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Fall Treat Bag with Pumpkin and Leaves

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Fall Treat Bag with Pumpkin and Leaves

I hadn’t made a little treat or gift bag for awhile so I thought it was time for one for fall. You could give it to someone for Halloween because it has a pumpkin or it would be great for Thanksgiving. Maybe a little treat or party favor for Thanksgiving dinner!

Start with a piece of cardstock or designer paper cut 6″ x 11″. Score it on the long side at 1″, 5 1/2″, and 6 1/2″. Turn and score on the short side at 1″ x 5″. Check the photo below to see how to cut off two corner squares and snip on the sides on the score lines up to the vertical score lines. You can angle your cuts just a little if you like so they fit a little better. Crease all the score lines and play with folding everything together so you see how it goes together.

Fall Treat Bag cutting diagram

I used a pattern in the Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper to make this bag, but you could use a Garden Green cardstock or any color you like if you prefer. You could also make the bag with cardstock and add some layers or pieces of designer paper to decorate it.

Before you assemble the bag, it’s easier to have the pumpkin adhered to the front panel first. I used the Hello Harvest Stamp Set to stamp the pumpkin on Basic White Cardstock with Memento Ink, then colored in with Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blends. I added a touch of green also. You can play with whatever combination you like.

I also stamped two leaves with fall colors in the same stamp set. To ink up those stamps, I used Stampin’ Write Markers using fall colors like green, orange, yellow, and maybe some Cajun Craze. Just lightly color those markers on random areas on the stamp, breathe on the stamp to moisten it, then stamp.

The banner is also in the stamp set. I stamped it on Basic White and colored it with So Saffron Stampin’ Blend.

For all these elements, I used the Rustic Pumpkin Dies to cut out these pieces. You can glue down the pieces flat or pop some or all of them up with Stampin’ Dimensionals. Since the top flap of the bag folds over, you need something to hold it closed. You could punch two holes and tie a ribbon through or use some kind of clip, whether an old Stampin’ Up! one or one in your desk supplies. I adhered just the top of the banner to that top flap and just used a Stampin’ Dimensional to hold the flap shut. It wouldn’t be too hard for the recipient to open it.

After you assemble the bag, just push in the sides, especially at the top a little bit to get it to close. Or cut off the flap and just have an open top.

Make this little bag even if you don’t plan to put anything in it or give it away! It will make a pretty decoration for fall sitting out in your home!

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Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card with Banner

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Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card with Banner

This Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card with Banner turned out differently than the idea I had in my head when I started, but that’s what happens when you start looking through designer paper or different colors of paper or stamp sets. You never know for sure what you will come up with!

The card base is Soft Suede, after trying a multitude of different colors of cardstock! Then there are two layers of the Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper. The yellow Crushed Curry pattern adhered to the Soft Suede card base is the reverse side of the layer of black and white acorns pattern! I had another black & white striped paper picked out to be the background layer but I liked this acorn pattern better. The acorn layer is 3 1/2″ x 4 3/4″ because I wanted more of the yellow to show.

The pumpkins are made with the Rustic Pumpkin Dies using Pumpkin Pie cardstock. These dies have a texture that transfers to the cardstock. I found that the texture would show better if I ran them through twice. The large pumpkin is made with the extra narrower piece adhered to the center of the large pumpkin piece. I also sponged some Pumpkin Pie ink around the edges of the pumpkin pieces and on top of the textured areas. For the little pumpkins, I die cut a narrow piece and then just trimmed it down, top and bottom, to make the two little pumpkins! The stems are diecut from Soft Suede. The vines are diecut from Shady Spruce and Granny Apple Green on the small pumpkins. I also sponged the little pumpkins but added some green ink because sometimes pumpkins have some variations of color on them.

The banner is stamped on the Crushed Curry Rustic Harvest paper, the same as the card layer. I first stamped the banner on Pumpkin Pie and sponged it but it was too much. The Crushed Curry banner looked better. Normally I don’t like things placed cockeyed, but since the large pumpkin is kind of tall and the banner is kind of large, I decided to place it at an angle in the corner! Sometimes you have to craft dangerously! Try something new!

Here is another fall card I made with the Rustic Harvest DSP with pumpkins. So many pretty patterns of paper for fall.

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Hello Harvest First Day of Fall Pumpkin Card

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Hello Harvest First Day of Fall Pumpkin Card

Today is the first day of fall so I thought I would make this Hello Harvest First Day of Fall Pumpkin Card, possibly with the hope that it would feel like fall where I live! No such luck, it’s still as hot as almost any summer day here. I’m ready to see colored leaves and wear a jacket in cool weather so I hope this card will bring us a weather change soon!

I used the Holiday Mini Catalog for the idea for this card. I pretty much copied one of the samples on page 50 in the Rustic Harvest Suite. But I did change some things!

The card base is Crushed Curry with a layer of a piece of the Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper. At the top and bottom of this black and white piece of designer paper, I added just a narrow strip of a different pattern in the Rustic Harvest paper.

The really fun part of this card was stamping the pumpkins in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set, die-cutting them with the Rustic Pumpkin Dies, and then coloring them! The two orange pumpkins on the sides are colored with Stampin’ Blends, mostly the Pumpkin Pie Combo but I also used tiny amounts of some other colors. Just play with the markers and see what you get! The center pumpkin I tried to copy from the catalog but I got it a lot darker than I would have liked. The sample in the Holiday Catalog uses watercolor paper and the pumpkin is colored with a Water Painter and Merry Merlot ink. I had to be careful because I was only using Basic White cardstock which, of course, doesn’t handle water as well as watercolor paper! But it worked out all right except I like the lighter-colored pumpkin in the sample.

