STAMPtember – Stamped Smiles

Hello friends! We have now started the Fall season over my way and although the weather has been quite unpredictable, I am looking forward to the temperatures dropping and pretty Fall colors outdoors. I have just now started seeing some slight changes in some of the foliage.

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So now let’s get back to some Fall crafting! I’ve made a birthday card for a guy that likes to go camping and eat smores by the fire….

I think this turned out so fun! I have used an older STAMPtember collaboration set from My Favorite Things and not sure if it’s last year or before that…but fell in love with the camp critters in the set! (This year’s STAMPtember collaborations will be fun to play with too! Stay tuned for some makes coming up with those!)

I have ink blended a panel in blues for a night sky and splattered some white over it for a starry look. I stamped and colored all the images and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I die cut a very dark green panel with a grass border die and attached it over the blue night panel that was layered onto a white A2 side folding card base. I tucked in and attached all the pieces over the grass and behind it for the scene and then even added some shadow with a marker under some of the images. I white heat embossed the sentiment from the set and then the celebrate banner was attached at the top. Lastly, I’ve added some Stardust Stickles over the flames from the fire.

How about you? Do you like to camp? Eat smores? Enjoy Fall weather? I like all of the above of course! Thanks so much for stopping in today! Hope you’ve been inspired or gotten smile!

Challenges:

Make My Monday – Create Your Own Background (starry sky)
Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
Creative Fingers – Anything Goes
Love to Craft – Anything Goes
Allsorts – 4-legged Friends or Anything Goes
Passion for Markers – For a Man or a Boy (colored with Copic markers)

Well here we are friends! Happy Halloween!!! I hope whatever your plans are that you have a safe and wonderful evening! I also hope the little trick-or-treaters don’t get too cold this year with the snow over my way!

Well, although it’s Halloween today, we are having a “Christmas” theme going on this week at the Cute Card Thursday Challenges! So if you’re all packed up from making Halloween, then this would be a great time to start working on your Christmas makes for the year! We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Here’s the card I made for the challenge:

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Isn’t this image just beautiful?! I was so happy to pull out this stamp… finally and color it up for a Christmas card! This was my purchase during STAMPtember from Paper Rose. I had never heard of this company before that time, so this was the stamp set/die combo I picked to get as I fell in love with it.

I stamped the large image over a piece of Copic Blending Card and then stamped the sentiment from the set right underneath it. Colored with Copics and then trimmed it down to fit over my card front. I layered this panel onto a piece of brushed gold cardstock and then a piece of red.

For the card base, I took the two pine sprigs from the stamp set and randomly stamped them over a kraft colored A2 sized top folding card base. I used the same ink color to stamp them with and then used that color to sponge around my image panel before attaching all the layers together.

Here’s a closer view of the coloring I’ve done over the image. Although the brushed gold cardstock is a bit muted, you can see the slight shimmer in it.

I’ve taken a Copic marker and done some random “dots” all around the flowers. I’ve also used a gold gel pen to color the center of the flowers as well as add some more “dots” around the poinsettias.

For the “berries” within the branches, I’ve added some Nuvo Morning Dew Drops which dries clear over them. This would be the only dimension on my card which makes it nice and flat for mailing.

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I’m actually really happy to add another Christmas card onto my pile for this year and I have many places to send cards to, so I know I will be making more!

Thanks so much for joining me here today and I’ll be seeing you again soon!

Challenges: