September Sunflowers, Pumpkins, and a Preview

🍂🍂🍂Who doesn't love September?  It's the month that brings us falling leaves, warm hues, and the anticipation of wonderful holidays to come.  It seems the perfect time for our Second Thursday Stampers to get a delicious taste of SU! things to come.

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We start with a lovely little September sunflower card and end with a beautiful Christmas greeting.  We even sandwiched in a little Halloween haunting with four fun jack-o-lanterns!

Our biggest challenge this month was deciding what to do with all of our wonderful ©Stampin’ Up! 2017 Holiday Catalog treasures!  We think our stampers will be pleased.

Most papers, inks, and accessories used in our projects are from ©Stampin’ Up!

A Sunflowery Painted Harvest

Fields of sunflowers seem to magically appear on our Wisconsin landscape in early Fall.  Likewise, the beauty of our Painted Harvest Stamp Set sunflower took us by surprise.  Using a multi-step stamping technique to layer warm fall colors creates our version of the scenic view.

Painted Harvest Sunflower Card

Our card front starts with Crushed Curry Card Stock layered with a strip of Painted Autumn Designer Series Paper over a base of Whisper White.  A bit of background stamping with Cajun Craze Ink makes things interesting.  We secured a piece of the new and very versatile Copper Trim, a must have item, to enhance this creation.  Who needs another circle punch?  We do!  After we stamped with Crushed Curry and Cajun Craze Inks, topped off with a Soft Suede Ink center we punched our flower with the new 2 1/4" Circle Punch.  Perfect!  The leaves tucked behind our sunflower were two-step stamped with Garden Green Ink and punched with our brand new Leaf Punch.  Just to make things interesting, we stamped a Teeny Tiny Wish(es) greeting on Whisper White Card Stock and did some creative punching with the snipable and changeable Classic Label Punch.  Thanks to a handful of Dimensionals, our card turned into a standout!

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!

A Grin and a Frown and Pumpkins on the Ground

Our label from Labels to Love tells a scary story, but there is nothing scary about our cheery little pumpkin family.  Crumb Cake Card Stock, and a Hardwood Stamp background on a Crumb Cake card base is the perfect place to display some Halloween fun.

Pumpkins Four You Card

Three pumpkins were plucked from the field of fall fruit in our new Pick a Pumpkin Stamp Set, then lined up on the bottom of our card.  We used Tangerine Tango Ink to stamp them with Basic Black to show their faces--happy, sad, and sweet.  The Patterned Pumpkins Thinlits from the new SU! 2017 Holiday Catalog™ helped add a nice touch with an airy cutout Pumpkin Pie Card Stock pumpkin.  The message label from Labels to Love is stamped with Basic Black Ink and punched out with our Everyday Label Punch.  A little scrap of Tranquil Tide Card Stock makes some pretty tendrils and leaves to fancy our popped up label.  Add some Black Rhinestone bling and, no tricks, the treat is complete!

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!

A Good Time to Think Christmas

It's never too soon to plan ahead for our Christmas Card making.  We always say we will get our cards done with some Christmas in July, but never seem to get around to it!  Maybe it is better to wait until September for the annual SU! Holiday Catalog.  There is always something new and wonderful.  The 2017 edition is no exception!

  

A Feeling of Christmas Card

Incredibly easy, deceptively simple.  The beauty of the season is contained right in this card!  The card base of Cherry Cobbler Card Stock is embossed with our new Cable Knit 3D Dynamic Textured Embossing Folder which gives a dramatic effect both inside and out.  The card stock layers of Basic Black, Garden Green, and Very Vanilla have the holiday season written all over.  Our Feeling of Christmas Stamp Set provides us with everything we need to stamp our way to that feeling.  A little bit of two-step stamping and with Garden Green and Basic Black Inks and some Real Red Marker accents is finished off is topped off with a handful of Rhinestones.  Merry, merry!

All papers, inks, and accessories used in this card are from ©Stampin’ Up!