You may want to send a few cards to your loved ones or friends for Thanksgiving like this Amber Autumn Thanksgiving Card. It’s time! I can’t believe how fast Thanksgiving has snuck up on us! Anything “fallish” will do, but I have loved this Amber Autumn Stamp Set since it came out!
For something different, I decided to make this a “book fold” card. I also chose some “fallish” colors of cardstock scraps to decorate the background of the card. To make the book fold card base, cut the cardstock at 11″ x 4 1/4″. With the paper placed horizontally, score at 4 1/4″ and 5 1/2″. Of course, normally you would score that card in half at 5 1/2″, but for the book fold you add in that extra inch and a quarter and adhere that to the inside of the card. If you think you want to add ribbon or twine around this “binding” part, do it before you adhere that section or just place the ribbon around the cardstock or designer series paper you adhere to that section on the front. If you forget, there are ways around it!
I chose different color scraps of cardstock in fall colors to make the background of this card. On the left book binding section, I adhered a piece of Timid Tiger cardstock. The other colors are Cherry Cobbler, Lost Lagoon, Crushed Curry and Old Olive.
Once these pieces were adhered, I stamped the acorns and leaves image from the Amber Autumn Stamp Set with Versamark ink. I tried to stamp them randomly on that area. Since they were already adhered to the card, I didn’t want to get the stamping on the Crumb Cake card base, so I placed other scrap pieces of cardstock along whatever edge I would be stamping on as a mark to protect the card base from the ink. I probably could have done it a better way, but this worked. Same with the Timid Tiger piece being stamped with just the leaf images.
For the focal point, I stamped the pumpkins, squash and corn image from the Amber Autumn Set in Memento ink in black on Very Vanilla. I colored in the images with Stampin’ Blends. Some of the colors I used were Pumpkin Pie, Timid Tiger, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, and Old Olive. Then I scribbled in some Pool Party around the background just to add some color to the background. This image was diecut with a Stylish Shapes circle die and layered on a larger circle of Garden Green.
The greeting is stamped in Garden Green ink from the Amber Autumn Stamp Set on Very Vanilla and made little banner ends. It is glued down flat across the pumpkins.
The pumpkins image is popped up on a lot of Stampin’ Dimensionals since I held down the Gold Striped Ribbon with the Dimensionals. I just wound it back and forth on the back of the circle die. Since I didn’t think to add ribbon around the binding section before adhering it, instead I added three of the large Timid Tiger 2025-27 In Color Flat Pearls to the side for something different!
I think these Book Fold cards are fun to make, hence the name “fun fold” cards for anything folded differently than the norm. Many can get very complicated and take some extra work, but this book fold card only had one extra score line and a little glue in a different place!
Thanksgiving, surprisingly, is only one week from Thursday on November 27th! Remember, Stampin’ Up! is celebrating Black Friday this year for the first time a couple of days early, November 25 – December 1 for discounted prices on select products. That’s all I know! Maybe we’ll all be surprised on the 25th! And that is one month until Christmas!! Oh my goodness!