Autumn Thanks

Happy Autumn!  It's Suzanne here today with a project with a Thanksgiving theme.  This is for an Elizabeth Craft Designs Group post which you can see over on their blog.

Autumn is such an amazing riot of colours!  Simply gorgeous!  And so that is what inspired this card!  Thank you Autumn!

Supplies:
A Way With Words 4 Seasons  QFD | ECD
A Way With Words Thanks   QFD | ECD
A Way With Words Leaves Snowflake Stencil  QFD | ECD
Soft Finish Cardstock: Pale Peach, Rust, White
Glue Dots Micro
Scrapbook Adhesive 3D Foam Squares
Distress Inks in Bundled Sage, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade and Festive Berries.
Makeup brushes or similar

Instructions:

1. Form a 5 x 7" tent fold card base from white cardstock.
2. Die cut Autumn from Pale Peach and Thanks from Rust.  
3. Cut a rectangle approximately 6 x 4.5" from white cardstock (this will be trimmed later).
4. Use removable tape to hold the stencil on the white rectangle near the top.  Designer Tip:  You might want to cover the snowflake cutouts on the stencil so you don't accidentally colour in them!
5. Blend the Distress colours through the stencil onto the Soft Finish Cardstock starting with green on the left and red on the right as shown.
6. Trim the stenciled cardstock to 5.75 x 4".  Cut a mat slightly larger from Rust cardstock.
7. Colour blend Festive Berries on the bottom of the Autumn die cut as shown and adhere the word dies to the stenciled panel with small pieces of Clear Double Sided Adhesive or Glue Dots.
8. Attach this panel to the mat and then both panels to the card base using 3D Foam Squares.

Now give it to someone special!

Thanks for having a look!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy creating, Suzanne

Autumn Leaves, Gilding and Card Making

Happy Wednesday! It’s me, Kim...here on the blog once again! I’m showing up today with a food hangover after our Canadian Thanksgiving feast over the weekend! My heart is happy and honestly there is so much to be thankful for. Autumn always puts a smile on my face, I would love to hold onto this season endlessly! Autumn was most definitely the inspiration for my card! 

Let’s take a peek at my steps.

I used the Modern Gilding Powders in ‘Copper Scroll’ on the chipboard wreath. I just LOVE the colour and shine. Copper scroll is the perfect autumn colour!

To create my leaves, I used the Quietfire Design Leaves #6082 set. 

I stamped them onto a mono-print that I had created earlier in the year using a gel plate. These were embossed using the Modern Gilding Powders in ‘Gothic Black’. It was perfect to capture all those fine details!

Next came the fussy cutting! Sorry folks...there is no way of getting around this step! It’s the perfect task to complete with some TV in the background!

I set all my leaves aside to create the background on a sturdy white cardstock. This was simply done using the Away With Stencils - Leaf Snowflake from Elizabeth Craft Designs. I used some soft, muted Distress Oxide inks to add the colour. 

My sentiment stamp is from the Quietfire Design set Autumn Collection #5662. I used my favourite Versafine black ink to stamp the quote slightly higher than center.

The fun part was building the wreath and seeing the card come together. I used Glue Dots to secure the wreath and leaves. Nuvo Drops were used to add the little dots of yellow and a small bow finished it off. I honestly LOVE how it turned out!

Suppy list:

Quietfire Designs Modern Gilding Powders [Copper Scroll & Gothic Black]

Quietfire Designs stamp [Leaves #6082]

Quietfire Designs stamp [Autumn Collection #5662]

Elizabeth Craft Designs stencil [ Leaf Snowflake - designed by Suzanne Cannon]

Southern Ridge chipboard 

Distress Oxide Inks

Versafine Black Ink

Glue Dots

Creative Scrapbooker Magazine Superstock

Stay tuned to all thing Quietfire Design! There will be some amazing new products release soon!

To Give Thanks Card

Hello, everyone!

