Beginner to expert card makers, this fall card making kit is for you! Sign up to receive your card making kit in the mail and you will soon be assembling 8 beautiful autumn themed cards. In the comfort of your own home. At the time of your convenience.
Unable to make it to a Fall Stamp Camp? Don’t have tons of dies, punches, or embossing equipment? Missing copious amounts of fancy paper and embellishments? Or maybe you just want to save time but still create complex looking cards, homemade from the heart. I have you covered!
Features of the Card Making Kit
You will receive card bases and envelopes, plus numerous components to assemble 8 individual and unique cards. I designed each card layers deep, adding rich interest and value. Whisper White or Very Vanilla card inserts are provided for dark card bases. This is not a kit that contains repeats of the same designs!
There is no need to purchase or own specific stamping products to go with the making of the cards in this kit. Everything is included to make 8 A2-size (5-1/2 x 4-1/4″) complete cards. You supply the adhesive.
All of the hard work is done for you. You just need to assemble the cards! The Fall Card Kit contains die cuts (intricate die cuts come with adhesive sheet backing for adhering ease), punched pieces, designer series paper, heat and dry embossed designs, embellishments and non-Stampin’ Up! stamped images.
Included with the Fall Card Kit is a PDF download that contains directions and step by step color picture assembly for each card. Alternate ideas are provided to encourage your creativity.
Fall Card Themes
The cards in the Fall Card Kit are wonderful to celebrate Halloween and Thanksgiving. But they would also be fantastic birthday cards, thinking of you cards and thank you cards.
As you assemble your card kit, you have the option to change features, swap parts and pieces, and create just what you need for your card giving occasion.
Order Your Fall Card Kit Today!
Submit your request for a Fall Card Kit here. The cost of the card making kit, PDF instructions and priority mail shipping via USPS is $39.
Fall Card Kits will begin to ship on September 18, to arrive in time for your fall card needs. You will receive the directional PDF attachment separately, by email.
Early Bird Special: the first 8 customers who order the Fall Card Kit will receive a FREE Bonus Gift in their card kit package.
The Fall Card Making Kits are limited, so please don’t miss out. Due to shipping fees, this offer is only valid in the United States.
Monday’s are hard, but in this card making series, I will show you that stamping shouldn’t be. In fact, it’s quite easy. And with minimal supplies and minimal efforts, you can get fabulous results!
Forever Fern Stamp Set
Today’s Monday Card features the Forever Fern Stamp Set. This fantastic stamp set is the cornerstone of the Forever Greenery Suite from Stampin’ Up!. If you would like to see another project that features nature and the color green, click here.
That’s right, one stamp set, Forever Fern, two ink pads, Bermuda Bay and Mint Macaron, and two colors of cardstock, Just Jade and Whisper White. Please follow along!
A Monday Card
The Card Recipe
Just Jade CS: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2″, score at 4-1/4″ for card base.
Just Jade CS: 2-3/4 x 2-3/4″
Whisper White CS: 4 x 5 1/4″ (for inside, optional)
Whisper White CS: 4 x 4″, 1 x 4″, 2-1/2 x 2-1/2″
Stamp And Assemble
This Monday’s Are Hard, Stamping Shouldn’t Be Card starts out with the typical “fold in half” and score with your bone folder to get a great crisp card base. Let’s not break tradition.
However, my TIP to you is to score once, invert the fold and score again. Your inner crease is now as crisp as the outer one. This makes for a professional looking card base!
Create Your Own Designer Series Paper
With the minimal supplies used in this card, we are not adding designer series paper to it. We are making our own! This great background pattern can be used with any stamp sets you own that contain flowers or leaves.
To begin, I used the largest fern stamp from the Forever Fern Stamp Set and Bermuda Bay Ink on the 4 x 4″ piece of Whisper White CS. I stamped the image once, then immediately stamped off next to it, to create the second generation or shadow stamp. I continued this in a circular pattern, turning my cardstock as I stamped.
Once I completed stamping the large fern in a full circle, my cardstock looked like this:
But, don’t worry about the messy middle, we will be covering that part up as we continue.
Next, however, I continued with this piece and stamped the smallest leaves from the Forever Fern Stamp Set in Mint Macaron around the outside edges.
Berry Detailed
I continued the great use of color and background stamping on the 1 x 4″ piece of Whisper White CS. For this, I used the berry sprig stamp from the Forever Fern Stamp Set.
By focusing on the middle of the berry sprig, I was able to get 4-5 images across my cardstock. The stamps in the Forever Fern Stamp Set are Dist-Ink-tive, and have built in high and low imagery in the red rubber for great depth and interest.
Sentimental Friend
I used the sentiment “to a friend that makes me smile” from the Forever Fern Stamp Set, along with Mint Macaron Ink, on the 2-1/2 x 2-1/2″ square of Whisper White CS.
The saying is written in cursive, at a slight slant. Because we are also stamping it at a diagonal orientation, getting it lined up “evenly” can be tricky. I used the lines in my grid paper to help me out.
If this small fern stamp used to add a border around my sentiment in Bermuda Bay looks familiar, you are not seeing double. There are 2 stamps in the Forever Fern Stamp Set that are this same size. Each one curves in a different direction. It will not matter which one you use.
Some Assembly Required
The stamping is complete for the outside of our card, now we are on to assembling it. And, this one couldn’t get much easier!
I started by adhering the 4 x 4″ stamped piece of Whisper White CS to the front of my card base. I left a quarter inch of Just Jade showing behind the top and sides. Next, I adhered the 1 x 4″ stamped piece of Whisper White CS to the bottom of my card base.
