Happy Thanksgiving To You!
I hope you and your family or friends are having a wonderful Thanksgiving together! I am thankful that you are one of my customers, blog readers, or that you just happened upon my website! I hope you enjoy the ideas you find here! There’s more to come through the holidays!
Enjoy that turkey dinner and especially the pie and dessert!
I think this Frames & Flowers Grateful For You Card is one of those cards that you could use for a Thanksgiving card, or any time, really. The card has fallish colors, somewhat colored leaves, and an appropriate greeting for the season of gratitude and thanksgiving.
The card base is Garden Green with a layer of Pumpkin Pie cardstock to bring out the orange colors in the leaves and to make the whole card look like it is made for fall. The layer on top of the Pumpkin Pie is a frame in the Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Series Paper. The center just punched out of the frame. I chose to put a small piece of Basic White cardstock behind the frame. Then I chose a flower in the ephemera pieces that would look good in the cneter of that open frame. It is popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The greeting is in the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set. I think it can go for a regular card or this Thanksgiving card. It is stamped in Memento Black ink on Basic White cardstock. I cut it out with one of the Nested Essentials Dies. I then cut out another piece the same size in Garden Green and cut it in half horizontally and adhered the two pieces to the top and bottom of the stamped greeting. I adhered it flat to the card in case I wanted to put a gem that would stick up very much on the ends of the greeting.
For the embellishment, I chose some sequins in the Adhesive-Backed Shiny Sequins. These sequins come in Lemon Lime Twist, Lemon Lolly, Melon Mambo, and Pumpkin Pie colors. I used two Pumpkin Pie Sequins on the ends of the greeting and three Lemon Lime Twist sequins up by the flower.
When you want to make a card and have fun, use this Frames & Flowers Specialty Designer Series Paper or any of the ephemera packs that Stampin’ Up! now sells! The Frames & Flowers should be back in stock next week.
If you are serving Thanksgiving dinner at your house, you might want to make place cards so people know where to sit or just for a table decoration. When I was a little girl, I always liked to make place cards! Sometimes I made them at my grandma’s house when it was just my family and grandparents. I just folded some paper in half and stuck on a sticker or drew a little picture. Little did I know that years later I would have all kinds of paper, ink, and stamps and a multitude of tools and accessories to make place cards!
Here are three ideas for making place cards.
This little pumpkin is made with punched hearts. I used the heart in the retired Heart Punch Pack that had this regular heart punch and one with a scalloped heart punch. You may have other heart punches or heart dies you can use. If you have the retired Apple Builder Punch that would work also. Just cut or punch out several hearts and score them down the middle to make folding them in half easier. You can cut out a little stem by hand if you like.
Fold and crease each heart in half. Apply glue to the top of the first folded heart and adhere another folded heart to it, making sure it lines up pretty well on all sides until you have all the hearts stacked up and glued together. Use as many or few hearts as you like. Before making it into a pumpkin, use a sturdy scissors and cut off the bottom point of the stack of heart to make a straight line for the base of the pumpkin. You only need to take off a little bit. Die cut or cut out by hand a leaf and write a name of a guest for the place card. Then open up the stacked hearts. before you glue them together, adhere the stem if you cut one and the leaf to hold them. Glue the hearts together so you have a standing pumpkin! If you want to get fancy, maybe you have a stamp set with a pumpkin and can stamp that first and fussy cut or diecut, whatever you have, or shade the edges of the hearts.
Here’s the standard kind of place card, the kind I used to make for our family dinners. You can make it any size you want. Mine is a 4 1/2″ x 4″ piece of Basic White cardstock, scored in half at 2 1/4″. I stamped the small pumpkins from the Playful Ghosts Stamp Set, colored them with Stampin’ Blends markers, then cut out by hand. I also diecut some foliage from the Textured Floral Dies in both Lemon Lime Twist and Garden Green cardstock. If you have the Bough Punch you can use that. I cut the diecut foliage apart because I only needed little pieces to glue to the place card behind the pumpkin. I put just a tiny bit of glue behind the pumpkin to hold it in place while I glued down the foliage where I wanted it and then added a bit more glue under the sides of the pumpkins. An easier way, if you have the stamps that fit, would be to stamp a pumpkin, hold a mask over it, then stamp foliage on each side. Remove the mask that protected the pumpkin and yours should look like mine except stamped! Or simply stamp and color a pumpkin in the corner of the card.
