Farewell French Foilage

Another of my favorites- French Foilage - is going to be retiring at the end of the month! Here are some of my favorite cards using the set. You can click on any of the captions to go to the orginal post. 

Happy Day Fall Card

Faux Tearing leaf card

Rustic Leaf Card

My Favorite- Fall Thank you!

Here is an image of the whole set. You can order this by contacting me or through my website until May 31. It is available in  wood mount and Clear mount. 

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Pretty Fall Card

Here is a beautiful fall card- perfect for a birthday or just to send for fun! We made this card at my stamp-a-stack on Thursday. Can you guess how the square in the background was created? It's super easy - just find a stamp block the size you want and ink it up like you would a stamp!! Then press onto your paper and you get a fun background shape. They don't ink up perfectly or evenly so it add a nice distressed look.  For this card I used crumb cake ink pad to make my background and stamp block size D.  The stamp set is one of my favorites, French Foilage - I don't think it's possible to make an ugly card with this set - it's so easy to use and they always turn out so pretty! The woodgrain texture was created with the new woodgrain embossing folder in the big shot...  Don't forget to add a sentiment and some bakers twine and then you have a easy and beautiful fall card. 

stamps: French Foilage, Friendly Phrases (sentiment)

ink: Early Espresso, crumb cake, cajun craze

paper:  Early Espresso, crumb cake, cajun craze, Very Vanilla

Big Shot: Woodgrain embossing folder

other: Stamp block to stamp background, early espresso bakers twine. 

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Faux tearing Fall

Each month I've been showing two techniques in my technique class. Here is the second one for this month. It's called "Faux Tearing" because it looks like torn paper but really is created with one layer! Here's a close-up so you can see:

Isn't it neat how it has so much dimension but it is only one layer of card stock? I used the stamp set French Foliage to make this card. This is one of my favorite fall sets, I love the distressed look of the leaves and the french script writing! I used the thanksgiving sentiment from the set Day of Gratitude. Then I framed the whole thing using the framed tulips embossing folder!

stamps: french foliage, day of gratitude
ink:cajun craze, so saffron, soft suede, pumpkin pie
paper: whisper white, soft suede, cajun craze
other: bakers twine, framed tulips embossing folder, big shot, brayer

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Blissful Candle

I wanted to make a candle for my friend for her birthday and she loves vintage french-inspired decor so I combined the french scrip from the french foliage set and the flourish from Bliss to make this candle. What do you think? I was happy with how it turned out! I wrapped with with a piece of crumb cake seam binding ribbon and then placed it in a cello bag which I tied with some retired riding hood red striped ribbon.

Here's the top:
I added a couple little tags from the tiny tags set, punched out with the jewelry tag punch. I added these on with some linen thread.

stamps:Bliss, French foliage
ink: riding hood red, early espresso, very vanilla
paper: crumb cake, riding hood red
other: candle, linen thread, striped grosgrain ribbon, jewelry tag punch, cello bag

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More Pirates!

I'm behind on posting... too much stuff going on this week and ended up with cold for a few day so I've got a whole bunch of stuff to share that I haven't had time to post! To start off, here's another pirate card! I used Crumb Cake cardstock for the base and the scripty stamp from French Foliage is stamped up the side. I love how the scripty words look with the pirates! The rest is pretty simple. The pirate on the skull is stamped in chocolate chip ink on whisper white cardstock. Then I stamped the "ARRRR" in crumb cake below him. I framed the stamped image with old olive and chocolate chip cardstock. Then to add a little fun detail I added some folded ribbon and a button on the bottom. I had to put glue between each fold of the ribbon to get it to stay down but it looks really cool!

Stay tuned for some more Halloween stuff next...

stamps: Beware Pirates, French Foliage
ink: chocolate chip, crumb cake
paper: chocolate chip, crumb cake, whisper white, old olive
other: ribbon, button

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Arrrrrg! I love pirates!

Happy October! I can't believe it's October already.... October is one of my favorite months, I love the cool fall air, apple orchards, and Halloween!

Today I'm sharing a fun Pirate card. This could be great for Halloween or just for a birthday card to someone who likes pirates. I used the stamp set Beware Pirates to Stamp the pirate ship. I colored it with markers, first coloring the inside soft suede and going around the edges with old olive. Then I stamped it on Whisper White paper. Over the top I randomly stamped the scripty text image from the French Foliage stamp set. I thought it made a nice layered look. To make the soft suede paper look aged I just scruched and squeezed it up until it looked distressed. The rest of the card is simple...some river rock, a couple of brads and that's it!

stamps: Beware Pirates, French Foliage
ink:soft suede, old olive, early espresso
paper: soft suede, old olive, river rock, whisper white
other: brads

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Rustic Leaf card

For this card I used the Stamp set French Foliage. This set is so pretty and rustic looking. I stamped the leaves by coloring them with the more mustard marker and then coloring the edges with the cajun craze marker. The sentiment is from the set Day of Gratitude and is stamped on Crumb Cake paper and punched out with the new XL decorative label punch. I added a little piece of olive striped ribbon as an accent.To make things look more aged, I sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink.

stamps:French Foliage, day of gratitude
ink: more mustard, Cajun Craze, chocolate chip
paper: more mustard, old olive, chocolate chip, crumb cake
other: XL decorative Label, Striped Grosgrain ribbon

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Another Fall Thank you

I just love fall colors and leaves! They make the prettiest colors! For this card I started with a piece of Soft suede cut the long way (so it's 4 1/4 by 8 1/2). The I put it through the big shot with the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder to create that beautiful background. The main image is a leaf from the set Autumn Splendor.

To make it look like it's two toned I used the Rock-and-Roll technique. Making sure to ALWAYS use the lighter color first, ink your stamp (in this case into the pumpkin pie), then take the inked stamp and lightly roll the edges on the darker ink pad (in this case early espresso). This is a fun technique but remember to use the lighter color first or you might ruin your ink pads!

To see another card using this set that I made last fall, click here.

The pretty script background on this leaf is from the set French Foliage and I stamped it in crumb cake ink. Then I finished it off with a thanks from the set Thank You Kindly.

stamps: Autumn Splendor, French Foliage, Thank you Kindly
ink: Soft Suede, early espresso, pumpkin pie, crumb cake
paper: soft suede, early espresso, very vanilla, pumpkin pie
other: pumpkin pie grograin

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French Foliage

This card uses new stamp sets from the Holiday Mini Catalog.  The leaves are from the set French Foliage. This set is really beautiful and makes a quick and easy card! To make this card I randomly stamped some different leaves around the edges of the white card stock using old olive, more mustard and cajun craze ink, leaving room for the sentiment. The saying is from the set Day of Gratitude, another Holiday mini set and is stamped with early espresso ink.

To make the bow I used the "fork" bow technique. If you haven't tried this, it's a super easy and fun way  to make really cute bows! I am horrible at making bows but now that I learned how to do them this way, I will probably do them more often! To see how it's done, attend a class or book a workshop with me!

Hope you had a great holiday weekend!

stamps: Day of Gratitude, French Foliage

ink:more mustard, cajun craze, old olive, early espresso

paper:whisper white, cajun craze, early espresso, 

other: 3/8" olive taffeta ribbon

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