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Rustic Harvest Fall Gourds Card

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Rustic Harvest Fall Gourds Card

If you are looking for an easy card to make for fall or even Thanksgiving, this Rustic Harvest Fall Gourds Card is a little different with the fall gourds and pumpkins. Change the greeting for whatever sentiment you want to express.

The card base is Garden Green cardstock. This card was cut at 4 1/4″ lengthwise down the middle of a full sheet of cardstock, then scored at 5 1/2″. I intended to make it a top-fold standing card, but the design on the paper seemed like it should go horizontally so I just gave in! The horizontal card opens on the side instead of the usual vertical style.

I loved the gourd design and hadn’t used it yet. I chose the green swirly paper as a margin on the top and bottom of the gourd design. Both patterns are in the Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper. I cut the green swirly designer paper at 1″ x 5 1/4″. The gourd paper is 3 1/2″ x 5 1/4″.

In my Tuesday newsletter, I talked about a tip to color designer paper, shared by Patty Bennett, if you weren’t entirely happy with how it looked as is. So on this gourd paper, I added some more orange color to the pumpkins and some green to the leaves, plus a little green and brown to the acorns. I used my Stampin’ Blends alcohol markers to add this color. I’m sure you could use Watercolor Pencils or some other coloring method if you wanted to. I thought it was pretty as it was, but I like the added color even better.

To assemble this card, I first adhered the green swirly DSP to the top and bottom of the card leaving a normal margin, then I adhered the gourd paper on top of that.

The greeting is stamped from the Full of Love Stamp Set in Garden Green ink. I die-cut it with a small banner in the Stylish Shapes Dies. I designed it so the greeting would be way over to the right side of the banner so I could have it even with the left side of the card and I cut that side straight off. I popped up the greeting with Stampin’ Dimensionals. For a finishing touch, I added one of the new embellishments, available starting Nov. 1st, in the Fitting Florets Collection. They are the Gold Adhesive-Backed Swirls. I thought this one gold swirl was just perfect to add in this space and great to be flat for easier mailing.

This Rustic Harvest Designer Series Paper is perfect for fall for any cards in general but especially if you wanted to send cards for Thanksgiving or cards in this season of gratitude.

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Blackberry Beauty Happy Fall Card

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Blackberry Beauty Happy Fall Card

This is another card, the Blackberry Beauty Happy Fall Card you could use to send to someone for Thanksgiving! Normally I don’t like cattywampus card designs like this one, with the papers at an angle, but somehow I liked it on this card! I never make cards like this! But the colors with the gold foil look rich and elegant and perfect for fall and Thanksgiving.

The card base is Cinnamon Cider, one of the In Colors for 2020-22. The designer paper is the Blackberry Beauty Specialty Designer Series Paper. I didn’t use one of the papers with gold foil, I used a “plainer” one with a foliage/floral design.

Next, I turned to the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack for other design elements. I loved this pack (and so did a lot of other people because it has been hard to get and is back-ordered as I write this! Usually packs like this are all gold foil pieces but this one of laser cut pieces are paper with color and gold foil accents. I loved the flower (looks like Queen Anne’s Lace) but I wanted it to stand out more. I cut out a piece of Cinnamon Cider that would fit behind the frame you see. To make it more interesting, I embossed it with the Tasteful Texture Embossing Folder. It just gives it a little something extra.

The frame and the piece the greeting is stamped on are also in the Ephemera Pack. After playing around with all the pieces for a while, I settled on this “askew” design! As I said, I usually don’t care for that look but that is what pleased me in making this card! I stamped the little label piece using Cinnamon Cider ink and just used part of the greeting in the Banner Year Stamp Set. The frame is popped up with some foam strips, like Dimensionals. The flower is also popped up inside the frame.

While I can’t believe we are already into November, my Halloween decorations are put away and my Thanksgiving ones are out! If you want to mail cards or make little treats for Thanksgiving, now is the time to do it before we are full-blast into Christmas! Enjoy this fall season! Remember to change your clocks tonight/tomorrow back to Standard Time!

