Today' project is an awesome fall Step Card. Elements of a fall card include the color scheme, leaf imagery and lots of layers and depth. In addition to all the layers with the die cuts, a step card certainly offers depth.
Where do you draw your inspiration for a project. Nature certainly offers choices. Sometimes we're inspired by product, for example I have these awesome new Basic Border Dies that I wanted to play with.I've also been enjoying the Beautiful Trees Dies. Then when I came across Joy Nelson's beautiful tree card made with scraps I knew exactly how I wanted to combine the two dies.
I could have just cut curves for the hills, but I like the look of the edge from the Basic Border Dies.
The tree has lots of layers too. The branch die cut is sandwiched between the sparkly foliage layer and a back piece die cut from vellum. Can you see the color variation in the foliage? I used some Ombre Specialty Paper - perfect for fall, right?
You can never have too many layers on a fall card, right? lots of depth and texture. So speaking of inspiration, I decided to turn this into a Step Card when I saw Laurie LaRose's beautiful floral Step Card.
Laurie's project is horizontal, mine is vertical. Hers is a center Step with 3-panels. Mine is a side Step card with 2 panels. If you like step cards check this horizontal Halloween Step Card. Bottom line is I liked it so much I made 2!
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you've been inspired to go play. Between my card and Joy's and Laurie's cards you've got lots of ideas to work from. Leave a comment, we'd love to know what you think of our cards.
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2 comments:
The curved scrap background looks so cool behind your fall tree! I love the step card fun fold too!
What a pretty card. I love the rolling hills behind the tree, too! The Vertical step card is perfect for this tree idea, I'm going to have to use it as a start of inspiration for one of my next cards!
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