Fall - Right as Rain

Fall Coffee-Themed Friendship Card

Hello! Today I am sharing a CAS coffee-themed card featuring My Favorite Things supplies in fall colors. Does the card look familiar? I shared a winter-themed card of the same design in this post.

I die-cut the Mini Café All Day pieces from brown textured cardstock, warm-white cardstock, and patterned paper and assembled the cups.

I cut the Polaroid Shaker Frame and stamped the Sweater Weather in the Woods sentiment on to the frame in Espresso Truffle ink, after I cut it out. (I did this on a stamp press.) I added patterned paper to the back of the frame and added the assembled coffee cups. I adhered the assembly to the patterned paper background.

Supplies: Carta Bella Fall Blessings patterned paper

Spellbinders Scenic Snapshots

Hello! Recently, I was a guest on the Spellbinders blog sharing fall- and winter-themed cards created with products from their Scenic Snapshots Collection. I hope you’ll head on over to read how I created the cards and about the thinking behind my design choices. The Scenic Snapshots Collection has been showcased on the Spellbinders blog for several days, so be sure to check out how other cardmakers have used these amazing die sets.

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Penny Black Halloween Scene

Hello! Today, I am sharing a card in which I’ve combined several Penny Black supplies in a Halloween scene.

I die-cut the #51-571 Vintage Truck and assembled it. (This die set includes an evergreen tree die for a Christmas scene, which I plan to create in a few weeks.)

I stamped, colored with Copic marker, and fussy-cut the costumed hedgehog from the #30-592 Critter Costumes set and placed him (her?) into the assembled truck. The witch is off to a Halloween event.

The background was stamped with the Penny Black #40-254 Decadence background stamp (a stamp I’ve had for several years). I really like the feel the background gives to the scene. The sentiment was cut with a die in the #51-077 Eeek! die set.

What I like about this card: I really like transportation-themed dies and look for ways to use them in imaginative ways; I like the pairing of the elegant, formal background with the truck; I am particularly drawn to fall colors at the moment (more so than in previous falls, it seems) and like the gold, orange, and gray combination.

Penny Black Golden Delight Fall Wreath – Two Versions

Hello! Today I am sharing two versions of a CAS fall-themed design that showcases the #30-601 Golden Delight stamp set from Penny Black’s Autumn Bliss release.

On one card, I heat-embossed the wreath with gold powder.

On the other, I stamped with Versafine ink.

On both cards, I watercolored the leaves with Distress Inks – Peeled Paint, Rusty Hinge, and Wild Honey.

I masked the sentiment to stamp the three words separately choosing cardstock colors that coordinated with the Distress Inks I used to watercolor.

A die (#51-589 Golden Delight Cut Out) can be purchased that cuts out the wreath; for these cards, I cut the wreath with a 4″ square die and added the watercolored image to a 4 1/4″ card base. The sentiment strips were added to the center of the wreath with foam adhesive.

What I like about these cards: I like the look of watercolor and the watercoloring on this image was straightforward; I like creating different versions of the same design; even though it took a little longer, I like the idea of breaking up sentiments in the manner I did on these cards; I enjoyed tying the Distress Ink colors I used for the watercoloring with cardstock colors I used for the sentiment strips.

My Favorite Things – Fall-themed Bird House

Hello! Today I am sharing a fall-themed card featuring the Birds of a Feather and Birdhouse die sets from My Favorite Things. I have previously created cards with this same design and same two die sets: a spring-themed Congratulations card and one for the Fourth-of-July.

I die-cut the birds, birdhouse, and floral pieces from solid cardstock and patterned paper in my stash.
I assembled the pieces with Tonic Nuvo glue and added them to a panel cut from SU Old Olive with a now-retired MFT Blueprints set. I dry-embossed the panel with the Wood Grain folder.
I stamped the sentiment from Sweater Weather in the Woods with Night of Navy ink on an off-white rectangular panel.

What I like about this card: the bird and birdhouse scene; the color combination of orange, olive green, navy, and gold; the dry-embossed, wood grain background.

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