Monday, September 28, 2026

WE ARE FAMILY - AUTUMN FIELDS

This week I am featuring the Autumn Fields Bundle.  I purchased this bundle to use in an Autumn Sampler that I made recently for a class, but I also wanted to see how I could use it for a card.

The sentiments and greetings in this bundle are large and bold so for my first card with this bundle, I decided to focus on a couple of the sentiments.

If you are a scrapbooker the sentiments in this stamp set would be great for scrapbook pages!  Can't you just picture this "we are FAMILY" on a scrapbook page surrounded by pictures of your family?  Check out the bundle in the product list below to see all the images and dies that are included.

The background for today's card was created with a decorative Painted Pumpkin mask.  I used the mask to create an ombre background of leaves using Pretty Peacock and Lost Lagoon ink.

I used three of the small flowers from the Autumn Fields Bundle to add some pops of color.  The curvy Pretty Peacock row of leaves and the FAMILY Basic White die cut sentiment strip were made with dies from the bundle.  

I purposely made the background for the card front a little larger than I needed so that I could trim off a strip and use it to decorate the inside of the card.  Three more little flowers surround the sentiment from Fabulous Sayings.  This sentiment stamp set was a Product of the Month a few months ago, but obviously any sentiment could be used.

If you are not familiar with the Product of the Month, it is a product that is new each month and can be purchased for $5 when your order reaches a value of $75.  These products are only available while supplies last and sometimes run out even before the end of the month.  September's Product of the month is this beautiful Specialty Designer Series Paper called Luxe Foliage.


Isn't it pretty?

Use this link to download a tutorial with all the details to create today's card.

Below is a list of the products that were used on the card.

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Thursday, September 24, 2026

ELEGANT LEAVES WITH BABY WIPES

While the leaves on Monday's card were in bold traditional fall colors, the leaves on today's card are anything but traditional.  They have a pretty, softer vibe, and I'm not sure they even exist in nature.  

I revived an old technique that I hadn't used in a long time so wanted to experiment a bit with color.  The technique is Baby Wipe Stamping.  With this technique you use a folded Baby Wipe to create an ink pad by adding drops of various ink colors on the baby wipe.  Then you use that baby wipe as your ink pad to ink your stamp.

If you are new to stamping and haven't seen this technique before it's a lot of fun.  Watch this video for lots of tips and tricks.

As I mentioned in the video, my original intent was to make all the leaves using the Baby Wipe Technique, but when I assembled the four leaves on the card front, they all just blended together, and it didn't really showcase them very well.

So, I did a reset and stamped the three smaller background leaves with simple two-step stamping.  I used the same colors that I had used on the Baby Wipe--Gorgeous Grape, Blueberry Bushel and Bubble Bath--but made them each a solid color.  That helped the large, center Baby Wipe leaf to stand out more.


The solid potion of the two smallest leaves was stamped-off so that the tone-on-tone veins would be clearly visible.  The medium-size leaf was stamped with Bubble Bath and Gorgeous Grape.

When you make your Baby Wipe ink pad, you can use it several times, so I had fun with the inside of the card and the envelope flap.


I stamped several leaves on the edge of the message layer and the flap of the envelope.  As long as I left plenty of white space between the leaves, I loved how it looked.

The sentiments on the front and inside of the card are both from the Elegant Leaves Bundle.  


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Monday, September 21, 2026

REGAL ELEGANT LEAVES

This week I am featuring the beautiful Elegant Leaves Bundle.   This is an awesome bundle to use for Fall cards but change up the colors and it could be used any time of the year.

For today's card I used traditional fall colors, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Crushed Curry--all of which are front the Regals Color Family.  However rather than using a tone-on-tone color for the veining in the leaves I used Secret Sea ink.  I got this idea from a sample card in Stampin' Up!'s Fall Seasonal Mini catalog.  It really makes the leaves pop!


The center focal point was made with the Party Banners dies and the top layer was embossed with the Softly Woven Embossing Folder.


If you look closely, you can sese the subtle plaid embossing.  I love that it is an all-over subtle design.


For the inside of the card I stamped another Garden Green Leaf and then used the woodgrain die from the bundle to decorate the left edge of the Basic White cardstock.


One thing I learned when using this die is that you want to make sure the cardstock that you are cutting is larger than the die on all sides.  If not, it will fall apart!  Guess how I learned that!  😓

The happy thanksgiving sentiment is from the Soiree Salutations stamp set -- also in the new Fall Seasonal Catalog.  If you overlooked this set, look again!  It has 17 greetings for all the major holidays and more!  Plus as an added bonus, they are sized to be used with the Triple Banner Punch.  Obviously, I didn't need that for the inside of the card, but it would make a quick and easy sentiment for the front of a card.


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