My Stamping Garage

For the Love of Leaves!

Fall has always been my favorite season. I love the cooler temperatures, the smell and sound of the crunching leaves as you walk through them, and the brilliant colors!  There is also a feeling of excitement and change. 

I am always inspired to spend time in my garage stamping fall cards. I love the colors!

I was inspired by the Love of Leaves Bundle in the August - December 2020 Mini Catalog from Stampin' Up! I love the watercolor effect the stamps give without any effort on my part to achieve that look. 

I spent some time recently using this stamp set. This is one of the cards I came up with that I really liked. I think one of my favorite parts of this bundle is the die that creates the stitched lines at the bottom of this card. What a fun and easy way to create a background!

The fall colors I seem to use the most are Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Pumpin Pie.

 

Swing Card Tutorial

 

 

I have an amazing group of ladies on my Stampin' Up! Team. They are funny, creative, and I consider them amazing friends!

We had an all day training event earlier this summer. Many, many people were involved in making it a success.  My friend, Jessica Ingold showed how to make a swing card. What a fun technique!  Along with that, Margot Richardson showed the inking acrylic blocks to make a cool background. I had done this background technique using alcohol markers, but hadn't used the Stampin' Write Markers before. I decided to combine the two techniques for this card.

I did this video to show how to make the card. I wanted to post the actual dimensions, because I wasn't very clear about dimensions on the video:

The base of the card was Bermuda Bay, and measured 4.25 x 11 inches ( a sheet of cardstock cut vertically in half)

The "W" for the base of the card was 2.5 x 4.25 inches - scored along the 2.5 inch edge at 0.5, 1, and 1.75 inches.

The Pool Party front was 4 x 5.25 inches

The swing mechanism was 0.5 x 1.5 inches, scored along the 1.5 inch edge at 0.25, 0.75, and 1.25 inches.

The acrylic piece to attach the whale to the swing mechanism was 0.5 x 2 inches, and trimmed as necessary so that the whale hung where I wanted it.

The piece for the background was 4 x 5.25 inches of Shimmer White.

Stamps used were from the Whale Done Bundle

Texture Folder used : Old World Paper

Here is a video showing how to make the card - I hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/cLt9nuCPFZI