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Fall birthday

Seize The Birthday is asking for Favourite fall treats which leaves quite a lot of scope for your designs. As an invited guest DT I came up with this card.

As an Ex-Pat Brit, we didn’t have all the hoopla that is part of living here and I’ve never quite gotten used to the N. American way of celebrating it. Asking me what my favourite treat is, is a hard question for me to answer. I’m kind of boring, as I only like regular coffee, so all the flavours available aren’t something I would go for, and although I enjoy pumpkin pie, I can’t say I’m mad for it. Likely because of this I don’t have a lot in my stash that pertains to this theme. I do however enjoy the fall colours and seeing pumpkins stacked up in a store, or watching kids at a pumpkin patch, choosing the one they want to carve up as part of the upcoming Halloween fun.

All that to say making a card for this challenge was somewhat of a real challenge for me. In the end I chose to do a fall scene. I pulled out a Birch/Aspen tree stencil and added the blue sky and some grass to show between the trees. Then using a fine brush and some ink I shaded the actual trees with Lost Shadow and some Hickory smoke to give them some definition. My gate and the small topper are dies from Gummiapan and I stacked a bunch together to give the gate some dimension. I cut the topper in green as well as yellow and stacked them so that there was some green showing after I cut off some of the yellow bits I didn’t need. I also went around the wood edges with some ink, but the actual wood grain is from a dollar store paper pad. A Tim Holtz stencil was used for the pumpkins and I moved the stencil around to try to get a stack. Once it was dry I added some additional colour for definition and then fussy cut. After adding the main layer to the card base I placed the gate and the pumpkin stack where I felt they looked best and glued them down. The sentiment came from Hampton Arts and I used foam tape to get it to sit over the edge of the gate frame.

I’ve had a lot of fun being the guest designer here and there is one more to go before my stint is finished. I sure hope you have fun creating your own favourite fall treat cards. Thanks for stopping by, your time and any comments you leave are highly appreciated.

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  9. I often find challenges to be a challenge for me too. After reading your post I have to say that you certainly made lemonade out of this challenge. I think the display of lovely fall colors and the pumpkins is a sweet idea of the theme for this challenge. Good to see you here.

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  10. You did a great job with the topping Johanna. Love your fall scene you created with the gate, pumpkins and the stenciled trees in the background.

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  13. Johanna, what a lovely fall scene you have created. Love that arched gate and the Birch trees behind it with the stack of pumpkins out front. Awesome card.

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  14. Love the Autumn scene Johanna, the stencilled trees look wonderful with the gate and arbor, great Autumn colours too, thankyou for guesting with us at STB, Cathy x

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  16. What a fantastic scene for the topping! Your pumpkins look great. I’m with you though – I had a bit of a tough time coming up with something (yay black coffee).

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  17. So do you get these beautiful fall colors in England? It’s interesting that it’s not as big of a deal there as here. I can see how this was most definitely challenging but you pulled it off beautifuly Johanna.

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    1. Thanks Julie. And no we didn’t see these colours in the U.K. Lots of pretty yellows and different browns but not much in the way of reds.

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  19. As a Brit I too struggle with the emphasis on fall – it’s just straightforward autumn here with no extras, although Halloween is definitely going down the American route. But you’ve made a great fall scene, love the pumpkins and the gate.

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