FRENCH FOLIAGE

I was in need of 2 quick cards this am so I whipped out some white u/s SU! cardstock and my French Foliage Stamp set.  My ink pads are always out on my craft table so making quick cards is pretty easily.  These are a little different sized cards, but they were perfect for what I had to send.  I made both of them Thinking of You cards using the stamp set sincere salutations. 

The second card got spritzed with SU! Shimmer mist which I love.  This is a great FALL stamp set if you are in need of one.  I love how all of the fall colors went so well together.

OFFICIALLY FALL

Fall has arrived.  Although we've had a few muggy days here in the Baltimore area, you can still tell that Fall is here.  Leaves are turning and falling!  I haven't used my French Foliage stamp set since last Fall so I wanted to pull that out.  I stamped some of the leaves and other stamps in the set on river rock card stock.  Then I added some always artichoke dsp from the designer paper pack (I love those packs, and what value!!!) and a piece of dsp from my scrap bin (also SU!) and embossed using finial press and vintage wallpaper embossing folders for the Big Shot by SU!  I had some copper cording from SU! in my stash and added it for a little bit of elegance. 

I really like the way this turned out.  I'm going to give it to my dear friend Hsiao-hui today.  Hopefully it will make her day!  I have to give her some money for purchasing tickets to the upcoming Cesar Milan dog whisperer show we are going to go to. She and I are huge dog lovers as you probably can tell from my scrapbook pages I do of my dog Luigi.  Hsiao-hui's dog is Audrey and she is adorable.  I'm going to be working on some pages of us and our pets so watch for that soon.


Here's the envelope I stamped  for the card.

 ok, Happy Fall Y'all!

FRENCH FOLIAGE MAKE AND TAKE

 

This is one of the make and takes from the Remarkable Retreat last weekend.  Jan Wakeland my upline designed some great projects for us.  This was one of my favorites and I'll probably make it for my Thanksgiving table this year as treats or place settings for all of the guests.  This project uses our adorable scalloped mini brown bags and the stamp set French Foliage.  We stamped the leaves in more mustard and cut them out. I love how realistic these leaves look.  Also note the use of the new glimmer brads.  We put a gold one right atop the postmark from Paris!  The sentiment is from Days of Gratitude set and we used the new label punch to stamp it on!

FRENCH FOLIAGE AND SEASONAL SENTIMENTS

I CASED this card from Jeanette Swain.  She was so kind and gave me this card at the last Remarkable Team Event.  I basically did the same design except that her ribbon was rich razzleberry 1/8 inch taffeta and I used pumpkin pie 1/8 inch taffeta. I demonstrated this card for my crafters on Friday night at Pat Nuckels home.  They loved this card!  The stamps are from the French Foliage Stamp set which is New in the SU! Holiday mini catalog.  We used the ink colors - old olive, pumpkin pie, rich razzleberry, basic grey and so saffron.   I love the tone on tone stamping on the rich razzleberry card stock that we embossed with the square lattice die for the Big Shot.  The postmark from Paris is really vintage!  Aren't these colors fabulous?

 

 This is my envelope and the inside of the card. The sentiment on the inside of the card is from Seasonal Sentiments stamp set and stamped in old olive ink.  This was a thanksgiving phrase that I modified.  I love that the leaf appears to be a part of the sentiment.

 Marlene and Linda M are working on their cards. 

 Pat, Hsiao-hui and Linda are putting their cards together.

 Patti really enjoyed working on this one.

Here's Linda M working on hers.