Autumn Blessings

Hi everyone! I'm here to share a project I created for Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team! The theme this month we had to do something with a holiday/season theme and I decided I would create a card with an Autumn theme.

I started with a folded 6"x6" piece of cardstock, 4 1/2"x5 1/2" of patterned paper, two Embroidery Hoops and a Needle Book Diecuts as the base for the beginning of my card.

I inked the edges of the patterned paper and adhered off center of the card base.

Next I staggered the embroidery hoops dies over the needle book die and adhered to the back side of the needle book diecut.

This is what the front should look like and I didn't glue the hoops down on the front since I wanted to be able to add embellishments underneath.

I cut down three straws, splattered with paint and once dry tied thread around all three and adhered to the card.

I cut two of the larger leaves and one for the leaf sprigs from the Spring Leaves from white cardstock. I painted those with water colors and when almost dry I shaped and then splattered with brown water colors. Next I cut four of the Romance Flowers from white cardstock and did the same as I did with the leaves. Lastly I cut four of the Heart and Soul Flowers from cardstock, shaped and put together and added an extra large brad to the center. I adhered that along with the larger leaves and two of the smaller romance flowers to the lower half of the card.

I printed the sentiment from the computer, inked the edges and glued along with the other two flowers and the leaf sprig to the upper corner of the card.

I added a few fake berries, copper metallic thread and a mini pine cone to finish off my card.

If you are looking for more ideas from Eileen Hull's Inspiration Team you can find some past posts HERE and HERE.

As always if you have any questions about this project please let me know.

Also I would like to submit this project for the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes: Challenge Weeks #304-305

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Photo Inspiration

Crafty hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: October 2017

Just Keep on Creating: Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by, hope your Wednesday is awesome and enjoy creating!