Friday, October 3, 2025

Perfectly Pears Bundle for As You See It Challenge #358

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For some reason, I detest cliche answers! Even though those answers might be quite true for me, I still am very averse to using those answers when asked, just because it's something that's such an easy answer. I faced that scenario when starting my Design Team sample for the As You See It Fill In The Blank Challenge #358 this week. The blank we have to fill in is: My favourite thing about Autumn/Fall is ______. Check out the Challenge Banner:


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I could have answered: the colourful fall leaves; or warm sweaters; or pumpkin pies; and that would all be true, but it would also all be cliche, and I do not like cliche answers. I checked out my fall stamp sets, and my eyes fell on Perfectly Pears. I had it! Pears, the ripe ones, are my favourite fruits, particularly the Bartlett variety. And they ripen in early fall. My favourite thing about Autumn is Bartlett Pears ripening!

Here's the card I made celebrating that fact:

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  • I started with a card base of Old Olive cardstock, measuring 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" and scored on the long side at 4 1/4". A 3 3/4" x 5" layer of Painterly Pears DSP is added to that after adding a strip of Mossy Meadow & Gold 1/4" Ribbon along the bottom quarter using Tear & Tape adhesive.
  • On Very Vanilla cardstock, the two step stamping images of pears (1 in Old Olive and 2 in Mossy Meadow) were added. Then two of the basket woven rounds from the Textured Notes stamp set were added after being die cut with the Deckled Circles dies. They were stamped in Crumb Cake and Gray Granite ink.
  • The leaves were stamped in Pecan Pie ink and Crushed Curry ink, then die cut with the Perfectly Pears dies.
  • I used the crosshatch die from the Perfectly Pears dies to die cut a couple of the crosshatches from the Woven Textures DSP.
  • The sentiment is from the Amber Autumn, and is die cut with the Stitched Rectangles dies. It's stamped in Pecan Pie.
Everything was arranged and adhered to the card front with glue dots and Stampin' Dimensionals. Final touch is the Low Profile Sparkle Dots on the sentiment label.

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Friday, September 19, 2025

Light & Wonder Dies for As You See It Challenge #357


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I don't think I have ever been this late getting my card done for the As You See It Challenge! We were camping all last week, and it was perfect weather for camping, by the way, and when I got back last Saturday, everything hit the fan at once! There was a lot of stuff to do for our Strata Council (too much!!), stuff to do for a Crop we're holding in November, and stuff for the Challenge and it all happened at once. Throw in a bunch of appointments and events where food was needed and it was a perfect storm. But I got it done, and that's what matters!

It's a colour challenge, my favourite kind, so take a look at the challenge banner:

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The challenge is called Gentle Sunset and you can see why. It's a beautiful combination, designed by team mate Joanne, using 3 of the 5 new In Colours. When I looked at my stash to decide what to use, the Light & Wonder bundle caught my eye again, however, this time it was the dies I was thinking about. This is what happened with that:


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  • I started with a card base of  Secret Sea and mounted a 5 1/4" x 4"  panel of Cloud Cover on that.
  • I die cut the large evergreens from a piece of Secret Sea, and the small evergreens from a piece of Timid Tiger and glued them to the piece of Cloud Cover. 
  • I blended some Secret Sea ink between the two evergreen panels using a blending brush.
  • I die cut the three cloud shapes in both Cloud Cover and Pumpkin Pie cardstock, thinking to layer them with the Pumpkin Pie showing at the bottom of the Cloud Cover like the sunset was lighting up the underside of the clouds, but it didn't really give that effect well, so I just mounted some Pumpkin Pie clouds and one Cloud Cover cloud, and that looked better to me.
  • The sentiment from the Paper Tags stamp set, was stamped in Secret Sea ink, and die cut with the Stylish Shapes dies. It is mounted using Stampin' Dimensionals, with a twist of retired Night of Navy and Gold Glittered Ribbon underneath.
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