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Autumn and Floral Cards -- Posted: Wednesday, Oct 21 2009

Hi Everyone, Everything I love about autumn is finally here.... the farmers in our area are busy harvesting corn and soy beans, leaves are changing color and lazily falling to the ground, my mom's "to die for" homemade apple pie, fresh apples from the local orchard, ( I think they taste better every year), and don't forget the apple cider, ohhh that's so good when freshly pressed! Ok, I've probably made all of your taste buds go crazy by now and I can't do anything about it, so here's a solution with no calories, ( I say this after having eaten two slices of apple pie, with a scoop of ice cream) the following cards for this weeks post are amazing and will satisfy your creative taste buds! Have a great week and if you need a stress reliever from your busy schedule, you might want to either, visit your stamp room, go roll around in a pile of leaves, or better yet, "order those stamps from Heartfelt Creations! God Bless, Emma Lou BTW: You will be able to catch up with me at the Heartfelt Creations booth in St Paul MN this weekend, so we'll see ya there or online.
	Products Used on This Card 279C Bold Leaf 1255D Thanksgiving Print I used the brayer technique for the my glossy background on the main image, then stamped the "Bold Leaf" over the top using Tuxedo Black (Memento) craft ink. The base ink "Autumn Leaves" is from a Kaleidacolor Dye inkpad. For tags, I used my NEW Making Memories "Slice machine" with new Studio Essential Design Card. I stamped the sentiment "Happy Thanksgiving!" on a cream tag using Rainbow craft ink and sponged the edges with green craft ink. To finish the card, I added some Gemstones, Dew Drops, a border using Spellbinders Bordebilities "Lattice", Corner punch ("Heritage" from Fiskars), Edge punch ("Scallop Diamond from EK Success) and piercings." CREATED BY: OLENA
	Products Used on This Card 1237D Chrysanthemum 152A With Love I stamped the image "Chrysanthemum" using Brilliance Graphite Black ink and then colored with my Prismacolor pencils and blended the colors with Odorless Mineral Spirits and cut from Spellbinders Nestabilities "Labels Four". Then, I sponged around the images with craft ink and stamped the sentiment. To finish the card, I added some Gemstones, Dew Drops, a border using Spellbinders Bordebilities "Lattice", Corner punch (from Stampin' UP!), ribbon and piercings. CREATED BY: OLENA
	Products Used On This Card 1079H He Knows I absolutely love this stamp - ! This is "He Knows". As soon as I got it, I carefully cut it into 4 sections. It fits right back together like a puzzle if I want to stamp the full image, as I did here, but I can also rearrange the pieces (move the first 3 lines over, for example, or stamp them on a card front with the rest of the verse inside the card, stamp just the bottom roses with the last sentence, stamp the roses alone or with another sentiment, etc, etc, etc.......) for an entirely different look. Both cards were created in the same way, just using different colors. I stamped the full image on Canson watercolor paper, then stamped the two rose clusters separately, and painted everything with a combination of Shimmerz, watercolor pencils, and reinkers. I trimmed and shaped the roses and a few leaves, then glued them onto my base panel to create dimension. Each flower center is filled with tiny glass beads (burgundy card) or gold glitter (sage card). I cut the square and deckle edge with Coluzzle templates. CREATED BY: DINA
	Products Used on This Card 1256E Small Autumn Wreath I colored the whole stamp with Marvy LePlume marker in Sepia & stamped on to water color paper. I used the inks from Marvy LePlume markers (colored on to a palette) then applied with a water color paint brush (#1 size) The colors I used are Mocha, Rosewood, Brown, Olive Green, Olive Brown, Mustard, Terra Cotta, English Red. After I colored the image I color dusted Antique Linen distress ink over the entire image. Then I cut out using nestabilities in circle, I cut the coordinating solid card stock with nestabilities Labels 3. The designer paper is by K&Co, all the edges are distressed & sponged with Tea Dye distress ink. I made a bow from ribbon & applied over the image, and I used pop dots to add dimension. CREATED BY: LISA
Attention: We have people ask, "where they can find the stamps we feature in our blog each week." Under the area where it says " Products Used On This Card," there are item # listed with the name of each stamp and if you click on the name or the item # you will be taken directly to that stamp on our website, and then you can add it to the cart. Leave a comment and tell me what you think about this weeks cards, or tell me a little about yourself, or where your from, or how you found our blog. If you have questions post them in the comments box and I will reply in the comments box.

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Karen Moreau Said...

Hi! Just a quick note of thanks for the many wonderful card ideas. Your artwork is wonderful and I'm so pleased to see so many wonderful examples in one place. I'll be ordering stamps from you for a long while yet. Please keep up the great work.

Joan Backe-Kuhl Said...

It is amazing how just changing the background color, the entire mood of the card is changed. Keep up the great work!

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