Fall Gathering Cracked Panel - Stampin' Up! Gathering Moments

   Just a quick card to share with you all today!  I found this one buried at the bottom of the "to be blogged" card file.  I made this one last month and it's an easy design that lets the DSP do all the heavy lifting!

 This is a really great design if you want to show off a large panel of patterned paper.  All you do is cut a panel across on the diagonal and then down on the diagonal and adhere the pieces to the corners of your card base leaving the nice cracked look but keeping the pattern.  I cut my DSP 1/4" smaller than the card front.  For a larger gap cut the paper even smaller.

  This one I used a piece of the Gathering Together DSP and a piece of Early Espresso for the card base.

  The sentiment is from the Blooming Phrases stamp set and is popped on dimensionals and then a few stamped leaves and berries from the Gathering Moments stamp set are added to the side.

  A bit of Old Olive linen thread, gold Wink of Stella accents on the leaves and a few gold Low Profile Dots finishes up this quick and easy card!

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Gathering Moments (Online Exclusive), Blooming Phrases

Ink: Early Espresso, Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry

Paper: Early Espresso, Basic White, Gathering Together Specialty DSP (Online Exclusive)

Accessories: Gathering Moments dies (Online Exclusive), dimensionals, linen thread, Low Profile Dots

Squirrely Noel - Stampin' Up!® Fluffy Squirrel

   I'm not sure that squirrels are ever considered a "Christmas animal" but I'm going for it with today's card.  Maybe it will start of trend of merry little squirrels singing jingle bells along with penguins and polar bears! Or maybe not lol!  I was late getting this card made, photographed and blogged so I missed the deadline for the Sunday Stamps challenge where the colors came from but I wanted to give credit where it's due.

 I started with a Secret Sea card base, then a layer of Basic White topped with a Cloud Cover panel embossed with Soft Waves embossing folder and die cut with the Perennial Postage dies.

  Using the Snowy Delights dies I cut a large snowflake out of Basic White and then a few small ones from Peaceful Gardens Glimmer Paper.

  Fluffy the squirrel is stamped in Early Espresso and colored in with Stampin' Blends markers.  He's fussy cut and then popped on dimensionals.

  The little gift is stamped in Secret Sea and colored in.  I fussy cut it and adhered it to Fluffy's hands.

  The sentiment from Wishing You Joy is stamped in Secret Sea and is popped on dimensionals.  A few 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls in Cloud Cover are added near the small snowflakes for the final touch.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Fluffy Squirrel, Wishing You Joy

Ink: Early Espresso, Secret Sea

Blends: Pecan Pie light & dark, Ivory, Secret Sea light, Cloud Cover light & dark

Paper: Secret Sea, Basic White, Cloud Cover, Peaceful Gardens DSP

Accessories: Soft Waves embossing folder, Perennial Postage dies, Snow Delights dies, dimensionals, 2025-2027 In Color Flat Pearls

Pumpkin Patch - Stampin' Up!® Choose Happy

   Sometimes I think I should clean out my retired paper collection and then there is a challenge and I need to have all of that paper to choose from!  Last week's Inspired By challenge had a fun inspiration photo of pumpkins of all different colors lined up in a grid pattern.  And while I didn't get my card made before the challenge ended I had a ton of fun making not one but two cards.  The Choose Happy set is the only one I have that has a pumpkin image and it was just perfect!  And since I used up a (tiny) bit of retired Designer Series Paper that just confirmed to me that I should never get rid of any paper. Ever. Lol!

  I went through all of my current and retired bits of DSP and pulled out the browns, oranges, and yellows and then stamped the pumpkin using either Early Espresso or Pecan Pie ink then fussy cut them.

  The pumpkins are popped up on dimensionals onto a piece of Very Vanilla that is cut with the Textured Notes dies. I left space in the center for the sentiment from Blooming Phrases which is stamped in Early Espresso.  

  Early Espresso is used for the backing layer and Crumb Cake for the card base.  For one card I used a Streaked Dot embellishment by the sentiment and the other has a Cajun Craze and Gold dot.

  This was such a fun design to put together and I really enjoyed taking a walk down memory lane with all the different papers from years past.  

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the current supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Choose Happy, Blooming Phrases (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Early Espresso, Pecan Pie

Paper: Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, various DSP (most retired)

Accessories: Textured Notes dies, dimensionals, Cajun Craze & gold dots, Streaked Dots

CAS Watercolor Leaves - Stampin' Up!® Beautiful Motifs Dies

   I've been on a clean and simple kick this week!  It was very much not intentional but the inspiration lately just happened to be CAS challenges.  And even though there aren't a lot of layers or supplies used it can be harder to create a CAS card; having to be choosy with design elements sometimes makes you just want to use more of them!  I was inspired by 2 challenges for this one; The Paper Players with their CAS Watercolor theme and the Addicted to CAS team with the prompt of "leaves".  A leafy die from the Beautiful Motifs die set is the perfect focal point for both challenges.

  I started with a  Basic White thick card base, then a layer of Floral Impressions DSP in a nice subtle Old Olive pattern.  

  I used the die on a piece of watercolor paper popping the leaves up since the die doesn't cut out the whole image which is a cool look and then watercoloring them with my water painter (available again in the Stampin' Up!® online store!).

  The sentiment from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set is stamped in Old Olive to stick with a monochromatic scheme which keeps it clean and simple.  No ribbon or embellishments for the same reason.

