Pretty Autumn Card Trio: October Glimmer Plate Collection
Hey, y’all! I’m so happy to be guest designing for the October Glimmer Plate Collection on the Spellbinders Blog today! You can head over there to check it out or read on right here 🙂
I don’t know about you, but fall colors are coming into my craft room as a “cold front” is moving into Texas soon. And by a cold front, I mean 85F. Of course, it’s not cold by a long shot but a girl can dream 🙂
I wanted to incorporate some rich reds, oranges, and gold into the things I’ve been making, and the October Glimmer Plate Collection worked beautifully with these colors. So hang on to your craft aprons; I have three card projects to share with you today!
Alcohol Ink Backgrounds
For my fancy paper, I created an alcohol ink background, which will be the “main” paper, and I chose the other cardstock based on this one.
If you’d like to get a quick refresher on how to make this type of background, I have a video here where I used the same technique. But I got very different results; that’s the beauty of this medium).
The other two papers are Curious Metallic cardstock in White Gold because I felt I couldn’t go with plain ivory and Craft Perfect paper in Glacier Gold.
Unfortunately, Arjowiggins Creative Papers, the creators of Curious Metallics, closed their doors in late 2022. While there may be no more Curious Metallics, you can still find excellent metallic papers like Stardream.
Of course, since these cards are pieced together, they are super easy to mass-produce, and you can swap up the main background pieces to match whatever season for which you’re creating!
Once I cut all the pieces needed, I used the Glimmering Butterflies Glimmer Plates to foil and die-cut four butterflies. Then, I chose my favorite Art Deco Border and the sentiments.
Card 1: Hello
First up is this lovely vertical card.
I foiled the border first, then used the alcohol ink cardstock piece to arrange the “hello” before foiling that as well. Then it was just a matter of layering on the pieces with glue tape and adding the butterfly with foam squares.
The paper measurements for this card are:
- White Gold: 4.25” x 5.5”, 2.25” x 1.5.”
- Glacier Gold: 2.75” x 2.”
- Alcohol Ink Yupo: 5.5” x 1.5.”
Card 2: Birthday Hugs & Wishes
Next, I have this pretty autumn birthday card.
To line up everything on this card, I foiled the Art Deco border first, just below the centerline of the panel. Then, I foiled the “birthday hugs & wishes” sentiment onto the alcohol ink strip – and it came out AH-MAZING on the Yupo paper! I adhered this piece just below the border and then layered on my gold piece and butterfly with foam squares.
The paper measurements for this card are:
- White Gold: 4.25” x 5.5.”
- Glacier Gold: 2” x 2.”
- Alcohol Ink Yupo: 5.5” x 1.5.”
Card 3: Dear Friend
And finally, this horizontal card with a centered design.
This one is pretty easy to put together. I foiled the “dear friend” sentiment first, then layered two butterflies over the rectangle with foam squares. I set this piece aside as I positioned the other cardstock pieces. Then, I finished it by adding the butterfly rectangle on top.
The paper measurements for this card are:
- White Gold: 4.25” x 5.5”, 3.5” x 2.”
- Glacier Gold: 5.25” x 2”, 4.25” x 1.25.”
- Alcohol Ink Yupo: 5.25” x 2”, 4.25” x 1.25.”
Thanks for letting me share the cards I made today with some of the October Glimmer Plate Collection products.
As a matter of fact, there are even more products available in this release that I didn’t get to use today. So go ahead and pop over to the Spellbinders Store to see what else is new!
