Pumpkins and spice - another sneak peak and a colouring tutorial

One of the advantages of being a demonstrator is that you get to play with the new products from the Holiday catalogue before the catalogue is released to the general public. This also helps me get ready for fall and fall classes.

I have always loved fall, a time when the leaves change colour and the air is clear and crisp.   It's what comes after that I don't particularly like.

So today I am making a fall card, a card with colours in shades of dark green and brown highlighted with orange - orange pumpkins.

On a Thick Whisper White card base is layered some Early Espresso card stock followed by Country Harvest DSP that resembles weathered barn board.  Some coordinating ribbon is wrapped around the DSP/Early Espresso before it is added to the card base.

Three pumpkins are added to the bottom of the card front.  Here's a short tutorial on how to colour the pumpkins.

Stamp the pumpkins with Pumpkin Pie ink and colour using both dark and light Pumpkin pie Stampin' Blends.

 Starting with the dark Pumpkin Pie marker, colour along the stamped lines.  Note:  use side of 

marker not tip to prevent premature wear of nib.

Add some dark colour to the bottom and top

Shade with the lighter shade of the Pumpkin Pie marker leaving uncoloured areas in the middle of each section.  This gives dimension and shape to the pumpkin.

Below is a close up of the coloured pumpkins.

The larger pumpkins are punched  using the Apple Builder punch, and the small one die cut using a Gathering Leaves die. The Apple Builder punch also punches out a stem for each of the pumpkins. These were coloured with  a light Mossy Meadow Stampin' blend and adhered to the top of the pumpkins. Several leaves were also stamped and coloured with Mossy Meadow ink, fussy cut and added to the pumpkins. Rather than stamp the tendrils, a tiny strip of Mossy Meadow card stock was fussy cut and coiled around a paint brush.

The pumpkins were added to the bottom of the card using dimensionals.

The sentiment, stamped in Early Espresso ink, is from "Country Harvest"

Supplies Used:
Stamps:  Country Home, Gather Together, Harvest Hellos
Inks:  Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Combo Pumpkin Pie Stampin' blends, Mossy Meadow blend
Papers:  Thick Whisper White, Early Espresso, Come to Gather DSP, Whisper White, Mossy Meadow
Accessories:  Apple Builder Punch, Gather Leaves dies, Come to Gather ribbon, Dimensionals

Altered Legal Pad using Holiday Catalogue products - SUO Challenge #209

I think this Holiday catalogue is one of my favourite one so far.  Many of the stamp sets and/or other products work together so well.

Making 3D items or altering existing objects is one of my favourite activities, so it was natural that for the challenge with SUO Challenges  this week  I use products(s) from the current Holiday Catalogue, alter a legal pad.

• Crumb Cake card stock 10 1/2 by 8 1/8".  Score 5 1/16 and 5 3/8"
• Cajun Craze 4 3/4 by 7 7/8"
• Whisper White 4 1/2" by 7 5/8"

Inside:  

• Top of Legal Pad Cajun Craze 5 by 3"  Score at  1 1/2 and 1 3/4
• Adhere a piece of 5/8" Striped  Burlap ribbon to the lower edge.
• Adhere to top of legal pad with longer piece on back.Adhere entire legal pad to inside of Crumb Cake cover

Whisper White Art Piece:

• I designed the front of his Altered Legal Pad in 2 sections - an upper and lower - using mainly The Winter Wood stamp set.
• Upper  On a lightly brayered Balmy /blue sky I stamped the 5 tree image in Early Espresso. just slightly off center.  The shadows at the base were stamped with Mossy Meadow ink.

Lower:

• On the right side the strand of birch tree branches were stamped with Soft Suede ink against a lightly brayered Balmy Blue sky.
• Beside it, on the left, the larger pine tree was stamped in Mossy Meadow Ink.
• Below both I stamped the shadows in a mixture of Mossy Meadow and Crumb Cake.
• On a separate piece of Whisper White one of the deer from Deer Splendor was embossed with gold embossing powder and die cut with the coordinating dies/framelits.
• This die cut deer was adhered in front of the Pine tree.
• The sentiment, from Country Home, was embossed with Pewter embossing powder on Whisper White,  die cut using the Stitched Seasons framelits, and then adhered over the bunch of birches. Small pine cones from Winter Woods were stamped with Soft Suede on either side of the sentiment.

To separate the two sections, I adhered a strip of 5/8" striped Burlap ribbon.  On the left side a separate piece of this ribbon is folded in half, the ends cut at an angle at different lengths and then adhered to the left side using glue dots.  On top of this angled ribbon I add a leaf embellishment.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Dashing Deer, Country Home

Inks:  Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Mossy Meadow, Versa Mark, Balmy Blue

Papers:  Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Whisper White

Accessories:  Gold embossing powder, Pewter embossing powder, Stitched Season framelits,  Detailed Deer Thinlet framelits, 5/8" striped Burlap ribbon, Leaf embellishment. Lined legal pad, Brayer

Winter Woods and Joseph's Coat technique - a case

I remember doing this technique for the first time when I went to a Demonstrator training session a number of years ago.  I loved  it then an I love it now.  I had forgotten about it until I saw a card made by.Kristi

On a Thick Very Vanilla card base I layered a 4 by 5 1/4" piece of Very Vanilla embossed with the Pinewood planks embossing folder.

The art piece consists of a 3 by 3 1/8" piece of Very Vanilla card stock matted with Pumpkin Pie (4 1/8 by 3 1/4")

On the art piece do the technique in the following way:

• with a sponge for each color of Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze and Daffodil Delight, apply each color randomly over the entire surface of the Very Vanilla art piece.  This is done as smoothly as possible without leaving any streak marks.
• using Versa Mark, stamp the image of the trees from Winter Woods and emboss with clear embossing powder.
• then sponge Early Espresso ink generously over the entire art piece
• once done wipe the area with a paper towel to remove the ink over the embossed trees to reveal the brilliant Autumn colors (emboss resist).
• mat the art piece with Pumpkin Pie card stock, wrap some braided twine  around the lower part and add it to the card front.
• use an Early Espresso and Pumpkin pie markers color the sentiment from "Country Home" and add to the card front using dimensionals.
• Stamp two leaves from "Colorful Seasons" - one in Daffodil Delight and one in Pumpkin Pie.  Die cut using the coordinating framelits and add to the left end of the sentiment strip.  Make a bow with the  braided twine and add to stems of leaves.    

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Winter Woods, Country Home, Colorful Seasons

Inks:  Daffodil Delight, Cajun Craze, Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso, Versa Mark, SU markers (Early Espresso, Cajun Craze)

Papers:  Thick Very Vanilla, Very Vanilla, Pumpkin Pie

Accessories:  Plank embossing folder, Clear embossing powder,  Colorful Seasons coordinating      framelits, Dimensionals, Braided twine