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  All of the supplies used to create this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Beautiful Motifs

Ink: Old Olive

Paper: Basic White thick, Floral Impressions DSP (Online Exclusive), watercolor paper

Accessories: Beautiful Motifs dies, waterpainter

Jolly Christmas - Stampin' Up!® Jolly Delivery

  I'm getting a little Christmas-y with my card today!  I made this one yesterday on my Facebook Live and you can watch on replay below on YouTube.  The Jolly Delivery bundle is really cute and I always love a good critter card.  

  Aren't they cuties?  I have lots of layering and a bit of coloring with Stampin' Blends to create this design.  See how it all comes together.

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Jolly Delivery

Ink: Memento Black, Shaded Spruce, Real Red

Blends: Shaded Spruce light & dark, Pool Party light, Real Red light & dark, Pecan Pie light & dark, Timid Tiger light & dark, Basic Black light

Paper: Real Red, Basic White, Shaded Spruce, North Pole Delivery DSP

Accessories: Jolly Delivery Dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Soft Waves embossing folder, dimensionals, baker's twine, Traditional Sparkling Sequins

Flamingo Rose - Stampin' Up!® Along These Lines

 It must be the week for CAS (clean and simple) cards because I've got another one for you!  This time I'm using the layout from CAS on Friday.  I have to admit I was a bit stumped with this one as the long skinny design element didn't give much room for an image but after scanning my stamps the Along These Lines set seemed to fit the bill!

 I started with stamping the rose image along a skinny strip of Basic White.  I extended the long line at the top and bottom with the plain line stamp in the set. 

 I used Blends to color the image and then fussy cut just the one side.  I added a piece of Flirty Flamingo cardstock on the fussy cut side then popped the layers up on dimensionals.

 The sentiment from The Right Words is stamped in Memento black on the card front then a few Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink gems are added for a tiny bit of sparkle.  They are a great match to Flirty Flamingo even though they are listed as a different pink.

 And that's it for this clean and simple card!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Along These Lines, The Right Words (Online Exclusive)

Ink: Memento Black

Blends: Flirty Flamingo light & dark, Granny Apple Green light & dark

Paper: Basic White thick, Basic White, Flirty Flamingo

Accessories: Strawberry Slush & Pretty in Pink gems, dimensionals

Sunset Mountains - Stampin' Up!® Light & Wonder Dies

   If you love creating nature scenes with die cuts then the Light & Wonder die set is for you!  I don't usually get these types of sets but the Lights of Aurora DSP that coordinates is absolutely gorgeous so I thought I would give it a go.  And wouldn't you know it the first card I make with the dies doesn't even use the DSP!  I thought the colors from the As You See It challenge would work really well so the night skies will have to wait until next time!  And perfect timing to have a card for Testosterone Tuesday because we all need guy cards!

  Not half bad right?  Starting at the back, I decided on a Cloud Cover base then worked my way forward with the layers.  Next are the 2 sets of mountains, one in Timid Tiger and the other in Pumpkin Pie.  I punched a small circle from Pumpkin Pie, sponged the edges with the same color ink and then used the brush tip of my Secret Sea Stampin' Write marker to define the edge of the sun even more.  Then I tucked partially behind the mountain and added the die cut clouds.

  For the trees I cut them twice from Secret Sea and layered them with the front trees cut apart.

  Next in the foreground I cut the water out of Cloud Cover and added the white embossed sentiment.  The sentiment is from the With You In Mind stamp set.  I adhered this layer with dimensionals to add to the depth of the scene.  

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All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: With You In Mind

Ink: Versamark, Pumpkin Pie, Secret Sea Stampin' Write marker

Paper: Secret Sea, Timid Tiger, Pumpkin Pie, Basic White, Cloud Cover

Accessories: Light & Wonder dies, dimensionals, white embossing powder

Simple Fall Birthday - Stampin' Up!® Gathering Moments

   I always love using little images for CAS cards and the tiny acorn from the Gathering Moments stamp set is the lucky image to get highlighted for my card today.  The CAS Colours & Sketches challenge has us using Mossy Meadow, Secret Sea and Pecan Pie this time around.  I thought the colors were pretty great for a masculine fall card and so I went with it!

  These darker colors might have looked a bit drab if they were used in larger chunks but with all that open white space they pop just right!

  I used a Basic Beige card base, then a layer of Secret Sea topped with Basic White.

  I stamped my leaves and acorn, cut them out and then cut out a small circle in Secret Sea with the Stylish Shapes circle die.  The leaves are stamped off once since my Mossy Meadow pad is really juicy and all the details were getting muddied.  Everything is then layered with a bit of linen thread and some dimensionals just above the center the card.

  Finally a crisp sentiment from Simply Said stamped in Secret Sea ink is the last thing to bring this card together.  I probably should have stamped the sentiment first before adhering everything else just in case it was crooked or I got a dog hair on the stamp at the worst moment but I got lucky and it worked out! Whew!

  Thanks for looking!  Did you stamp today?

All of the supplies used to make this card can be purchased in my ONLINE STORE.

Stamps: Gathering Moments, (Online Exclusive) Simply Said

Ink: Secret Sea, Mossy Meadow, Pecan Pie

Paper: Basic Beige, Secret Sea, Basic White

Accessories: Gathering Moments dies (Online Exclusive), Stylish Shapes dies, dimensionals, linen thread