Not just for scrapbooking! Easy card ideas using Autumn to Remember

I love trees, and I love the colours of autumn, so needed no further excuse to make these cards using Stampin’ Up!®’s Autumn to Remember stamp set. 

11 card ideas using the new Stampin’ Up!® In Colors™ for 2023-2025 – and colour comparisons

 

It’s time (finally!) for some sneak peeks of the new Stampin’ Up!® Annual Catalogue. Yes I know I’m a few weeks behind many other demonstrators but I’ve had very little crafting time lately. 

 

Anyhoo... I really want to show you the FAB new In Colors™ so have made two sets of monochromatic cards to show them off, plus one card which brings four of the five colours together. Right at the bottom, I have created some colour comparison graphics to show how the new In Colors™look against Stampin’ Up!® colours past and present.

 

Sale-a-Bration retro pop-up card

I wanted to make a card with a retro vibe, so searched “retro colour combinations” on the internet. I came up with something like this: Pool Party, Delightful Dijon and Watermelon Wonder. It’s a combination that could have come straight from my In Color charts and, to be honest, it’s such a good one that I wish I had thought of it. 

Circle punches are perfect for creating a retro vibe, so out they came, too. And eventually, with a bit of playing around, I came up with this card. Pretty clean and simple, but there’s more…

Open it up and you have this fabulous pop-up greeting, which I absolutely love. It’s so simple to create with the new Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies. Check out the Stampin’ Up! video below.

Behind the pop-out greeting is some retired paper (it wasn’t retired when I made the card!) which helps the greeting to stand out even more.

If you’d like to see a demonstration of these dies, do get in touch to book a party... but hurry – my calendar is filling fast!

Party Pop-Up Thinlits Dies [140620] £27.00	Flowering Fields Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141303] £0.00	Botanicals For You Clear-Mount Stamp Set [141237] £0.00	2015-2017 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [138333] £13.50
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad [132708] £5.50	Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549] £7.25	Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] £6.50	Delightful Dijon A4 Cardstock [138345] £6.50
Pool Party A4 Card Stock [124391] £6.50	Watermelon Wonder A4 Cardstock [138341] £6.50

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Clean and simple Sleigh Ride card

I must get back to blogging more frequently! It’s not like I’m short of projects - I still have most of the cards from my Christmas workshop to show you, and I was part of a shoebox swap in the morning with some of my team. 

For those who have never experienced a shoebox swap, it’s great fun; you take along a project for everyone to make. It means you get to use stamps and tools you may not have, and stamp in a different style from your own. The only rule for this one was that it had to be from the new Autumn/Winter catalogue. 

I was cunning… I mean organised… and took along the leftover Make & Takes from an early SU party, but I’ll show you the other projects over the next few days. This one was Tricia’s and I loved it - clean and simple with crisp lines but with a fun technique in there, too; to create the moon you simply punch with a circle punch, then taking the “negative” rather than the circle, punch again to create a crescent moon. You can’t tell from my picture, but it’s punched out of glimmer paper for extra sparkle. 

Sleigh Ride Edgelits Dies [139670]	1" Circle Punch [119868]	Confetti Stars Punch [135861]	Night Of Navy A4 Card Stock [106577]
Whisper White A4 Card Stock [106549]	Basic Black A4 Card Stock [121688]	Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper [135315]

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AW37: Confetti with Tap Tap Tap

It’s time for another Around the World Challenge and this time the subject is ‘confetti’. I’ve had this idea brewing for a while and so thought I’d put it into action. The confetti is a little hidden in the main picture - I knew I should have put more in - but the picture below shows it better.

The background is created by using the Alphabet Press embossing folder as a stamp. To do this, ink up the raised portion of the folder, using either a brayer or the ink pad direct, then press it firmly onto your paper. You can get different effects by inking up just part of the folder, and by pressing more or less firmly to get a shabby chic effect. It comes out reversed but I like that as a real letterpress would be reversed. This is upside-down, too, but who cares? It all adds to the effect (probably). 

Have I mentioned how much I love this typewriter image? Well I think I love it even more stamped in black on Melon Mambo!

Now it’s your turn to have a go at the Around the World Challenge and I still haven’t seen a familiar name in the entrants, so here’s a thing: if you’re one of my customers (and by that I mean you have purchased from me in the past 12 months) and you enter a card into the challenge, I’ll send you a small free gift!

Don’t have a blog? Don’t worry… just photograph or scan your card, upload it to Pinterest and then link to it there. 

Get some more inspiration for this challenge by visiting the Around the World Challenge blog, here. There are creations from almost every country where Stampin’ Up!® operates (we don’t have a Japanese representative yet, but we’re working on it). 

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A White Christmas... and All is Calm

I held my first party of the month last week and was proud to introduce the guests to our fabulous new Autumn/Winter catalogue. It’s proving very popular, with lots of interest in the gorgeous new stamp sets. 

This set is a clear favourite. It’s called White Christmas and is a photopolymer set, which is perfect for lining up the images. I love so many of the images in this set but I did explain to the guests that I find it difficult to comprehend when people stamp the polar bear next to the trees.  There are no trees in the world of polar bears, so I’m afraid I couldn’t create a card like that!

However, as I also explained, I have no problem at all with a blue deer! This card is kept deliberately simple; partly so that it could be created quickly as our Make & Take and partly because, when you’re making a lot of Christmas cards, you don’t want to overcomplicate matters. 

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I used Whisper White note cards and envelopes to eliminate the cutting and scoring process. Using circle punches to create the elements also speeds things up as there’s no measuring required.  I’ve used just one ink pad, as I appreciate not everybody has everything (like I do!) and your Christmas cards shouldn’t break the bank. Who knew I put so much thought into your Make & Takes?

But there’s a stepped-up version, too, for your “A-list friends”. This one is a larger card, featuring embossing, another ink colour (Silver) and a rhinestone (but only one because I forgot to order them and need to hold some back for my Christmas workshop!). There’s a hint of Chalk Marker, too, to add a snowy ground beneath the stag’s feet. 

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The Merry Christmas on both cards comes from a really lovely stamp set called Good Greetings. It’s free to hostesses who hold a party of £200 or more before the end of October. And it’s in addition to all their other lovely hostess benefits, too! My calendar is pretty tight now but drop me a line and I’ll see if I can squeeze you in!