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Die-cutting has a sweet spot in my heart. Don’t get me wrong – I love different techniques. Stamping, embossing, ink blending. But sometimes I feel like not getting out stamps at all and only play with dies.
Also.. I’m a very seasonal person and tend to have a lot of traditions related to different seasons.
Like for example the whole October I watch horror and supernatural movies to be primed for Halloween (keep in mind that I came from the country where we don’t celebrate Halloween and I only celebrate it for 4-5 years). Or for example I don’t like pumpkin taste. When I was growing up I had only a couple of products i couldn’t eat as they were totally non tasty for me. Pumpkin was one of those.
But after coming to US where fall and pumpkins are inseparable I started liking it. Of course when it comes to decor I have dozens of those around my house. And I also do pumpkin baking and cooking.
With that being said – in this season in cardmaking I’m very traditional too and when I’m thinking about a card theme it’s always fall or winter holidays.
So the card I’m sharing today as you may see is a fall one. I decided to kind of invert colors and make leaves white with the very fallish background. The technique I used here is die-cut inlay.
First I die-cut several leaves out of a white panel using dies from the With Gratitude Die Set. It’s a set of matching dies for the With Gratitude Stamp Set. But they can be totally used as standalone dies too.
With this technique you first die cut an element you want to be kind of on top. And then die cut the one located right after it. And so on. The same idea as with masking.
I also die-cut a thanks word using a die from the Script Words 2 Die Set.
After that I inked the panel using the Autumn Blaze Dye Ink. After that I added splatters of the Caramel Toffee and Jet Black Ink Sprays.
I trimmed the panel edges to make it of 5×3 3/4 and adhered onto a white card base. And then adhered all elements inside of their negative die-cuts. You can see that some white die-cuts go behind the orange panel – that’s what I was going for. When I was die-cutting them initially I new that I want to create this effect and was placing some dies pretty close to the edge.
Lastly I added several Rain Drops. Those are like round clear drops, but in a shape of a rain drop. Absolutely must have for fall cards 🙂
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WINNER
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Beautiful as always! I love the bright orange,and thanks for the tips.
Thanks for sharing this lovely card.
Just gorgeous!!
Really pretty card. I love the bright fall color you used.
I always love blog hops! So much to see and learn.
Beautiful card, love the fall colors with the white leaves.
Love this bright fall card! The white leaves against the gorgeous orange backdrop is wonderful! Great design!
Wonderful card !
Gorgeous card, fabulous vibrancy of color! Love the overlapping inlaid die cuts. How great that you are acquiring a taste for all things pumpkin 🙂
It’s difficult for me to make a card without die cutting. Your card is stunning.
Your card is lovely as always and I love your “pumpkin story”!
Love your card idea.
Love how you left the leaves white and the background has all the color, very creative!
I love inlaid die cards and your card is lovely!
Love how created this beautiful card. I have never done this technique and want to try it – yesterday!
Thank you for sharing this.
I love the bright orange background. Looks great with the white leaves.
Thank you so much for sharing!!! I think I better buy that script 2 die cut set!! it’s all the rage 🙂
Loved your card!! so fun!!! Happy Halloween!!
Marty
Perfect fall cards with a perfect sentiment! I love how you reversed it! Great colors!
These are some of my favorite Altenew’s dies. Your card is fantastic Svitlana, as always thank you for the wonderful inspiration!
Beautiful card, thanks or the inspiration
Love this, it is absolutely gorgeous!!!!
Loved the white diecut leaves inlaid into the Autumn Blaze panel. Striking combination. Enjoyed your story about fall/ pumpkin/ Halloween. I now live in Virginia after having lived in Florida for many years. Leaves are starting to turn and I want to gather as many brightly colored ones as I can to decorate with.
Beautiful inking and
lovely card.
Carla from Utah
Beautiful card and I love the bright color with the white leaves.
I, too, sometimes just like to diecut things to make a quick card. This is a great, bright combination for Fall that could also be used for birthdays & lots of occasions.
Love all the white “negative” space!
What a striking color scheme to make the leaves and sentiment white against the vivid background.
Fun design, I am loving the colours!
Very cool inlay technique and the colors are stunning together!
Lovely card! Thank you for sharing!
Beautiful card. Love the gorgeous colours and the use of negative space.
This card is beautiful! I love the way you created a vivid background for your crisp white leaves, and I love the inlaid effect…
I love the process you took to make this warm and beautiful card.
Unexpected and stunning.
Fabulous card! Love the die cuts and vibrant colors.
That’s a vibrant and beautiful card! 🙂
Beautiful card! I’ll have to try the inlay technique!
Cute quick card!
A cheery card with striking colors!
Love this beautiful fall card.
Love the inverted colors. It is so unique and looks fantastic.
Pretty card! Gorgeous color for fall!
Clever way to turn the tables on the leaves.
The background is bright and colorful and
the leaves really pop. Having more color
on the card is wonderful. thanks for
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Wow -your stark white cut out leaves really draws attention to the texture and interest in your inked background and it is stunning.
Beautiful card. I love the color and the technique.
I really love the vibrant colors of your card! 🙂
Your background on this card is amazing!! STUNNING design!
Very pretty and unique card! Your idea of inverting colors is so awesome looking!
I love the white on that vibrant orange!! Wow, that’s a great card! Very creative!!
So pretty for Fall!
Lovely card and colours, great for the season. Thanks for sharing!
Some of my most favourite Altenew products are my layering dies. I love the Fantasy floral dies and the Rose flurries and the Peony Dream flowers that these dies make. Thanks for the fantastic inspiration!
Love the reverse of color.
I’m not usually much for the orangey colors but your card looks awesome! I think the white inlaid leaves make it look so cool lol, I love it! And speaking of love…. yep those SK clear rain drops – one can never have enough hehe. Thanks for sharing your card and for the inspiration, I may just have to do something in an orangey color after all this fall 🙂 (mardy14@bellsouth.net)
traditions seem to have way of grounding us. happy Autumn!!