Concord & 9th— Grid Stamped Pumpkins
Hello, Crafters!
I’ve often joked in the past couple of months that I’m in my ‘mini slimline era’, and these cards definitely add to that claim! Since I’m a zealous overthinker, this post actually comes with two cards. I had the idea to do some grid stamping of the pumpkins in the Playful Pumpkins stamp set (one of the many fabulous sets I got to play with while guest designing!), and because ‘semi’ free range stamping (as I believe Laura Bassen calls it 😂) terrifies me to no end, I always have to have a ‘practice run’. Even though I have a MISTI, I still get super nervous stamping like this for some reason, I’m not sure why though because it’s just paper! It’s not the end of the world if I have to repeat things! But anyway, all that’s to say that the Sea Glass version of this card was just my practice run that I liked waaaay too much to not turn it into a card and make another.
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I started off by cutting a panel of white cardstock to 6 x 3-inches, popped it in my MISTI, then lined up the smallest pumpkin stamp in the lower left corner of the paper. I stamped the pumpkin in Sea Glass, then shifted the paper to the left in my MISTI and eyeballed placement for the second pumpkin in the row, trying to keep the same spacing on both sides. Once I got the two pumpkins stamped, I was pretty happy, so I stamped the pumpkin tops with Nutmeg ink. Before stamping my next row of Sea Glass pumpkins, I stamped the ‘happy fall y’all’ greeting in Pebble ink. From here, I repeated the my pumpkin stamping until the panel was full. To be honest, I was so incredibly lucky this panel turned out the way it did haha! I literally didn’t measure anything and wasn’t even sure how many pumpkins I would fit on the card front. Since I loved the Sea Glass panel so much, I had to make another version, especially since these cards come together SO quick.
When I tell you this color palette gives my fall girl heart the warm fuzzies, I mean it. It is fall perfection with some pops of blue: Sea Glass, Peacock, Spiced Cider, and Cayenne—so good! To make this card a bit more brainless, I used my Sea Glass panel as a template. I lined up my 6 x 3-inch piece of white cardstock in the corner of my MISTI, then lined my Sea Glass panel up on top of it. This made lining up my stamp a breeze, and then the only variable that I had to be cautious/careful about was my second pumpkin on each row. Once my Sea Glass pumpkins were stamped, I added the pumpkin tops in Nutmeg, then stamped my greeting in Pebble ink.
From there, I just kept lining my template back up with my panel and stamped the remaining pumpkins. I absolutely love these colors together, they’re so beautiful! And they’re pretty much complementary colors now that I think about it, so they have a great amount of contrast! Once my panel was done, I decided to turn both the colorful one and the Sea Glass one into cards. I decided I would use some Pebble cardstock as a mat on both, so I cut two pieces down to 6.25 x 3.25-inches. I glued it down on a pre-scored card base I had, then cut 3 pieces of scrap cardstock to 6 x 3-inches to glue behind my panels to add dimension. You can definitely use foam tape here, but when I was filming this I was filming from one of our extra bedrooms since there was a landscaping project going on just outside my craft room, and I was too lazy to run down two floors to get some 😂. With my panels built up, I glued them down onto the Pebble card fronts and called these cards done!
Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today! I hope you like these two cards, is there a version you like better?! Is there a color palette you would like to use to do this with instead?! Let me know down below! Until next time, happy crafting!
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