This kind of place card is actually a little party favor, too! I simply covered a small chocolate bar with a piece of designer paper and added a name on top. I used a piece of the green plaid paper in the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper. You could just use cardstock as well. I used a piece that was about 2 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. It all depends on your candy bar, of course. For this card, I diecut a piece from the Everyday Details Dies on which to glue on the pumpkins and write the name. On the other candy bar in the top photo, I used a diecut from the Unbounded Love Dies in Very Vanilla and used a Pumpkin Pie Stampin’ Blend just to outline the edges of the diecut, plus added two Gold Textured Dots. There are no bounds to what you can do with these!
These are just some ideas to get you started! Once you begin, you will likely come up with more and better ideas! Just have fun!
***REMINDER: TODAY, Nov. 15, is the LAST DAY for the Stampin’ Up! Seasonal Sale!
This Textured Floral Book Fold Thanksgiving Card is a Thanksgiving card you can make without turkeys, pumpkins, or Pilgrims. Just use some fall colors of flowers and paper and add an appropriate greeting.
This card is made in the Book Fold design. That means there is an extra score line on the front of the card which makes it look like a book when you open the card. Cut the paper at 4 1/4″ x 11″. Score at 4 1/4″ and at 5 1/2″. Crease and fold the score lines. Decide how you want to do the book fold. You can apply adhesive in that small area in between the fold and the score line on the front of the card. Or, if you don’t want to use adhesive, you could punch two holes in that side by the fold and tie ribbon through there to have a bow on the side of the card.
This card has a card base of Mossy Meadow cardstock. For designer paper, I used the Season of Green & Gold Specialty Designer Series Paper for layers on the card front. For the right side of the card, cut the designer series paper at 4″ x 4″. For the little side piece, cut the designer paper at 1″ x 4″.
For the main image of the card, I used a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock cut at 3″ x 3″ layered on a piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock cut at 3 1/4″ x 3 1/4″. The flowers are stamped from the Textured Floral Stamp Set. One large flower is stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink, the other in Crushed Curry ink with a little Pumpkin Pie ink sponged on with Sponge Daubers. The little flower is stamped with Crushed Curry ink. The leaves are stamped in Old Olive ink and Garden Green ink. The flowers and leaves are diecut with the Textured Floral Dies.
The greeting is in the Layers of Beauty Stamp Set and stamped in Garden Green ink. It is diecut with a die in the Countryside Corners Dies. I made it smaller to fit on the card better by running it through the machine a second time after moving the die where I wanted it to end.
Two of the flowers and the greeting are popped up on Stampin’ Dimensionals. I added some Gold Textured Dots for some sparkle. On the inside of the card I added a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, something lighter to stamp or write a message. Since I had an extra flower and leaf that I didn’t use, I adhered that inside the card for a little decoration.
You can send this card for Thanksgiving or for any other occasion with this beautiful floral stamp set. Try the Book Fold for something a little different.
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Last Day For the Seasonal Sale!
Here is a whimsical Thanksgiving turkey I came up with while thinking about a new Thanksgiving card. I’ve seen cards with turkeys made in different ways, so I thought maybe I’d use some kind of designer series paper. The first one that popped into my head was the Full of Life 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper, with its watercolor designs and many different colors, including fall colors.
As I looked through all the papers, I came across this one pattern with the triangle designs and I thought this paper could be used for turkey feathers. I cut the design apart so I would have lots of colors to use for turkey tail feathers.
For the turkey body, I looked through the Meandering Meadows 6″ x 6″ Designer Series Paper and found this brownish design on “the other side” of one of the meadow patterned papers. I used two stitched circle dies in the Stylish Shapes Dies to make the turkey body and head.
To adhere the tail feathers, I applied a lot of Stampin’ Seal adhesive to the back of the largest circle, arranged the triangle pieces how I liked them, and stuck them to the adhesive. To adhere the body and feathers to the card I used Multipurpose Liquid Glue so that I could apply some to the tips of all the feathers and all the rest of the turkey. It is adhered onto another pattern in the Full of Life Designer Paper that has colors of green and orange for a background. The card base is Pecan Pie cardstock.
I adhered the turkey head onto the body and a little heart shape for his waddle, cut from a die in the Friends For Life Dies. The beak is cut from a piece of Daffodil Delight cardstock. The eyes are made with a punch I had and I colored in the black pupils with a marker. The hat is made with a 3/4″ x 3/4″ square of Basic Black and a little strip for the brim, plus a Daffodil Delight hat band. The turkey legs are two ends of a Real Red banner diecut just because I had it nearby.
