The autumnal equinox of 2023 will arrive on September 23, according to the Farmer's Almanac, marking the official start of Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. This week our Stamp Simply team has been highlighting cards that herald Fall's arrival with the images and colors of the season. Of course, Florida is always fashionably late to the party and this box fold card pays tribute to that in its use of Retro Summer designer paper for the background.
This card folds flat and fits into a standard envelope for mailing, but the box portion at the bottom helps to support the card in an upright position for display. I deliberately kept the layout uncluttered to let those beautiful Fall colors shine all on their own.
It helps to use sturdy card stock for the card base...the stuff I used here was the perfect color but proved to be a bit flimsy when all was said and done, even with the extra layers! It was more like the thickness of designer paper than card stock and really works better as a layer for a mat than for a base layer but with this designer paper it was the perfect color. (I need to order more Kraft card stock...and other colors too!)
I used two of our gorgeous Fall stamp sets for this project. The leaf and acorn are from Give Thanks, and the sentiments are both from Falling Leaves. That GRATITUDE sentiment was a perfect fit stamped directly onto the box portion at the bottom, and the My Friend stamp fit just right into the tag from Tim Holtz Tag Collection dies as well.
It's very hard to catch on camera, but if you look very closely just maybe you can see the shimmer of the leaves border stamped onto the box portion of the card with Delicata ink. The leaf and acorn were both colored with Copics and then given a tap with the Delicata ink pad to add some shimmer there too.
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