Speaking of Fall Cricut Cartridge

I was overly excited this month to be working on my assignments because I was lucky to be creative with Cricut’s “Speaking of Fall” educational Classmate cartridge. I am an absolute Autumn fanatic who gets very anxious for Fall decorating, so I was more than anxious to put this cart to work, or should I say play?! I can see this cart being used in a variety of ways, but I chose to use it in designing an embellished title for a Fall themed scrapbook page, and for creating a cute festive garland to dress up a fireplace mantel.

Pumpkin Posing Layout

On this page, I first faux-stitched and matted my orange pattern before adhering 2 faux-stitched strips of plain red-orange (Ambrosia) Basic Grey cardstock onto the page horizontally. I used the top strip as a place-marker for aligning my title work, which were pieced together leaf and pumpkin letters using the layers and layers shadow creative features for the “Speaking of Fall” alphabet. Before piecing these all together and adding dimension with foam tape, I gave all the pieces a color boost with Glimmer Mist sprays.

I added my photos to the page and then completed the layout with a hand written journaling box, Basic Grey cardstock stickers and two pumpkin accents which were also cut using the SOF cart. The pumpkins were finished off by creating texture to them with the Houndstooth A2 Cuttlebug folder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Fall Autumn Garland

 

This garland was so fun to design and put together and it’s a project that can be easily created for most any holiday using a variety of other seasonal cartridges available. The “Speaking of Fall” cart has a creative feature which allows you to cut out leaf tag shapes with the letters of the alphabet already on them, so these garland shapes can be made in a snap! I cut out enough leaf shapes to spell out my garland sentiment of “Happy Fall” and these were all cut out at 3 ½ “ using cardstock colors of brown, yellow and orange. These were then all embossed alternating with two different textures… the “Pumpkin Harvest” and the “Autumn Type” A2 Cuttlebug folders. To bring attention to the texture details, I misted each leaf with Glimmer Mists. A solid leaf shape was also cut out to back up each of the lettered laef shapes.
 

I also created pumpkin shapes to anchor the garland on both eands and in the middle between the words Happy and Fall. These end pumpkins were cut to size at 5 ½ “ and the center pumpkin at 3 ½” and all were embossed with the “Distressed Stripes” A2 folder. I also created more color and shimmer to them with Glimmer Mists and wrapped natural and green raffia around the stems for embellishment. A piece of orange/rust rope twine was used to string the shapes of the garland. Spiral clips were used to attach and slide the pieces onto the rope twine. Last, sections of Double-Dot ribbon were secured onto the rope to create the stations between the pumpkins and letter leaves.

 

 

 

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