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Blackberry Beauty Thanksgiving Card

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Blackberry Beauty Thanksgiving Card

Can anyone believe it is November already? It’s time to put away the Halloween decorations, eat all the candy, and start thinking about Thanksgiving, so here is a Blackberry Beauty Thanksgiving Card to get you inspired!

This Blackberry Beauty Specialty Designer Series Paper is so beautiful that it has been hard to keep in stock. Every time Stampin’ Up! gets more in, it sells out again. Right now as I write this, this paper is not orderable but hopefully, they will get more in stock in about two weeks. I hope you already own this paper in the Holiday Mini Catalog so you can use it for fall and Thanksgiving projects!

It is very difficult to photograph this paper on a card. It has beautiful gold foil accents and the background is rather dark so the reflection for any lighting is terrible! The card base is actually Blackberry Bliss although in the photo it looks like black! The card layer is a full 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of that leafy pattern.

Next, I cut a strip of a different pattern of the paper, a smaller foliage pattern in gold. It measures 4″ x 1 1/4″ and it is layered on a strip of Blackberry Bliss that measures 4″ x 1 1/2″. That is just adhered across the card, although from the photo it almost looks like the designer paper layers are separated with some Blackberry Bliss showing in between! That would also be a good way to make this card!!

The greeting, in the Banner Year Stamp Set, is embossed in Gold in the Metallics Embossing Powders on a strip of Blackberry Bliss. After deciding to use a Gold Foil layer from the Tasteful Labels Dies underneath the greeting, I ran the narrow embossed strip through the die just to make the ends match the Gold Foil. This greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®. I also added two of my new Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots to each end of that strip of designer paper.

For a final touch, I adhered some gold foil foliage from the Blackberry Beauty Ephemera Pack. This pack has really pretty pieces of all kinds in it, not just gold foil pieces. I hope you already have this, too, because I see it is back-ordered until mid-December. I wonder which ship lined up at the port it is on! Don’t you think about Stampin’ Up! products being delayed every time you see one of those news reports about the container ships at sea?!

I hope this Thanksgiving card, which could be used for other occasions as well, even something like a fall wedding, inspires you to make and send some more cards! Wouldn’t this designer paper be pretty and different for a wedding in the fall? Here is another small gift card and gift bag I made earlier using this pretty paper.

It’s early yet, but time to start thinking about your Thanksgiving plans and any cards you want to make to send to friends and loved ones. The holidays are upon us!

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Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card

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Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card

To celebrate the first day of November, I made this Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card! After all, now that it is November, it won’t be long until Thanksgiving! When it is time to take down the Halloween decorations, it’s time to put up a few Thanksgiving turkeys, Pilgrims, pumpkins, whatever you have for Thanksgiving.

I copied myself to make this card! Back in 2016, I made this punch art turkey to decorate a candy bar for Thanksgiving. This year we don’t have the same type of punches so I had to look at my dies for the basics. But you’ll be surprised to see how I made the turkey feet!

For the turkey body, I chose two Layering Circles Dies. I chose a small circle for the head and two sizes larger circle for the body. The Plaid Tidings Designer Paper was used for the feathers and I used the Oval Layering Dies. You could even use two or three rows of feathers if you really wanted to die cut a lot of ovals. Or just use colored cardstock instead of designer paper.

I just cut the beak out by hand from Crushed Curry Cardstock. The red wattle hanging on the turkey’s neck is a die cut from the die of a group of little hearts in the Be Mine Stitched Dies. We used to have some heart punches that worked so if you still have your old punches you could substitute some of these dies. Or just cut out a heart by hand. I couldn’t find anything the right size for the turkey eyes (Bring back the Owl Punch!) so I die cut two small flower dies that kind of gave me the circle shape that I could trim out. Then I just used a black marker to color in the eyes. The feet of the turkey stumped me for a bit but when I looked at my punches for a small circle, guess what I found? The Snowman Builder Punch has two stick arms and they were perfect for the turkey feet! Who would have thought?!

