I had originally intended to post these THREE cards separately - but you are getting them all THREE in one post! Think of it as Thanksgiving dinner AND the leftovers all at once!
I started with the same basic set of supplies for both of these cards: Colorbox Archival Dye Ink Queue - Coffee House and Pigment Ink Queue Woodgrain and cream and pumpkin cardstocks. After that, I selected some fall stamps from My Sentiments Exactly, Memory Box and Hero Arts and created this trio of cards using those supplies. I wanted to mix the sheer, clear color of the dye ink with the strong, bold opaqueness of the pigment inks.
For the first card, I used a create your own tree stamp by My Sentiments Exactly and stamped the tree using dye ink and the leaves using the pigment inks...
The leaves are NICE and BOLD...
For the center card, I wanted to create a "backdrop" for the fall leaves, so I used dye ink to stamp the background, then used pigment ink to stamp the leaves...
Since the pigment ink is opaque, the leaves really stand out from the background...
And for the last card, I used the same stamp, inked with 3 different colors of pigment ink to stamp the 3 designs. Then, I used Smooch Accent Ink to fill in the leaves...
The Smooch Accent Ink added a shimmery touch of color and helped tie the trio together...
Here are the directions for these 3 fall themed cards...
“fall tree” card
Skill Level: easy
SUPPLIES:
Clearsnap: ColorBox Archival Dye Ink Queue: Coffee House and ColorBox Pigment Ink Queue: Woodgrain
My Sentiments Exactly: Thanksgiving and Nuture You stamp sets
Bazzill: Festive - Burlap, Candle Glow - Prismatics and Walnut Cream - Smoothies cardstocks and Brown Gingham ribbon
Tools: paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive, and stapler
DIRECTIONS:
1) Cut a 7 X 6 1/2 piece of pumpkin cardstock and fold in half to make a 6 1/2 X 3 1/2 card.
2) Cut a 6 X 3 piece of cream cardstock and stamp tree and ink edges using Mudslide Dye Ink.
3) Use a different leaf stamp for each of these 3 colors: Roussillon, Amber and Ochre Pigment Inks, to stamp leaves at ends of branches and along the bottom of the card.
4) Stamp "Happy Thanksgiving" and ink edges of a 2 1/4 X 1 1/4 piece of cream cardstock using Mudslide Dye Ink. Mat piece on a 2 1/2 X 1 1/2 piece of mustard cardstock and staple folded piece of brown ribbon at upper right.
5) Adhere stamped cream piece to center front of card, then adhere matted sentiment at upper right.
“leaf trio” card
Skill Level: easy
SUPPLIES:
Clearsnap: ColorBox Archival Dye Ink Queue: Coffee House, ColorBox Pigment Ink Queue: Woodgrain
Hero Arts: Real Leaves Clear Design stamp set and Old Letter Writing wood mount stamp
My Sentiments Exactly: Thanksgiving stamp set
Bazzill: Festive - Burlap and Walnut Cream - Smoothies cardstocks
Tools: paper trimmer, scissors and adhesive
DIRECTIONS:
1) Cut a 4 1/4 X 11 piece of pumpkin cardstock and fold in half to make card.
2) Cut a 4 X 5 1/4 piece of cream cardstock and stamp using Old Letter Writing stamp and Putty Dye Ink.
3) Stamp leaves over background using: Roussillon Pigment Ink for large leaf, Amber for medium leaf and Ochre for smaller leaf.
4) Ink "give thanks" stamp using Chestnut Pigment Ink at lower left.
5) Adere stamped cardstock piece to front of card.
“maple trio” card
Skill Level: easy
SUPPLIES:
Clearsnap: ColorBox Archival Dye Ink Queue: Coffee House, ColorBox Pigment Ink Queue: Woodgrain and Smooch Accent Inks: Gold Lame, Pumpkin and Molasses
Memory Box: Maple Branch wood mount stamp
My Sentiments Exactly: Multi Classic alphabet
Bazzill: Festive - Burlap and Walnut Cream - Smoothies cardstocks
Tools: paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive, and dimensional foam dots
DIRECTIONS:
1) Cut a 5 X 8 piece of pumpkin cardstock and fold in half to make card.
2) Stamp the image 3 times on a piece of cream cardstock using a different color of pigment ink each time: Roussillon, Amber and Ochre. Cut out when ink has dried.
3) Fill in leaves on each stamped image using Smooch Accent Inks and set aside to dry.
4) Stamp "grateful" on a 3/4 X 5 piece of cream cardstock using Mudslide Dye Ink. Dovetail ends.
5) Adhere 3 stamped images using dimensional foam dots to upper portion of card front, then adhere sentiment beneath.
I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving; and counts all their blessings as they celebrate this special day set aside to GIVE THANKS!
p.s.:
AND --- within the next few months, Clearsnap will be COMBINING Jean's and my blogs into ONE big blog with projects by guest designers too! You can take a peek at it HERE! In the meantime, both Jean and I will keep posting to our Typepad blogs, but the projects will also be posted on the Blogger blog --- so be sure to bookmark it!
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