Autumn Leaves, Unbounded Love, Splendid Autumn, Masculine Birthday Card, Stampin' Up!

Hello and welcome to my blog. Today I have a quick and easy card to share with you. It's using the scrap Designer Series Paper (DSP) from yesterday so part of the cutting is already done. Please read on to see how the card was made.

The base of my card is a folded half-sheet of Basic White card stock. It opens on the front and the fold is on the left.

I cut a 4" x 5-1/4" piece of Basic White card stock and textured it using the "Timber" embossing folder. Usually I cut the card stock after I texture it so I don't lose any length or height. But I didn't this time and it's a bit shorter on the top and bottom than I like. But I'm sure had I not said anything you wouldn't have noticed it. I glued the textured piece to the front of the card. I find that when I used this texture my piece is a bit warped on the ends and edges. I glued close to the edges but it doesn't always look as nice as I want it to so while I was working on the other parts of the card I put it under a book and weighted it with a couple of punches. 

Next I took the DSP scrap from yesterday. It's from the "Splendid Autumn" 6" x 6" stack. You can pretty much use any DSP with this layout. My piece of DSP measures 4-1/2" x 2" and the Cajun Craze layer behind it measures 4-5/8" x 2-1/8". I taped the two pieces together. 

The words are from the "Unbounded Love" bundle and were stamped using black Memento ink on a scrap piece of Basic White card stock. I cut them out using the die from the same bundle. I also cut a piece of Cajun Craze using the same die. Then taking the Basic White piece I cut the scalloped edge off. I taped the words to the Cajun Craze piece. Dimensionals were added to the back and set aside.

I cut some leaves from the "Autumn Leaves" bundle. Using the small leaf I cut one of Pumpkin Pie card stock and one of Crushed Curry card stock. I also cut an oak leaf shape using the "Oxidized Copper" DSP. 

Taking my card base out from where it was being pressed I glued the DSP panel to the left. The words were added using Dimensionals. The copper leaf was added behind the word piece using glue and the smaller leaves were added using glue. I did cut the stem off the Cajun Craze one so it would have a cleaner look.  And that was it, the card was done.

This was a fun card to make plus I got to use up a scrap piece of DSP that would normally have gone back into the package and could sit there until I decide to get rid of it years down the road. I love it when I can use up scraps.

Thank you SO very much for taking your time to stop in and see today's masculine birthday card,
Wanda