Spellbinders September 2022 Large Die of the Month

I cannot believe September is almost over. Time flies when you're having fun! With my subscription to Spellbinders Club Kits, I've created this cute tractor-trailer card with the Spellbinders Large Die of the Month Membership

For me, I love adding soft blue to autumn colors. It complements autumn colors well, along with pastel green. For the background, I used Spellbinders Embossing Folder for September to create the background pattern. I then applied both Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Speckled Egg as a gradient blue to the sky and Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Twisted Citron to the ground, mimicking grass to create the background ombre effect.

For the tree itself, I did several variations on this and I'm finally happy with how this turned out. For the tree trunk, I actually cut this out using kraft-colored card stock with Cricut Design Studio. I then used Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Ground Espresso to add depth and dimension to the tree. From there I was able to use the small leaf die included in the tractor-trailer die set to create all of the pretty leaves. I wanted it to appear like the leaves were changing and falling from the tree. I think it works well. Proportionally, I think the tree could have been a bit taller, but hey it's just a card and I can live with it.

For the tractor, I cut it out using light blue card stock and muddied it up a bit to make it look like a working tractor with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide in Ground Espresso. And for the trailer, I cut the wooden slats out of kraft card stock and again darkened it with Ground Espresso. I think the richness of the wood tone looks great with the softness of vegetables in the background.

For the vegetables, I cut the pumpkin out of soft pink card stock and applied some shadowing with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Carving Pumpkin. With the butternut squash, I cut it using cream card stock and added dimensions with Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Gathered Twigs and Distress Ink Carving Pumpkin. The corn was created using a layered mustard yellow and cream card stock, with the leaves being olive green. Both the corn cob and stock were shadowed using Gathered Twigs

Supplies Used:

Tractor Trailer Die Set

Embossing Folder

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Speckled Egg

Tim Holtz Distress Ink Twisted Citron

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Ground Espresso

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Carving Pumpkin

Tim Holtz Distress Oxide Gathered Twigs

Tree Trunk - created using Cricut Design Studios

Thanks for stopping by and reading!

xo

Wendy