AUTUMN LEAVES AND DRY BRUSHED METALLIC

A couple of weeks ago I realized that this beautiful Dry Brushed Metallic Specialty Paper was NOT RETIRED.  For some reason, I thought it had retired and so I had moved it to my retired bin.  This foil paper is so beautiful and I thought it would work wonderfully for a fall card.

If you have followed me at all you probably know that Summer is my favorite time of the year, so when the weather starts getting chilly and the flowers and leaves start looking worse for wear, it doesn't necessarily make me happy.  Don't get me wrong, I do love the changing colors of our trees here in Michigan.  I just don't love some of the other things that come with fall -- like putting the boat in storage, raking leaves, etc.  I know it's weird, but I'd prefer shoveling snow than raking leaves.

But the Dry Brushed Metallic Paper makes me happy, so I'm using it on this autumn themed card made with the Autumn Leaves Stamp Set and Dies.

The large maple leaf was heat embossed with Copper Embossing Powder and the DisINKtive Autumn Leaves stamps create very beautiful, embossed images.  With DisINKtive stamps I always like to make a test sample first when I want to heat emboss with one because sometimes the DisINKtive images don't work as well with heat embossing, but these Autumn Leaves images are great!  Even the DisINKtive shading shows up in the embossing.

One of my favorite color combinations is Copper Clay and Pretty Peacock, so I chose the version of the Dry Brushed Metallic Paper that has the blue shades and matted it to Pretty Peacock cardstock.  The gold ring behind the leaves was die cut with two dies from Deckled Circled dies.

The sentiments for the front and the inside of the card are from the Autumn Leaves Stamp Set.  I think I'm going to send this card to special friend for Thanksgiving.

The dark mat colors of Copper Clay and Pretty Peacock don't show up as well as I would like in the photos, but in real life it is a very pretty color combination.

Use this link to download a copy of the PDF tutorial.

A list of the products used is shown below.  Click on any of the images to learn more about that product or to make a purchase.

Product List

Autumn Leaves Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [162179]	Autumn Leaves Dies [162185]	Deckled Circles Dies [162286]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953]
Copper Clay 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [161721]	Pretty Peacock 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [150880]	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276]	Dry Brushed Metallic 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Designer Series Paper [160837]
Gold Foil Sheets [132622]	Pretty Peacock Classic Stampin’ Pad [150083]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Timber 3 D Embossing Folder [156406]
Copper Clay 3/8" (1 Cm) Textured Ribbon [161629]	Earth Tones Shimmer Gems [164070]	Metallics Wow! Embossing Powder [165678]	Heat Tool (Us And Canada) [129053]
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653]

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