Pumpkin – Creative Juice by Loni

Have you tailored your stamping to the season? For instance, I wanted a fall-feel for the birthday cards I’ll be sending to my October-born Sprinkled Ink teammates, but you could make seasonal thank you or anniversary greeting cards as well!

Because I knew I wanted to use Golden Glow and Cajun Craze for the pumpkins, I chose a autumn blue to contrast: Lost Lagoon is beloved in EVERY season, but very lovely now.

The Painted Pumpkins bundle includes masks for coloring the two trios of stamped pumpkins included in the stamp set. They are slick for giving dimension and details, and are numbered in the top left corner next to the notch. Start with #1 and follow the numbers. You can use ONE color a few times, for each additional layer of ink makes it darker.

There is also that “bonus” background mask of the vines, and they made my tone-on-tone layer stand out.

While you can pop your blending brushes into the dishwasher to clean and use for a different color, I prefer to have one brush for each basic color (blue, yellow, red, green, etc.) because I’m a lazy stamper!

After die-cutting them with the die (included in bundle), they are grouped together in the center, with a few twisting leaves to make them appear freshly-picked. If you haven’t seen my short reel about how to cut out around a shaped sentiment, you can see it HERE.

Naturally, I had to bring the theme inside the card, as well, with a bit of stamping, and I’ll do the same for my envelope:

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Keep your creative juices flowing! 🍊🧡– Loni Spendlove

Simplifying an idea today with this flip-top fun-fold card! I wanted to use the “Warms My Heart” stamp set, which doesn’t have coordinating dies, so opted to use a panel I could stamp on as the focal point. The Everyday Details dies has these darling dots around the edge of the rectangles, and don’t need much dressing up. Plus, the beautiful pumpkin patch on the bottom of the patterned paper needs to be seen:

The top flap (with girl carrying pumpkins) flips up and there is a second message that matches the theme on the top of the card:

Finally, you open the card all the way and you can make a pocket with the other large piece of Designer Series Paper to slip a gift card in!

Here are the paper supplies you’ll need (with the ones I used for the card above in parentheses):

Card base: 8.5″ x 5.5″ scored at 4.25″ (Cajun Craze)
Flap for over top: 5.25″ x 2.75″, scored at 4.25″ (Cajun Craze)- watch video for paper-saving TIP!
Layer for inside card: 5.25″ x 4″ (B asic Beige)
Two rectangle “frames”: Largest die from Everyday Details (Basic Beige)
One rectangle matt: 2.5″ x 4″ (Pumpkin Pie)
Designer Series Paper: 5.25″ x 4″ and 5.25″ x 2″ (Splendid Autumn)

For the Pumpkin Spice drink layer, I used the More Than Autumn bundle (you’ll see more of that bundle on Wednesday!)

After this How-To video, you’ll find the Christmas version of this simple fun-fold card!

Here’s the same card pattern using the image of the woman with the holiday wreath:

While this version could also hold a gift card, I chose to make it a normal card and on the inside, and simply added a strip of the back side of the Designer Series Paper to the inside to make it fancy:

The Christmas Version features the Sentimental Christmas Designer Series Paper which is our “Craft & Give Back” product: For each package ordered, Stampin’ Up! donates $3 to Firstbook.org to support Children’s Literacy. (Outside the US? Check with your demonstrator to find out where the donation goes in your country)