Fancy Frost Fresh Fruit for The Paper Players

Woohoo! It's Friday! What a busy week it's been, and when I say busy, I mean busy in the Craft Cave creating! I was trying to get ahead a little and I don't know if I accomplished that, but over the last week I've designed quite a few cards...and this was the last of them. I wanted to enter The Paper Player's Challenge this week:

It was supposed to be a clean and simple card, which, of course, I did not quite achieve. But we were to also include fall taste treats such as apples and pumpkins on our card. What sprang to my mind was my mom so many years ago, all through the summer and into the early fall, busy in the kitchen canning everything she could get her hands on. And we looked forward to eating all that wonderful canned produce every winter. I'm sure it got us through a few lean years! She worked so hard on it. And I know that all her love went into every Mason jar of peaches, pears and cherries that she put up.

I wanted my card to reflect that love, and I'm so glad that we have the Jar of Love stamp set and Everyday Jars Framelits with which I could recreate the scene.

• This was the first time that I have used the Fancy Frost Specialty Designer Series Paper for the fall background. I sponged the embossed paper to get that warm effect.
• The Fresh Fruit Stamp set helped me to create the peach, apple and pear for the foreground. The sentiment is from the Flourishing Phrases stamp set, but it was just the right sentiment for the feeling of love I wanted to convey.

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Vintage Leaves for The Paper Players' Colour Challenge

The Paper Players have a colour challenge this week that I found a little odd. There was a pastel yellow, a bright orange and a dark blue-green. Since blue and orange are opposite each other on the colour wheel, they are complimentary colours. The funny thing is that I don't find complimentary colours very complimentary! I usually avoid them like the plague, so I wasn't sure how I was going to use this combination. I decided that leaves would work and got out my Vintage Leaves stamp set.

I started by looking for some Designer Series Paper that had Tangelo Twist in it and I found a plaid design I liked with Black and Vanilla as neutrals in the Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper. I decided to use Black as my main neutral and started out with layers of Basic Black, Lost Lagoon and the designer paper. Here's my design:

• I embossed the leaf images on Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist and So Saffron cardstock using Black Stampin' Emboss Powder. Then I covered the images with Versamark Ink and coated them in Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder and heat set it. That not only gives the images  a sparkle but also intensifies the colour. 
• I used the Leaflet Framelits to die cut the leaf images and then added them to a finger bow made of Basic Black Stitched Satin Ribbon with Glue Dots and adhered the whole swag to the card front. The Vintage Leaves stamp set and the Leaflet Framelits are one of the many bundles in the Annual Catalogue that will save you 15%.
• The label is die cut using the Tags & Labels Framelits and the images come from For All Things stamp set found in the Annual Catalogue.

This afternoon we will be heading up north to visit with my daughter and her family! She has advised us to bring warm clothes, so we're anticipating cooler weather there. I will update you as the week goes on, but right now I can hardly wait to get there and snuggle with Kesten and Cedar and visit with Kristen and David. Grandma's bringing some treats, too!

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]	For All Things Clear-Mount Stamp Set [135155]	For All Things Wood-Mount Stamp Set [135152]	Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper [139584]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]
Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133679]	So Saffron 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105118]	Tangelo Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133677]	Versamark Pad [102283]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]
Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [133644]	Black Stampin' Emboss Powder [109133]	Iridescent Ice Stampin' Emboss Powder [101930]	Basic Black 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon [138430]	Heat Tool [129053]
Embossing Buddy [103083]	Leaflets Framelits Dies [138283]	Tags & Labels Framelits Dies [138282]	Big Shot [113439]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]
Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

Happy Scenes with Hearth & Home Thinlits

Ever since I laid eyes on the new Holiday Catalogue, I've been dying to play with this bundle - Happy Scenes and the Hearth & Home Thinlit dies! I'm finally getting the chance today and my first project turned out just the way I imagined it would! First of all, this set means these dies and stamps are good for many seasons, not just fall and winter. Just think of all the scenes you could create through the window! Sheltering Tree would look awesome! Lovely as a Tree! Wonderland! White Christmas! Talented Trio! Even No Bones About It with the dinosaurs, if you were being funny! And that just names a few! I intend to have no end of fun with these thinlits and I hope you will join me!

The Happy Scenes bundle (where you buy two or more coordinating products together and save 15%) is one of seventeen in the Holiday Catalogue!! When I am finished looking at the card, I will list them all for you.

• The Tangerine Tango card base and the Early Espresso backing work with the woodgrained house walls to give a log cabin feel.  I actually first embossed the Tip Top Taupe cardstock with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and then embossed it a second time with the Brick Wall Embossing folder to get the log look here. You have to do it in that order. If you emboss first with the Brick Wall , when you re-emboss with the Woodgrain  folder, all the bricks get lost in the wood grain.
• I used one of the images from Happy Scenes. Using the Basic Black Archival ink, I stamped it on Whisper White and then water coloured the sky and the ground with Aqua Painters using a variety of colours: Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry and Tip Top Taupe. The leaves and pumpkins I coloured with Tangerine Tango, Pumpkin Pie and Tangelo Twist Stampin' Write Markers.
• The sentiment, from the same stamp set is embossed in Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder on the separate window box portion of the Hearth & Home Thinlits. One of the Into the Woods Elements embellishes it with some Gold 1/8" Ribbon.

We're making this card at my Technique Night classes tonight and tomorrrow.

Now here are those bundles I was telling you about:

Product List

Festive Fireplace Photopolymer Bundle [140860]	Happy Scenes Photopolymer Bundle [140853]	Jingle All The Way Clear-Mount Bundle [140862]	Embellished Ornaments Clear-Mount Bundle [140857]	Peaceful Pines Photopolymer Bundle [140850]
Flurry Of Wishes Photopolymer Bundle [140868]	Berry Merry Photopolymer Bundle [140875]	Reason For The Season Photopolymer Bundle [140847]	Snow Place Photopolymer Bundle [140844]	Holly Jolly Greetings Clear-Mount Bundle [140865]
Project Life Hello December 2015 Photopolymer Bundle [140305]	Project Life Seasonal Snapshot Photopolymer Bundle [140308]	Among The Branches Photopolymer Bundle [140872]	Sparkly Seasons Photopolymer Bundle [140863]	A Little Something Clear-Mount Bundle [140859]
Acorny Thank You Photopolymer Bundle [140841]	Howl-O-Ween Treat Clear-Mount Bundle [140840]

Stampin' Up! knows what we like and gives us more bundles than ever!

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

Happy Scenes Photopolymer Stamp Set [139821]	Happy Scenes Photopolymer Bundle [140853]	Tangerine Tango 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [111349]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686]	Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [100730]
Tip Top Taupe 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138336]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Brights Stampin' Write Markers [131259]	2014-2016 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [133654]	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]
Aqua Painters [103954]	Tip Top Taupe Classic Stampin' Pad [138325]	Tangerine Tango Classic Stampin' Pad [126946]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Pad [131173]
Versamark Pad [102283]	Gold Stampin' Emboss Powder [109129]	Gold 1/8" Ribbon [134583]	Embossing Buddy [103083]	Heat Tool [129053]
Into The Woods Elements [139636]	Hearth & Home Thinlits Dies [139666]	Brick Wall Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [138288]	Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [127821]	Big Shot [113439]
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fuse Fast Adhesive [129026]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]