The card base is Crushed Curry (I thought I was probably going to use Soft Suede.). I thought I would look through my Plaid Tidings DSP to see IF there was one I could use for the background layer but really thought I would use a solid cardstock color. When I saw this red plaid and tried it, I wanted to use it. I think it is a bright Thanksgiving card with the red paper.

The greeting was also a surprise. I was thinking there weren’t too many “Happy Thanksgiving” greetings out there. I was about to settle on a “Celebrate” saying in the Many Mates Stamp Set when I noticed my Banner Year Stamp Set which actually had a “Happy Thanksgiving” greeting in it! That stamp set is a sleeper! I have used it so much and didn’t really expect to.

The greeting is stamped in Soft Suede Ink on Crushed Curry and punched on each end with the Lovely Labels Pick a Punch. For some embellishment, I used two Gilded Gems on each end.

I like these Gilded Gems but they are a little bit high which could make them difficult to mail. When I have something like these gems or rhinestones on a card, I usually cut a piece of paper towel to cover the front of the card in the envelope. You could also use another piece of paper, particularly if you have a paper crimper that you can use to give it some texture which I think might help protect the embellishments.

This is one way to make a punch art or maybe die-art turkey for a card for Thanksgiving! Dig out your old punches or look through your dies and see what you can use. Or even just cut out pieces by hand if you don’t have the right thing.

It’s November so we are off to the races with the big holidays coming up and I have my first Thanksgiving card made in this Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card.

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Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card

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Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card

This fall paper in the Stampin’ Up! August-December Mini Catalog 2020 is some of the prettiest designer paper we have had (or do I say that about almost every paper?!) so I had to make this Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card with this pretty paper with gold embossed pumpkins.

It’s really a very simple card and I wanted to keep it that way. Sometimes we get carried away with all our pretty embellishments and die cuts, but we can make simple, easy cards too that are just as nice.

This card has a Cajun Craze card base to match the Gilded Autumn Specialty Designer Series Paper. I don’t really use Cajun Craze very often but it is lovely on this pumpkin paper! I was going to use another piece of the paper as a side strip but after placing the full layer of the pumpkin paper on the card base, I liked that look just fine and didn’t want to add anything else except a greeting.

The greeting is from So Sentimental, one of the good greetings stamp sets we have in the Annual Catalog. I stamped it in Cajun Craze ink to match on Very Vanilla Cardstock. Then I die-cut it with one of the Stitched So Sweetly Dies. Actually, the greeting looked fine on the card against that paper just as is, but I did want to add some Gold Foil to the card. I cut the same die cut out of the Gold Foil and then cut it in half so I could have it extend above and below the Very Vanilla greeting. That is something you can do when you want a layer of some kind but the dies don’t fit or extend beyond the greeting. It usually works pretty well!

The inside of the card will need a layer of Very Vanilla on which to stamp a greeting or write a personal note because of the dark Cajun Craze card base.

That’s really all there is to this Gilded Autumn Pumpkins Fall Friendship Card with just adhering a designer paper layer and a greeting for a very nice card to send to someone during this fall season or even looking ahead to Thanksgiving cards you might want to send.

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Nature’s Beauty Deer in the Fall

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Nature's Beauty Deer in the Fall

Sometimes you feel a little bit pleased with yourself when you make a card that turns out better than you expected and this card is one of those! I wasn’t really exactly sure what I was going to do with this stamp and probably expected to make a less colorful card. When I saw this paper I decided it would be a card for fall with the autumn colors.

This stamp is from the Nature’s Beauty Stamp Set, found on the inside of the last page of the Holiday Catalog. You might not have even noticed it way back there, but there is something important about this stamp set! Stampin’ Up! is donating $3 of every sale to mental health organizations. So while you can have fun stamping and using this set, you will know you are making a difference in the lives of others.

