Amber Autumn Cards

Used the cover plate die from the SU Amber Autumn bundle to make the background for the front of these cards. I used the "smooshing" tool that NB Cards on YouTube shared. Here is one of the cards:

Since I was using the smooshing tool I decided I would do this technique on a full sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 card stock as that would give me four card fronts. I began with a sheet of cream card stock and first I used a yellow ink and added other colours as I went along. I used the heat tool to dry each layer as I wanted to layer the colours and not to have them blend and become muddy when wet:

kept adding colours until I covered the page and I went back with more yellow for my last layer of colour:

and the last layer:

With that all done and dry I die cut the leaves cover plate from the bundle four times - I made three cards and I have one panel to keep with the bundle. With all the card fronts die cut I cut cream card stock for the card fronts. Used green card stock base for the cards and scored those at the top.  Wanted a one word shadow piece for the card front so I used a die from the stash - Whimsy Stamps "Autumn". I cut this out of a rust mirrored card stock, a brushed gold mirrored card stock, and a matte gold mirrored card stock. The problem with this "Autumn" die is the word "Autumn" die cuts three different pieces so I used the scrap piece of card stock I cut the letters out of and I put the letters back into that so they would be in a straight row and the spacing would be correct for the card front:

Turned the piece over and added liquid glue and put this onto the vellum shadow piece I cut for each word:

For all the smooshed card fronts I used the Spellbinders Layering Rectangle die set and cut the inked card front piece for the card front. I used liquid glue and put the inked card front onto the cream card stock piece. Used liquid glue and put these onto the green card stock base. Put the "Autumn" word and vellum shadow piece on the card front using liquid glue. Added gems from the stash so a little sparkle and shine. 

Each of the card fronts are a little different as it is the smooshing technique and parts of the piece of card stock I did the smooshing on are lighter and darker than other parts of that sheet. Here are the other cards I made:

Much easier to use this "smooshing tool" that NB Cards shared rather than to ink blend your inks. Fun technique and just as easy to do the 8 1/2 x 11 card stock than four different smaller card stock pieces. Fun Autumn card to make!