Grateful Fall Card

I was recently part of an IG hop coordinated by a wonderful cardmaker who has become a friend of mine through our Altenew connection. She lives in Canada, and I tried to send her a package of crafty goodies as a thank you for coordinating the hop. The post office told me there would be $138 in duties, tariffs, etc. for her to pay when it arrived. I dropped that idea and tried to mail the fun fold card I had made her. That was going to cost me nearly $20 because its thickness meant it counted as a package rather than a letter. So hopefully the third time is a charm because I made this standard A2 card for her! Of course now the Canadian postal service is on strike, so who knows when it will reach her, but I feel like I've tried my hardest at this point! 😂

For this card, I started with an A2 size panel of white cardstock that I sprayed with Altenew's Orange Cream Shimmer Spray. I let that dry and die cut a couple pumpkins from Altenew's Pretty Pumpkins set using paper I had painted with acrylic paints in fall colors. I die cut the stems from some watercolor cardstock I had ink smooshed with brown inks. I think they were Altenew's Cocoa Cream and Choco Hazelnut. I found a couple leaves I had previously die cut using Altenew's Zero Waste: Autumn Leaves die and Your Paper Insider's Mars Stardream metallic shimmer paper and decided how I wanted to arrange them with my little pumpkins. Then I embossed the background panel using Altenew's 3D Pumpkin Patch embossing folder. I adhered it to the card base with Art Glitter glue and then added my pumpkins and leaves, being careful not to add any extra dimension (it was hard not to add foam tape! but I wanted this card to be thin enough to go as a letter!). I then used my new One-Go Solid Sentiments 3 press plate by Altenew with more of the ink smooshed watercolor paper to create a batch of thank you sentiments. I die cut them with the coordinating die and chose the "I'm truly grateful" sentiment for the front of the card. Now I have a bunch of thank you sentiments ready for upcoming cards. 

For the inside of the card, I added another leaf from the Zero Waste: Autumn Leaves die along with the "thankful for you" sentiment. This is the most CAS card I've made in a long time! Fun folds are my favorites, but it's good for me to add some variety to my cards!

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 Challenges I'm entering:

Aud Sentiments Challenge Blog: Ink Blending and/or Fall/Thanksgiving + a sentiment (2/5; ends at the end of the month)

{Cupcake Inspirations}: Fall Harvest (2/3; ends 10/17/25)

Word Art Wednesday: ATG (2/5 for the week; 2/10 for the challenge; ends 10/22/25)

613 Avenue Create: ATG with optional twist: Think Pink (2/8; ends at the end of the month)

A Place To Start: ATG with optional twist of pumpkins (4/8; ends at the end of the month)

The Paper Funday Challenges: ATG with option of Cute or Creepy (I think my pumpkins are cute!) (5/6; ends at the end of the month)

Pearly Sparkles Challenge Blog: Challenge 112 - Pumpkins and/or Autumn Leaves: Pumpkins and/or autumn leaves (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Double Trouble Paper Crafting: My 3, 2, 1 recipe:    3 Colors - Shades of Fall  (brown, orange, and rust) 

     2   Images: pumpkins and leaves

     1   Stenciled or Dry-Embossed Element (my background features the 3D Pumpkin Patch embossing folder) 

Thing 3: I have pumpkins  Thing 2: I have entered this in the Pearly Sparkles challenge (1/4; ends 10/26/25)

Crafty Catz: ATG (2/3; ends 10/23/25)

Paper Rocks Scissors: ATG with paper and/or scissors (5/5; ends at the end of the month)

A Perfect Time To Craft Open Challenge: ATG (unlimited entries; ends at the end of the month)

Can You Handle The Pressure?: ATG with a twist of fall harvest (1/3; ends 10/22/25)

I'd like to leave a blessing for all the lovely visitors to my blog: 

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you;

The Lord turn His face toward you and give you peace.

--Numbers 6: 22-26