For the fall leaves, I used the stamp in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. Rather than using an ink pad, I used various colors of Stampin’ Write Markers. You can apply color directly to the stamp with one color and then just dab on other fall colors. If you get a darker color on a marker just scribble with it on scrap paper to get the excess ink off. Then “huff” on it with your breath and stamp. There is also a die to cut out the leaves. I really had fun making assorted leaves to add on at the base of the pumpkins.

To assemble the card, after adhering the designer paper piece, I adhered the two side pumpkins with Multipurpose Liquid Glue and popped up the middle one with Stampin’ Dimensionals. I very carefully added some glue to the back of little pumpkin vines to adhere to the pumpkins.

The greeting is stamped on the same designer paper that I used for the strips at the top and bottom of the black & white paper. It is in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. Behind the diecut greeting, I added some Gold & Vanilla 3/8″ Satin Edged Ribbon going back and forth. Then I placed the little die-cut flowers around the card as well.

Here is another card I made with just a single colored and diecut pumpkin.

If you want to get in a fall mood, be sure to order the Hello Harvest Bundle and maybe the Rustic Harvest Designer Paper and have fun!

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Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card

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Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card

I feel as if I should be saying, “Hello Fall!” with this Hello Harvest Pumpkin Fall Card, but it’s not fall yet, just the day after Labor Day! Put away your white shoes and slacks! That used to be the rule in the olden days at least! And the day after Labor Day was always the first day of school when I was a kid. We usually bought new “fall” clothes for the start of school even though it was still pretty warm and not really fall yet so you couldn’t exactly wear the new clothes right away!

This card is made with the Hello Harvest Bundle in the July-December Holiday Mini Catalog. Almost anything “fall” I think is just beautiful! That’s why this Bundle and the coordinating Rustic Harvest Designer Paper is one of my favorites in the Holiday Catalog!

The card base is Mossy Meadow cardstock. It has a layer of Pumpkin Pie with a piece of the designer paper die cut as the layer on top of that. I had recently purchased the Deckled Rectangles Dies and then forgot I had them! So I used them on this card to cut out the Rustic Harvest Designer Paper. In the olden days of stamping, we just tore the paper edges if we wanted the deckled edge look, and we wanted that a LOT! But now, thanks to the Deckled Rectangles Dies, we don’t have to tear edges anymore!

The pumpkin and flower garland were stamped on Basic White with Memento Ink and then colored in with Stampin’ Blends Markers. I love to color with those markers! I didn’t keep track of every color I used so just play and use what you like! I did color the pumpkin with Pumpkin Pie (of course!). The flowers and leaves are quite a few different colors. The sunflowers are mostly So Saffron with a little Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight thrown in and a brown #300 in the flower center. Remember those natural tones markers aren’t only for skin color and animals! You can use them for anything! The leaves are mostly Granny Apple Green with some Mossy Meadow. One of the little flowers is colored with Fresh Freesia and the bright “red” flowers are Light Sweet Sorbet. That’s pretty much what I used but you can blend other colors together or change it up.

To put the card together I die cut the pumpkin and flowers and popped those two pieces up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. The greeting is in the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. It is stamped in Mossy Meadow and die cut with one of the Tailor Made Tags. I added a piece of the Evening Evergreen 3/8″ Windowpane Check Ribbon. I think it adds a little extra pizzazz to the card.

It’s time to start making cards you can send around Thanksgiving time or for Halloween! You’ll find all kinds of card ideas using the Rustic Harvest Suite of products!

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Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card

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Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card

This Hello Harvest Bundle in the new Holiday Mini Catalog is right up my alley because I love fall, pumpkins, and Halloween! This Hello Harvest Pumpkins Card is not for Halloween necessarily but you could make it look that way. For now, this is just a pretty fall card that you could send anytime during the fall for a birthday or just a “thinking of you” kind of card and certainly for Thanksgiving. Not to mention using the pretty pumpkins for fall or Thanksgiving treats and favors if you like to make those!

This card has a card base of Early Espresso cardstock and a Very Vanilla layer. I don’t use Very Vanilla that often but this card idea seemed to call for it. I stamped two of the pumpkins directly on the Very Vanilla card front and spaced them apart a little bit. If I had spaced things a little better on this card, I would have stamped the pumpkins a little lower on the card to allow more space for the greeting at the top. But it is still okay as is.

The middle pumpkin is stamped on a Very Vanilla scrap and die cut using the Rustic Pumpkin Dies. I colored the pumpkins with Light and Dark Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blends and the middle one with a bit of Cajun Craze. Then the middle pumpkin is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I also die-cut the little curly-cue stems in Old Olive cardstock and adhered those to the pumpkins plus a little flower that is in the stamp set.

The greeting is stamped from the Hello Harvest Stamp Set. There are some nice greetings in that set. It is stamped in Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla then diecut with the little banner piece in the Scalloped Contours Dies. Next, I trimmed off the scalloped edges and die-cut another banner piece in Old Olive and layered the greeting on that. It is also popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

For a little grounding for the pumpkins, I very lightly scribbled in some Light Soft Sea Foam Stampin’ Blends under the pumpkins across the bottom of the card. It is literally scribbled lightly, not heavy-handed coloring. On the inside of the card I would suggest putting a layer of Very Vanilla maybe stamped with a little something from the stamp set since the Early Espresso is too dark of a color on which to write.

If you like fall, you will really like this Hello Harvest Bundle and maybe even the entire Rustic Harvest Suite Collection!

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