Weaved Fall Card

 

Hello! Welcome back to my blog. I am a guest designer at the Cut It Up Challenge. The challenge theme is Colors of Fall/Autumn. This is my favorite season because of the colors. 

The Cut It Up Challenge requires a die cut to be included on your project. I die cut the letters using the Spellbinders Stitched Alphabet dies. I die cut the letters on various patterned papers from the Simple Stories Autumn Splendor 6x8 pad. I die cut the same letters on scrap white cardstock. I adhered the patterned paper letter die cuts to the white letter die cuts. This gives some stability to the patterned paper letter die cuts since the patterned paper are not that thick. 

I stitched Sulky gold thread on the stitching holes. This thread offers some challenge in stitching. Because of its slick texture, I had a hard time lining up the three strands and also had a hard time knotting the end. It was worth the struggle after seeing the effect of this glossy thread to the project. Very pretty!

I die cut the shadow of the letter on a woodgrain patterned paper which is included in the paper pad. 

I adhered the stitched letters to the shadow. I pressed the layers with a reverse tweezer and a mini clothespin while the liquid glue is drying. This promotes better adhesion of the die cut letter to the die cut shadow. I set the letters aside.

For the weaved panel, I die cut a heavy weight cream colored cardstock using The Stamp Market Weaving Cards die. Since I wanted to create a landscape card, I partially die cut the weave die on the cream cardstock. I used the cut tabs as a guide in repositioning the die to die cut the rest of the panel.

I wrapped a white crochet thread on the tabs. Using a heavy weight cardstock for this weaving card prevents the cardstock from curving during the weaving. Once I have wrapped all of the tabs with crochet thread, now its time for weaving. I secured the ends to the back of the panel with tape.

I am obsessed with trims! Thanks to Paige Evans. After seeing her trims on her mini scrapbook pages, I am simply on the lookout for trims. Thankfully, Michael's came up with a bundled trim for different occasions and color palettes. I used a tapestry needle to help me weave the trims through the crochet thread making sure I alternate the order of weaving on each trim. Once the panel is filled with trims, I added a double adhesive tape to the ends of the panel and adhered the trims to it. I also added a double adhesive tape to the back edges of the panel to secure the ends of the trims really well. I trimmed off the excess.

I heat embossed the additional sentiments on the same woodgrain patterned paper. I used Wow! Gold Pearl embossing powder. The sentiment is from the coordinating stamp set of the Simple Stories Autumn Splendor. The stamp sentiment was partially stamped to come up with a customized sentiment. I die cut this into strips using a die from Avery Elle. I die cut extras and adhered it to the back of the sentiment strips for a bit of dimension.

I adhered the letters and sentiment strips to the weaved panel. With all the texture on the weaving, I think it is best to use a glue gun. But I am messy when it comes to using a glue gun so I settled for a liquid adhesive which worked out just fine. It just took a long time for the liquid glue to dry. I also had to add more glue to some areas. 

I hope you like today's project. Thank you, Larelyn and Cut It Up for allowing me to share my work in their challenge blog. Thank you for visiting my blog. Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

I am sharing this project at

Make Your Own Background, featuring Spellbinders #37

I used Spellbinders Stitched Alphabet dies.