Pumpkin Card

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Send your friends or family a Halloween greeting!!

Difficulty rating

• Required supplies:
• Cardstocks: rust, olive, black
• Ribbon – green polka-dot
• Rubber stamp ink – rust, olive
• Cotton ball
• Adhesives

Instructions (Print version)

1. Using a paper trimmer cut a piece of rust cardstock to measure 8 ½” X 5 ½”.  Fold in half to create a card that measures 4 ¼” X 5 ½”.  Ink a cotton ball with rust colored ink and rub along the edges of front flap of card.
2. Cut a piece of olive cardstock to measure 5 ½” X 2 ½”.  Punch along both long edges of this piece using the border punch.  Ink a cotton ball with olive colored ink and rub along punched edges.
3. Cut a piece of black cardstock to measure ¾” X 5 ½”.  Adhere this strip to the center of the punched olive piece.  Adhere both of these pieces to front flap of card.
4. Cut a piece of ribbon to measure 11”.  Wrap around card so ribbon is centered on black strip.  Adhere ends of ribbon to card at the point where pumpkin will be adhered.
5. Insert a scrap of rust cardstock between stencils and emboss pumpkin shape. Trim out with scissors.  Using cotton ball previously inked with rust ink, drag cotton ball over embossed shape to add dimension. 
6. Insert a scrap of olive cardstock between stencils and emboss pumpkin stem shape.  Trim out with scissors and ink this piece with olive ink.
7. Adhere pumpkin and stem shapes to front of card.