If Friends Were Pumpkins

 Every once and awhile, I like to shake things up in my crafty brain and challenge myself to use a stamp for a different occasion then it was intended for. "Pumpkin Buddies" from High Hopes Rubber Stamps is a Halloween themed stamp but I have chosen to do something different with it and use it for a friendship card. 

Friends come in all shapes and sizes and we sometimes make friends in the most unlikely places so I have paired the pumpkin buddies with the Chubby Pumpkins stamp so it looks like they are in a pumpkin patch. 

                                                    

I stamped the chubby pumpkins (twice) and pumpkin buddies on alcohol marker friendly paper and coloured them with Copic markers. I set the buddies aside, cut the pumpkins out with a stitched rectangle die and added some puffy clouds with a cloud die and distress ink to create the "pumpkin patch" background. Next I coloured the pumpkin buddies and hand fussy cut them leaving a thin white edge. 

I cut some patterned paper from the Pumpkin Spice paper pad by Simple Stories and glued down my layers after mounting them on matching card stock. Next, I masked off the sentiment, stamped each line separately, cut them and put them on matching card stock. I added some twine to the bottom of the card and glued down the sentiment piece and added the second line of the sentiment to the top of the card. Pumpkin buddies are added with foam squares to help them stand off the front of the card and enamel dots finish it off. 

 

Card Recipe 

Stamp: Pumpkin Buddies (TT020), Chubby Pumpkins (J031) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment - If Friends Were Pumpkins (G289) - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Pumpkin Spice - Simple Stories 

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill 100lb digital cover stock, stitched rectangle die - Your Next Stamp, cloud die - Quickutz, tumbled glass Distress ink, twine, enamel dots 

 Copic Markers:

Pumpkins - Y38 YR16 YR18 Y11 Y18 E34 

E35 E27 E29 YG01 YG03 YG17 BG99

Dog - E30 D31 E43 T4 T6 T8 T9

          Cat - T4 T6 T8 T10 R000 R20

Bat - N4 N6 N8

Ground - C1 C2 C4

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If Friends Were Pumpkins

Hello Friends,

I am really excited to share my card with you today. For this card I chose to of my favorite Autumn stamps from High Hopes Stamps!

To begin I stamped "Chubby Pumpkins"and "If Friends Were Pumpkins" Memento ink and colored with alcohol markers. I fussy cut the pumpkin image but for my sentiment I used this scalloped border die set from AE. I chose to used foam tape on my chubby pumpkins and also on the banner. The pattern paper is a 12X12 pad called "Spiced Pumpkin" from Craft Smart.

Copic List; Y38 YR02 YR04 YR07 YR09

G99 E23 E25

For embellishes I adhesive a few orange enamel dots and used a white gel pen. Hope you enjoyed today's card. 

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Have a BLESS day.

Fall Pillow Boxes...Using Chubby Pumpkin!

Hi there and happy Sunday,

I have a set of "FALL" pillow boxes to share with you.

These pillow  boxes are fun to make and easy to mass producing!

My image is "Chubby Pumpkins" from Highhopesstamps.com 

The image was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Copic Markers. Once the image was color I fussy cut it leaving a small white border. Next I used my Sizzix Thinlists 660660 to die cut the pillow box. For my background I used a Sizzix embossing folder and a few distress inks. It's so hard to capture the look of the embossing folder in a photo.

To finish my project I added some sequins, gold ringtones, and the word Fall. Also added some sparkle with my Wink of Stella pen. Here is another project using this adorable image.

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Have a BLESS day!

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Pumpkin Friends

I have a few friends going through some tough times and I am hoping this card will make one of them feel better or smile when they receive it. 

I had some  fun making a fall themed "hug in a card" using Pumpkin Border and Chubby Pumpkins from High Hopes. This is the first card I have made using a stamped border. I find it very challenging to find a way to use them to be honest. However, this card has started the border creative juices flowing so you may see more in the future. <wink>

After colouring my stamps with alcohol markers, I hand fussy cut them leaving a thin white border around the edge of the pumpkin border. Paper from MFT gave a subtle water color wash background and to me makes the card feel like a warm hug. I cut the border piece out using a stitched rectangle die - I had to cut the leaves on the edge to slip the die in behind the border to cut it. A matching stitched fishtail banner was perfect for the sentiment. Some ribbon and heart shaped sprinkles finish off my card. 


Card Recipe 

Stamp:Pumpkin Border, Chubby Pumpkins - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Sentiment: If Friends Were Pumpkins - High Hopes Rubber Stamps

Patterned Paper: Water Color Washes - MFT

Tuxedo Black Memento ink, Hammermill digital cover stock, shape sprinkles - Doodlebug, stitched rectangle die - YNS, stitched fishtail banner die - YNS, ribbon - Stampin Up

Spectrum Noir Markers: OR1 OR2 OR3 CT4 GB4 GB7 CG4 DG3 JG6 EB3 EB6 EB5 

Copics: E31 E34 E37 

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