Autumn Upsy Daisy

Upsy Daisy is a pretty popular stamp set, probably because it looks great no matter what you do with it. This card took me less than 5 minutes to make. I made this card with autumn colours, More Mustard and Really Rust. The only embellishment I used on the card were 4 gold brads.

Stampin Up Clearance Rack!!!
If you haven’t been to my Stampin Up website in a while click here and then click on the “Shop Now” link. There is a new category called the clearance rack and it’s full of fabulous deals on retired product. These items are only available through my online shopping cart and the quantities are limited.

Some of the great deals include:

Autumn Vine Designer Paper - Now $5.49

Word Flurries Rub ons - Now $5.99

Little Felt Flurries - Now $8.99

Cranberry Crist 1/4 stitched ribbon - Now $4.99

For All You

For All You Do is my newest stamp set so I will have a few samples from it to show you over the next few weeks but what I really love about this card is the colour combination of Bermuda Bay and Soft Suede. I did a card a few weeks ago with Bermuda Bay and Chocolate Chip but I like this even better. The designer paper is Thoroughly Modern, a paper I didn't really think much of until I took the time to look at each piece of paper individually and realized it wasn't as "loud" as I thought it was.

This is a card I am going to make and package a bunch together to give out as Christmas gifts to teachers as a Thank You. It was quick and easy to make and I think this card can be used for all occasions!

Simple Friendship Butterflies

I am a big fan of pink and brown together so I love the combination of Soft Suede with Pretty in Pink. The stamp set I used for this card was Simple Friendship (although the background on the Soft Suede card was stamped with the French Filigree background stamp. The designer paper I used on the card is Bella Bleu.


I know most of you aren't crazy about cutting but the butterflies look fabulous this way. If you have the right scissors (Paper Snips) and you practice, practice, practice you will get better at it. I think it adds a lot to your work to perfect this skill.

Autumn Harvest....

I love pumpkins at this time of year. We usually grow them but this year all we got were a lot of flowers. I'm sure the lack of sun earlier in the summer had a lot to with this.

The stamp set I used was Autumn Harvest, which I just love because it also comes with the Jack-o-lantern face to stamp on the pumpkins. I coloured the pumpkins, squash and leaf using SU watercolour pencil crayons and the aquapainter (the image was stamped on watercolour paper) I also used Teeny Tine Wishes for the sentiment and the Sanded background stamp on the card.

Sweet Centers....

I fell in love with the Sweet Centers stamp set as soon as I saw it in the Holiday Mini. I knew it would be great for little treats but it's also an awesome idea for non-treats.

On this card I filled the Sweet Treats cup with clear beads from the Pretties kit as well as the Silver Bead duo found on page 180 in the catalogue. I'm looking forward to filling my flower cards with seeds in the spring that people can plant in their gardens and watch grow. Over the next few months I will post more cards and hopefully give you a lot more idea's for filling the treat cups.

Supplies on this Card:

• Sweet Centers stamp set
• On Your Birthday stamp set
• Sweet Treat cup
• Real Red Classic Ink
• Old Olive Classic Ink
• Black Staz On ink
• Real Red cardstock
• Old Olive cardstock
• Whisper White cardstock
• Old Olive Grosgrain
• Silver brad

Dreams du Jour

I just fell in love with the little butterflies in this stamp set after one of my friends bought it (you are all the worst enablers...I can't beleive how much stuff I have bought because you all have ordered something)

On this card I used Not Quite Navy and Soft Suede together along with Bella Bleu designer paper. The butterflies were stamped with Not Quite Navy Classic ink and coloured with a blender pen (which picks up ink from the image) to create a softer shade of Not Quite Navy. The Happy Birthday stamp is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and punched out with the Modern Label punch.

Beary Best Friends...

When Mary saw this Build a Bear stamp set in the mini catalogue a month ago she went crazy for it so I had to buy it of course. I think the Beary Best Wishes and the Beary Nice wishes stamp sets will be a lot of fun for her, so far I have been the only to make anything with it.


Sometimes I like to make quick little cards to put in her lunch kit so she gets them at school, this is one of them. I just coloured the bear with markers and a blender pen and the patterened paper is from the Pawsitively Prints out of the Holiday mini. Even if you don't love the bear the paper is great for cards of all occasions!

Thoughts and Prayers Autumn Tree....

I just love the tree from the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set and thought it would look awesome with some fall colours. This tree took a few extra minutes to colour but it is so worth it (looks even better in person!)

First I inked the whole Tree with Creamy Caramel Ink. I then took a damp q-tip and removed the colour from all the leaves. Then I coloured all the leaves with a Summer Sun Marker. Finally I dotted (tapped) the leaves with a Real Red marker. I huffed on the stamp and stamped it onto Very Vanilla cardstock. While you could colour the stamp completely with markers I found it a lot easier to do it this way because it's almost impossible to colour all those thin branches of the tree with the Caramel marker without "contaminating" the leaves with that colour.

Inspired by Nature...

I do love this beautiful flower. It looks hard to ink but actually I found a super easy way to ink it with all the different colours.

First I got a sponge dauber (page 192 in the catalogue) put it on my finger and dipped it into a Summer Sun Classic ink pad and daubed it onto the petals.

I then took a different dauber (you can just rince the original dauber and pat dry if you want to re-use it), dipped it into a Ruby Red classic ink pad and daubed overtop the Summer Sun.

I took a third dauber, inked it with Old Olive and daubed the stem

Finally I daubed the center of the coneflower with Close to Cocoa ink.

It was super easy and all the ink went where it was suppose to go. You could use markers too but this gives a softer more blended look. I finished this card off with lots of paper piercing (done using the Mat Pack on page 191 in the catalogue)

Sizzix Card.....

Ok, this card is pretty much an exact copy of the card in the catalogue on page 197 but I loved it so much when I saw it I ordered the Sizzlits dies "Many Thanks" and "Little Leaves" as well as the Certainly Celery Patterns Designer Paper right away. The only stamping on the card was on the leaves. I used the Sanded Background with Certainly Celery ink to create the pattern (just like in the catalogue!) I don't like to copy a card directly but that card was too fabulous not to show you (in case you missed it in the catalogue!)

My Delightful Decorations class (details below in my August 27th post) is more than half full so sign up soon if you were hoping to be a part of it.

Best Wishes and More....

Happy back to school day! It's so quiet in the house but I am not complaining! I really should clean but I think I will stamp instead!

I thought I would take a little detour from tradional autumn colours and throw some Rich Razzleberry into this autumn card I made with the Best Wishes and More stamp set. I just love this little leaf!

Products Used on this card:

• Best Wishes and More stamp set
• Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set
• Rich Razzleberry Textured cardstock
• Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, Very Vanilla cardstock
• Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango Classic Ink
• Black Staz On
• Oval Punches
• Gold eyelets
• Curshed Curry Polka Dot ribbon
• Linen Thread

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