You can make a beautiful fall card so easily with the Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalog! I had been doing a lot of stamping with the flower stamps in the Painted Harvest Stamp Set, but there is this sheet of paper printed with sunflowers in the Painted Autumn paper package that I decided to use instead of stamping.
The card base is Very Vanilla with an Early Espresso layer over it. I had a slightly different idea for using the designer paper, but once I cut this sunflower paper, I saw that the other side of it had the blue and green patterned paper and thought maybe I could use it somehow. So instead of using a Very Vanilla pattern on the other side of the flowered paper, I used the other side of the patterned paper that coordinates. Before gluing down to the Early Espresso layer, I wrapped a piece of Copper Trim around the center of the designer papers. It’s easier to either glue both pieces of designer paper down on to Very Vanilla cardstock or to make one piece larger so they can be glued together before layering.
I also cut out a sunflower from the patterned paper including the leaves and adhered that to the corner of the card, popped up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. This gives a little interest to that plainer paper without overpowering the card. Paper Snips are great scissors to use for detailed cutting like this.
For the greeting I used a stamp in the Flourishing Phrases Stamp Set. It is stamped in Early Espresso and die cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelit Dies. This piece is then layered on a piece of Early Espresso die cut with the Layering Ovals Framelits Dies. For an extra touch, I tied a bow with the Copper Trim and adhered it to the greeting with a Glue Dot.
The amazing thing about the 1/4″ Copper Trim is that you can pull it apart a little bit to give it a different look. And if you don’t like it, just pull on it and it goes back to the original shape! Really fun!
You can see a card I made with another pattern of the Painted Autumn Paper here.
I’m sure once you take a look at the Painted Autumn Suite of products, pictured in the Holiday Catalog on pages 48-49, you will want to purchase many, if not all, of the beautiful products. You can make cards to send to friends and family for any occasion or for Thanksgiving or lovely gift bags for fall birthdays or hostess gifts.
Be sure to notice the Painted Harvest Photopolymer Bundle which includes the stamp set and Leaf Punch at a 10% savings.
Once you have some or all of these products in your hands, you will want to make lots of fall cards!