CardMaker & Paper Smooches Blog Hop: Autumn Grove Card

Today the ladies on the Cardmaker Magazine blog team are joining together with the talented ladies over at Paper Smooches to share some of their newest fun products for September!

For my card I was given the Autumn Grove stamp set along with their newest birch tree dies to play with.  I thought it would be fun to ink up the background to look like dusk behind the die-cut trees.  To give my tree trunks the glow of moonlight, I cut them from both black (for the outline) and again from white cardstock which I shaded with neutral grey Copic markers.

For my sentiment, I inked up a piece of scratch cardstock with a blend of yellow and orange ink using a foam applicator and then stamped the sentiment over the top afterwards.  The little scarecrow and three pumpkins were colored with Copic markers and fussy cut to finish my scene.  I had so much fun creating this card!  :)

To add some fun to our hop...Paper Smooches is choosing TWO lucky winners to receive a $25 gift code to shop at the PS store.  Winners will be chosen randomly from the participating blogs.  You will have until Sept. 18th at midnight est to comment.  Winners will be announced on the Paper Smooches blog on Sept 19th.

Make sure to stop by and check out all the other amazing creations by the other ladies joining us today.  The lovely Teri Anderson is your next stop in the hop.  :)

Here's a complete list of everyone playing along as well.  :)

• CardMaker
• Alice Wertz
• Gini Williams Cagle
• Emily Leiphart
• Stacy Morgan
• Kay Miller
• Chitra Nair
• Michele Boyer
• Mendi Yoshikawa (you are here)
• Teri Anderson
• Jennie Harper
• Paper Smooches

Interested in the products I used to create my projects today?  To make supplies easier for you to find, I have listed them below (affiliate links included). 


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Paper Smooches Green Thumb Spring & Valentine Cards

Paper Smooches is looking for a guest designer for February so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to play with my darling "Green Thumb" set that has been begging to see some ink.  I decided to challenge myself to create a variety of cards using a single set to showcase these stamps amazing versatility!

For my first card, I couldn't fight the urge to immediately pull out my Copic markers and color all the vegetable images in this darling set.  I paired them with some old Cosmo Cricket Garden Variety papers that I haven't had the heart to part with.  I thought they complimented each other pretty well.

For my next card I took the gardening boots and turn them into cheerful, happy rain boots!    Can I just say I would love to have all these boots in real life?!  They totally make me happy!  I stamped them onto shrunken down 6x6 prints from Doodlebug's Fruit Stand collection and bordered my card with coordinating strips of polka-dot washi tape.  I also popped up the top boot from each pair with foam tape for a little extra dimension.

For my last card I wanted to go in a somewhat unexpected direction and make a Valentine's day card with the watering can and heart images (and patterned papers, ribbon, twine & button by Doodlebug).  Kim Hughes is the master of adorable, punny sentiments and this one is so perfect!  :)

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Make sure to swing by the Paper Smooches blog for loads of inspiring ideas using their fabulous stamp and die line-up!  :)