Gently Falling Card #4

Hello!  Today's card is the last one of the set that I made to go inside the card holder I posted a few days back.  This card is neat because of the technique it uses.  I'm not sure what the exact name of the technique is, but you cut a piece of card stock (for this card, I used a 3 1/4'' x 4 1/2'' piece), stamp your images on the piece of card stock, and then cut it into three equal pieces and adhere it to your card, leaving an 1/8'' of an inch between each strip.  Or, you can cut three equal strips instead of one piece, to avoid having to cut it up again when you finish stamping.  (You'll just have to line all three strips up when stamping to make sure your images line up.  But remember, if you mess up, you can flip your paper over and use the back!  If you are using my measurements, then each strip would be 1 1/2 x 3 1/4''.)  Once I had all my images stamped, I glued a small strip of early espresso card stock to the very bottom strip, added two brads to the top right of my top strip, popped the three strips up using Stampin' Dimensionals, and stuck it to my embossed piece of card stock.

I love the subtlety of the metallic gold encore ink pad.  It adds a lot to the card, in my opinion.  The gold was stamped with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, the leaves are stamped with the stamp set Gently Falling, and the Thank You is stamped with the Lacy & Lovely stamp set.  The colors used on the card are pool party, very vanilla, early espresso, tangerine tango, and metallic gold.  I love this card. I hope you do too!  See you tomorrow for some Christmas card ideas!  Thanks for stopping by!

Gently Falling Card #3

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying seeing these cards to go with the card holder.  Here's the third card to go inside.  This card is my favorite, by far, of all the cards in the holder.  The reasons I love this one the most is because I love die cut shapes, especially holiday ones (and leaves are really fun), I love the glittery leaf die cut from the Champagne glimmer paper from Stampin' Up!, I love the tag embossed with the woodgrain embossing folder and the birch paper in the background.  They both add great texture that gives the card an additional fall feel.  I also really love the colors used.  I would never have come up with them on my own, and I love how well they go together.

The birch paper is from the Thankful tablescape simply created kit, as is the yellow maple leaf, the pool party leaf and the champagne glitter leaf are cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz die, and the thanks stamp is from the new Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp set.  I really love this card and plan to make a ton more of it!  I hope you were inspired by today's post.  Check back tomorrow for the last card in this series.  After that, I'll be showing off some Christmas cards to help you get ready!  See you tomorrow!