An Autumn Birthday

 

Many moons ago I was the supervisor on the curtain department in a big Allied Carpets store. I have loved fabric and textiles since I was about 10 and although retail can be long hours it was a fabulous job. I was a trained interior designer and really loved helping people match fabrics to the carpets they had chosen.

At one time the designer Jeff Banks created a Home collection in conjunction with us and there were an amazing range of voile panels which had embroidered leaves woven into them (they were REALLY expensive) I had the display one when the range ended and painstakingly cut the leaves out with my trusty Fiskars scissors as I knew I could use them in my crafting somehow.

Of course.... they never have been used until NOW! This card is using one of those leaves and they are just beautiful. I needed to make a birthday card for a friend and neighbour. In the UK Autumn is definitely in full swing now so it seemed appropriate to make it an Autumn inspired card perfect for an adult male birthday.

I used brown cardstock for the base and added one of my most favourite leaf papers.The handmade paper is thick with a leather texture and gold sparkle threads embedded in it. You can see this more clearly in the image below.

I added a wooden button from The Works and tied some parcel string and a scrap of sisal string. The ends were then secured under the patterned paper.

The mesh leaf has been treated to a couple of swipes with a product called Glitter Kiss from Cosmic Shimmer. The fibres in the mesh have picked this up and it has a subtle glitter to it. It is a gel like texture with glitter suspended in it that does not shed when dried. It may be my new favourite thing !

Finally the sentiment is a very, very old foiled one from Kanban which has been popped up on 3d foam pads.

Card Details -

Size - A5

Paper - Woodland Folk (Lee Holland by Papermania), Handmade paper with gold sparkles

Embellishments - Mesh Fabric leaf, string, sisal string, wooden button (The Works) Glitter Kiss (Cosmic Shimmer)

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges (in Alphabetical Order)

• {Pin}spirational - #282 Inspired by Pumpkin feast image (autumn, colours, leaves)
• 2 Sisters on The Blog - #55 Card for a Man
• 613 Avenue Create - #11 Anything Goes
• Allsorts - #647 Anything Goes
• A Bit More Time to Craft Extra - Anything Goes
• A Perfect Time To Craft - #10-2021 Anything Goes
• A Place to Start - #10 Purely hand made
• Cardz TV - #152 Anything Goes
• CCC Digi Creations - #130 Autumn
• Classic Design Challenge - #10 Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar Challenge - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - #569 Anything Goes / Add Some Layers
• Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper
• Crafty Sentiments Designs - Anything Goes
• Creative Craft Cottage - #145 Autumn
• Cute Card Thursday - #693 Anything Goes
• Daisy Chain Challenges - #57 Autumn
• Dare 2B Artzy - Autumn / Fall
• Gem of A Challenge - #22 Anything Goes
• If You Gave A Crafter A Cookie - #161 Inspired by Autumn Leaves image
• Ike’s World Challenge - #149 Anything Goes
• Inspiration Station - 16 Inspired by Autumn colours and leaves on ground
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - #168 Anything Goes
• More Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes
• My Time To Craft - #468 Halloween or Fall Colours
• Pearly Sparkles - #67 Autumn
• Polkadoodles - #42 Anything Goes
• The Crafting Challenge - Autumn Colours
• The Four Seasons Challenge - Anything Goes FALL
• Word Art Wednesday - #513-514 Anything Goes