love-a-duckie: Cascade of Colour

We have made cascade cards at a couple of my groups recently. The bases are so easy to construct, from one piece of A4 card, but you can let your imagination run riot when it comes to decorating them. They are also one of the fabulous 3D cards that folds flat to go in an envelope - always a bonus. The theme and occasion can be anything you want it to be.

For the autumnal card I took inspiration from a You tube video by a lady called Robin Feicht which you can see here

I tweaked her instructions slightly and I used the Vintage leaves stamp set and matching framelits to create my leaves and as you can see, I didn't scrimp on them.

The colours of card stock I used were:

Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin pie, Mossy Meadow, chocolate Chip.

I ran the 2 halves of the card base through the big shot in the woodgrain embossing folder before constructing the card and I repeated this with my front and back panel. I love the texture this creates.

For my sentiment I used "choose happiness" from the stamp set of the same name and I also stamped the wooden banner from this set as well.

For the flowery card, I used a number of the flower/punch bundles in the catalogue and also the Papillion Potpourri stamp set and matching punches. These are staple sets in my collection and are often go to resources for adding a little something to a card, but they really come into their own when you combine them for a display like this.

I used paper from the Brights Colour Collection DSP to cover the base and then picked out the matching inks to stamp the flowers and the butterflies. I shaped my front panels with the fabulous Curvy Corner Tripo Punch and stamped the sentiment from the always popular "Sassy Salutations" stamp set. The little flowers on the front panel were created with one of the small punches from the Itty Bitty Accents punch pack.

You will find all the stamps and punches I used listed below.