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Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card

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Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card

Does this Full of Life Layering Leaves Autumn Card make you think of fall? As I was looking through this designer paper, I thought the colors of this particular pattern looked like autumn. Maybe it’s wishful thinking on my part since it is nearly 100 degrees here in Houston every day for the foreseeable future, likely until November (well, maybe a “slight” exaggeration, but not much!). I thought if I paired some leaves with this paper it would give the impression of autumn!

The paper I used is the Full of Life Designer Series Paper. This pack of paper is 6″ x 6″ and has all kinds of colorful patterns as well as “the other side” of the paper with softer colors that you can use as backgrounds. If you like color and fun patterns and designs, then this paper is for you! Best of all, you can save 15% on the cost when you purchase it during the Stampin’ Up! Designer Series Paper Sale during August!

The card base is Pumpkin Pie with a layer of Old Olive. There are so many colors you can use with this Full of Life DSP. We all have so many choices for leaves we could use for this card to make it look like autumn. You can stamp or diecut leaves and we have plenty of stamp sets and dies to choose from with those items. I chose the Layering Leaves Stamp Set, which is a carryover into the new Annual Catalog from last year. You’ll find it on page 77 in the Encore Section of the catalog. I always thought it had beautiful and useful sentiments in this set.

For the focal point of this card, I diecut a piece of Basic White with the largest banner shape in the Nesting Essentials Dies. I kind of turned it into my own piece of designer paper by stamping different leaves in different colors all over the banner piece. I used some fall colors like Old Olive, Shaded Spruce, Crushed Curry, and Pumpkin Pie. For a layer, I just cut out a piece of Old Olive cardstock and trimmed out the banner shape at the bottom since there was no larger banner die to use.

Here is a card I made last year with the Layering Leaves Stamp Set which is much like I made the banner on this card.

Because I had stamped all over the banner, I needed a way to have the greeting stand out. I stamped my greeting on Basic White and cut it out with a banner shape in the Stylish Shapes Dies. The greeting is stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink and is in the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. I popped it up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. Then I used some new Natural Tones Linen Thread coming in the Nests of Winter Suite in the Holiday Mini Catalog, doubled, to tie a bow and adhere with a Mini Glue Dot. I used the Garden Green color. There are three colors of linen thread in the package.

That’s my first card for fall! Instead of stamping the leaves, you could use any shape, stamp the greeting, and then use diecut leaves around the edges. Lots of possibilities!

August is almost half over already and September comes next! In lots of parts of the country, that will mean fall is coming so it’s not crazy to start working on fall cards and projects!

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Layering Leaves October Fall Card

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Layering Leaves October Fall Card

Happy October!! Now that it is officially October, it feels much more like the fall season, even if it still doesn’t feel like fall here in Houston! This Layering Leaves October Fall Card commemorates the beginning of October which really makes us think of fall, colored leaves, and all the upcoming holidays and seasons! Once the fall and Halloween decorations go up in my house and my regular home decor is put away, it won’t get pulled out again until January! Halloween decorations are starting to go up in the neighborhood. While I absolutely love all my Halloween decorations, I’m not quite ready for full-blown Halloween decorating quite yet. Maybe in another week or two for sure!

This card base is Pumpkin Pie and is cut at 11″ x 4 1/4″, scored at 5 1/2″ and the fold is at the top. I could have put the fold on the left and the card would be in a landscape position rather than our usual cards at 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″.

I made my own designer paper, so to speak, by stamping the leaves from the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. I used these inks: Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green, and a little bit of Old Olive. I love to do this random stamping all over the paper! To fill in the empty spaces I used a stamp in the set with just little dots. Those kinds of stamps just add a little something lots of times! Those dots are stamped with Lemon Lime Twist.

Next, I used the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set to stamp and cut out a pumpkin, some leaves, and a stem. I also stamped some vines on the die-cut circle on which I adhered the pumpkin and leaves. It is from the Stylish Shapes Dies. This circle is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is also from the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set and is stamped in Pumpkin Pie. I always have a bunch of narrow strips of Basic White so it makes it easy when you want to stamp a narrow greeting. I just stamped the greeting on the scrap strip and then flagged the ends to make it look like a banner.

For a finishing touch, I added a few Lemon Lime Twist gems from the Tinsel Gems Four-Pack. Sometimes it is hard to stop at adding only three gems! I would have liked more by the pumpkin and/or the greeting…..but sometimes you have to know when to stop!

Get out your fall colors and do some fall stamping!

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Hello First Day of Fall Card

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Hello First Day of Fall Card

Today, September 23, is the first day of fall! Thank goodness!! We had such a hot, hot, hot summer here in Houston and most of Texas I think that we are SO ready for a break in this heat! I’m hoping this Hello First Day of Fall Card will help usher in more comfortable weather! It will be a while before the heat goes away, though.

In thinking about fall, I naturally thought about the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. In kind of looking for ideas online, I saw someone had made a card using the Masterfully Made Designer Series Paper. That made me look through my package to see if an idea popped into my head using one of the paper patterns. This one that I used seemed to have some fall colors in the flowers so I chose it! It’s a different look for a fall leaves card, I admit, but this whole package of paper is a little daring so it’s okay to do something a little different with it!

In the Layering Leaves Stamp Set, there are two stamps you can use for two-step stamping. I stamped the outline stamp of the leafy stem with Garden Green. Then I colored on the stamp that was just the fill-in leaves using two or three different colors of Stampin’ Write Markers. I wanted each leaf to have several colors on it as if it were turning colors for fall. I used Crushed Curry, Garden Green, Pumpkin Pie, and Granny Apple Green. Just play and see what you come up with! Everyone will be different. On a few leaves, I added a little marker color to fill in some empty spaces. Then I cut out each stem with my Paper Snips. The Bough Punch has been out of stock for a while but you can order it now, earlier than expected!

The card base is Crushed Curry. I used the Radiating Stitches Dies to diecut a piece of Pumpkin Pie for a layer for the focal point of the card, and the next smaller piece of Basic White. To fill in the white background a little bit, I stamped lightly with the dotted stamp using Granny Apple Green and Lemon Lime Twist. Not one to leave well enough alone, I also stamped the little flower image in Pumpkin Pie.

The greeting is in the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. I thought “Hello” was appropriate for saying “Hello” to the first day of fall! I love the font of the greetings in this stamp set. I stamped it in Pumpkin Pie ink and die cut it with a label die in the Cheerful Daisies Dies. I also cut a piece of Crushed Curry with the same die and cut it in half horizontally to make a layer under the greeting. I just adhered one half of the Crushed Curry to peek out from the top of the greeting and the other half for the bottom. Just line the two pieces up evenly and they look like a full layer underneath the greeting!

Before adhering the greeting, see where you want the leaves placed and glue those down. I decided to add a piece of ribbon underneath the popped-up greeting. It is the Burlap Ribbon in the Combo Pack with Real Red Ribbon. I also added some gold Pastel Adhesive-Backed Sequins around on the card.

You can make a similar card to this one with the Layering Leaves Stamp Set. You can change the background designer paper and change the colors of paper and ink that I used. The best part of the Layering Leaves set, I believe, is the beautiful fonts and words you can use a lot.

Fall and fall decorating is just around the corner now! It is fall and it is almost October! Make a few cards to send to celebrate fall!

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Layering Leaves Fall Card

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Layering Leaves Fall Card

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!

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