It Feels Like Fall and a FLASH SHALE!

Ink Color Palette: Golden Glow, Pumpkin Pie, Pecan Pie, Cajun Craze

Today’s card was inspired by Tammy C. Wilson. I used her color palette and technique for watercoloring the GORGEOUS leaves from Elegant Leaves. 

First use the solid image and dot on colors from the ink pads with a Sponge Dauber. Spritz the image and then stamp onto Water Color paper. 

Use the outline stamp with a dark color and stamp over the solid leaves. Color in the leaves and background with a light color of ink and a Water Painter Pen. 

Let it dry between steps.

Use a Golden Glow Shimmer Brush on just the leaves for a subtle sparkle .

Lastly, use your Stampin’ Blends brush end and cap to “splash” those dots all over. If desired, you can distress the edges of the Water Color Paper using the open blades on a pair of scissors. 

Once you get the steps down, you can really do it quickly. I chose to do the large leaves for a beginning project, but using the small and medium leaves from the set also looks lovely.

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Today, Tomorrow, Always with Elegant Leaves

Happy Friday! This card uses a new stamp set from the September - December 2026 Catalog. I hope you enjoy looking. I used Basic Beige and Whisper White card stock. I used Basic Beige ink as well as Memento Black ink. 

The die cuts have a rectangular piece that looks like a “log”, and it only cuts the grooves of the “log”, but not the outside edges. So, I placed the die on one side of the Basic Beige card stock, then cut it three different times, (left to right) for the panel you see under the cut leaves on the left. Hope that makes sense. Simply line up the dies, then when you have the right width for your panel, use your Paper Trimmer to cut near the bottom, top and sides of the panel.

The layered leaves are easily cut using the outlined leaves and the textured veins glued right on top.

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Wishing Happiness and Double Rewards!

Today’s card was inspired by a card on Pinterest. I loved the color combination that Jasmin Schulze used with the Splash & Relax stamp set. Here I created my own background using Hydrangea Hue ink on Hydrangea Hue Card Stock. I layered that onto a Calypso Coral card base. 

A Basic White Stylish Shape die cut is my focal point. I then adorned the circle with stamped and die cut items from the stamp set. I used Crisp Cantaloupe, Hydrangea Hue, Poppy Parade and Black Memento Inks.

I added some tiny Basic Rhinestones for a little bling. This would make a lovely birthday card or just a card to let someone know you are thinking of them.

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Patriotic Thank You

Did you have a wonderful Independence Day? I did and my family that hosted rocked this one out of the park! I made this Thank You card to let them know I appreciate all of the effort they put in for this special celebration.

I used two retired stamp sets: The Free & the Brave (star background) and Service & Sacrifice (flag image). I added a sentiment from the Beautiful Motifs stamp set. The card stock colors I used were Real Red, Basic White and Blueberry Bushel.

I hope you enjoyed looking today! Please leave a comment so I know you were here! Have a great week.