Glitter and Shine Pumpkin Card by Anne Thompson

This month's blog challenge is all about orange. This card uses orange mirror paper, orange glitter paper, and an orange plaid paper (as well as some green mirror paper). It's quite difficult to photograph all of those shiny textures and have it look right, but here's an angle shot that is the best out of twenty or so pictures I took.

to make this card

start with a white note card
cover the front of the card with orange mirror paper from RAINBOW REFLECTIONS MIRROR PAD PP1003
die cut the CELESTE PLATE 94699 with green mirror paper from the RAINBOW REFLECTIONS MIRROR PAD PP1003
add the Celeste Plate to the front of the note card using a glue pen around the outside edges

die cut the AUTUMN PUMPKIN 94690 from a scrap of the orange mirror paper for leaves, a scrap of the green mirror paper for the stem, and a piece of orange glitter paper from GLITZY GLITTER PAD GP1007 for the pumpkin itself
assemble the pumpkin with the stem and leaves attached...I used Glue Dots

make a base panel for the pumpkin from a scrap of an orange plaid paper (this one from the Garden Folly papers was left from a pumpkin I made on my last card) just a bit larger than the pumpkin and mount it on a scrap of the orange glitter paper and trim that to be just a tiny bit larger than the plaid piece...I found it best to use Scor-Tape to adhere the plaid paper to the glitter paper
pop the pumpkin onto the panel using dimensional foam
add this panel at an angle to the front of the notecard
and there's still plenty of room on the front to add an appropriate sentiment

Plenty of shadow across the front of the card in this outdoor photo..

I do love all the textures and shine on this card! And it's another one that I could send any time this fall. It's certainly starting to feel like fall here in Maine--cooler nights and the leaves have begun changing color further north.

Happy Crafting! And enter our Crazy for Orange blog contest for September--the information is here.