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Beautiful Pumpkins

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  Picking pumpkins, all the different sizes, shapes and colors is a fun time for me, my grandkids enjoy it too, this card is a fun reminder of all those trips to the pumpkin patch.  The pumpkins are created with two step stamping, aren't they cute. Cutting Pretty Peacock – 5 ½ x 8 ½, score at 4 ¼ Basic Black – 4 ½ x 3 ¼ Basic White – 4 x 5 ¼, 4 ¼ x 3, ½ x 3 3/4 Assembly Score, fold and burnish Pretty Peacock card base. Stamp the leaf vine stamp with Pretty Peacock Ink on three corners. On large Basic White card stock, stamp the leaf vine with Pretty Peacock Ink, insert inside the card On the smaller piece of Basic White stamp three Pumpkin outlines with Timid Tiger Ink, with the same ink, ink up and stamp off the full pumpkin and stamp over the outlined image. Clean both stamps and ink up with Pretty Peacock ink repeating the instructions listed above.  Stamp the stems in Crumb Cake. Ink up and stamp off the single leaf in Old Olive three times. Adhere this to the B...
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World Card Making Day 2025

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  Yesterday was World Card Making Day and I celebrated the day with my stamping friends. We made five cards and snacked on a caramel apple bar, used an apple cutter, poured warm caramel on the apples and added toppings including Mimi M & M's, Mini Chocolate Chips, Toffee pieces, chopped walnuts and chopped peanuts; YUM. Here is one of the cards we made A nice fall themed card that can be used for any occasion. I picked a thinking you stamp from the Branching Out stamp set and the leaves and acorn from the Gathering Moments Bundle. This card features a frame created from using two Textured Notes Dies - this is a must have die set! The Irregular Weave Ribbon adds to the "fall" theme of the card.  Here are the card details Cutting Very Vanilla – 5 ½ x 8 ½, score at 4 ¼, ¾ x 4, 2 x 4 Early Espresso – 5 ½ x 4 ¼ Crushed Curry – 2 ½ x 4 Gathering Moments Designer Series Paper – 2 ¾ x 4 ¼  Assembly Score, fold and burnish Very Vanilla card base Die cut the Early Espres...
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Christmas or Thinking of You

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I let the Designer Series Paper do the hard work with this card. Depending on the sentiment you select it can be a holiday card or a card to a friend.  The Traditions of Christmas Paper has versatile holiday themed images to select from. For this card I chose the sheet with flower sprays of multiple colors and die cut the image.   Cutting Real Red: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2, score at 4 1/4 Basic White: (2) 4 x 5 1/4. 1/4 x 4 Gold Foil: 4 x 2 1/4 Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper pattern 1: 3 7/8 x 2 1/8 Traditions of Christmas Designer Series Paper pattern 2: Die cut flower spray Assembly Fold and burnish score line, adhere 1 piece of the Basic White cardstock inside the card base Emboss the other piece of Basic White with the Peaceful Greenery Embossing Folder. Adhere to card front Adhere Designer Series Paper 1 to the Gold Foil. Attach this to the center of the card front. Adhere the floral spray using Dimensionals on the right side of the Designer Series Paper/Gold Foi...
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