The Paper Artist/Creative Card Design

Ready to create this "Glowing Autumn Leaves" card?!  Literally.... this card is actually glowing!  It's really super simple and it's going to impress anyone you send it to, or just yourself if you choose to keep it as a fall decor item.  The dollar store battery tealight and the Autumn Leaves Dies are what  really make this card such a stunning project to craft up. Here is the supply list to create this card ( all items are linked to the online store):   Autumn Leaves Bundle All About Autumn Specialty Paper Mossy Meadow Cardstock Very Vanilla Cardstock Copper Foil Paper Vellum Cardstock Adhesive Backed Speckled Dots Copper Clay Ink Pad Battery Tea Light Candle ( Dollar Store ) Just a reminder that the backside of the card becomes the panel for writing a message rather than the inside, and the card does fold flat for mailing. The battery tealight candle just pops into the little tent part sitting in front of the vellum window to see the best of the beautiful glow...

  Coming up this week - Gorgeous fall themed cards from the All About Autumn  Suite of products just released from Stampin' Up. I was pleasantly surprised with this suite.  I first thought "hmm, more leaves".  While I love fall leaves and creating cards with them, I felt that the Autumn  Leaves bundle was a bit to much like the already beautiful leaves from  autumn releases gone by.  After much thought I decided to give a whirl anyhow.  The fact that they are more autumn leaves I guess is just obvious - cuz how many ways can you create fall leaf stamps and dies right?! So they would in reality have to be at least shaped the same as the leaves from catalogues from previous years.  Shaped the same, but very different. The Autumn Leaves dies are absolutely beautiful and designed with many options for crafting. I love that they have the leaf cut outs, the spine of the leaves ( which allows for many different variations ), some little pieces to ...

Introducing this super cute Pick of the Patch stamp set used on a really fun  spring loaded card layout that offers tons of dimension.  This stamp set is just so cute with so many options for fall creating. It is  also available as a bundle with a punch that cuts out 2 of the pumpkin images,  a stem and a leaf. However, I didn't purchase the punch as it seems just as  simple to fussy cut all of the images from the stamp set. I knew I would want  to cut out more than just 2 of the pumpkins, since all of the pumpkins  provide a really nice pumpkin patch. The tutorial for the above card has gone out to Paper Adventures  email subscribers! The layout is fun and can be used with many stamp sets or bundles, so don't worry if you don't have Pick of the Patch yet.  I also used the same layout and stamp set to create this fun Halloween card. How fun is this blended spooky sky?! And these gorgeous Highland Heather pumpkins? Let me know what you thi...

These 2 cards were created with a stamp set that is currently sitting in  the Stampin Up clearance bin. Maybe you already have it from last year. Hello Harvest  stamp set has some great images and sentiments for  fall card creating. I stamped and colored a few of the images from the stamp set and used them with the layout tutorial going out in tomorrow's Paper Adventures newsletter.  The layout is so easy to use with any image, any occasion!  I paired the images up with Glorious Gingham designer paper - I really need to purchase some new designer paper designs!!  And tomorrow... I will! Since Stampin' Up has some exclusive online only designer paper packs releasing tomorrow ( Sept 6th ), and they are all absolutely beautiful! I can hardly wait!! You can check back here tomorrow and see the new papers as well as a NEW Mini Catalog releasing tomorrow as well.  It's full of amazing products to help you with all of your fall and winter crafting projects!...

As previously posted, SVG Sunday "crafternoon" was spent creating this beautiful Autumn Treat Holder using Dreaming Tree SVG cut files.  So.. first of all, let me just say - it didn't take all afternoon. It was a pretty quick little project with not a ton of pieces.  Secondly... "WOW" - this treat holder was a lot bigger than I had anticipated!! I thought this project was going to hold a few Hershey's  kisses or something along those lines. To my surprise, it would hold the  whole bag of Hershey's kisses and more!  So definitely not going to use this for place setting favors unless you want to go in and change the cut file sizing in your cutting machine design software. Which is quite doable but I wanted to create the project as the size intended.  This adorable "not so little" treat holder is for sure adorable in every way... and would be perfect as a hostess gift. Just fill it with some home made cookies, some coffee beans and pumpkin spice s...

  It's SVG Sunday!  Which means we are checking out this adorable Autumn Treat Tote  by Dreaming Tree, available to down free!! Pumpkin Pie, plaid, falling leaves and beautiful gold lettering to say "Hello Fall"! This little project would be the perfect addition to any Thanksgiving Table  as place setting favors! Picture how cute they would be just sitting  there on the dessert plates filled with a little goodie for each guest to take  home as a reminder of an incredible Thanksgiving Day!  Or maybe it is simply a little gift, a little thank you for someone  who could use a bit of cheer this fall!  Better yet... am I the only one who sees a card front here?!  That's right, cut the files and choose the parts and pieces required  to create a beautiful fall card! We'll do that in an upcoming post! So if I haven't given you enough reasons to give this SVG project a try,  the fact that it's free makes it even sweeter!  Download ...

This quirky rooster never fails to create a fun and amuzing card!  This rooster or any of the roosters in the Hey Chuck bundle provide us with a creative challenge that allows us to leave our focal image with a subtle,  mediocre, or an extremely vibrant outcome.  This layout for instance could be colored to look very monochromatic, in that the rooster image ( fence & ground ) would all be done in a Pecan Pie type color blend that would match up with the Glorious Gingham designer paper and the Pecan Pie cardstock that makes the card base.  ** Monochromatic is  a color scheme based on only one, single color tint . This card could also be created using more factual or true to life colors for the rooster. So, similar to the average rooster found in a barnyard, though this rooster certainly doesn't look like your average barnyard rooster!  If you want to take a walk on the wild side and really let your creative process come to life, then you could use ver...