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Brown card from stash