Just Us Girls challenge #848 - Die Week - Acorns

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I am here to share my card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge and this week is Die Week and has Lisa given us the theme of 'Acorns'.  Something a little different but I'm sure we all have at least one acorn die lurking in our stash so come over and join in the fun with us. I cannot wait to see all your gorgeous creations. Our guest this month is Jane so please pop over and show her some love.

I did have a small acorn die in my stash but when I saw this large acorn shaker die I HAD to get it (it would have been rude not too right?).  I used shades of cream and brown and embossed my background for a bit of texture and dimension.  I think it turned out super cute and I hope you like it too. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at my shaker:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a cream panel 4" x 5 1/4" and used the falling leaves embossing folder to add some texture.  I die cut the acorn from a few different brown, kraft and cream card and also cut multiples of the inner portion so that I could stack them instead of using foam tape for my shaker window.  I ink blended around all the parts of the acorn as well as the cream embossed panel.  I also traced around the acorn die and cut a 'backer' for my acorn so that I could added foam squares behind it later.  At this point I decided to add a brown mat layer so cut the embossed panel down to 3 7/8" x 5 1/8" and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I assembled the acorn, using a mix of liquid glue and foam squares, and used seed beads and gold sequins for my shaker filling.  I die cut two leaves from cream card and ink blended over them using green, brown, red and orange inks for an autumn feel.  I added one with liquid glue (which is now almost hidden under the sentiment lol!) and the green one with foam squares.  I tied some twine around the stem of the acorn and made a bow. The acorn was added to the background with foam squares.  I stamped the sentiment onto the cream card and used a flag tail banner to cut it out.  I added that to the top of the acorn so that it would look like it was tied on with the twine.  I finished off with some gold sequins.  I adhered the panel onto the card using liquid glue (I went with a light brown card base for a change as I thought white might have looked too stark).  For the inside I cut another cream panel and brown mat layer, I embossed a thin strip of the cream card with the falling leaves folder and added that to the bottom of the panel with liquid glue.  I added one leaf to the bottom right corner and stamped the sentiment in the centre using brown ink.  The panel was then adhered to my card base using double sided tape.  

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

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I can't wait to see all your acorn die cuts this week and look forward to seeing your entries in the linky. Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team.

I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Pretty Pink Posh - acorn shaker die

Gina K Designs - falling leaves embossing folder

Gina K Designs - harvest silhouettes stamp (for sentiments)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - warm cocoa and dark chocolate

Spellbinders - harvest magic die set (for leaf die) - on sale!

Spellbinders - gold smooth discs color essential sequins

MFT - blueprints 27 die set (for flag tail banner die)

Limetree Craft - warm mushroom 220gsm card 

seed beads, twine, cream and brown card from my stash

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Thank you x