Hello Friends! Today's card idea is a real mishmash of a whole stack of stamp sets and dies. It consists of a touch of this and a little smidgeon of that with a sprinkle of something else. This is what happens when you've got lots of bits of leftover pieces from the last several cards just lying there staring at you. I decided to find a way to put them all together and this is what I've come up with. Let me know what you think. Try to be kind, please!
I wish the colors were a little truer on this photo compared to real life. The background layer looks so washed out in the picture when in reality the pumpkin is stamped on the same color cardstock with the same color ink. It really shouldn't look so different!
The base layer for the card is Peach Pie that measures 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". It's scored at 4 1/4" and then embossed with the Bark 3D Embossing Folder to give it some interest.
The first layer is one of the prints in the Elegant Pines Snowflakes Designer Series Paper pack. It is a lovely Old Olive watercolor print that I have enjoyed using with the Delicate Pines stamp and die bundle. I'll get back to that on another day. This is cut with the 2nd largest die in the Branching Out set. I love this shape to make the layers really stand out. This layer is attached to the folded card base with "green glue".
The next layer is where all the action is going on. It's the 2nd smallest die from the same set - Branching Out. This time it cuts a layer of Basic Beige cardstock. I thought this matched nicely with the design of the Elegant Pines Snowflakes DSP. Before attaching it to the card front, a sentiment was stamped on it. The sentiment is from the Gathering Moments stamp set and Memento Tuxedo Black ink was used.
There is a die that is a lovely spray of leaves in the Delicate Pines Die set. This was used to cut a pile of leaves from the Splendid Autumn 6" x 6" DSP pack. I have so many partial pieces of paper left from cards previously made using this paper that it's great to use some of these "scraps" up!
The oak leaf at the bottom of the design was also cut from this DSP. The leaf die is part of the Amber Autumn die set. And the leaves surrounding the pumpkin were also cut from the same DSP pack. Like I said, love the paper and lots of scraps put to good use!
The pumpkin used is from the Beautiful Pumpkins bundle. It's stamped onto Peach Pie cardstock with Peach Pie ink for the base color. The detail stamp over this is stamped with Pumpkin Pie ink. Then it's die-cut with the matching die. The stem is cut from the same DSP print as some of the different leaves.
The pumpkin and leaves were attached to the design first using Dimensionals. Then all the other leaves were clustered around the design. Some needed to be trimmed before being used if they didn't fit quite right.
After trying several different kinds of embellishments for this design, I liked how the Cajun Craze & Gold Dots blended in with all the colors on the card. They seemed to enhance the nice fall colors of the leaves.
Just need one more look at this autumn design. If you were counting along, how many stamp and die sets did you count? How many different DSP packs?
Hope you like this idea using multiple sets of stamps and dies to pull a card idea together. You just never know what will work together until you start playing around with different elements of a design. Get creative and play some mix & match with your stamps and dies. It's fun!
Thanks for stopping by to see what's going on around here. Hopefully I'll be back soon with another installment.
Happy stamping and creating,
Sharon
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