Hey There,
Don’t you just love Autumn? A walk in the woods, leaves crunching under your feet, blue skies, the smell of wood burning in the fire place. It’s my favorite time of year. I especially love that the veggie gardens are put to bed for the rest of the year so the pace is a bit slower for me. I now have a freezer full of home grown veggies. Lots and lots of frozen zucchini. So if you are like me, and you want to use some of that harvest, you may enjoy a recipe that I have link at the bottom of this blog post for Zucchini Cookies. They are my favorite all time cookie.
Today’s card was made in the spirit of Autumn and focuses on the Stampin’ Up! stamp set, French Foliage. The complete tutorial is below, enjoy!
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Now on with today’s tutorial. . . . . . .
Project Supplies:
Stampin’ Up! Stamps: French Foliage
Card Stock: Stampin’ Up! Whisper White, Summer Starfruit and Chocolate Chip
Ink: Stampin’ Up! Basic Black, Old Olive, Summer Starfruit, More Mustard and Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Stampin’ Up! Word Window punch, Piercing Tools, Gold Marker, Basic Black and Chocolate Chip markers and Stampin’ Dimensionals
Started with a 3.25″ x 5″ piece of Whisper White card stock. Smeared the ink from a Pumpkin Pie ink pad using an upward motion on the top of the card stock. Also smeared More Mustard ink below the Pumpkin Pie ink using an upward motion and smearing it 1/2 way into the Pumpkin Pie ink.
Smeared Summer Starfruit ink under the More Mustard ink over lapping the more Mustard ink. Next dabbed the Old Olive pad on the card stock lightly not covering the inks underneath. You want the colors underneath to be able to shine through.
Stamped the text stamp from the French Foliage set on the right and left sides of the card stock using Basic Black ink.
Drew in a branch using a Chocolate Chip marker. Added leaves to the branch using Basic Black ink.
Added Gold marker to the left side of the branches and the edges of the panel and Basic Black marker to the right sides of the branches.
Punched 3 Word Window punches out of Chocolate Chip card stock. Cut a 4″ x 5.25″ panel from Summer Starfruit card stock and embossed the panel using an embossing folder and the Big Shot machine.
Adhered the main image panel to the embossed panel. Added the word window punches that have one end of them cut off. Pierced holes in the word window punches using a piercing tool.
Stamped 3 additional leaves on a scrap of Summer Starfruit card stock using Basic Black ink. Cut them out. Adhered them over the stamped leaves on the main image panel using a Stampin’ Dimensional and glue at the bottom of the leave. This lets the top of each leave to pop off the card stock. 🙂
Added Brads and a Chocolate Chip card base.
Here is the finished card measuring 4.25″ x 5.5″.
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My Zucchini Cookies that I made this morning. They were so yummy with my coffee….mmmm m m m.
CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE RECIPE!
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May you feel sun on your face and smell the smells of Autumn today.
Until my next post.. . . . .
Hugs,
Get ready for Brayer and Direct to Paper Workshops! I am coming to the following locations, click the location name for more information.
I hope you can make it to one of my workshops in 2012. I have decided not to travel full time after this year, so be sure to catch one now!
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