Fall Pumpkins and Leaves Tri-Fold Card

The idea for this tri-fold card came from a FaceBook Live by Amy Hill on the Altenew page. I love fun folds and wanted to try to recreate something similar to Amy's card to send to my daughter who is currently deployed far from home. She's missing out on the beauty of fall here in Michigan, so I've been sending her fall-themed cards and freeze-dried foods like pumpkin bread slices (they taste like biscotti when freeze-dried!) and soups like butternut squash soup and pumpkin soup. 

After creating the card base, I chose Altenew's Craft-Your-Life: Sweet Buttercups set to create some stamped, die cut, and embossed leaves. I used some watercolor paper backgrounds that I had watercolored, ink smooshed, and/or sprayed with fall colors and made several sets so I had a few different colors to choose from. This set has a large stamp that stamps all the flowers and leaves at once and comes with a coordinating die that cuts them all at once, so now I have some lovely buttercup flowers left over to use on a future card. The coordinating 3D embossing folder adds nice details to the flowers and leaves, so I ran them all through my Spellbinders Platinum die cutting machine to emboss them after stamping and embossing them.

Once I had the leaves finished, I die cut several pumpkins using Altenew's Pretty Pumpkins layering die set. I love this set and have been playing with it quite a bit since I purchased it recently. The pumpkins have a lot of lovely dimension when layered together, but they also look great with just the base layer as it has some nice etched details on it. 

I arranged my pumpkins and leaves and a bit of orange polka dot cardstock to decorate the card panels. Then I stamped "Appreciating all you do!" from the same Sweet Buttercups set I used for the leaves onto a strip of the polka dot cardstock. I adhered that to the back panel and trimmed a few leaves to fit underneath it. 

 Challenges I'm entering:

Anything Goes with a Fun Fold for Creative Creases #94 (secretstamper.com) (ends 11/8/24)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (1/5 for the week; 1/10 for the challenge; ends 11/6/24)

Can You Handle The Pressure? (cyhtp.blogspot.com): ATG with an embossing folder with a twist of pumpkins (My leaves were embossed using the coordinating embossing folder for the Sweet Buttercups Craft-Your-Life set (3/3; ends 11/6/24)

Art Impressions Blog: All the Fall Challenge #390 Week #1 (artimpressionsstamps.blogspot.com): All the Fall (1/2; ends 11/6/24)

digidesignchallengeblog (disdigidesignschallenge.blogspot.com): Include a pumpkin (1/3; ends 11/8/24)

Gem of A Craft Challenge (pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com): ATG (3/4; ends 11/8/24)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: ATG (4/4; ends 11/8/24)

613 Avenue Create (avenue613.blogspot.com): ATG with twist of lots of leaves (1/8; ends at the end of the month)

We Love to Create mixed media Challenge Blog...sponsored by Polkadoodles (welove2create.blogspot.com): ATG (1/2; ends at the end of November)

The Paper Shelter: Squares or circles (my pattern paper has polka dots on it) (1/2; ends 10/29/24)

Stamping Sensations: Autumn Colors or ATG (1/3; ends at the end of the month)

We Love Stamping: Autumn or ATG (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Cut Above (craftingacutabove.blogspot.com): ATG with die cuts (2/3; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start (hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com): ATG with optional theme of use some pink (ends at the end of the month)

Double D Challenges (daranddiane.blogspot.com): Use a pumpkin (2/3; ends 11/3/24)

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Embossing and/or Fall + Sentiment (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

Inspiration Station (inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com): My card includes fall colors and pumpkins like the inspiration photo does) (3/8; ends at the end of the month)