 We are here for another digital background collaboration with Ayala Art, Chelsea and Bea Grob. We are here with the fall backgrounds. Now I will tell you the truth. Obviously if you see these backgrounds that I printed that we all shared with each other. My printer was kind of running out of ink so it didn't print all that's my background and I will try to remember to link it in the description below free for you all if you want to download it if I forget somebody remind me. It printed this one which I this is I believe shells and mine perfectly and then I started to run out of ink and I was going to reprint them and I thought you know what these are interesting and I think they'll go with what I'm going to do and I think I'm going to leave them. So if you've ever gotten especially something from my Etsy shop you know you probably got one of these little cards. I also use these to put into little gifts and things like this one says thinking of you. I use them at Christmas time birthdays holidays like I use them a lot and this is literally all I have left. I don't have any more so I need to make some more. So usually I layer papers and sort of focal point embellishments with the word on top. I have a little bit of a different idea. We're going to use our digital backgrounds for the background paper. The words I have digital download printables you can get in my Etsy shop and then you can print sheets of these words that say different things. These are what I have currently so we're going to use them which took me a few minutes to find because I couldn't remember where I quote unquote put them away. You've all probably been there right? So anyway so we've got our words and we're going to first take one of our existing cards and I'm going to measure approximately what the background size of this paper is which is about helpful to put the reading glasses on. Let's see about two and a half ish by four. So I'm going to cut the backgrounds that I got from everybody and my own into pieces that are two and a half by four. I'm going to do that and I'll be right back. Okay so I thought I'd make a few of the cards this way this time and I thought I would share with you how I did that and I do think I'm tempted to trim these off but I do think I'm going to leave them because when I put it that card in the envelope they'll just get folded over. I kind of like I'm sticking out like that anyway. Okay so I have one prepped here I'm going to show you how I did this. So I'm going to pick one of my pieces of paper to start with. Let's pick this one. First thing I'm going to do is round the corners. Now I know this fits on the piece of paper I'm going to use as the body of the card with a border to spare which is important. If I can get that corner to chop off and round up nicely let's see if I can try that one more time. There we go. Okay now I'm going to rip it down the center this way. I'm not going to be super careful about it. I don't mind if it's crooked in fact I want it to be a bit crooked like that. Then we're going to ink the edges. I picked out some fall colors of ink and I've got one of my blending brushes. Thank you Chelsea for telling me about these. I'm going to use some Distress Inks and a piece of paper. I'm just going to add some extra color to the torn edge on both sides. Sorry about the squeaking if you hear that that's the wheels on my table. At some point I need to just take the wheels off. Okay and then I'm going to probably pick a second color and let's see I think I want to pick blue. So this is um well it's a blue green. This is evergreen bow and that was barn door. So this is sort of a dark bluish green. It's going to mix with the red and it's going to look brown or black which is fine. These are going to be just some fall inspired cards. God that squeaking is annoying. Okay so we're going to do that and then I'm going to take the dark brown one here which is Vintage Photo which I didn't do on the first card I made but I do think it's going to make a difference in how it looks and I'm going to like it better. I'm going to take this and I'm just going to rub it along the torn edge just to darken up that torn edge a bit. You could do this with any dark brown or black. Okay so I'm going to do both sides. Then I know from doing the first one a mistake that I made is I didn't reinforce the paper for the next part so you want to just take some plain old tape, plain scotch tape, just run a piece along the back close to the torn edge to reinforce the paper like that. Okay then you want to put the two pieces together sort of torn edges sort of close together. Take a pokey tool and poke a few holes just at random. They don't have to be measured or lined up or anything if you're the kind of person that needs a measure then do that but you just want to kind of make sure you go through the tape and you'll be able to feel it if you do. So you want to do both sides and if you just do them at once it's easier. I have another one right here so then you have holes and the holes don't have to line up. Those definitely don't but that's okay. The next thing you're going to do is take a needle and I have a large darning needle. There it is. Large darning needle and I've put some raffia through it. You could use string of course. I have lots of string of floss but I have this raffia and it just reminds me of fall so I thought I would use it. So you're going to start by going in the hole on one side, leave a little bit of a tail, come up the hole on the other side. You might want to take this little tail right here and put a little clip just so it