The greeting is in the Choose Happy Stamp Set! I was surprised to find the word Thanksgiving in there but I searched “Happy Thanksgiving” in the Stampin’ Up! online store and the Choose Happy Stamp Set came up! I wasn’t sure if I would have a banner going across the turkey, but I decided to cut the stamped words to be separate and I liked that look. For a final touch, I added some Gold Textured Dots.
This is just one idea of how to make a Thanksgiving turkey for a card! You can play around with what supplies you have and make your own version!
Have a Wonderful Thanksgiving Day
With Your Family & Loved Ones!
We’re almost out of time because tomorrow is Thanksgiving! If you are still looking for some inspiration for a treat to take to someone, table decorations or favors, a card, or something else, here are some of my past ideas from the archives! You can update with the paper or stamps you have now or dig around in your stash and find something you have that will work! Just click the title below each photo to go to the blog post!
Thanksgiving Wine Bottle Label
Maybe you are taking a bottle of wine or some other drink to a Thanksgiving dinner or just want to decorate your own bottled beverage. Make a simple decoration to hang over the neck of the bottle. It’s almost like a giant tag with a hole in the top! Check out my blog post for the measurements and details to get your started making your own!
Blackberry Beauty Thanksgiving Card
This card really caught my eye as I was looking back for past projects! It certainly is the gold foil accents that makes the card so beautiful! You don’t need to use this exact same paper, just use some other paper you love with a Thanksgiving greeting (or something generic) across the front with a little glimmery embellishment.
Oh, how I loved this Hello Harvest Stamp Set from last year! You can make a similar card with the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set we have currently, or go look for the Hello Harvest Stamp Set from last year’s Holiday Mini Catalog! I loved coloring in the pumpkins with Stampin’ Blends.
Turkey Sour Cream Treat Holder For Thanksgiving
This is one of those “sour cream holders” that we have probably all learned to make from the time we learned about stamping! Put some candies inside and put one by everyone’s place at the table! Read the blog post for the directions if you aren’t sure! Then decorate your turkey with whatever punches or dies you have for feathers!
I can’t resist! You may not have the ingredients on hand but maybe you’ll remember for next year! I learned how to make these from a friend back when my kids were little and in preschool! I made them lots of years to take to school for treats or to simply have as place setting decorations at our Thanksgiving table at dinner. I don’t know why, but I love them! Just soften a few caramels at a time in the microwave, stick the cookie on the back end, then smoosh in a candy corn on its side!
Enjoy Your Thanksgiving!
It’s down to the wire for Thanksgiving, as hard as that is to believe, but there’s still time if you want to make some little Thanksgiving Candy Holder Favors. These are really easy and will hold two chocolate kisses or a chocolate nugget. Think how cute these would be by everyone’s plate at Thanksgiving dinner for a little favor!
To make these little candy holders, cut a strip of cardstock approximately 5″ long by 1 3/4″ wide. You can change up the measurements depending on what kind of candy you want to put inside. Score these strips at 2″ and 3″. Crease and fold on the score lines. You can use different colors and images on the front or make them all match.
After you have your candy inside, you can punch a hole in the top and tie a ribbon through the hole or use a couple of Mini Glue Dots to hold them closed. If you have any kinds of clips you could use those to hold them closed. You can also attach a greeting or a guest’s name to use each favor as a place card. I used to love to make place cards when I was young for family dinners!
I started with the pumpkin and the Pilgrim hat but I got a little carried away with the turkey! The pumpkin is stamped from the Pick of the Patch Stamp set and just a little diecut greenery that was already in a pile of scraps on my table.
The Pilgrim hat is made with Early Espresso for the hat and the brim. The hat is a 1″ x 1″ square and the brim is 1/4″ x 1 1/2″. The Basic Black band on the hat is 1/4″ x 1″. The buckle is made with a 1/2″ x 1/2″ square of Gold Foil with a center of Basic Black 1/4″ x 1/4″ to look like the band going through the buckle.
The turkey is made with two circles of Pecan Pie cardstock. The feathers are die cut greenery in the Joy of Noel Dies! Just use whatever you have or come across! The red turkey waddle is a diecut holly leaf from that set! The eyes are punched with my old Crop-a-Dile and colored in with black.
