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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Sharon

Thankful Stand Up Card

 Hey, great news!   The weather has decided to cool down some around here.  But we still have the rain to deal with on and off for the next foreseeable future.  We even had tornado warnings yesterday again.  Oh well, win some, some not so much.  Still enjoying all the birds showing up at our feeders though.  They are here rain or shine.  Don't you like dependability?

Thought today would be a great day to share a fun fold card with you.  Actually this was a fold we did years ago, but I had forgotten all about it.  Lately I've been seeing lots of this fun fold on Pinterest and blogs, so figured it was time for me to resurrect this too.

This card has an accordian-style fold on either end so stands up nicely on a mantel or bookshelf, or my favorite place - the dining room table.  This will be a perfect card to be part of your holiday decorations.

It starts out with a card base of Cajun Craze cut to 5 1/2" x 9 1/4".  It's then scored at 1 1/2", 2 3/4", 6 1/2", and 7 3/4".  There is a layer of Very Vanilla cardstock for the backside of the card cut to 3 1/2" x 5 1/4".

The cute print paper comes from the Harvest Meadow Designer Series Paper.  You could use two different prints on your card - one for the center and a different one for the two side wings.  For this card, I chose to stick with one print because it was fairly busy and I didn't want to overpower the card with competing prints.  These papers were cut 5 1/4" x 3 1/2" and (2) at 5 1/4" x 1 1/4" for the sides.

The pumpkins were stamped with images from the Pretty Pumpkin stamp set.  These were stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock using Early Espresso ink.  The coloring was all done with these Stampin' Blends:  So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, and Old Olive.  If you haven't noticed yet, I just love coloring with the Stampin' Blends!  It's so easy to get shading and highlighting and infinite shades of colors with just a few Blends.  So easy to get multiple colors of pumpkins.  After coloring the pumpkins and leaves, they were die-cut using the coordinating Detailed Pumpkins dies.

Then I chose the large filigree pumpkin die and Cajun Craze cardstock to cut.  Oh my, so gorgeous!  I also die-cut two leaves with Old Olive cardstock.  Don't you just love all the detail in both the pumpkin and leaves?  I'm going to have to play with that some more!  The pumpkin has some MultiPurpose Liquid Glue sponged on the back to attach it.  The leaves have Mini Glue Dots behind them.  The "painted" pumpkins  are attached with adhesive, but the leaf out in front has Mini Dimensionals attaching it to the card.

The sentiment is from the Pretty Pumpkins set along with the sentiment stamped on the back of the card.  This was stamped with Early Espresso ink on a Very Vanilla die-cut from the Ornate Frames Dies.  Love the different shape and stitching on it!  It's attached with Dimensionals.

The back of the card is Very Vanilla cardstock.  This tucks in so nicely right between the folded "wings" of the card.  I also stamped a vine with leaves and flower on the card with Early Espresso ink.  It was colored in with Stampin' Blends to match the pumpkins on the front of the card.

I was going to finish the card off with some Linen Thread tied in a bow.  But then ran across some Crushed Curry Twine that was left over from another project and liked that better.  It was attached with a rolled Mini Glue Dot.  

Wouldn't this be the perfect card to display on Thanksgiving?  I love the different styles, textures, and prints on the card, and yes, I'm really happy with how it turned out.  Hope you try making a card similar to this with the easy fun fold and different styles of elements added together to form a happy card.   Just put your own take on it and have fun!  Let me know if you've tried this one.

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Thanks for stopping by again.  I love hearing from you, so leave a comment if you would and tell me what you think of my creations and what you're doing too.

Stay cool, and keep stamping,

Sharon