Autumn fun fold card

Hello everyone, and welcome to another tuesday of crafting. Today I'm using the lovely autumn leaves, as after having gone out for a lovely walk on Sunday seeing all the amazing colours of the leaves and having the smell of autumn in the air, I just couldn't resist.

I've made a fun fold card for you all today, it's a very easy fold but it's very nice on the eye, so let's begin and make a card together.

Materials needed:

Early espresso cardstock

1pc - 4 1/8" x 11 1/2" scored on the longside at 2 7/8" and 5 3/4" - cardbase

1pc - 4 1/8" x 5 3/4" - front of cardbase layer

Very vanilla cardstock

2pc - 4" x 5 5/8" - front of card and inside layer

1pc - 3 1/4" x 4 13/16" -  front of card topper 

Scrap pieces for the 3 sentiments

Cajun craze cardstock

1pc - 3 3/8" x 4 15/16" - front of card topper

1pc - 3 3/8" x 3 3/8" - die cutting of a maple leaf

Mint macaron cardstock

Scrap pieces for 2 sentiment layers

Gilded Autumn speciality DSP

1pc - 3 7/8" x 5 1/2" - front of cardbase layer

1 sheet with the leaves and acorns on to punch out what is needed

( 3 acorns, 2 mint macaron maple leaves, 2 cajun craze maple leaves, 1 cajun craze oak leaf and 1 mint macaron oak leaf) 4 small leaves fussy cut out.

Basket weave ribbon

1pc - approx 5" for wrapping round the front of card topper

Acorn trinkets

2 for tying onto the ribbon

Thread

A length to place through the acorns and tie them and the 'Happy Birthday' sentiment into place. I've used a copper thread which has now unfortunately retired but any thread will work.

Card recipe:

1. Cut, score and burnish your cardbase piece using your trimmer, mking sure when you score you use the score blade and not the cutting blade.

2. Cut all of your pieces of card and dsp ready for the card layers and topper.

3. Glue the very vanilla piece onto the early espresso piece (for the front of the cardbase), then glue the dsp piece onto it and now glue this whole piece onto your cardbase as in the picture below.

4. Glue your very vanilla piece onto the inside of your cardbase.

5. Glue the other piece of very vanilla onto the cajun craze piece of cardstock and once dry cut out your maple leaf.

6. Attach your piece of ribbon to this topper now using tear n tape adhesive to hold it in place on the reverse side, now using wet glue attach this piece to the front of your cardbase, do it at a slight angle as it fits easier and looks nice too.

7. Cut out a cajun craze leaf using the piece of square cut card, keep this piece aside for another card (no wasting it), and then glue the leaf onto the other die cut leaf.

8. Glue this onto the front of your cardbase using mini dimensionals.

9. Place your thread through the 2 acorns and tie this tightly to the ribbon so that it scrunches the ribbon up.

10. Stamp all of your sentiments onto the very vanilla scrap pieces, and then glue them flat to the mint macaron scrap pieces and cut a small border all the way around the edges. The happy birthday sentiment is not mounted onto mint macaron instead you need to punch a small hole in one end and attach it to the acorns using the same piece of thread that is already attached, making sure everything is tied on nice and securely (as the acorns are heavy and you don't want them to fall off).

11. Punch out all of your leaves and acorns, fussy cut the little leaves and then glue them all into place on your card front (the acorns are attached using 1 small dimensional for each of them). 

Card finished.  Hope you enjoyed it and found a bit inspiration for making some more. I've attached a picture below of what I made using the square piece of cajun craze cardstock with the leaf apperture, to give a little more inspiration, and leaving no waste yayyyyyyy...........

Happy crafting everyone until the next blog take care, stay safe and enjoy crafting.

Big Crafty Hugs

Natalie xx

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Product List

Early Espresso A4 Card Stock [121686] £8.25	Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock [106550] £9.00	Cajun Craze A4 Card Stock [121683] £8.25
Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [147085] £7.00	Autumn Punch Pack [153609] £36.00	Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper [153520] £14.00
Family Party Photopolymer Stamp Set [149379] £20.00	Timeless Tulips Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [151534] £17.00	Acorn Trinkets [153552] £7.50
Basket Weave & Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack [153553] £7.50	Love Of Leaves Bundle (English) [155195] £45.00	Mint Macaron A4 Cardstock [138344] £8.25
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals [144108] £3.75	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [154974] £4.50	Paper Trimmer [152392] £23.00
Paper Snips [103579] £9.25	Clear Block B [117147] £5.50	Clear Block G [118489] £4.25
Tear & Tape Adhesive [138995] £6.50