Create It 3 Ways

Hello! I created these three cards for the Create It 3 Ways Instagram hop. This month’s hop theme is autumn/spooky season. Each month we challenge ourselves by choosing our own category to feature across all 3 cards. I chose to feature inked & heat embossed frames on all of my cards.

The first card I created using a Mama Elephant grid window, inked it with Walnut Stain Distress Oxide, and coated it with Wow! clear embossing powder. Then, I went through my scrap drawers and found a bunch of different papers, cut them into 1.25 inch squares and placed them behind the different windows.

Finally, I used glitter cardstock scraps to cut the Picket Fence Studios y’all sentiment and letters from an old alphabet set. I cut more of the same sentiment & letters out of white cardstock to stack behind the glitter paper. I glued it all together and adhered it to a top folding A2 card.

For the second card, I used the Altenew Diamond Frame die cut from white cardstock, inked with Distress Oxide ink, and heat embossed with Wow! clear embossing powder. On the card front, I used some red, orange, and yellow Distress Oxide inks to blend a background for the frame.

I cut the leaves from the Honey Bee Stamps lovely layers fall foliage set out of white cardstock and inked with various distress oxide inks. I stacked them with an additional die cut for added dimension, added a reverse-foiled sentiment from Pink Fresh Studio, and adhered it all to a top-folding A2 card.

For the final card, I used Pink Fresh Studio Fall Foliage Layering Stencil set & die, along with various Pink Fresh inks to color the leaves. I created the frame from white cardstock cut with an old, discontinued Pretty Frames 2 die set from Pinkfresh Studio.

I inked and heat embossed the frame the same as the last two cards. I temporarily adhered the frame to the card base, arranged the leaf die cuts, and added the die cut sentiment from the Altenew Versatile Greetings set that I cut from the same glitter cardstock as Card #1. I added some tiny die cut circles as accents for the final touch on this card.