Fall Themed Party

I am posting an extra time this week, because I realized today that I promised to post my Fall theme and did not do it. I was cleaning the house and it occurred to me, "Hey, you posted the wrong project." I am so sorry!

The layout was designed by Tiffany Cheney, CTMH Independent Consultant. I followed her theme and created a card, gift tag and gift bag. I love leaves and colors, so this was a great theme to make.

Recipe:

Stamp sets: Nature's Vein, Boutique Alphabet, Classic Caps, FALL (retired)

Paper: Abundance pattern paper, New England Ivy cardstock (cs), Barn Red cs, Autumn Terracotta cs, Colonial White cs

Ink: New England Ivy, Olive, Barn Red, Cranberry, Autumn Terracotta, Goldrush, Cocoa

Embellishments: twill ribbon, colonial white edge anchors, barn red bigger brads, new england ivy bigger brads, designer ribbon, new england ivy sassy strands

Brenda R-G emailed me and asked how I made my gift tags. Great question! I use the Coluzzle gift tag template that CTMH sells in their current catty. Thanks for asking, Brenda and thanks for your nice comments.

layout

card

gift tag

gift bag

Have a great weekend!

Technique Tuesday - Dry Embossing

I'm baaaack! I had so much fun at convention and created a lot of cool artwork that I can't wait to show you. However, it is time for technique Tuesday, so you will have to wait one more day. This is soooo easy and makes a card or layout look great. You can dry emboss with so many products. I chose to make straight lines that you can make using a Scor-Pal, your Fiskars paper cutter and scoring blade or an empressor guide and tool. Here are the directions:

Dry Embossing

• Take your cardstock and place it on one of the above items. You will need to decide on spacing.
  
• Drag your scoring blade, empressor tool, Scor-Pal tool or even a dry embossing stylus along the edge or groove.
• Keep moving your cardstock with the same spacing or varied spacing. You can stop at straight lines or make a grid. The possibilities are endless.
• Lightly sand the paper to bring out the design. Do not sand too much. You don't want to rub off the raised lines.

Here is the card I made today using this technique. I left it simple, so you could see the background. It doesn't need a lot to dress it up.


For this card I used Give Thanks and Nature's Vein stamp sets. The colors are barn red, cranberry, goldrush, autumn terracotta, garden green and olive. I stamped Thankful on a spectrum pad.

In addition, here is one page of a layout I did a while ago that shows this same technique.

For this layout, I used solo "t", and Essential Alphabet and dimensional letters. The colors are moonstruck, clover meadow and grey wool.

Now, it is your turn!

Stop by over the next few days and see what I created at convention. It was awesome to create with 350 fellow consultants. I got a lot of new ideas!

Happy Stamping!

SCS Challenge 143

I really look forward to the card sketch challenges on Splitcoaststampers now. It is one of the first sites I look at on Wednesday morning. That way, I can think of what I want to create while dropping the boys off to school, making lunch, and housework. By the time I sit down to create, the card just comes together.

My mom made a comment to me that she really liked the fall card I made about a week ago. She loves fall colors, so I thought I would make another one for her to see. I used my new stamp set Nature's Vein and the paper pack Abundance. The colors I used are autumn terracotta, new england ivy, cocoa, goldrush and colonial white. The thankful sentiment is from the solo "t" stamp set.

Here is the sketch for today:











I won't be blogging until Tuesday, because I am going to my parents. They live in the country and have dial up internet. Talk about snail mail. I will post again for Technique Tuesday. Have a great weekend!

Take time to create!