These are just fun little candy favors, so unless you want to, you don’t need to go to a lot of trouble making these!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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!
This Trucking Along Bundle has proven so popular that it has sold out quickly from the beginning and every time Stampin’ Up! got more in stock. There has been a long wait but finally, it is back, even earlier than expected!
As I write this, you can purchase the Bundle with the stamp set and Trucking Along Builder Punch and save 10%.
You can use this Trucking Along Bundle for all seasons! Just load up the truck bed with different colors and different objects! Put fall leaves, Christmas trees, or spring flowers in the truck! Whatever you like. You will have fun with some of your other stamp sets finding little things you can add in the truck I’m sure!
Or you can purchase just the Trucking Along Stamp Set alone.
Or maybe the most popular of all, the Trucking Along Builder Punch.
This You’re the Pick of the Patch Fall Card may have gotten lost in the shuffle and never got posted but if you’ve already seen it somewhere, it’s a replay! Making fall cards makes me hopeful that it might feel like fall here in Texas someday! Usually, it is December until the leaves turn to fall colors but hopefully, we get much cooler temperatures before that! The colors on this card make me feel a little cooler!
This card is made with the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set and the Them Bones Designer Series Paper. The card base is Pumpkin Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White. You wouldn’t have to use a whole piece of Basic White if you are going to put a piece of designer paper at the bottom but you want them to overlap a little bit probably. Then cover the seam with ribbon or a strip of paper as I did here. It’s a little easier to use a whole layer of Basic White and then just cut a strip of the designer paper to whatever size you want instead of figuring out the math for the two pieces to be the right size for the card layer. In this case, I used a 5 1/4″ x 4″ piece of Basic White and then a layer of patterned paper that is 5 1/4″ x 1 3/4″. The strip of Cajun Craze is 5 1/4″ x 1/2″. You could also use a strip of ribbon or another patterned paper.
The pumpkins and gourds are stamped with the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set in various colors. You can use any colors that you like and even “stamp off” if you want a lighter shade. I used Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, and Granny Apple Green. There is a Pick of the Patch Builder Punch that you might like for pumpkins. I don’t have it so I just cut out my images by hand with my Paper Snips.
Here’s a tip for using the Builder Punch. Take any piece of cardstock that fits in the punch (not too large, not too small. Punch the paper. Then use that punched-out paper as a template so you can stamp all the images that match the punch that will be lined up perfectly. Lay the template on the paper you want to stamp on, then stamp each image inside the template. Remove the template, then punch. Everything should be lined up for the punch! Or you can always just punch individual pieces with the punch.
Before adhering the Basic White cardstock layer, lay out all the pieces of the card and see where the pumpkins and gourds will go. Then stamp the vines so that they will line up with the stamped pumpkins and gourds. To fill in some empty space, stamp the little leaves around the background. To make them look like fall leaves, use Stampin’ Write Markers (not Blends). Apply the marker directly on the leaf stamp, starting with the lightest color and adding another color or two to the same stamp. Breathe (huff) on the stamp to remoisten, then stamp and you will get the multicolored stamped image!
Assemble your card, popping up some of the pumpkins if you like and adding some stamped leaves in the set. The greeting is in the Pick of the Patch Stamp Set. What a cute greeting to send to someone special! I die-cut it with the narrowest die in the Countryside Corners Dies.
The Pick of the Patch Bundle is a great set of products to have for this time of year. The stamp set even includes a jack-o-lantern face if you want to make your pumpkins for Halloween!
Pick of the Patch is one of the new stamp sets I just got from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog and this Pick of the Patch Pumpkin Card is my first play with it! I had no particular plan in mind and I’m not saying this is the best I could do with the set, but I got a card made! While I only ordered the stamp set, there is a Pick of the Patch Builder Punch you can also order for punching two different pumpkins, a leaf, and a stem. If you get both the punch and the stamp set together in the Pick of the Patch Bundle, you can save 10%.
I didn’t need the punch for this card because I only did stamping with the pumpkins and gourds. This will be a stamp set where you might need to use the masking technique. If you are unfamiliar with masking, it means covering up one stamped image so you can stamp another one to look like it is behind the first one or if they overlap on the sides. It is handy to do this with something like a sticky note. Stamp the images, such as a pumpkin, on the sticky note so that when you cut out the pumpkin you will have some of that adhesive to hold the mask in place. Now Stampin’ Up! sells Masking Paper that has adhesive on the paper that you use for a mask. So you stamp your image on the masking paper (take a peek and make sure that the side of the paper you are stamping on is the sticky side!), cut it out, them use it as a mask when you need it. Just keep it in your stamp case because you can use the masking image over and over.
