Open House Gently Falling

Card two from the weekend. Using a technique I tried recently and really like-especially for Fall leaves!

Aren't the leaves on here awesome??!!?? The technique is the Baby Wipe Technique. Splitcoast has a great tutorial HERE, but it's really simple. Take a baby wipe and fold it in half and put it in a container. I like to fold the edges into the center, and then fold that into the center again so there are no edges on the top that we are going to use. Now you add drops of reinker to make your ink pad. Start with the darkest color and add 4 or 5, then the middle color, then the lightest color. The size of your ink just needs to slightly exceed the largest stamp you are going to use. Don't leave any white areas either or you'll have gaps on your stamp. Once you have the ink as desired, stamp as you would with an ink pad! Press your stamp down well in one spot and don't ink it more than once or you'll risk muddying the colors. I also recommend after stamping, you stamp again on scratch paper to avoid muddying the colors as well.

One other hint before finishing the details of the card. I found that new baby wipes right out of the package do not work near as well as some a little older. You want them damp, but not wet. If they feel too dry, spritz them with a light water spray. I had old ones hanging around here and I started playing with those. I figured new would be even better. NOT!! You could probably use the new ones if you let them sit out a while before using them!!

OK, back to the card. The colors we used to make the "ink pad" are Chocolate Chip, Cherry Cobbler and Daffodil Delight. We stamped the leaves-the "insides" from Gently Falling-randomly on the Very Vanilla background. You could add the outline of the leaves as well. I didn't as I knew it would take some time and add too much stress!! :) After the leaves were all done, we sponged the edge with Daffodil Delight. The background is layered onto Cherry Cobbler, then attached to the card base of Chocolate Chip. The saying is from Hand-Penned Holidays and was stamped on a strip of Very Vanilla with Chocolate Chip. We punched a wider strip of Cherry Cobbler with the Scallop Trim Border and layered the saying on to that. It is attached over the background.

Scroll back through my cards for the last week and see some others I've done with this technique!! I've had fun trying it out!!

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SU! Catalog Items used: 123804 Gently Falling Clear * 124310 Hand-Penned Holidays * 102128 Chocolate Chip Card Stock * 101650 Very Vanilla Card Stock * 119685 Cherry Cobbler Card Stock * 119788 Cherry Cobbler Classic Refill * 119672 Daffodil Delight Classic Refill * 100908 Chocolate Chip Classic Ink * 119667 Daffodil Delight Classic Ink * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 118402 Scallop Trim Border

ColorLab55

Hello all! It's the 15th and that means another ColorLab challenge!! Grab your Lab Coat and play along!! Here are the colors for this month

Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight & Marina Mist

and the card I created.

I've decided you can make Fall leaves with LOTS of different colors!! I have open houses this weekend and this was an experiment with the Baby Wipe Technique to decide if I wanted to use if for the group or not. Fun fun!! Stop by next week to see if I used it for the group, and for more details on the technique!! The short version: add drops of desired colors to a baby wipe-using reinkers, darkest to lightest, and use that as an ink pad. That is how I inked my leaves, so they are all a blend of the three colors. Over that, I stamped splatter drops in Marina Mist. The card base is Cajun Craze with a Marina Mist layer behind the Naturals Ivory background. The edge of the background was sponged with Daffodil Delight, and a Daffodil Delight grosgrain knotted around before attaching to the Marin Mist. The saying is from Blessings from Heaven, a new to me set with some great sayings. I stamped the saying over a leaf on Naturals Ivory, added some light Marina splatters around the edge, sponged with Daffodil and layered onto Marina & Cajun. The elements is attached with dimensionals over the ribbon. One final accent, I added a Marina Mist 1/8" Taffeta knot around the Daffodil ribbon knot.

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure you stop over at the ColorLab and see what the other Chemists created. And, don't forget to play along-you have an entire month!!

