Warm Wishes For WCMD and Club Challenge

My monthly stamping club is meeting this week and our challenge was to make a card with the flower in the center of this card. It is also World Card Making Day this weekend and so I celebrated by making this card. I don't normally use blue in the cards I made with leaves but since the flower was blue and gold, I stepped outside my box and created this card with these pretty colors and I love how it turned out. I used stitched leaves dies from Impression Obsession, an Acorn Swirl die from Tonic Studios and the sentiment die from Memory Box.

I am entering this card in the World Card Making Day challenge at CAS-ual Fridays.

Celebration Cards 4 Kids OR Anything Goes 4 Kids at Send a Smile 4 Kids

It’s Saturday and time for another fun challenge at Send a Smile 4 Kids! Again this year, all challenges at SAS4Kids are Anything Goes 4 Kids! We will often have an alternative theme that you can choose to follow, but are not required to. Create and link any card that is appropriate for a child and your card could be chosen as one of our top three cards and you could join us as a guest dt member on a future challenge. We are also changing to a monthly challenge so new challenges will be posted on the first Saturday of every month and you will have a whole month to make and link your cards. 

The theme for this challenge is: Celebration Cards 4 Kids OR Anything Goes 4 Kids.  Celebration cards of any kind for upcoming holidays are almost always needed for our kids- but be sure to check “Current Needs” to see who has a need before sending your cards in.

I made this celebration card with Reverse Confetti triangle dies and the “celebrate” sentiment die from Tonic Studios. The triangles were cut out of green fern cardstock covered with Altenew’s Misti Meadows wide washi tape. I added a couple Gina Marie Designs gems to complete the card.

Be sure to check out the rest of the cards from TEAM SAS here and we would love it if you entered our challenge.

 

Couple More Autumn Colored Cards with An Inexpensive Designer Paper Hack

I love all the cards I made with napkins for my newest video and this burlap look napkin is as pretty as any designer paper and cost pennies for 6 cards! I die cut a layered "happy" and raised it for the eclipse look which I love to use on many of my cards. The "thanksgiving" is a die from Karen Burniston. Here is a picture of the inside of this card and that "give thanks" was also on the dinner sized napkin I attached to white cardstock.

I used that same "eclipse" technique for the "hello" and also stitched leaves on this card. The leaves are on the lower left, upper left and right and match the background so closely they are hard to see in this picture.

Want to see how easy it is to make this lovely fall colored cards? I share how and many cards in my newest video here.

Many More Fall Napkin Cards From My Newest Video

I have been saving beautiful fall colored napkins and brought them all out for a play session for my newest video showing this inexpensive alternative to designer patterned paper. Check your dollar stores and other local craft or gift stores this time of year and you can find autumn and holiday napkins that can be made into gorgeous cards. The card above features the Condensed Alpha dies from Kat Scrappiness in the eclipse look with a die from Karen Burniston. The napkins are "skinned" down to one very translucent layer so if you attach this one to white cardstock, it looks like the card above. If you layer it on yellow cardstock, it looks like this:

Below is a pretty bird napkin over yellow cardstock and the sentiment was cut out with a die from Bright Rosa. 

On the inside is another piece of yellow cardstock with a cut out bird from the napkin piece. 

I had so much fun making pretty fall cards for this video and have many more napkins for my next play session. 

I am entering the 3rd card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Inexpensive Designer Paper Hack for Gorgeous Fall Colored Cards

Would you like to make gorgeous fall colored cards with something that can be bought at the Dollar Store or other local stores inexpensively instead of expensive designer paper? This time of year it is easy to find beautiful napkins for fall or the holidays and my new video shows how to make those napkins into beautiful cards. 

This is the card I make in the video but I also show 7 other fall cards all with different napkins and favorite dies. I love this bright napkin and I die cut "blessed" out using a layered die from Tonic Studios and raised it for the "eclipse" look. The sentiment below that and the sentiment strip die are from Taylored Expressions. 

This is another favorite of the napkin cards I made for this video. I found the Shenadoah Quilt Pattern on Pinterest and cut this gorgeous cornucopia napkin scene in that pattern. I figured out the measurements for the Shenadoah pattern on this square card and here is my template you can pin or save if you want to try it:

To see all the cards I made with napkins and how I made the first one in this blog post, watch the video here. Thanks for your visit today and for your support of my YouTube channel too.  

I am entering the 2nd card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

Colorful Foiled Fall Cards with Therm O Web Designer Toner Sheets

I love making cards with foil and also love fall colors so I made many cards for my newest video with Deco Foils and Designer Toner Sheets. My favorite thing to do with Designer Toner Sheets is to foil them with sparkly Fancy Foils and then run the left over foil through the MINC again with a toner sheet for the "negative" as you see framing this pretty Wilderness DTS card. I also use that second foiling sheet for die cutting as in the inside of this card:

Here is another pretty card made with the positive and negative foiled applications of the Wheat Fields Designer Toner Sheet. The foiled pieces are perfect for adding die cut accents to cards as I did on this last card: 

I sponged fall colors on a the Maple Leaf Frame from Tutti Designs and die cut Thank You from Karen Burniston and punched a leaf out of the negative of an Endless Leaves DTS with Brutus Monroe Sunrise Foil.

I had so much fun making all these cards with Deco Foil and Designer Toner Sheets for my newest video! I hope you will watch it here and try some of these products for fun fall cards!

I am entering the 2nd card in the Anything Goes challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday.

More Fall Foiled Cards with Designer Toner Sheets

 The Cobwebs and Cauldrons Designer Toner Sheet from Deco Foil foiled with Dazzling Orange Fancy Foil from Gina K Designs is perfect for making a shaker card like this one I share in my newest video here. I cut a witch hat from Tonic Studios and created a well for the shaker elements under the acetate sheet. The broom is also from Tonic Studios as is the witch shoe and sentiment on the inside:

I used a precut and scored fun fold card from The Paper Cut as well as Wilderness Designer Toner Sheet die cuts on this pretty fall celebration card. 

The fall window die is from Tutti Designs, the acorn swirl is from Tonic Studios and the Celebrate sentiment die is from Karen Burniston. To see this and many other cards made with fun fall foils, watch the new video here.