doesn't go anywhere. Okay then you're going to go in this one, up this one and just alternate all the way up. Now if you don't tape your holes you have to be a lot more gentle with this than I'm being right now because you will probably rip right through one of the holes I did the first time just FYI. Okay like that. Now if before you do anything else you might want to tighten or loosen up your stitches so if you want a piece of the background paper to show through the rip then you probably don't want to pull them super tight. Something like that and then again it's helpful to clip things so that you know kind of where you're going with it. You hold them and again you're working with paper even though there's tape back there you want to be gentle because it is paper you'll rip the paper. I mean I obviously don't care if we're ripping the paper because I like the rip look but you know you get the idea. So then if you want to go back down you can do this and then go up this hole on this hole up this hole on this hole and I would probably stop there and let me cut that okay and again adjust our paper. I'm going to put this one over here. I'm going to take a piece of just natural craft colored card stock. My desk is a disaster. Okay we're going to use a scoring board to score it down the center which I don't think you can see. I think I'm slightly off-camera doing this. Maybe you can see it a little bit. Okay then we're going to fold it in half. You could do these any size. I like these little small cards because I can stick them easily in Etsy orders and I found envelopes to fit them. This is a four and a half by six and a half sheet of card stock from Hobby Lobby and I will put the link for the envelopes which I got on Amazon in the description below. I'm going to put some glue on the back someday. Glue is almost empty. I need to put it in a jar upside down. Really? I just use as you can see plain old Elmer's glue. Nothing fancy. Okay and then I'm going to center it. I want to hold those lines open a little bit. Wipe away any excess glue with my fingers and or a rag which I have nearby. I'm going to move the extra piece of raffia. I'm going to move our strings a little bit. Now when I did the first one I put just a little bit of glue down here to hold these down. I don't know that that's completely necessary because I'm going to put a word label over it but I would do it anyways and I'm going to put my word label here. How cute is that? It's just a cute way to make a little card. Now you can do them the way I did them before. I did one of these as a sample so I'll show you how I did that. This is how I usually do them. Now if you're like me you have bins and drawers full of handmade embellishments. Hello like this. Again I do sell some of these as digital download copies in my Etsy shop so you can just print them and then cut that sit and cut them out. You start the same way so you corner round your piece of paper. This is a great way to use up painting papers, digital downloads. If you're like me and you have maybe misprint downloads sometimes I do these with misprint downloads. I'm going to open a new glue for the sake of convenience. I do the same thing. I score the cardstock down the center. You could tuck dried flowers in here. You could do this with literally if anything. Put the Elmer's in the back of your paper. I love all these digital downloads everyone did. They're so pretty and so fall inspiring. Take my rag out and wipe away the excess glue. Make sure everything's stuck down like that. Grab an embellishment that I think will fit and work. I have literally a like this drawer is so full people. I like one of those other ones. Oh I got one. Do I have another one that's orange? The other one I used was kind of orange. Oh that one might work. Sometimes finding the right one's the hardest part. I know you all know what I mean. Oh here wait maybe that one. Yep so then once I pick the embellishment again we just use the Elmer's. That's probably way too much glue just FYI. I'm gonna like wipe some with my finger spread it out a little bit because fairly certain that's way too much glue. Stick that down again with my rag. Wiping away the excess glue. Now I'm not a proper card maker. I just do these little like art cards. I don't you know I'm sure proper card makers are out there screaming you don't do that that way. But this is how I do it. There you go. So whichever way you do it whether you want to do some traditional cards or you want to take a shot at stitching some cards these are really cute I will be making a couple more of these. I think using the digital backgrounds this month for doing some card making and getting ready for the fall and sending out little notes and you know reminders thinking of you over the holidays when we aren't sure we're going to be able to see everybody because of the worldwide situation I think it's a good thing. So there you go. Check out everybody else's videos there in the description below. Don't forget to check everybody's video description for different ways to support the free content not only here on YouTube but over in the Facebook art groups. I have ways you can click on my link tree list of links in the video description. Pretty much everybody has some ways at least one if you can't figure out from their video descriptions ask them and see if they have a way and if you are so able to I know they would probably appreciate the help. That's it for today. Don't forget to stay safe stay creative stay healthy and go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it. I'll see you later. Bye guys.