The card base is Pumpkin Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White. I stamped an assortment of pumpkins and a gourd, in Pumpkin Pie ink and Crushed Curry for the gourd and added some stems and vines. Then I stamped the leafy plants all around the pumpkins in two different colors of green. There is a stamp with three little leaves on it so I pulled out some Stampin’ Write markers (NOT Blends!) in Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, and Crushed Curry. I colored directly on the stamp with two or three of the marker colors and then stamped to give them a little fall multi-color.
For a greeting, I chose one in the Pick of the Patch Stamp set and stamped it with Pumpkin Pie ink. Then I used a rectangle die in the Timeless Arrangements Die to cut out the greeting. I cut out another rectangle of the same size in Mossy Meadow cardstock. Since it is the same size, I can’t use it as a layer, but I went about it another way. I cut the green rectangle in half horizontally and just adhered the two pieces to the top and bottom underneath the greeting to help it stand out a little better.
That’s all to this card. As I said, I may have just been trying out the pumpkins but it did turn out to be a card in the end! I look forward to using this set a lot more during the fall, for Halloween, and for Thanksgiving, anything fall! And while I’m stamping and cutting out pumpkins, I can pretend like it’s not still 100 degrees outside!
Finally, the day has arrived when everyone can order to their heart’s content from the new Stampin’ Up! September-December 2023 Mini Catalog, otherwise known as the Holiday Mini! It’s the second-best catalog next to the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalog if you ask me!
Here are some products that are currently unavailable and dates when they will be back in stock. But you can always check back earlier and see!
The Stars At Night Hybrid Embossing Folder: Week of October 2
Adhesive Backed Star Trinkets: Week of October 25
Shining Brightly Designer Series Paper: Week of September 11
Copper & Natural Ribbon Combo Pack: Week of October 23
Bag of Bones Dies: Week of September 11
All About Autumn Designer Series Paper: September 11
***If a Suite or Bundle is unavailable, it means one or more of the products in the Suite are unavailable but you can still order the products separately that are available. And probably a good idea to do that!
And there’s MORE!!
In the Online Exclusives, Stampin’ Up! is offering a special release of five beautiful new Designer Series Paper options! These papers include fabulous holiday prints, gorgeous seasonal styles, and some spectacular timeless designs. These papers are available while supplies last! Check out the interesting and fun new designs to add to your collection! They’re not just for Christmas! Watch the video below.
AND a new Kit in the Kits Collection available today!
“Celebrate Christmas with everyone, everywhere with the Christmas Everywhere Kit by Stampin’ Up! It comes with everything you need to create 9 Christmas cards in 3 festive designs featuring trees from around the world. Get an early start on your Christmas crafting and send some holiday cheer to friends and loved ones wherever they are!”
This kit includes:
-Enough supplies to create 9 cards—3 each of 3 designs
-9 coordinating envelopes
-Christmas Everywhere photopolymer stamp set
-One Lost Lagoon Ink Spot
-Printed card bases, printed die-cut labels and images with red glitter, adhesive, and a clear block
-Finished card size: 5-1/2″ x 4-1/4″ (14 x 10.8 cm)
-Coordinating colors: Granny Apple Green, Lost Lagoon, Pecan Pie, Pretty Peacock, Real Red
One more surprise Bundle released today for World Card Making Day October 7! You can register for the FREE Stampin’ Up! event! It’s the Heartfelt Hexagon Bundle!
If you are looking for some last-minute Thanksgiving ideas, here are a few you can copy or use as inspiration! Click the title above each photo to go straight to my post with the information!
Make a Ribbon Turkey For a Favor or Decoration!
Plaid Tidings Turkey Thanksgiving Card
Make a Gather Together Fall Wine Bottle Tag
Gather Together Fall Votive Holder
Thanksgiving Punch Art Turkey Candy Bar Wrapper
Top Note Thanksgiving Cello Bag Treat
I hope these ideas, some very old!, will give you some ideas that are helpful!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
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.
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!
Remember to check the Clearance Rack, refreshed yesterday! Some great bargains you can be using now!