It's Nancy back with you today! I have a new card to share with you,
using a combination of a fabulous Fall stamp set from Quietfire Design,
along with a fantastic Fall card cut file from the Silhouette Design Store.

With our Canadian Thanksgiving fast approaching,
I decided it was time for a Happy Thanksgiving card.
These wonderful products made it so easy!

Here's my card:

I began with the cut file.
This is the Autumn Pumpkin Doily Card.
Here's what the pieces look like all cut out:

I opted to use all plain cardstock for my card this time. 

The front focal piece has some intricate cuts that I didn't want lost in patterned paper.

I knew I wanted to do some stamping with black ink, so I chose black for my card base.

It adds a great frame around the finished piece.

Then I moved on to the stamping, using the To Give Thanks Stamp Set.

I began by stamping the "Happy Thanksgiving" in the center of the front piece.

For my layered piece behind it I chose the orange cardstock.

That way all the little pumpkins would show orange through the green.

Using a stamp positioning tool, I positioned the little pumpkin in the corner and stamped.

Then I just had to rotate the cardstock, and the pumpkin was stamped the same in each corner.

Then I adhered all the layers in place, using foam tape under the top lay for added dimension.

Finally, I added a double-loop bow out of shimmery ribbon.

I didn't take a picture of them but all the little pumpkin cutouts are adorable.
They'd make wonderful confetti to add to the inside of the card! ;o)
  

Quietfire Design Products Used:

To Give Thanks Stamp Set

Autumn Pumpkin Doily Card 

Other Materials Used:

Cardstock: Recollections, American Crafts;

Ink: Imagine Crafts - Memento Tuxedo Black;

Ribbon: Celebrate It.

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Thanks so much for stopping in today!

I hope you liked looking at my card! I sure enjoyed making it! 

See you again soon! 

Nancy :o)

Autumn Is Lovely

Happy  2nd Day of Autumn!!!  It's Wanda with you today sharing an Autumn card.  Our temperatures here in Southern Iowa are even feeling fallish.  I'm so glad there are not supposed to be any "hot" days this week and hopefully they'll stay away but not become winter too quickly.  

I cut a piece of Mixed Media Cardstock (Ranger Ink) to 5" square and worked up a Distress Oxide (Wild Honey, Picked Raspberry, Ripe Persimmon) background onto it.  Put inks on craft sheet, spray with water, press in paper, drip some water on paper while drying, lightly tap paper into left over ink to create droplets, dry adding more drips of water as you dry.

I pressed the paper in the ink for the large areas of color just wiggling the paper a little so the colors stayed in their areas.  For the droplets of color I turned the paper to add those over different areas. 

After determining where I wanted the quote to go I cut a window in my background large enough for the quote to show through.  

The quote I used is from the new Autumn Collection.  I stamped it onto a piece of Mixed Media Cardstock large enough to fit behind the oval.  I inked the stamp with both Oxide Ink colors for a nice blend.

On a scrap large enough to die cut the word, Autumn (Four Season Die Set), I worked up a background with Distress Oxide Ink (Vintage Photo, Tea Dye).  After drying I sponged Distress Ink Picked Raspberry to the center. 

After die cutting the word and setting it on my background, I thought it wasn't dark enough.  I sponged Distress Ink Ground Espresso over the word.  You can't really tell the original colors but there is variation to the color that I really like.

The Crackle Background was stamped around the edges with Distress Oxide Ground Espresso.  Later I also inked the edges.

I die cut the leaves from Mixed Media Cardstock.

The leaves were colored with Distress Inks (Ranger Ink) by putting the ink on a craft sheet, spraying with water, and dipping the leaves into the ink.

Once dry, details were added to the leaves using Distress Ink (Ranger Ink) and Susan's Garden Tools and Leaf Pad (Elizabeth Craft Designs).

Ok, full disclosure :-)  When putting things together I got a little smudge of ink on the quote panel.  To hide that I spritzed with Distress Markers.  I think it looks great and I'm glad I needed to do something!!!

