Thursday, September 24, 2026

ELEGANT LEAVES WITH BABY WIPES

While the leaves on Monday's card were in bold traditional fall colors, the leaves on today's card are anything but traditional.  They have a pretty, softer vibe, and I'm not sure they even exist in nature.  

I revived an old technique that I hadn't used in a long time so wanted to experiment a bit with color.  The technique is Baby Wipe Stamping.  With this technique you use a folded Baby Wipe to create an ink pad by adding drops of various ink colors on the baby wipe.  Then you use that baby wipe as your ink pad to ink your stamp.

If you are new to stamping and haven't seen this technique before it's a lot of fun.  Watch this video for lots of tips and tricks.

As I mentioned in the video, my original intent was to make all the leaves using the Baby Wipe Technique, but when I assembled the four leaves on the card front, they all just blended together, and it didn't really showcase them very well.

So, I did a reset and stamped the three smaller background leaves with simple two-step stamping.  I used the same colors that I had used on the Baby Wipe--Gorgeous Grape, Blueberry Bushel and Bubble Bath--but made them each a solid color.  That helped the large, center Baby Wipe leaf to stand out more.


The solid potion of the two smallest leaves was stamped-off so that the tone-on-tone veins would be clearly visible.  The medium-size leaf was stamped with Bubble Bath and Gorgeous Grape.

When you make your Baby Wipe ink pad, you can use it several times, so I had fun with the inside of the card and the envelope flap.


I stamped several leaves on the edge of the message layer and the flap of the envelope.  As long as I left plenty of white space between the leaves, I loved how it looked.

The sentiments on the front and inside of the card are both from the Elegant Leaves Bundle.  


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Monday, September 21, 2026

REGAL ELEGANT LEAVES

This week I am featuring the beautiful Elegant Leaves Bundle.   This is an awesome bundle to use for Fall cards but change up the colors and it could be used any time of the year.

For today's card I used traditional fall colors, Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green and Crushed Curry--all of which are front the Regals Color Family.  However rather than using a tone-on-tone color for the veining in the leaves I used Secret Sea ink.  I got this idea from a sample card in Stampin' Up!'s Fall Seasonal Mini catalog.  It really makes the leaves pop!


The center focal point was made with the Party Banners dies and the top layer was embossed with the Softly Woven Embossing Folder.


If you look closely, you can sese the subtle plaid embossing.  I love that it is an all-over subtle design.


For the inside of the card I stamped another Garden Green Leaf and then used the woodgrain die from the bundle to decorate the left edge of the Basic White cardstock.


One thing I learned when using this die is that you want to make sure the cardstock that you are cutting is larger than the die on all sides.  If not, it will fall apart!  Guess how I learned that!  😓

The happy thanksgiving sentiment is from the Soiree Salutations stamp set -- also in the new Fall Seasonal Catalog.  If you overlooked this set, look again!  It has 17 greetings for all the major holidays and more!  Plus as an added bonus, they are sized to be used with the Triple Banner Punch.  Obviously, I didn't need that for the inside of the card, but it would make a quick and easy sentiment for the front of a card.


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Thursday, September 17, 2026

TWO FOR ONE CARDS WITH LUSTROUS LEAVES

I think I am in love!  This Lustrous Leaves Hot Foil bundle makes beautiful fall leaves.  And even more exciting is that by using the new Reverse Hot Foil Die I was able to get two cards using the same piece of foil!

The above card is the first one I made with the bundle which includes Decorative Masks as well as dies.  It hot foiled 5 leaves at once, and then the masks were used with Blending Brushes to color all of them before using a coordinating cutting die to separate them.


I used only one of the 5 masks to color the large leaves.  Another of the 5 masks makes the small, background leaves that you see on the card front and on the envelope.  Aren't they fun?  I just blended multiple colors in different places with the mask to create the colorful background.


Since I used gold foil to hot foil the veins of the leaves, I chose Gold Foil Specialty Paper for the border and circle.  The circle was die cut with a Stylish Shapes Die from the center of the Perennial Postage mat layer, which makes better use of the more expensive foil specialty paper.  Even if I'm not planning to use the die cut on my current card, I always try to remember to die cut something from the center of the foil layer and save it for later.  There is no point in covering up all that beautiful foil!


I used the same small leaves mask to add a few, colorful leaves in the lower corner of the card.  The leaves and the narrow Gold Foil strip coordinates the inside of the card nicely with the front of the card.

Now to Card #2 ...

When you use the Hot Foil Dies, there is always a leftover piece of foil with the "negative" image of whatever it was you foiled.  In this case, the negative image was a piece of foil that had the gold removed where the leaf veins were.

By using our brand new (just released this month) Reverse Hot Foil Die you can use this piece of leftover foil to add the negative image on cardstock.  It may be difficult to see due to the glare on the foil, but hopefully you can see the white outline images of the 5 leaves on the gold foil.  What an awesome way to use the leftover foil!

I only used three of the leaves on the first card, so I used the remaining two leaves on this card to set off my sentiment from Fern & Flora.

A couple of torn strips from the gorgeous Sunflower Fields Designer Series paper was used to decorate the left edge of the card.  

The torn strips were repeated on the inside of the card to also give it a bit of color.  The happy thanksgiving greeting is from Soiree Salutations, another new greeting set from the September - December Catalog.  FYI -- Although not used here, these sentiments are sized to work perfectly with the Tripple Banner Punch.  Don't you love it when something new coordinates with something you already own?

Grab your favorite beverage and watch this video to see how both Card #1 and Card #2 were made.


Use the following links to download a PDF tutorial for each of today's cards.

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