Hello Harvest

Good day to you!  After a long night of lightening and rain, the sun is shining brightly again.  I thought it would be another gray day.  But was I ever wrong, and it's a good thing too!  We're planning to go to a peach festival later on today.  I'm so looking forward to all the wonderful 'peachy' things we'll be able to eat and buy.  Doesn't it almost make your mouth water just thinking about it?  I considered the idea of making a peach themed card to share today, but instead I'm sticking with my fall theme that I've been going with.  Since I simply love anything to do with fall, whether it's pumpkins, sunflowers, colorful leaves, bright blue skies, apples and cider, etc, that's what I'm going with. So here's the card I made to share with you today.

This card is made with the Hello Harvest Bundle found on page 50 in the current mini catalog.  This whole look just embodies fall to me with the pumpkin and sunflowers, fall colors, and of course the sentiment too.

I've got to admit that the big bunch of Stampin' Blends on my worktable are still sitting there since last week when I started in on the fall cards.  As you can see on this card, I'm still using all those fabulous fall colors.

To make this card, start with a half sheet of Old Olive cardstock that's scored and folded in half.  The cute, checked designer paper is from the Gingham Cottage DSP pack.  These are a collection of checks - some are tone-on-tone and others have black added to them.  This is one of the smaller check prints in Pumpkin Pie.  It measures 5 1/2" x 2" and is attached to the front of the Old Olive card base. 

Both the pumpkin and the flower bunch images were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock.  The pumpkin was colored with Pumpkin Pie Light & Dark Blends, along with a little Daffodil Delight Dark for some highlights and a touch of Poppy Parade Light and Crumb Cake Dark for a bit of shading.  On this piece, I went over the separate colors quite a bit with the Pumpkin Pie Blends to get the colors very blended so you can't see the individual colors at all.

On the sunflower bunch, Daffodil Delight Light & Dark, Old Olive Light & Dark, and Granny Apple Green were used to color it.  

Did you notice the oak leaves tucked behind the pumpkin?  They're part of the set also.  To get those colors, one was inked with Crushed Curry then rock'n'rolled in Cajun Craze ink then stamped.  The other started out with Crushed Curry then rolled in Old Olive ink.  I made several when doing this because I wasn't sure of the placement on the card.  It never hurts to have some extra fall leaves ready to use when needed, you know. 

 After the coloring and stamping was finished, all the pieces were die-cut using the Rustic Pumpkin Dies. There were several little curly vines cut from Old Olive cardstock too.   

The sentiment here is one of four from the Hello Harvest set.  It was stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  Under the sentiment a little dot and dash design from the set was stamped in Pumpkin Pie ink.   Then it was punched out with the Rectangle Postage Stamp Punch.

All the pieces were assembled and arranged on the card.  The pumpkin and sunflowers were attached with Dimensionals.  The sentiment and oak leaves were attached with adhesive so they're flat on the card.  The little viny curlicues are tucked under and around the images. 

Lastly, two Champagne Rhinestones were added to the sentiment label, and three more were snuggled in around the focal images.  I'm so happy with how the card turned out.  Hope you are enjoying all these fall card ideas.  It's one way to beat the heat that most of us are dealing with now.  Just keep thinking of autumn weather with gorgeous blue skies and crisp cool temps.  And don't forget the cider and doughnuts, pumpkins, and sunflowers.  Here's to cooler weather!

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Happy stamping and creating!

Sharon