I stamped the deer in Memento Black Ink because I knew I would color him in with my Stampin’ Blends markers. That led to coloring in the sky a little bit with about three different colors. When you do this, when you start out it looks like you are making a scribbly mess! But just keep going and as the colors blend together it will likely turn out fine. I started with just kind of scribbling in with Balmy Blue Light, then some Pumpkin Pie Light, and some Gray Granite Light. As I said, it looks like the sky is going to not turn out, but then it does. I really like the way it looks now! You can experiment with whatever colors you have or you like.

The deer is colored with the Crumb Cake markers and maybe I added a bit of Soft Suede. After I stamped the deer on the Whisper White piece of cardstock, I stamped again on a piece of scrap paper, then cut it out just inside the stamped lines. This gave me a “mask” to place directly over the deer to I could stamp the trees on each side of him without stamping over the deer. To stamp the trees, I used my Stampin’ Write Markers, two colors of green on the leaves and then a dark brown for the trunk and a few branches. I colored directly on the stamp so I could have the greens on the leaves and the brown on the tree trunk. The grass I colored the same way as the sky with just a couple of green shades.

The designer paper is from the Come To Gather Designer Series Paper. When I saw this orangish paper with the colored and outlined leaves I knew it would be perfect with the deer. The greeting is stamped in Early Espresso Ink on Whisper White that is sponged a little bit around the edges with Crumb Cake Ink and layered on a piece of Crumb Cake Cardstock. Both the die-cut shapes are from the Ornate Frames Dies. The greeting is in the Gather Together Stamp Set.

The card base is Crumb Cake with layers of Pumpkin Pie Cardstock. Even though Pumpkin Pie is not one of the coordinating colors with this designer paper, I thought it looked good on the card and brought out some of the lighter orange colors.

You could send this card to someone any time from now on through Thanksgiving. It would make a great masculine birthday card or just a card with a note inside, also.

Consider putting this stamp set, Nature’s Beauty, on your order and know that you and your stamping may be a part of helping someone.

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A Geometric Card For Fall With the Tailored Tag Punch

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A Geometric Card For Fall With the Tailored Tag Punch

I’ve made and seen cards like this Geometric Card For Fall With the Tailored Tag Punch and saw one recently online. I changed the kind of paper to make it look like fall, added the greeting, a little stamping and of course, a pumpkin! What says fall more than a pumpkin?! You could make and send this card now just for fall, a card for someone who doesn’t celebrate Halloween, or save it for closer to Thanksgiving. You can also make this same card with different paper and a different greeting for a birthday or lots of other occasions.

The card base is Whisper White Thick Cardstock to give it a little heft. The paper is the Come To Gather Designer Series Paper, the pattern with little groupings of pumpkins. You might think this card would be difficult to make, fitting in all those pieces like a puzzle! But no, you just start somewhere and space out the punched pieces, allowing them to hang out over the edge of the cardstock underneath. After you have them placed how you like, glue them down. Turn the paper over and trim off the excess hanging off the edges. Check out the photos below to see how I did this layout and then trimmed off the pieces hanging over on the other side.

A Geometric Card For Fall With the Tailored Tag Punch Layout
A Geometric Card For Fall With the Tailored Tag Punch Back

The greeting is stamped with the Gather Together Stamp Set in Cajun Craze Ink and then punched out with the Tailored Tag Punch. I thought it looked a little too stark so I stamped the wheat stamp in Granny Apple Green Ink, stamped off once or twice. I just wanted it fairly light.

I also stamped and colored in a pumpkin from the Gather Together Stamp Set. It is colored with Stampin’ Blends Markers in various colors. You can choose whatever look you want for your pumpkin. I started with a bit of Daffodil Delight with Pumpkin Pie and then added some Cajun Craze to match the paper better with the darker shade.

The designer paper pieces are all adhered directly to the card front, but the greeting is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals®, as is the pumpkin. Here is a similar card made with the Wood Textures Designer Paper last year so you can see a different idea and occasion.

There are infinite possibilities for making a card like this using different papers and greetings! Try it and see what you think!

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