Trendy Trees....

I think this is a happy fall card!  I guess it's because I LOVE the 1-1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon Stampin' Up! sells.  They have it in so many beautiful colors and you would not believe how soft and piable it is, unless you touched it!  So to me it MAKES this card.

The colors used on this one are Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron and Cajun Craze.  The tree is from the Trendy Trees stamp set and the top of each tree is stamped in the color of the scalloped square behind it (punched using the Scallop Square Punch).  I stamped the tree trunks with Soft Suede.  The Very Vanilla square that the trees are stamped on are punched with the 1-1/4" punch.

The sentiment is from the Grateful Greetings stamp set and is stamped in Soft Suede.  I love the layers on this card.  My ladies will tell you that in class I stress all the time that the more layers,used, the better the card looks.  Layers just make a card look richer!

This one is fairly easy today, but again, this is a layout that you could make in other colors for other seasons!  I love having layouts I like to try in many colors and with many stamp sets. 

Have a great day!!   Smiles, Laura

Let's think fall.....

With the long hot summer we've had, it is surely time to start thinking fall.  In fact, we had 48 degrees here one morning this week, so fall is beginning to peep her face out.  I am participating in a challenge swap where they give you the card requirements and you have to make a card to send to just one person.  For this challenge, we were given this card (below) and told to change three things about it. (It just so happens it is a card by me that I made for an earlier swap.)  

So I got busy yesterday afternoon to make my card for my challenge partner. I wanted my card to look fall-ish, since I'm anticipating fall now!   Here is what I made:

The card itself is Pumpkin Pie and the front layer is Cajun Craze.  I embossed the Cajun using the Square Lattice embossing folder, same as the original sample.  I put a scalloped square using the new Scalloped Squares Duo Die for the bigger square on here.  The sentiment is from the Seasonal Sentiments set from the Holiday Mini.  It has four wonderful sentiments in the set for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentines.  The little tree is from the Trendy Trees stamp set.  The base of the tree was stamped in Crumb Cake and the leaves with Cajun Craze.  

I punched the leaves using the Two Step Bird punch.  The leaves in that punch are SO versatile.  They are punched from Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, and Pumpkin Pie cardstock.  I added the wide striped Pumpkin Pie bow. 

So what do you think, comparing the two cards?  I made quite a few changes, but can you tell it is the same layout?  I hope so!!  And I hope I wasn't supposed to just change THREE things, because I changed more.   Oh, well, I hope my partner likes the card!

Smiles, Laura