Petals and Paisleys with Vintage Leaves

You can feel the chill! Fall is definitely in the air. I think it's my favourite season. I love the warm colours and and cool freshness of the air. I love the harvests and the delicious foods we make out of them. I love getting out the sweaters and long sleeves again. It's such a cozy feeling. But the glory is so brief and then we're in to the  dreariness of winter. I wish I could learn to embrace that season, too! Oh, well. The one good thing about time passing more quickly as we get older is that our not so favourite times pass more quickly, too! Anyway, my card today reflects the coming of fall.

It takes some new products from the Holiday Catalogue and marries them with some old favourites from the Annual Catalogue for a warm autumn look. I used the Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper and the Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder from the Holiday Catalogue and added the Vintage Leaves stamp set, Wetlands stamp set, Lots of Labels Framelits and Copper Embossing Powder from the Annual Catalogue.

• I love this design from the Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper, with its delicate lines of Mint Macaron amongst the rich Cajun Craze! So perfect for autumn cards. There are so many other rich designs in the set as well.
• I wanted lots of texture on this card and achieved that using the Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder as a background to the leaves. There are a couple of things you need to know before you use this new product, which is also relatively new in the crafting world, so I made a quick video for my newsletter to explain how to use it. I'll share it with you here as well.

               

• I love the richness of the Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder and here it gave a perfect outline for the Vintage Leaves, nice and dark, but shiny. These were die cut with the Leaflet Framelits.
• The burlap ribbon adds the texture I wanted for this card and I added some pleats at the end, most of which I held in place with...gasp!!...staples. The last one I used glue dots. I'm still not quite ready for "in your face staples", but I'm working on it.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Vintage Leaves [138802]	Wetlands Wood Stamp Set [126695]	Wetlands Clear Stamp Set [126697]	Copper Foil Sheets [142020]	Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper [142017]
Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318]	Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119684]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Copper Stampin' Emboss Powder [141636]
Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]	5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon [141487]	Handheld Stapler [139083]	Lots Of Labels Framelits Dies [138281]
Leaflets Framelits Dies [138283]	Cable Knit Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [143537]	Big Shot [143263]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]
Glue Dots [103683]

Paisleys and Posies for the Pals

Well, I got out my new Paisleys and Posies stamp set* yesterday with the intention of making a nice warm and inviting fall card, but I ended up going in a totally different direction! As I sat there staring at all the beautiful paisley shapes, I felt like I just didn't quite know how to put them all together to make a design that I wanted. I didn't really know what design I was looking for. I thought about all the paisley prints I had seen in my life and you know what came to mind most often? Neckerchiefs! That's right! The western style bandannas worn by all the good cowpokes out on the range. And hippies... all the hippies wore them, too! I wore them during the sixties!

So what emerged was a western design, with the paisleys featured on a bandanna! It roughly (ahem) fits the sketch from Pals Paper Arts Challenge this past week:

Some of the products I used for this card are current products and some are sneak peeks of products you will find in the up-coming Holiday Catalogue.

• I used Real Red cardstock to make the bandanna, using my Stampin' Trimmer to cut in in roughly the shape I wanted, then rounding corners with the Project Life Corner Rounding Punch and making the neck curve using one of the Layering Oval dies. I arranged some of the Paisley and Posies* stamps on a large clear mount base and stamped them in Memento Tuxedo Black Ink on the red cardstock. Then I filled in any gaps with a couple of the smaller designs.
• With a Blender Pen and some White Craft Ink I added some white highlights to the paisleys on the bandanna. It really reminds me of the ones I used to wear.
• I was dying to try out the new Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder* and originally thought that I would just have the bandanna sit over that used on some Very Vanilla cardstock. But when I added the boots and the sentiment on the Very Vanilla as well, there wasn't enough contrast. I decided to just use a strip of the Cable Knit* embossed paper on top of some of the Warmth and Cheer Designer Series Paper Stack* paper, which looks very western as well and that added the colour difference I needed.
• The boots are from the Country Living stamp set in the Annual Catalogue and I used a Blender Pen with some Soft Suede and Crumb Cake ink to shade them in. The sentiment is from the Paisley and Posies stamp set* and is stamped in the Memento ink. The bottom part of this is trimmed with the Stampin Trimmer, but the boots at the top are hand snipped. Some White Thick Baker's Twine was coiled and added behind the boots for an addition touch of western charm.

*New Products from the 2016 Holiday Catalogue, available for purchase Sept. 1, 2016.

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today.

Product List

Country Livin' Wood-Mount Stamp Set [141922]	Country Livin' Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141925]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Soft Suede 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [115318]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]
Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102482]	Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708]	Whisper White Craft Stampin' Pad [101731]	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [126975]	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [126978]
Whisper White Thick Baker's Twine [141688]	Blender Pens [102845]	Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [127821]	Stampin' Trimmer [126889]	Paper Snips Scissors [103579]
Layering Ovals Framelits Dies [141706]	Punch Corner Project Life [135346]	Big Shot [143263]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Glue Dots [103683]
Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Paisleys and Posies stamp set*, Cable Knit Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing Folder*, Warmth and Cheer Designer Series Paper Stack*

*New Products from the 2016 Holiday Catalogue, available for purchase Sept. 1, 2016.