Baby Wipe Technique with Pumpkins

 Hi!  Yes, it's been awhile since I've made a post.  Hope you haven't given up on me yet.  The trip up to Michigan was wonderful, but the trip back home was certainly another story.  Heather's vehicle had the transmission go out halfway home and we sat on the side of the road for a good long while.  But God is good and brought a couple of terrific police officers and a very caring and helpful tow-truck driver to help us out by towing her car and get us to a car rental place.  So instead of a 10 1/2 hour trip home, it ended up being very close to 15 hours.  Very long day for sure!  But that's over and done with and I need to get back to sharing stamping ideas with all of you.  So...

Figured I'd start out with something thankful, since I have so much to be thankful for right now.  This is a pretty normal looking card made with the Pretty Pumpkins stamp set and the matching Detailed Pumpkins Dies Bundle.  The stamp set is a great mix of line-art and more solid design pumpkins and three sentiments in a lovely "scripty" font.  It's great for Thanksgiving, but really can be used nicely all through the fall months.  

I started with a card base of Crumb Cake cardstock.  The next layer is a pretty blue print from the Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper that's in the July-December Mini Catalog. This pack of DSP is really nice and almost neutral, even though it does have lots of soft color.    Love this blue print against the fall colors as a contrast.

The next layer is Very Vanilla cardstock.  The sentiment was stamped with Misty Moonlight ink to match the DSP before the piece was embossed with the Timber 3D Embossing Folder.  I used a Blending Brush with crumb Cake ink to add a little color to the edges of this.  Then it was attached to the card front with Dimensionals.

The pumpkins and vining leaves were all stamped on So Saffron cardstock using the Baby Wipe Technique.  What's that, you ask?  It's a fun technique that uses folded baby wipes and drops of re-inkers to form your ink pad, then you stamp just the same as usual.  Only instead of getting just one color of ink, you get a whole rainbow of partially blended colors you've chosen.  Truly gorgeous!  For this card I used Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight and Old Olive re-inkers.   I put several drops of each color on the folded baby wipe in an area just a little bigger than the pumpkin.  I stamped two pumpkins and five of the vines because I wasn't sure how many of each I would need for the card.  Each of them were die-cut with the matching dies.  Then it was time to play around with the items to see what I wanted on the front of the card.  I ended up using just one pumpkin and one vine and attached them with Dimensionals.

The inside was a little different from a normal card too.  I cut a piece of the same DSP to 5" x 8", scored at 3 1/4", 4", and 4 3/4".  This was folded into a W shape and attached on the right side with Multi Purpose Liquid Glue.  Holding the DSP closed, add Liquid Glue to the other side and fold the entire card closed.  When you open it, you have the little inverted  fold to attach the sentiment and extra items.  I chose to add two more of the vines to the one side and the sentiment to the other.  The sentiment from the same Pretty Pumpkins set was also stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock with Misty Moonlight ink just like the front.  I'm not sure what this style of card is called.  The inside sort of flip-flaps over itself to show off the images or whatever you add to them.  It's just a fun little surprise when you open the card.  Hope this makes someone happy!

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Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll be trying my hardest to get more postings done asap.

Many hugs,

Sharon