Showing posts with label Elegant Leaves Bundle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elegant Leaves Bundle. Show all posts

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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