Autumn-themed wiper card

Hi!

Today I’m sharing another wiper card. Sometimes when I think on an interactive card design I realize that I have many stamp sets that will work well to make an interactive scene. That was the case with my Go Bananas wiper card, so now, although I know I should be making summery cards, I’ve made a new wiper card with a fall scene.

For this card, I used Hello Bluebird stamps and dies. For the front panel, I stamped the “Blowing Leaves” background stamp on kraft cardstock using brown ink and colored the leaves using color pencils. I added some Nuvo Crystal Drops on some of the dots. I loved so much the pattern that I did not want to cover it too much, so I heat embossed the sentiment on white on a tag die cut from vellum. I added the pair of acorns image (also to have a place to put some glue) and used a string of burlap twine to tie the tag to the panel.

For the inside, I used the images from the “Oh Nuts!” stamp set. I love those squirrels!! I tried to color them using light colors since I tend to use very bold colors. As I wanted squirrels peeking from the upper and the lower side of the card, I had to create two borders. For the lower one, I used a simple hillside, while for the upper one I knew I wanted some treetops in different fall colors.

I used Distress Inks to blend all the die-cut pieces and splattered some water and ink on the same colors. On the treetops, I also splattered some drops of Nuvo mousse on Indian gold color mixed with water.

Here you have a short clip of the card:

I think this card turned out very well. I love the colors and the scene! I’m addicted to this mechanism, and I have plans of making at least one more card using it.

I’m entering this card into Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge:

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Thank you very much for stopping by!

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Supply list

Stamps:

• Hello Bluebird “Oh Nuts”
• Hello Bluebird “Pumpkin Time”
• Hello Bluebird “Blowing Leaves”

Dies:

• Hello Bluebird “Oh Nuts”
• Hello Bluebird “Pumpkin Time”
• Hello Bluebird “Pond Builder”
• Hello Bluebird “Oak Tree Scene”
• Lawn Fawn “Stitched Hillside Borders”
• Mama Elephant “Madison Avenue”

Coloring:

• Prismacolor Premier color pencils (for the leaves on the front panel)
• Zig Clean Color Real Brush

Inks:

• Versafine Vintage Sepia
• Versamark
• Twisted Citron Distress
• Mowed Lawn Distress
• Tea Die Distress
• Gathered Twigs Distress
• Bundled Sage Distress
• Fired Brick Distress
• Ripe Persimmon Distress
• Wild Honey Distress
• Scattered Straw Distress

Others:

• Canson Bristol paper
• Kraft cardstock
• Simon Says Stamp Sea Glass cardstock
• Simon Says Stamp vellum
• Nuvo Red Berry Crystal Drops
• Nuvo Indian Gold Embellishment Mousse
• Uni-ball Signo white gel pen
• Burlap twine

Snow globe shaped cards

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Today I’m sharing a couple of snow globe shaped cards but instead of Christmasy, they are fall and Halloweeny ones. I used Lawn Fawn “Ready, Set, Snow” add-on dies, which are great for shaker cards!

First, let’s take a look at the fall themed shaker.

I used Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp Stamptember collaboration stamp, “Nutty or Nice”. I fell in love with this stamp set and I wanted to use it not only for Christmas cards. I colored the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers and fussy cut them. By the way, the branch is from Lawn Fawn “Home Sweet Home” stamp set and the sentiment from Lawn Fawn “Ready, Set Shake” stamp set.

I used “Ready, Set, Snow” add-on dies on watercolor paper and inked the pieces with Scattered Straw and Wild Honey Distress inks. For the snow globe base, I used kraft cardstock. I stamped the “Woodgrain Backdrop” stamp with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and then used Walnut Stain Distress ink to darken the edges. Finally, I added the leaves to the shaker, for which I used Mama Elephant “Birch Trees” dies.

Now, let’s check the Halloween themed card.

For this shaker, I used Mama Elephant “Meowlloween Extras” stamp set. I colored the images with Zigs and fussy cut everything. That was a lot of fussy cutting!! But totally worth it, because I love the candy corn as shaker element. I used Mama Elephant “Picket Fence” die on black cardstock to add a spooky fence and inked the scene with Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserves Distress inks.

I stamped the sentiment with Versamark ink and heat embossed it using gold embossing powder. Last, I added all the small pieces of candy corn and closed the shaker.

I’m entering this last card into SHC VIP’s October Challenge: Shades of Halloween.

I hope you like this project! Thanks for stopping by!!

Fall Scene Card

Hi!!

Today I’m sharing a card featuring some Purple Onion Designs stamps. I loooove this super cute critters designed by Stacey Yacula. This card is inspired by this one by Nichol Spohr. As soon as I saw her wonderful background I knew I had to buy the Tim Holtz Layering Woodland Stencil.

First, I stamped all the images on Bristol paper using Memento Tuxedo black ink. Next, I masked all the images and the lower part of the panel and blended Tumbled Glass and Dried Marigold Distress Inks. Then, I used the stencil to make the background, blending Evergreen Bough and Twisted Citron on top. To finish the background, I removed the mask on the lower part of the panel and masked the upper part to blend Twisted Citron for the grass.

Next, I removed the masks and color them using Faber-Castell Polychromos color pencils. As I suspected, Bristol paper is not the best choice for color pencils, but I managed to add some shading to the images and I’m quite happy with the result. For the sentiment I combined two Lawn Fawn stamp sets: “Year five” and “Gingham backdrops” and stamped it using Versafine Onyx black ink.

As a final touch I added some detail to the scarves with a white gel pen  and some Wink of Stella to all the accessories.

I definitely have to practice more on making these kind of backgrounds, because I think this stencil is great for making scenes for all seasons.

I hope you like this card. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day!