I hope you've enjoyed today's card!!!!

Hugs, Wanda

Autumn - The Thankful Receiver

Hello!!!  It's Wanda here today to share an Autumn card.  I am ready for some cooler (not cold) weather but it's suppose to be in the 90s here in Southern Iowa today.  By Wednesday it's just the 70s.  70s will be nice but it won't stay and it'll be 80s the rest of the week.  

My background is created on translucent Yupo paper.  I used some bright alcohol inks in fallish colors.  Next I used wadded up plastic wrap to "stamp" Alcohol Lift-Ink.  As I lifted the alcohol ink I then stamped it onto regular white cardstock.  Once I was done stamping I blotted the lift-ink off the yupo and then buffed the paper.  

Next I flipped the yupo paper over and stamped the music image from the Crows Set multiple times with Archival Ink Jet Black until the paper was filled. 

I gently dried the black ink with a heat tool being sure not to get the yupo too hot.  You can see how the music comes through in this picture.

I stamped the harvest quote from the A Bit of Fragrance Collection on my stamped off paper and then die cut it with a Stitched Rectangle.  I also die cut my yupo with a larger Stitched Rectangle.  

The yupo paper was attached to white cardsock.  I stamped one image from the Where Flowers Bloom Collection on the center-bottom of the yupo paper.  I wrapped the quote panel with twine, tied a bow, and attached the panel to the yupo panel with thick foam mounting tape.  

You might notice that this card is not the card I showed at the top.  It was my original card and then after taking pictures I decided I should also use the Autumn die.  Everything was attached together so I created a panel by tearing around the main area using a metal ruler.  This would have been a very nice card also.

I die cut the word Autumn from white cardstock, inked it with Distress Ink Barn Door and Festive Berries, coated it with Embossing Ink and embossed it with Clear Embossing Powder.

I hope you've enjoyed today's card/cards.  Have a wonderful week!!!

Hugs, Wanda

Every Leaf Fluttering Resist Card

Happy December!!!  The weather the last few weeks here in southern Iowa has been much warmer than we would expect this time of year but that all changed yesterday.  We got up to a warm, windy day and then the temperatures fell all afternoon and evening for a difference of 40some degrees and now it really does feel like winter out and there is a chance of snow on Friday.  It's all good though!!!

I know we are all thinking about Christmas and creating our Christmas cards but I just couldn't resist making a card using the brand new Leaves set of stamps.  Like I said, it had been warm here - much more like fall than Christmas coming.

My main panel began with glossy white cardstock.  I stamped the leaves with Ranger's Watermark Resist ink and then pulled out one of my old Kaleidacolor ink pads, Autumn Leaves, and a brayer to add the color over the resist.  After brayering on the color, I buffed the surface with a paper towel, spritzed water over the panel, blotted it and dried it.  Beautiful!!!  I used a stamp platform to stamp the quote so I could stamp it multiple times getting the black nice and dark.  I stamped one leaf with black down in the corner and without thinking rubbed over it without first drying the black ink smearing it just a bit.  I went ahead and colored it with a marker but ultimately decided to layer a leaf over it.

I stamped the leaves on a piece of Distress Oxide background I had left over and cut them out. 

For the next layer I used Kraft cardstock, embossed it with the Tim Holtz/Sizzix leaves folder, rubbed the Distress Ink Spiced Marmalade ink pad over the panel and then sprayed it with Distress Mica Spray Antique Bronze.

Here we have the card all put together.  The edges of the main panel are distressed and I curled that top left corner because I wrinkled it while distressing the edge.  The leaves are attached with foam tape and the main panel is attached with foam tape.  I put this to the top of the embossed panel and then added Tim Holtz Craft Thread at the bottom.  Everything is attached to a folded black card.

Thanks for following along!!!  I hope you've enjoyed today's card!!!

Hugs, Wanda