It’s September so it’s time for a fall card like this Layering Leaves Fall Card. Except it’s not really fall yet, certainly not where I live! It’s still very much summer, but at least September sounds better than August. September “sounds” like fall, cool weather, and colored leaves.
This card is made with the Layering Leaves Stamp Set in the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog. I did one of my favorite things with this card. I stamped the leaves randomly around on the card and used that for my card front. It feels so good to just stamp multiple images on a piece of cardstock instead of just stamping one thing. The ink colors I used are Old Olive, Granny Apple Green, Crushed Curry, and Pecan Pie for the little dots.
The stamp with the little dots was good for filling in some empty space in between the leaves. If I wanted to do it properly, I would have made masks for the two different kinds of leaves so I could place the mask over a leaf and not stamp over it with the dots. But without going to that trouble, I was able to fit the dots in between the leaves pretty well!
When you are doing random stamping like this, make sure to turn your stamp in different directions so they all aren’t pointing the same way. Also, be sure to partially stamp along the edges and in the corners. You can stamp without having the entire stamp on the page. Just have scrap paper underneath the edges.
The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock. The greeting is in the Layering Leaves Stamp Set and is stamped in Granny Apple Green ink on Basic White. I used circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies to cut out the greeting and to add the Crushed Curry stitched circle for the border around the greeting.
I thought the card front needed something else for a contrast, so I die cut a banner with Pecan Pie cardstock from the same set of dies. Then I cut that banner in half so I could extend it a little longer out to each side under the greeting. The banner and the greeting are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
Next, I stamped and cut out some leaves to stick underneath the greeting. There is a Bough Punch that will be back in stock the week of October 2. Since I didn’t have the punch, I just used my Paper Snips to cut the leaves by hand. I could have left off the leaves and the card would be much simpler, but sometimes I don’t know when to stop! It’s not that unpleasant to cut out images by hand so I don’t mind doing it. At least the Paper Snips make it fairly easy to do.
Finally, I added some Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots to the greeting for a little embellishment.
You can make this card using other colors for the leaves, making it look more “fallish”, or more summery. This stamp set will be good for almost any season. And the greetings and font in the set are really nice and useful!
