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]

Pretty Pines for Freshly Made Sketches

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Well, this is the happiest I've been with a card design for a long time. Does anyone else ever get into those stretches where they have all sorts of good ideas but nothing comes out the way they imagine it will? Or they just have no inspiration at all? I've been having a spell like that. But today was a breakthrough, and I attribute it to one of my very favourite suites from the the new Holiday Catalogue - Presents and Pinecones! Actually, to be more precise it's the Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies that I'm so in love with and have been since I first laid eyes on them back in July! And believe it or not, this is the first time I've had the opportunity to play with them!! But they didn't disappoint and I would have to put them at the top of my Top Ten list from the new catalogue. (More on that next week!)

I used the layout from the challenge at Freshly Made Sketches this week:

The background Designer Series Paper is from Candy Cane Lane - one of the more generic patterns which felt to me like a gentle snow fall.

You need to see it closer to get a look at all the textures and details:

• When you die cut the fir twigs in different colours of green you get more depth and definition than just using a single colour. Here I used Emerald Envy, Garden Green and Cucumber Crush. I love how easy the Pretty Pine Thinlits are to use as well. I didn't have to use my Precision Base Plate with these. They cut easily and easily removed from the dies as well. This is great for me as a demonstrator, because when I use this design in my next Technique class, I won't have to have my customers using the Precision Plate over and over and wreaking havoc on yet another cutting pad! I keep all my old cutting pads for just that purpose, but it's nice not to worry about it.
• Love, love, love the Copper Foil Sheets and the three different designs for pinecones that are in the set. I'm thinking that they can be layered for a different look, but here I used them separately. The Copper foil makes them just stunning!
• I added some woodgrain texture with the bottom panel of Early Espresso  to be a dark background to show off the fir branches and cones to the best advantage.
• The sentiment is from the coordinating stamp set, Christmas Pines, and it's stamped in Early Espresso ink, and die cut and backed with shapes from the Layering Circles Framelits! I have to say, I use these framelits far more than I ever did the old Circles Collection Framelits. They are much more useful.

I left you out on a limb yesterday, with only two of the three Gnome videos showing the Holiday Catalogue Reveal. I won't leave you hanging - here is the third:

         


Hope you enjoyed them! You can access the PDF file of the Holiday Catalogue through the link in my side menu! And one more time, I'll add it here. Just click on the cover picture to get there:

This catalogue is live now and you can order from it until January 3, 2017!

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

Christmas Pines Photopolymer Stamp Set [142049]	Christmas Pines Photopolymer Bundle [143496]	Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper [141981]	Copper Foil Sheets [142020]	Early Espresso 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [119686]
Emerald Envy 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [141415]	Crumb Cake 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [120953]	Cucumber Crush 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [138335]	Garden Green 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [102584]	Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad [126974]
Stampin' Pierce Mat [126199]	Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder [127821]	Pretty Pines Thinlits Dies [141851]	Layering Circle Framelits Dies [141705]	Big Shot Die Brush [140603]
Precision Base Plate [139684]	Big Shot [143263]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Glue Dots [103683]
Fine-Tip Glue Pen [138309]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

It's Here! The 2016 Holiday Catalogue from Stampin' Up!

Merry Christmas! Well, I couldn't help myself! It feels like Christmas, and you're going to think so, too! Today is the launch of the 2016 Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalogue and you're going to love it! Click on the cover photo to access the downloadable PDF version of this amazing catalogue!

What did I tell you? Now to have a little fun, I'm going to share some silly videos that Stampin' Up! used to tease the demonstrators before revealing the catalogue to us back in July:


        


And Part 2:


        

I'll save Part 3 for tomorrow. You can only take so much Gnome in one day!

Here's another great deal though: Stampin' Up! is having some Special Deals in September!!
From now until September 21, save 25% of selected products each week. Here's the first week's specials:

Contact me if you want in on any of these. They are good until next Wednesday, September 7 at 11pm.