Priscilla's Papercrafts: colorful seasons

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Appreciating Falling Leaves

I have just gone through my first autumn in Portland, and I loved it! Growing up on the east coast, I always enjoyed "leaf peeping" - driving around and appreciating all the glorious fall colors as the leaves changed. And it was like that here! No one told me it would be like this, and as I drove around town, I couldn't stop oohing and aahing over all the gorgeous colors!

Which inspired this card. It was a technique card we made at my last card club:

It was such an easy card to make but everyone loved the Baby wipe Technique. I folded a baby wipe and dropped several drops of Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie and Cajun Craze ink refills on the wipes. Then we just used it as an ink pad, inking up our stamps and stamping the leaves on Shimmery White cardstock.

The fall colors blended so well; I could almost picture the leaves on the trees outside as we stamped.

Once our main panel was completed, we used the Layering Circle dies to cut the area with the greeting. It was layered on a scalloped circle of Cajun Craze, and after we tied our Copper Ribbon, we added the circle back to our card using Dimensionals, and lining up the leaves.

The greeting is from Sweetly Swirled, and stamped in Cajun Craze. And see those pearls? Just the regular Basic Jewels, but we colored them with a Cajun Craze Stampin' Blend. Ahh, color perfection!

I think we really outdid ourselves with this beautiful fall card, don't you?

Product List

Colorful Seasons Photopolymer Stamp Set

[143726]

$27.00

Sweetly Swirled Photopolymer Stamp Set

[149254]

$21.00

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[119790]

$3.75

Crushed Curry Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[131158]

$3.75

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Ink Refill

[105229]

$3.75

Cajun Craze Classic Stampin' Pad

[147085]

$7.50

Shimmery White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[101910]

$10.00

Cajun Craze 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[119684]

$8.75

Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

[105117]

$8.75

Layering Circles Dies

[141705]

$35.00

1/4" Copper Trim

[144179]

$6.00

Stampin' Dimensionals

[104430]

$4.00

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

"Pop Up Dead Guys"

OK, that title sounds horrible, but it's actually the text I got from my grandkids after they received the Halloween treats that I sent to them.

You see, I made some of the Coffin Treat Boxes, currently shown in the Holiday Catalog:

I had such fun putting them together. Some were embossed (see the one on the left - I embossed the "lid" with the Tufted embossing folder), some were stamped and heat embossed (see the middle one with the skeleton stamps, which came in the Paper Pumpkin box in September), and then I had fun stamping and coloring the images from Spooktacular Bash. And oh! Those fabulous frames! I'm loving the Ornate Frames dies (which are not only for Halloween--they work for any time of year, although they do coordinate perfectly with the Spooktacular Bash stamps.

But then I went a step further - I stamped and colored the Boo To You "Frankenstein" image and look what I did:

Mounting him on a thin strip of Window Sheet, I glued one end to the image and the other to the inside of the coffin box. I was able to put the lid on, pushing Frankenstein into the box, and then, when the top is opened -

"Pop Up Dead Guys!" So fun!

The actual text I got read, "Thanks, Grammy! They were very impressed with your card and the coffins with the pop up dead guys" 😂

And here they are:

That's Charlotte (3), Ethan (9) and Jacob (7) with their treats. Makes my heart happy!

And the card:

I saw a card, I think by Su Mohr, but it was mostly black and white, with a colorful tree. I decided to make mine a little more "spooky", and colored my spooky sky by sponging on Whisper White cardstock, using Daffodil Delight, Mango Melody, Pumpkin Pie, Cajun Craze, Blackberry Bliss and Night of Navy. The tree branches are from the Colorful Seasons stamps and Seasonal Layers dies.

The brick wall is Whisper White cardstock, embossed with the Brick & Mortar folder and sponged with Smoky Slate ink. The letters we cut with the Hand Lettered Prose dies and See A Silhouette paper.

A fun Halloween package for my Maryland kiddos!

You still have time to make some of these treats...products listed below.