Happy Saturday, everyone. We're celebrating harvest time on the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop today.
I will be focusing on a couple of colorful pumpkin cards that I've made with the Pretty Pumpkins Bundle. You can create scores of pretty pumpkins with stamps, dies or both when you have this bundle in your stash.
I had already been playing around with the textured Pale Papaya and lacy panel, thinking they were made for each other, before I started experimenting with the pumpkin dies. A few hints:
- Colors are Very Vanilla, Pale Papaya, Pear Pizzazz and Calypso Coral. Calypso Coral??? Yes it, with a little sponging around the edges, works beautifully as a classic pumpkin.
- Stamp your greeting and apply a soft area of Pear Pizzazz ink with a blending brush towards the lower right edge of the lace die cut, cut with one of the Ornate Layers Dies.
- I kept the color palette fairly simple picking up on the Pale Papaya again as a base for the pumpkin. I die cut two pumpkins one of Pale Papaya and one of Calypso Coral, reserving the little vertical Pale Papaya pieces that come out of the pumpkin.
- I trimmed out the stem of the Calypso Coral pumpkin and put a strip of one sided tape across the back. Place the reserved pieces of Pale Papaya into the pumpkin so they stick to the tape. Layer this Calypso Pumpkin over the Pale Papaya Pumpkin.
- Embellish your pumpkin with some sponged die cut Pear Pizzazz leaves, adhering it to the lower right side of the lacy panel.
I had even more fun with this next card. I was doing a color challenge last month that called for Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Balmy Blue and Early Espresso, so I thought Balmy Blue could make a beautiful sky background for some pumpkins stamped and colored with the other colors. But what else is part of a crisp, blue, fall sky but falling leaves.
- Three falling leaves were die cut with the Stitched Leaves Dies out of a 5 3/8" x 4 3/8" piece of Balmy Blue.
- Stamp your greeting in Early Espresso.
- Mount the Balmy Blue layer on an Early Espresso (folded 8 1/2" x 5 1/2") card and replace the Balmy Blue leaves that were die cut earlier.
- Stamp the trio of pumpkins and the pumpkin blossom image with Early Espresso ink on Very Vanilla Thick Cardstock. Color with Watercolor pencils. With very little practice these are great for adding shading and depth to your images. I often skip the water part and just go with straight pencil. Die cut with the corresponding dies.
- Adhere the blossom piece directly to the card. Use Stampin' Dimensionals to adhere the pumpkin trio.
Well, that's it for my pumpkins today. Now I'm going to send you off on your way to the one and only Jan Musselman!
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