Crinkled Gratitude

This week’s SCS clean and simple challenge was to be inspired by the word “crinkle.” Well, the first thing that actually came to my mind was a pet bunny we had that was named Crinkle, but I didn’t think that would make the cut for the challenge, so I went with the more traditional fall leaf idea for my card.

My crinkled element is the leaf image. I die cut the leaf shape from a small brown paper bag, then stamped it with matching images from Papertrey Ink’s Leaf Prints set. I also inked it with some Crumb Cake ink for a more weathered look. Once I was done stamping, I balled up the leaf, then flattened it back out again for a crinkled look. It’s attached to the rust panel with foam tape.

For the panel along the bottom of the cardfront, I stamped the narrow sentiment strip from the Gobble Gobble set repeatedly in rust ink on a kraft scrap. After the ink dried, I sponged on some coordinating ink to soften the look a little, then attached it to the cardfront. I wrapped a little brown and white baker’s twine around the card and added a button to finish it off.

Materials Used:
Leaf Prints and Gobble Gobble stamp sets, Terracotta Tile ink, Terracotta Tile and Vintage Cream cardstock, leaf die, Terracotta Tile button (Papertrey Ink); Rich Cocoa ink (Memento); Crumb Cake Classic ink, Crumb Cake cardstock (Stampin’ Up!); baker’s twine (The Twinery); foam tape; brown paper bag