But it's not coming fast enough! I'm already for the cooler weather and for the crisp air. I can't wait for Fall festivals and fairs... and sweaters! Yep, I am ready to dig all my favorite Fall decorations out from storage and to set pumpkins galore all around! But in the meantime, I do have a few Autumn inspired projects that I recently completed for my CX assignments, which I can share with you all. These both revolve around the use of the "Speaking of Fall" Classmate educational Cricut cartridge. I was so excited that I could create with this due to my love of all things Fall! I can see this cart being used in a variety of ways, but I chose to use it in designing an embellished title for a Fall themed scrapbook layout and for creating a cute festive seasonal garland to dress up my fireplace mantel.
Pumpkin Posing
For the title here, I pieced together leaf and pumpkin designed letters using the alphabet on the cart with the "Layers" and "Layers Shadow" creative features. Before piecing together the shapes and adding dimension with foam tape adhesive, I gave all the pieces (layers) a color boost with Glimmer Mist sprays in Antique Brass, Garden Fairy and Golden Terracotta.
The sweet pumpkins were also cut using the SOF cart and I finished them off with a cool texture using the Houndstooth A2 Cuttlebug folder... one of my favorites!
"Happy Fall" Autumn Garland
This garland was so fun to design! The SOF cart has a creative feature which allows you to cut out leaf "tag" shapes with the alphabet already on them, so these garland shapes can be made in a snap! I cut out enough leaf shapes to spell out my sentiment of "Happy Fall" and these were all cut at 3 1/2 " using alternating seasonal colors of cardstock.
I also embossed these with two different textures... the "Pumpkin Harvest" A2 Cuttlebug folder, and the "Autumn Type" folder. To bring attention to the texture details, I misted them with Glimmer Mist in Golden Terracota and Antique Brass.
Larger pumpkin shapes were also created to anchor the garland on both ends and in the middle between the wording of Happy and Fall. These pumpkin shapes were all embossed with the "Distressed Stripes" A2 folder. I created more shimmer to them as well with the Glimmer Mist sprays and then I wrapped natural and green raffia around the stems for embellishing. A piece of rust colored rope twine was used to string the garland together and spiral clips were used to attach and slide the pieces onto the rope. Last, sections of ribbon were secured onto the rope to create stations between the pumpkins and alphabet leaves.
Thanks for following along with these projects! Till the next time, I'll be anxiously waiting for mid September's arrival, lol!
