It’s Friday again! This week we are going with a fun fall
theme! I have been cleaning and reorganizing my craft room quite a bit lately.
I’m not exactly sure that the process of cleaning and reorganizing ever ends,
but I have pulled out several retired clear mount stamp sets that I could stand
to part with. I gotta make more room on my shelf for new goodies you know.
Anyway I came across this Cottage Window stamp set that I never used. As in
brand new! It was never inked and didn’t even have the sticker on the back. So
terrible I know! So I pulled it out to use on this card and it is just so cute!
Now it has to go back on my stamp shelf.
- Stamps: Gorgeous Grunge, Express Yourself, Woodgrain, Cottage Window
- Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Baked Brown Sugar, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Soft Sky
- Ink: Soft Sky, Early Espresso, Whisper White Craft, Jet Black Stazon
- Markers: Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso, Blender Pen
- Accessories: Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, Stripes embossing folder, Burlap ribbon, Paper Snips, craft knife, Stampin’ Dimensionals
Here's your Mashup Challenge:
- Create a project with a "Fall/Harvest Food Theme (Preserves, Apples, Pumpkins etc.)."
- Create a project using "Paper Piecing."
- Or Mash it Up and create a "Fall Food themed project with some Paper Piecing "
For this fun fall card I started off by cutting a piece
of Soft Sky card stock 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” and scored it at 4-1/4”. I stamped all
over the card front with the small spots image from Gorgeous Grunge in Soft Sky
ink to add some interest to the background.
Next I cut a piece
of Crumb Cake card stock 3” x 4-1/4” and stamped it with the Woodgrain
background stamp in Early Espresso ink. I ran this piece through the Big Shot
in the Stripes folder so that the stripes are going the same direction as the
wood grain. Next I took my Whisper White craft pad and ran it across the card
stock then used a paper towel to lightly wipe some of the thicker areas of ink
off. This made the wood grain look like an old weathered wall. I adhered this
onto a 3-1/8” x 4-1/4” piece of Very Vanilla card stock.
Then I used the Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch twice on a
scrap of Early Espresso card stock. I cut the Early Espresso border down to
4-1/4” and adhered half of each ribbon behind each side of the panel with 2-Way
Glue Pen. I cut a piece of the fabulous
new Burlap Ribbon about 6” long. I used Paper Snips to cut one end into a
dove-tail shape then pulled out the horizontal threads to make the end more frayed.
I used a few Glue Dots to adhere the other end of the ribbon onto the backside
of the card stock panel and added one Glue Dot close to the dove-tail end and
adhered that down onto the card stock to keep it from moving around.
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Now for that adorable cottage window! I stamped the
cottage window frame once on Very Vanilla card stock and once on Baked Brown
Sugar card stock in Jet Black Stazon ink. I used paper Snips to cut around the
Baked Brown Sugar window and used a craft knife to carefully cut out the pane
openings in the window. Next I stamped the branch and spider inside the Very
Vanilla window with Jet Black Stazon ink and stamped the Pumpkins onto the card
stock in Cajun Craze ink. Then I used my Crushed Curry and Pumpkin Pie markers
to color in the leaves, Pumpkin Pie and Early Espresso for the Pumpkins, and
some Crumb Cake to make the ledge that the pumpkins are sitting on.
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I wanted to give a hint of color to the sky area so I
squeezed the center of my closed Soft Sky ink pad then used a Blender Pen to
pick up just a teeny tiny bit of color and started adding it to the top
portions of the window. I cut out the inside of the window shape with Paper
Snips and adhered it on top of the Baked Brown Sugar window frame. This was
adhered onto the card front with a couple Stampin’ Dimensionals.
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I just had so much fun making this card! I love to color
and got to play with some new and old goodies!