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SU! Catalog Items used: 123050 Blessings from Heaven * 121166 French Foliage * 119684 Cajun Craze Card Stock * 119682 Marina Mist Card Stock * 101849 Naturals Ivory Card Stock * 119671 Cajun Craze Classic Ink * 119668 Marian Mist Classic Ink * 119667 Daffodil Delight Card Stock * 119672 Daffodil Delight Classic Reinker * 119787 Marina Mist Classic Reinker * 119790 Cajun Craze Classic Reinker * 120928 Daffodil Delight 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon * 119257 Marina Mist 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals

Sketch Frenzy Friday 101411

Happy Friday all! Hope you've had a GREAT week and an even better weekend on tap! Crazy times here, but that's OK! Looking forward to Open Houses this weekend and seeing all my stampers!!

Friday means another Sketch Frenzy Friday challenge and tour! Here is my card

based on this sketch by Sharon Wheet.

My card base is Textured Soft Suede card stock, with the accent layers of Spice Cake DSP. On the square (striped) pieced I added 3 gold brads to the top left, and on the rectangle I added a saying top left. My "any shape" are two leaves from the Gently Falling set. I stamped the inside using the Baby Wipe technique with Soft Suede, More Mustard and Pool Party. The outline is stamped over in Soft Suede. Cut out, curled, and attached with dimensionals. Quick and easy!! Had to be as I have tons of things on my to do list today!!

Thanks for stopping by! Continue on our mini hop by clicking HERE to see what Kim has created this week. Remember, all members blogs and the main SFF blog are linked in  my right side bar if you get derailed at any point!!

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SU! Catalog Items used: 122650 Delightful Dozen * 123804 Gently Falling Clear * 121078 Neutrals Textured Card Stock * 100946 More Mustard Card Stock * 122924 Pool Party Card Stock * 124003 Spice Cake DSP * 101650 Very Vanilla Card Stock * 115663 Soft Suede Classic Refill * 115657 Soft Suede Classic Ink * 101962 More Mustard Classic Refill * 122933 Pool Party Classic Refill * 104337 Gold Brads * 116631 Paper Piercing Tool * 105826 Mat Pack * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals

Blended French Foliage SR92

Hello all! Hope you're having a good weekend. Trying to get back on track here. My husband and I went to California's Napa Valley last week, and I'm having trouble getting back on schedule! And with Open Houses next weekend and projects not planned-that is NOT a good thing!! Napa however, was very good!! We highly recommend it!

I'm trying to stamp a few things and get back in creative mood. I was browsing challenges last night and found this color challenge at Stampin' Royalty. Had to do it!!

Any excuse to use purple and I'm in! And, French Foliage was out from something else I was doing, so of course I used it too!! I really do have other sets!! This card uses the Baby Wipe technique. I'm trying it out to see if it would be a good thing to do for an Open House card. I'm liking it so far-love the blended look of the colors!!

The card base is Elegant Eggplant with a More Mustard layer behind the background of Naturals White. The leaves are multi-colored with Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive & More Mustard. Over those, I stamped So Saffron Splatter dots. The edge was also sponged with So Saffron. The ribbon was attached before layering the background onto the More Mustard. A separate piece was put into an Antique Brad to look like a bow, and attached over the straight piece. If I'd been thinking, I would have included the straight piece also in the brad-it lays a little better that way! The saying is from Word Play and was stamped in Elegant Eggplant with a light leaf over it. The edge was sponged with So Saffron, and a few splatter dots added. After layering onto More Mustard and Elegant Eggplant, it was attached to the background with dimensionals.

Pretty quick and easy card! Love the colors!! Thanks for stopping by today!!

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SU! Catalog Items used: 121166 French Foliage Clear * 120651 Word Play Clear * 105126 Elegant Eggplant Card Stock * 100946 More Mustard Card Stock * 102316 Naturals White Card Stock * 103162 More Mustard Classic Ink * 105210 Elegant Eggplant Classic Ink * 101962 More Mustard Classic Reinker * 105222 Elegant Eggplant Classic Reinker * 100531 Old Olive Classic Reinker * 124143 Elegant Eggplant 1/2" Scallop Dots Ribbon * 117273 Antique Brads * 101610 Stamping Sponges * 104430 Stampin' Dimensionals * 103683 Mini Glue Dots