Gorgeous Leaves for The Paper Players

 My house is sadly empty again after having all my kids and grandkids visiting last week, all together for the first time in about five years. It was total chaos, but wonderful! I'm exhausted but missing them terribly! However it's time to get back to crafting, and I'm into fall mode here as I pull out the Gorgeous Leaves bundle from the new July/Dec Mini Catalogue and design a card to enter in The Paper Player's latest Colour Challenge:

I also tried some Cork Specialty Paper weaving for the Global Design Project's Case the Designer Challenge: 

Here's a closer look at the weaving:

• The feature of this card is the centerpiece of woven specialty cork paper. I cut strips of 1/2' of the cork paper and arranged about 6 along one strip above and below alternately, gluing them so that they would stay fixed.
• I added additional horizontal strips, alternating above and below the vertical strips. I used glue dots to adhere the ends to keep them in place.
• When done, I trimmed it on the Paper Trimmer to a 2 1/2" square and glued it to a piece of Real Red cardstock, cut to 2 5/8" square.
• I used the splatter image from the Gorgeous Leaves stamp set and inked it in Daffodil Delight, then used sponge daubers to add Real Red and Old Olive ink on either side and stamped it on the top right and bottom left of a 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" piece of Basic White cardstock. I glued the woven cork square on this centering it in a diamond orientation.
• I stamped the leaf images you see above from the Gorgeous Leaves stamp set on Basic White. I inked them in one of the challenge colours and added another colour by sponge daubing it on before stamping.
• The sentiment is from the Delicate Dahlias stamp set (a Sale-a-Bration Level 2 reward) and is stamped in Old Olive ink on a left-over Kits Collection label.
• The other two layers are Daffodil Delight and Old Olive on the Basic White Thick card base.

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Product List

Gorgeous Leaves Cling Stamp Set [153365] $29.00	Gorgeous Leaves Bundle [158609] $60.25	Delicate Dahlias Photopolymer Stamp Set (English) [156601] $0.00	Cork 12" X 12" (30.5 X 30.5 Cm) Specialty Paper [156393] $10.25	Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Thick Cardstock [159229] $11.25
Basic White 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock [159276] $13.25	Old Olive 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [100702] $12.00	Daffodil Delight 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119683] $12.00	Real Red 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [102482] $12.00	Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad [147090] $10.25
Daffodil Delight Classic Stampin' Pad [147094] $10.25	Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad [147084] $10.25	Sponge Daubers [133773] $7.00	Paper Trimmer [152392] $34.00	Intricate Leaves Dies [153566] $38.00
Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Multipurpose Liquid Glue [110755] $5.50	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

Gorgeous Leaves Bundle for Freshly Made Sketches

 My preorder for the 2021 July/December Mini Catalogue arrived on Friday and, of course, you know what I had to spend time doing this weekend - playing with my new toys! The first bundle I pulled out was the Gorgeous Leaves bundle, which includes the *Gorgeous Leaves cling stamp set and the *Intricate Leaves Dies. 

*These products are from the 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue and won't be available for sale until August 3, 2021.

I chose those because I wanted to play along with Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #493 and the leaves made the perfect diamond shapes for the bottom. Here's the challenge banner to check it out:

This card also contains lots of other intriguing new products from the July/Dec Mini Catalogue, which won't be available to the public until Aug. 3, 2021. It had to be moved a month forward due to unavailability of many of the products in the catalogue because of COVID shipping delays. But these products are definitely worth waiting for!!

• On the Early Espresso card base is a very interesting background paper called the *Cork Specialty Paper. 
• The strip on top of that is Crumb Cake embossed with a new 3D embossing folder called *Timeworn Type. After embossing it, it has been sponged with Soft Suede ink to bring up the embossed features better. Then the edges are distressed and torn to add to the timeworn look.
• Across near the bottom of this strip  a piece of *Diamond Weave Ribbon has been added. It's really 100% cotton crochet trim in Very Vanilla.
• Two different leaf images from the *Gorgeous Leaves stamp set were stamped on Very Vanilla. The maple leaf was inked in Cajun Craze and some Soft Suede was added to the stamp with a sponge dauber before it was stamped. The smaller poplar leave was inked in Crushed Curry and some Cherry Cobbler was daubed on before it was stamped. Two of these images were stamped.
• These images were die cut with coordinating dies from the *Intricate Leaves Dies and mounted on the card front using glue dots for the small leaves and Stampin' Dimensionals for the Maple Leaf.
• The sentiment is from the Quiet Meadows stamp set in the Annual Catalogue and it was die cut with the Tasteful Labels dies, also from the AC.
• *Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots add a finishing touch as an embellishment.

*These products are from the 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue and won't be available for sale until August 3, 2021.

There were many more exciting products in my preorder which I will be using in the coming days and you can see me do a kind of "unboxing" in my Monday Morning Facebook Live video replay here:

             

           

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Product List

Quiet Meadow Cling Stamp Set [155082] $29.00	Quiet Meadow Bundle (English) [155847] $72.75	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [119686] $12.00	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [120953] $12.00	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [101650] $13.25
Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [147114] $10.25	Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad [147085] $10.25	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [147087] $10.25	Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [147083] $10.25	Soft Suede Classic Stampin' Pad [147115] $10.25
Crumb Cake Classic Stampin' Pad [147116] $10.25	Sponge Daubers [133773] $7.00	Stamping Sponges [141337] $7.00	Tasteful Labels Dies [152886] $42.00	Stampin' Cut & Emboss Machine [149653] $163.00
Stampin' Seal [152813] $11.00	Stampin' Seal+ [149699] $16.25	Mini Glue Dots [103683] $7.25	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430] $5.50

*Gorgeous Leaves Cling Stamp Set, *Gorgeous Leaves Bundle, *Cork 12 x 12 Specialty Paper, *Timeworn Type 3D Embossing Folder, *Intricate Leaves Dies, *Diamond Weave Ribbon, *Brushed Metallic Adhesive Backed Dots

*These products are from the 2021 July - December Mini Catalogue and won't be available for sale until August 3, 2021.