What's Up Wednesday: Golden Leaves

Hello there peeps!  It's Shay here for my monthly post.  I am flabbergasted by how busy and wondrously creative Carrie and the design team have been!   

 

There are new releases of stamps to fawn over. Amazing Nesting Components Mixed Media kits like this month's seen HERE (don't miss how Norma used the kit to create a beautiful upcycled project or Dana's lovely banner).  Not to mention Irit's tremendous mixed media piece of art, Cathi's gorgeous layout, Dana's awesome fusible webbing tutorial, Amber's fun and fabulous card, and Erica's delightful and dazzling card. Things are heating up!  If you are new or haven't had a chance to look around for a while I recommend checking out this month's Autumn blog hop.  

This month's blog hop prompted me to play some more with the oh so lovely leaves.  I made a few autumn themed cards and yes, maybe gold came into play a lot little.

 

 

To begin my projects I simply stamped the single leaf from Leaves or Leaf and the flourish leaf from Thanks is for Giving or Mini Thanks in brown ink 3 times on a piece of kraft cardstock.  I pulled out some yellow and orange gelatos and haphazardly colored in the leaves.  Using a slightly wet brush I blended the colors.  I added some more orange.  I set them aside to dry and then cut out each leaf.  I used Stickles and to add some veining details to the leaves.  I set aside the leaves to dry.

Card No. 1

 

 

I stamped thankful from Thankful several times in a creamy color on a off white card base.  I watercolored some gelatos over the full thankful on the card.  Over the only full thankful, I stamped thankful again in Versamark.  I heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I added a strip of gold glitter tape to the bottom of the card and then finished the card off by adding 3 of the leaves.

 

 

Card No. 2

 

 

I stamped the postcard from Writing Backgrounds or Postcard with Versamark onto a card base and then stamped remember and when from Remember in Versamark.  I heat embossed them all with gold embossing powder.  I folded over some gold glitter tape over the edges pf the card for a photo corner look.  I added drops of orange and green color shine.  Last I added one of the leaves.

 

 

Card No. 3

 

 

On a mini card I stamped handwriting from Writing Backgrounds or Writing with Versamark and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.  Next I sewed around the corners of the card.  I added a nest of gold thread and adhered one of the flourish leaves on top.  This would be a great little thank you card or card to give with a gift.

 

Card No. 4

 

 

Using a triangle stencil I colored in the stencil with a gold paint pen.  I outlined the triangles with a brown marker.  I stamped celebrate from Celebrate with Versamark and then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder.  I added a strip of washi.  I wrapped and tied some gold thread.   I added some drops of red color shine and drops of yellow mist.  Last I added one of the leaves.

 

 

I hope you feel the itch to get crafting with your Paper Wings Productions products to celebrate the coming autumn!

We would *love* to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps. Add your projects to Facebook, our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

Take flight,
Shay.

Supplies:
Stamps:

Ink: Versamark, Tsukineko; malted milk, Jenni Bowlin for Ranger; cup o'joe mid-tone, Hero Arts
Cardstock: Neenah Papers
Other: fruit punch Stickles, Ranger; stencil, Prima; butter cream, lemon, mango and tangerine gelatos, Faber-Castell; gold leafing pen, Elmer's; chestnut memory marker, American Crafts; detail metallic gold embossing powder, Judi Kins; heat embossing gun; peach, mint green and sweet cherry color shine, Heidi Swapp; sunshine Mister Huey's Color Mists, Studio Calico; gold metallic thread, Coats; brown sugar glitter tape, American Crafts; washi, Freckled Fawn

What's Up Wednesday: Little Box Full of Possibilities

Hello there!

It's Shay here today.  Have seen the awe-inspiring altered box by Norma?  She's amazing!

I have something that bridges the gap between Christmas and the coming new year.  Do you have a friend who is crafty or you wish to introduce to stamping and/or memory keeping?  Journaling cards are very popular right now for use in scrapbook layouts, Project Life, minibooks and cards.  They are easy to make and with stamps a breeze to customize.  Why not create a coordinating set as a gift?  It also won't take too much time as we are all going down to the wire with Christmas less than a week away.

I picked out some patterned paper in a color scheme that I liked and cut out a few 3x4 inch rectangles from the papers.  I then cut out some 3x4 inch rectangles from cream cardstock.  I grabbed some stamps and took my ink color cues from the papers.  I also made a little box to hold the cards from patterned paper which I decorated with a tag from Holiday Tags set that I stamped "to: from:" stamp in the same set.  So cute!   And for an extra special gift add a gift card or gift certificate to your favorite stamp company (wink wink) to the gift to encourage them to create their own journaling cards.

I made some super simple journaling cards, but there are so many options out there.  The fun of this project is that you can decorate your 3x4 canvas with any stamps you want.  An alphabet can become a fun monogram (try Whimsical Pattern Alphabet or Funky Alphabet) to stand for a friend's child's name, stamp out words or names with Funky Lower Case or Perfect Alphabet or numbers from Perfect Number stand for a month (imagine doing numbers to mark the month's of life of a newborn).  The Paris or London sets are perfect for travel themes.  If your friend loves angels, for instance, then the Angels cling stamp set would be lovely stamped in a soft ink color that can be written on later.  Go for pretty and elaborate or clean and simple to suit your recipient's tastes.  Round the corners, use different punches on the cards, die cut shapes out of the card or add shapes to the cards.  Change up the colors for their favorites.  There are really so many possibilities!

Journaling Cards can be used to make a minibook or tags by punching a hole, a beginning to a card in addition to being used on scrapbook layouts and Project Life.  They can be as embellished or not as embellished as desired.  They are pretty versatile and awesome!

I hope you ink up some Paper Wings Productions stamps and create some journaling cards!  We would love to see what you make with Paper Wings Productions stamps.  Add your projects to our flickr group, to Pinterest, comment with a link on this post or even email pictures to us!

AND don't forget to enter to the pin it to win it contest to get free Paper Wing Production stamp goodness!

Happiest of holidays to you all!

Shay.

Stamps: Perfect Number, Holiday Tags, Graph Journaling Lines, Holiday, Perfect Alphabet, Remember, School Paper Journaling Lines, Tabs and Banners, Celebrate, Happy (set like Holiday, Remember, Celebrate, Merry and Thankful)
Ink: Jenni Bowlin for Ranger in spice tin, lemon drop, speckled egg, stick candy and seed packet; Memento by Tsukineko in tuxedo black
Cardstock: Neenah Paper
Patterned Paper: October Afternoon, My Mind's Eye
Other: Copic markers; American Crafts glitter tape; washi tape (to close box)