Fall is finally here! The mornings are crisp and cool, and the afternoons are sunny and bright. No wonder this is my favourite time of year!
My upline, Leena, hosted our quarterly team meeting this past weekend, and challenged us all to create a fall themed card to swap with our teammates. Eight people participated in the swap, so I knew that whatever I designed was going to have to be simple enough to reproduce multiple times, and yet distinctive enough to (hopefully) showcase a stamp set in a new way.
My card features the new Feeling of Christmas stamp set. You may not have noticed it in the Holiday Catalogue--it's a stand-alone stamp set snuggled in at the top of the page--but it immediately caught my eye.
I like to take "Christmas" stamps and see how they can be used throughout the year, and this was an easy one! I have a wreath on my front door year round, celebrating each season as it comes. And this set can so easily be changed with ink colour choices to reflect Spring, Summer, Winter, or Fall, as I did for my card this week.
I started with a piece of Cajun Craze cardstock as my base. I added a strip of the beautiful Autumn Harvest DSP--I hated to use it because it is so pretty and I like to hoard my paper, but good news: it's part of the DSP sale on right now! So I have already replaced it. :)
I then went to work on the front panel. I stamped the detailed wreath in Early Espresso and then stamped overtop with the painted stamp in Old Olive. I did a little bit of hand painting with Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry inks and my blender pen. It is such an easy way to add just a little bit of colour, without worrying about bleeding outside the lines! Although you can't see it in the picture, I added clear Wink of Stella to the bow and the yellow balls, just to give them a little autumn shimmer. I finished it off by stamping the "I am thankful for you" sentiment from the Painted Harvest set across the bottom of the panel. It is such a pretty and elegant font.
I think this card would be perfect for that neighbor who helps you rake your leaves, or put away your garden furniture. And I think we need to get back into the habit of giving thank you cards to the people who we appreciate it--it always brightens someone's day to get a card, especially one that celebrates something they have done.
Here is a close up of the card front, where I was playing with a new app and trying to get an "artsy" look to my pic. Let me know what you think!
Thanksgiving is this weekend (already, yikes!) and I am working on some special treats which I'll share next week.
Until then,
Barb
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