Since it is cool outside and the leaves are changing colors and falling from the trees, I thought I would embrace Fall!
Here is a card I came up with for a Stampin' Addicts' Thanksgiving Swap during Convention. I sponged on some green grass at the bottom and clouds in the sky. I stamped the Woodgrain background onto Creamy Caramel cardstock then I used the modern label punch to make fence posts. I filled in the leaves on the Thoughts and Prayers tree with assorted Autumn colored markers to make the tree look full of changing leaves. I just love those little Forest critters!
Recipe All SU!- Stamp Sets: Thoughts and Prayers, Autumn Harvest, Woodgrain background stamp , Very Vanilla, Creamy Caramel, Bashful Blue, Pumpkin Pie cardstock, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Sahara Sand and Whisper White ink, assorted Stampin' Write Markers, Modern Label and Large Oval Punches, sponge daubers and dimensionals.
Today I am sharing a sympathy card that my mother asked me to make for a friend of hers whose brother passed away. Her friend is an artist from China, so I wanted something organic and beautiful with an Asian theme. I decided to use these pretty retired papers from SU!'s Green Tea Designer Series Paper collection. The stamp set is Thoughts and Prayers by SU! and I colored the image with Old Olive and Bermuda Bay Stampin' Write markers and stamped the image onto Whisper White cardstock cut using the Top Note Die and my Bigshot. I finished off with some Michael's pearls from my stash as accents. The card base is Certainly Celery SU! cardstock run through the Bigshot using a floral cuttlebug embossing folder. I also decorated the inside of the card to match using Baja Breeze SU! cardstock. (Sentiments are stamped using Blue Lagoon Memento ink).
Finally as a finishing touch, I added a strip of Green Tea DSP to the back flap of the envelope.