After adhering my sentiment piece to the 2-3/4 x 2-3/4″ Just Jade CS, I placed it in the middle of my 4 x 4″ Whisper White CS on the diagonal. This will cover up the messy middle stamping, as mentioned earlier.
The Insider Job
Your card is beautiful on the outside, now lets make it pretty inside too! I like to mimic some of the outer stamping into a corner of the inside card. This way the card has continuity and there is still lots of room to add your own sentiment or written thoughts.
Here, I partially stamped the large fern image in Bermuda Bay Ink in the bottom corner to add that inside interest. I surrounded the large fern with the tops of the smallest fern, done in Mint Macaron.
Color Changing Options
With a card recipe this easy and fun, it only made sense to me to create it in different color combinations.
The purple lovers card on the left is done in warm berry tones, with a Rich Razzleberry card base, and Blackberry Bliss and Soft Suede Ink.
For my fall inspired card on the right, I chose a Cajun Craze card base. The ink colors used in this alternate card are Cherry Cobbler and Cinnamon Cider.
And how about a Christmas Card using the Forever Fern Stamp Set? These stamps are versatile enough to do so, and this card recipe makes creating them in large quantities a breeze.
Here, I used a Cherry Cobbler card base along with Shaded Spruce and Cherry Cobbler Ink. The sentiment “a merry hello” comes from the Host Stamp Set titled A Merry Hello. The stamp “heartfelt Christmas” would have worked beautifully here as well. Ask me today how you can earn this stamp set for free!
Get Stamping!
I hope you enjoyed making this easy card on a hard Monday with me. My video tutorial can be found on my FaceBook page, as well as my YouTube channel. If you need any supplies for this card, please feel free to visit my online store at any time. See you next Monday for another installment of:
Have you seen all of the slimline cards popping up everywhere lately? In fact, I tried the slimline card fad during my last “Monday’s Are Hard, Stamping Shouldn’t Be” Series (which you can see here in case you missed it. P.S., adorable zebra alert!).
And I have to admit, it was kind of cool. Different and unique.
Size Matters
You may be wondering “why the sudden demand for an odd size card?”. Card makers typically cut a full sheet of 8-1/2 x 11″ piece of cardstock in half and make two A2 card bases.
The A2 card measures 4-1/4 x 5-1/2″ when folded and closed.
Suddenly, we are cutting our cardstock a little differently. Now, instead of cutting it in half, we are chopping off a 4″ piece from the 11″ length and folding the remaining cardstock in half. This gives us a closed slimline card base measuring 3-1/2 x 8-1/2″.
The slimline card base, taken from an 8-1/2 x 11″ piece of cardstock will leave a remnant of 4 x 8-1/2″.
Weird? Or genus?
The Great Appeal
Perhaps the great appeal over slimline cards is that they are unique. After all, as card makers we are choosing to be different. Before I started making my own cards, giving someone a store bought card that someone else had picked out too made my card seem…very ordinary.
The size of a slimline card is unexpected. The stature is tall, stately and elegant. Because a slimline card is so long, it appears more valuable. And lets face it, because they are relatively new to the card making scene, they are novel as well.
Slimline Challenges
You would think cutting cardstock and decorating it to create a card should be easy, no matter the card base size. Slimline cards come with their own difficulties just the same.
First, you have to get over the fact that one sheet of 8-1/2 x 11″ cardstock will not yield you 2 card bases. And getting value out of Designer Series Paper that comes in sizes 6 x 6″ or 12 x 12″ is hard too. Of course it can be done! But the frugal crafter in me struggles with this a bit.
Then, there is design and spacing to address. With the narrowness of the slimline card, many stamps and dies may not actually fit well.
And when it comes to dry embossing on paper, embossing folders will run short. Most embossing folders are @4 x 6″ or 6 x 6″ in size. The cardstock shown here is 3-1/4 x 8-1/4″, cut to fit as the first layer over the slimline card base.
When has a challenge or two ever stopped a determined card maker? There are ways and work-arounds in the diverse world of crafting! And getting creative is really what it is all about, anyway.
I find the slimline cards perfect for the small to medium size stamps and dies. My first few slimline card attempts all used the same card layout, involving 3 evenly spaced rectangles. By starting with this design, I was able to focus on each section individually. I did not get overwhelmed with the large blank canvas the slimline card provides.
The dimensions, or basic card recipe, for this slimline card is listed here. This card features the Basket Of Blooms Stamp Set.
The Envelope, Please
Is it weird that one of my favorite things about the slimline card style is that it fits into a business size envelope?
The Peel & Seel envelopes do not self-seal in humidity, and don’t require any licking for sticking!
There are so many envelope sizes available, and of course I want one that fits my homemade card well. Not too big that my card is swimming, and not too small that the card barely fits inside.
You may make your own envelopes if you want the perfect size. My personal idea of bliss is opening my office supply drawer and pulling out a business size envelope and calling it a day. These types of envelopes are so easy to come by. I love that.
My Slimline Card Journey Continues
I have just gotten started in my dive into slimline cards. Next, I plan to involve the entire card front in one cohesive design, without breaking up the scheme. And the process of something new and exciting is a pleasing one.
Do slimline cards excite you, too? If you haven’t tried it yet, I encourage you to get crafty. My online store is always open if you need some supplies to help you with your creativity adventure.
Make sure you come back to see me, and find out what I have been up to as I continue to explore slimline cards, and more!
