Fall Leaves Spinner Card

Good morning friends! Hope you are all doing great! I have a new fall themed card to share with you all today. This year, I'm quite excited about fall. I haven't gotten out the decorations yet, but I am very happy it's finally gotten here. To me, there's nothing quite like this time of year. The deep, rich, warm, cozy colors of fall are some of God's most beautiful masterpieces. And His gentle reminder that sometimes change is quite beautiful is just what my heart needs. I have many great fall card ideas to share with you in the days to come. =)

For this great fall card, I used some Lawn Fawn things that I have in my collection. To start this card, I looked through my Distress inks and picked out some that I thought were classic fall colors. I wanted to ink the whole entire background panel for the card using all the colors of fall and have them transition from one color to the next. So I inked a 4 1/4" by 5 1/2" panel of white cardstock using Peeled Paint, Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber, and Carved Pumpkin Distress inks. Some of these colors I had, but had never used. I found several new favorites! 

After I had inked my background, I worked on the spinner portion of the card. I started by die cutting 2 of the large panels from the Reveal Wheel die set from kraft cardstock. The oval shaped window that I used for the top panel comes from the new Reveal Wheel Square Add-On. I also cut out the tiny arrow in the Reveal Wheel set from kraft cardstock as well. The two circles for the inside of the spinner I just cut from white cardstock. Also, from white cardstock I cut out the scalloped frame for the oval window from the Reveal Wheel Square Add-On die set. 

I embossed a sentiment at the top center of the panel using Versamark ink and Ranger white embossing powder. Before I stamped, I used an anti-static powder bag over the area of the paper that I was going to be embossing. The sentiment that I used came from the Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments. There are many choices of great adjectives to use to fill in the window for the rest of the sentiment. For my card, I used a combination of words from Reveal Wheel Sentiments and Reveal Wheel Holiday Sentiments. The adjectives I used were: magical, cozy, fun, and sweet. I stamped them using Lawn Fawn's Lobster ink.

After I had the sentiments stamped on the spinner portion, I was ready to put it all together. These spinner cards are super easy to assemble. I just used the video tutorial over on the Lawn Fawn YouTube channel as a guide. If you're interested in that video, just click here. There are lots of great tips and tricks in it!

Once my spinner was assembled, all that was left was to add the leaves to it. I die cut many leaves from white cardstock using the Reveal Wheel Fall Leaf Add-On die set. I inked them using the same colors of Distress Ink that I used for my background panel. For each leaf I wanted a little bit of shading, so I inked the edges of the leaves with a Distress Ink that was just a bit darker than the color I used. For the Carved Pumpkin leaves I shaded with Ripe Persimmon. For Fossilized Amber I used Rusty Hinge. Aged Mahogany was used on the Fired Brick leaves. Lastly, I used Forest Moss for the Peeled Paint leaves. I am completely in love with the way these leaves turned out! I think they are gorgeous! I just scattered them on the panel making sure to turn them all different ways so they looked as though they were falling. 

Lastly, I just put all my elements together. I adhered the background panel to a top folding white A2 card. Then, using foam adhesive, I attached the spinner panel to the center of the card. And the very last step was to add the small kraft die cut arrow beside the spinner. Now the card is finished! 

This card came together pretty quickly. I really love the gorgeous, rich fall colors! I really hope that you like it too! I am so thankful that you stopped by today to visit. If you have any questions or comments, please just leave them down below for me. Have a great day friends! See y'all again soon!