CraftyHunnypots: Kylie Bertuccis International Highlights

Hello again and welcome to Septembers International Blog Highlights. Can you believe it's actually September and now we enter the season of Autumn over here in the UK I thought I'd make a thankyou card this month using the 'Beautiful Autumn' collection.

I love when the Autumn comes and all the leaves start to fall from the trees in all of their beautiful array of colours and this card represents this to me, hope you like it and you hop on to the link to vote for me, I'd really appreciate it.

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So without going on any longer than is necessary let's get on with making my card.

Materials needed for this card:

Thick Very Vanilla cardstock

1pc - 5 1/2" x 11" scored on the longside at 5 1/2" - this is your card base

1pc - 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" - this is to glue onto the back of your dsp

1pc - approx 7/8" x 3 1/4" for your sentiment

1pc - 5 3/8" x 5 3/8" for the inside of card

Scrap piece to stamp and punch out some leaves, acorns etc.

Cajun Craze cardstock

1pc - 5 7/16" x 5 7/16" for the front of card layer that is embossed (brick & mortar 3D folder)

Scrap piece to stamp and punch out some leaves, etc.

Gilded Autumn speciality dsp

1pc - 5 1/4" x 5 1/4" for the front of card glued onto the ww piece for strength

Early espresso cardstock

Scrap piece to stamp and punch out some leaves, etc.

Mint macaron cardstock

1pc - approx 1" x 3 3/8" for layering behind the sentiment

Copper foil sheets

1pc - approx 2" x 3" for die cutting the sentiment label layer

Scrap piece for die cutting the ferns (these are from Celebration labels dies)

Basket weave & Metallic ribbon combo pack

2pc - for tieing a bow and for pulling into strands to use on front of card

Acorn trinkets

1 - for the front of card

Card recipe:

1. Cut, score and burnish your card base.

2. Cut your inside piece of card and glue to the inside of your card.

3. Cut your dsp piece and the piece of very vanilla for strenghtening it, and glue them both together. Once the glue has dried you need to die cut the 3rd largest label from the centre of it.

4. Cut your cajun craze piece of card and laying the dsp piece on top make sure you line it all up straight, now lay your 2nd largest die through the apperture and centralize it, lift the dsp piece off and then run the cajun craze bit through your die cutting machine making sure th die stays in place.

5. Emboss your cajun craze piece now it has an apperture cut from the centre of it, (the reason you do it in this order is because if you die cut after you emboss it flattens the embossing) and then glue it flat onto the front of your card.

6. Place dimensionals over the reverse side of your dsp piece and then carefully glue to the front of your card, making sure you get nice even edges of the cajun craze showing.

7. Stamp all of your leaves etc, you stamp 1st generation for the outer leaves and then 2nd generation for the inner. The acorn you stamp outer 1st generation, the acorn base 3rd generation and the top 2nd generation, this just gives the acorn a realistic look to it, punch them all out. The ferns and and leaves that don't come with punches you need to stamp out and then fussy cut them out. The copper ferns are die cut out using the little dies within the celebration labels dies.

8. Die cut your copper label and glue into place using dimensionals.

9. Glue all of your leaves and ferns using wet glue into place, the acorns you need to just use one of the mini dimensionals for each.

10. Stamp your sentiment and cut the piece of card at angles on each end, glue onto the mint macaron piece and then cut the edges to leave a small border all the way around the edges.

11. Tie your bow with one of your pieces ribbon, and pull the other piece into strands from one end and tie them all together in a knot (one of your strands keep back to thread through your acorn trinket).

12. Using glue dots glue the strands onto your card front first, tie the acorn onto the bow and then use another glue dot to glue it onto the strands.

13. Glue 6 of your leaves into the inside of your card as in the picture above.

Card is now finished hope you enjoyed it. Please vote for me if you did like it thanks so much for popping onto my blg and having a look I really do appreciate it.

Stay safe everyone and keep crafting

Big Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

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Products used for this card:

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Gilded Autumn speciality dsp 153520

Beautiful Autumn bundle (english) 155189

Acorn trinkets 153552

Basket weave & Metallic ribbon combo pack 153553

Celebration labels dies 153570

Thick Very vanilla cardstock144238