Harvest Apple Basket

The basket of apples card I'm sharing with you today reminds me of my Dad's abundance of apples from his little orchard every year in Iowa.  He was always proud to be able to send home different kinds of apples with me after I became an adult so I could make apple pies, applesauce, apple butter and apple crisp for my family!  What a treat! Kitchen Sink Stamp set Harvest Multi Step Clear Stamps supplied the basket, apples and sentiment.  I'm always amazed at how realistic the fruit looks when you use so many different ink colors to create it!

Recipe for this card include:

Color Recipe for the Apples:

Layer 1  - Stampin' Up Calypso Coral

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Poppy Parade

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Cherry Cobbler
Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Merry Merlot

Color Recipe for the Basket:

Layer 1 - PTI Soft Stone
Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Sahara Sand
Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Soft Suede
Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Early Expresso

Paper used:
 Stampin' Up  Very Vanilla and Early Expresso
Stampin' Up Buffalo Check Poppy Parade
Sponged Early Expresso

Other members of the Kitchen Sink Crew include:

Maria Colosimo - Owner and Creator of Kitchen Sink Stamps

Kitchensinkstamps'weblog

Lynn McAuley - Confessions of a Left-Brained Stamper

Harvest Blessing

With Fall comes pumpkins, however, I have yet to see any for sale at the local grocery store.  Using Kitchen Sink Multi Step Clear stamp set Pumpkins and Harvest sentiments, I put together a fall card where the pumpkins look so realistic when you have several colors stamped.  These multi step stamp sets are so fun to use, especially with a Stamparatus or Misti and they turn out so perfect.  I paired the stamp set up with some Basic Black and Tangelo Twist card stock  on top of Spooky Night Designer Series Paper from Stampin' Up.  Hope you like it!

KSS Sets used in this scene include:

Color Recipe for the Pumpkins:

Layer 1  - Stampin' Up Crushed Curry

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Peekaboo Peach

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Tangelo Twist
Layer 4 - Stampin' Up Tangerine Tango
Layer 5 - Stampin' Up Cajun Craze

Color Recipe for the Vine/Leaves

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Old Olive
Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Pear Pizzazz
Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Certainly Celery

Paper used:
 Stampin' Up Tangelo Twist and Basic Black
Spooky Night DSP Stampin' Up

Stamp pads: Early Expresso and Tuxedo Black Stampin' Up 

Other members of the Kitchen Sink Crew include:

Maria Colosimo - Owner and Creator of Kitchen Sink Stamps

Kitchensinkstamps'weblog

Lynn McAuley - Confessions of a Left-Brained Stamper

Autumn Leaves.

I thought it was about time for a beautiful fall card.  One of my favorite little friends is featured on this card, also.  I have a squirrel that comes almost daily to visit our bird feeder.  She has a family of babies someplace but she depends on us to provide supplimental her diet for her family.  I enjoy watching her cute antics stretching and hanging on our rot iron bird feeder to enable her to reach the sunflower seeds!  Mind you, we have corn in a squirrel feeder on our oak tree back there but she obviously enjoys the sunflower seed more! I used the Kitchen Sink Multi Step Autumn Squirrel Clear Stamp set to make the leaves, squirrel and sentiment.

KSS Sets used in this scene include:

Color Recipe for the Squirrel:

Layer 3  - Stampin' Up Cajun Craze

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Sahara Sand

Layer 1 - So Saffron

Color Recipe for the leaves:

A mixture of Stampin' Up
Cajun Craze, Real Red, Mossy Meadow,
 Daffodil Delight, Granny Apple Green

Paper used:
 Stampin' Up Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze
Painted Autumn DSP Stampin' Up
5/8 Inch Burlap Ribbon Stampin' Up

2 Inch Stitched Thinlet and 3.5 Inch Scalloped Punch used

Other members of the Kitchen Sink Crew include:

Maria Colosimo - Owner and Creator of Kitchen Sink Stamps
Kitchensinkstamps'weblog
Lynn McAuley - Confessions of a Left-Brained Stamper

Halloween Owl

Due to fall calendar moving to a new month, I decided to design a Halloween card so I chose a spooky owl from Kitchen Sink Stamps Multi Step Clear Owl and Autumn Moon set accompanied by the KSS set Ready 4 Any Holiday clear stamp set. This old Owl is a spooky fellow sitting on a branch with some bats flying towards the beautiful autumn  moon.  We've been having a moon similar to this one here in Texas so you can't go wrong! Hope you enjoy it!

KSS Sets used in this scene include:

Owl & Autumn Moon and
Ready 4 Any Holiday

Color Recipe for the Owl:

Layer 4 - Versafine Onyx Black

Layer 3  - Stampin' Up Soft Suede

Layer 2  - Stampin' Up Crumb Cake

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Sahara Sand

Color Recipe for the Autumn Moon:

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Crushed Curry

Layer 2 - Stampin' Up Pumpkin Pie

Layer 1 - Stampin' Up Daffodil Delight

Color Recipe for the tree limb:

Layer 3 - Stampin' Up Early Epresso
Layer 2 - Soft Suede
Layer 1 - Sahara Sand

Sentiment stamped in Versafine Onyx Black

Sky was sponged with Night of Navy masking the moon, tree branch and owl

Paper used:

Stampin' Up - Whisper White, Night of Navy and Pumpkin Pie

Other members of the Kitchen Sink Crew include:

Maria Colosimo - Owner and Creator of Kitchen Sink Stamps

Kitchensinkstamps'weblog

Lynn McAuley - Confessions of a Left-Brained Stamper