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Autumn/Fall Diecutting

Alcohol Inked Maple Leaf

November 9, 2021

Welcome!  Have you experimented with alcohol inks to make fun colorful backgrounds?  If so, how often do you actually put them to use in your cardmaking? Admittedly, we haven’t mastered that step yet, but we are trying!  Today’s card is the result of using one of those backgrounds and we think it worked perfectly. Focal Point: Using the solid maple leaf die, cut one leaf from a Yupo…

Autumn/Fall Birthday Diecut Inlay

Diecut Inlay Leaves

October 25, 2021

Hello Friends! Have you ever tried the diecut inlay technique? It’s really just a fancy name for paper piecing, but we find it relaxing and enjoyable – somewhat like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. It’s definitely a great way to use up small scraps of cardstock. We have an autumn-themed birthday card to share with you today using this technique. Focal Point: We selected a rust-colored cardstock to…

Autumn/Fall Diecutting

Hello Toadstools

October 22, 2020

Hello and welcome!  We are happy that you stopped by. We recently bought several new stand-alone layering die sets from The Greetery and finally had time to play with them.  We absolutely love how easy it is to create layered dimension with these beautiful products!  Today we are sharing a card that we put together featuring a few of these new die sets.  We are entering this card…

Autumn/Fall Diecutting

Grateful For You

October 18, 2020

Welcome!  We are grateful that you stopped by and hope you are well and staying safe.  It was another beautiful autumn day here in Western New York so we thought it would be fun to play with the Pumpkin Patch stamp and die set from Honey Bee Stamps.  Our post today is all about having fun with die cuts and while this was not a fast card to…

Autumn/Fall Rachel Vass Designs

Autumn Blessings

September 12, 2020

Hello and welcome!  Thank you so much for stopping by today. It’s beginning to feel like autumn here in Western NY so it’s only fitting that today’s card has that fall feeling too.  It features a beautiful image from the “Fall Leaves” digital stamp set from Rachel Vass Designs.  When we first saw the image of 7 leaves hanging from a length of string, we instantly envisioned several…