Autumn Leaves w/Kara

Hello, and Happy World Cardmaking Day!

It's Kara and I'm back with a fun fall card design. This is the perfect season for curling up with a hot cup of tea. This teacup from the Hello & Thanks stamp set is perfect and so versatile!

The set comes with beautiful floral designs to sit inside the cup, but I encourage you to try images from your other sets. The single sunflower from the new Autumn Blessings set fits perfectly too.

For this card I wanted to fill the cup with some leaves for autumn. I stamped a few images from the Autumn Leaves stamp set using a mixture of two pure Color Dye Ink colors, Pumpkin Spice and Gala Red. While positioning the leaves inside the cup I was unable to come up with an arrangement that I liked. I decided to push it off my work surface, work on something new and then come back to it. When I did that, the leaves moved into this flowing arrangement and I loved it! I quickly snapped a picture with my phone so that I could recreate it on my card.

I decided I wanted a little more interest in the design, but wanted the focus to remain on those pretty leaves. I popped up a circle to ground the design and sponged on the same colors in the leaves into the negative space behind the circle. I sprinkled in a few acorns from Autumn Blessings stamped in Coconut Husk ink.

I used the same ink to stamp my sentiment from the So Very stamp set. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you like it!

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase.

Wplus9 White Cardstock Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 4 Bar Stitched Rectangles Die Shop at: WP9	Pumpkin Spice PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Autumn Blessings Shop at: WP9
Autumn Blessings Die Shop at: WP9	Hello & Thanks Shop at: WP9	Hello & Thanks Die Shop at: WP9	So Very Shop at: WP9
Autumn Leaves Shop at: WP9	Autumn Leaves Die Shop at: WP9	Gala Red Pure Color Dye Ink Shop at: WP9

GUEST ARTIST FEATURE: Clean and Simple Cards w/Laurie Willison

Hello there! It's Laurie Willison here from Soapbox Creations. I am so excited to be a guest today on the WPlus9 blog. I am a clean and simple stamper and Dawn's designs are perfect for my kind of cards! I have a couple cards to share with you today so let's get started.

This first card showcases 2 of my favorite WPlus9 products. The first is is Sunshine Layers Die set and the second is the new sentiment set called So Very. The die set is just a must have in your crafting stash. So many fun details included to create all kinds of cards. The sentiment set? Well, I am a font nerd. I adore gorgeous handwritten fonts....as I can't hand write pretty on my own (hehe!)....so when I can stamp it...it makes me happy!

Here is my first card...

To create this card, I grabbed a white card base and a white card front panel. I die cut the front panel with the Scalloped Frame that comes in the Sunshine Layers Die set. Using my Misti, I perfectly placed the sentiment and stamped them all at once in Versafine Black Onyx ink. Next, I die cut the rainbow and the clouds all in white cardstock. This step saves you some die cutting if you like a quick and simple card like I do. I grabbed 4 Copics and colored up the bows in those fun bright colors. Next, I added the clouds to the bottom of the rainbow and added some foam tape so I could pop up those gorgeous die cuts. Last, I added some little clear acrylic droplets on the front. I love how the colors in the rainbow pop from the card!

Another new set from the last WPlus9 release is called Beautiful Butterflies. I just love the big block sentiment included in the set...

To create this card. I grabbed a white card base, some patterned paper for the background and a white card front panel. Using my Misti again, I stamped the sentiment in black ink. I grabbed the set called No One Else and stamped some of those adorable blooms and greens all around. I kept this super simple by keeping that flat front card with no embellishments.

Last, I took the card front and popped it up on fun foam just for a little dimension off the card base. These flat cards are easy to stick in the mail without using a padded envelope.

I hope you've enjoyed my quick and simple cards today. Thanks to WPlus9 for letting me hang out today! Thanks so much for having me. Hope you all have a great day!

~Laurie

Featured Supplies

For your convenience, here is a list of the featured Wplus9 supplies used on today's project(s), along with links to purchase.

Wplus9 Sunshine Layers Die Shop at: WP9

Beautiful Butterflies Shop at: WP9

So Very Shop at: WP9

Creating on the Fly w/Dawn ft. HELLO & THANKS

Hello crafty friends! Today I've got a little bit of a different video to share with you. I shared this over on YouTube a few days ago, and thought I'd pop in to share here as well for those that don't already follow over there. (which you totally should, BTW) ;)

Normally when I film a video, I recreate a card that I've already created prior to actually filming for brevity. It makes the filming process quicker and requires less editing and such. But, today, I just turned on the camera and started working through an idea. You'll be able to see the how the design evolves and how I adapt when execution doesn't quite match my original vision.

Watch above or watch in HD at YouTube

Although things did not go as planned with the second card, I do absolutely love the way it turned out. Thank goodness for small favors!

I stamped the floral cluster from Hello & Thanks onto Oatmeal card stock in Coconut Husk ink and colored it with Copic Markers. As you'll see in the video above, that didn't quite go as planned. To save it, I ended up stamping over the original with Versamark Ink and heat embossing it using Gold Embossing Powder. This added back in the badly needed definition I had lost during coloring.

To add a little interest to the background, I used a die to do some dry embossing. This is super easy to do by swapping out your cutting plates with your embossing ones.

I die-cut the image using the companion die and popped it up using foam adhesive. For the sentiment, I again used heat embossing and die cut the large hello using the companion die and popped that up as well. The rest of the sentiment was stamped directly on the card base in Coconut Husk.

Now this card did go as planned until the very end, when I managed to leave a big ol' fingerprint on the edge in black ink. Yeah, it happens to us all at one time or another.

I used all of the same supplies on this card, only I swapped out the cream base for a white one and stamped in Memento Black Ink instead of brown. To "fix" the fingerprint boo-boo, I trimmed down the panel to the first embossed line and adhered the panel using foam adhesive to my card base.

I hope you enjoyed today's project. As always, thanks for stopping by!

Featured Supplies

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Wplus9 4 Bar Stitched Rectangles Die Shop at: WP9	Wplus9 PURE COLOR Black Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Shop at: SSS | EH	Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER GOLD Ultrafine Detail Shop at: SSS
Precision Heat Embossing Tool Gun Hero Arts Shop at: SSS	3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Shop at: SSS	Wplus9 Oatmeal Cardstock Shop at: WP9	EK Success CRAFT TWEEZERS Precision Tip Shop at: SSS
Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 40 Sheets Shop at: SSS	MINI MISTI PRECISION STAMPER Stamping Tool Kit Shop at: SSS | EH	Sizzix BIG SHOT Shop at: SSS	9 x 12 WHITE FUN FOAM 12 Pack Shop at: SSS
EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors Shop at: SSS	Memento TUXEDO BLACK INK PAD Full Size Shop at: SSS	Sizzix Magnetic Platform Shop at: SSS	Inkadinkado EMBOSSING MAGIC Powder Bag Shop at: SSS
Coconut Husk PURE COLOR Dye Ink Shop at: WP9	Hello & Thanks Shop at: WP9	Hello & Thanks Die Shop at: WP9	Lawn Fawn Glue Tube Shop at: SSS | EH
Tim Holtz Tonic GLASS MEDIA MAT Shop at: SSS	Copic Sketch Marker Y38 Honey Shop at: SSS | Blick	Copic Sketch Marker V06 Lavendar Shop at: SSS | Blick	Copic Sketch Marker BG72 Ice Ocean Shop at: SSS | Blick
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