Colorful Seasons
Fall themed Candle Card
I came across a great card made by Kristal Bell this week and knew I had to make one. Her candle card as I have called it was made using the new Spooky Cat Bundle. I didn't have that bundle so I chose to use the Colorful Seasons bundle and the old baby wipe technique. Hope you all enjoy and can understand my directions!
Cardstock Dimensions:
Early Espresso (1) 4-1/4" x 11" scored on long side at 4" and 8" - When you make those folds you get a little tent structure that allows you to add a tealight inside.
Crushed Curry (1) 4" x 3-3/4" and (1) 4" x 1"
Very Vanilla (1) 3-3/4" x 3-1/2" and (1) 3-3/4" x 3/4"
Vellum (1) 2-1/4" x 2-1/4"
Baby Wipe Technique:.
Layer 3 or 4 baby wipes and fold in half and place on paper plate. Choose 3 ink refills. In this sample I used Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, and Crushed Curry. Place 3-4 drops of each color randomly. Your "stamp pad" should look something like this:
Directions: Ink up your leaf stamp and stamp first full leaf image in the right hand corner of your very vanilla cardstock like this:
Re-ink your leaf stamp and randomly fill in cardstock until desired look. Remember to stamp off cardstock so it looks more natural. If your image becomes muddied clean off stamp and re-ink or you may choose to clean off stamp in between each image.
Place leaf framelit over stamped leaf in lower right corner like this:
Run this through the bigshot. Hint: when using detailed images in the big shot I will usually run them back and forth several times. Your vanilla cardstock should now look like this:
Lay Very vanilla cardstock over crushed curry cardstock and fit framelit into place like this:
Repeat by laying crushed curry c.s. over the early espresso flap and fitting framelit in place. Run early espresso and framelit through bigshot. Save this die cut leaf for laying on top of finished card.
Adhere vellum piece to the back of the very vanilla cardstock using either snail adhesive in the corners of the vellum or by using mini glue dots.
Adhere vanilla c.s. to crushed curry c.s. using adhesive of your choice.
Adhere die cut leaf into place by using a fine tip glue pen or 2 way glue.
Mount crushed curry to early espresso cardstock.
On small vanilla cardstock stamp saying of choice. On this sample I used the saying from the Paisleys and Posies stamp set.
Layer very vanilla onto small crushed curry piece. Use stamping dimensionals to pop up crushed curry piece to bottom flap. This will hold your card in place. Place a battery operated tealight in tent of card. Voila!
FYI: You can use any saying you would like but if you choose to buy the Paisleys and Posies stamp set then you don't necessarily need the coordinating framelits. I only added this as a suggestion because you will save 10% buy buying the bundle.
