Happy World Cardmaking Day!!!
Hi readers!! Happy Saturday to you and HAPPY WORLD CARDMAKING DAY!
Hi Debby here and I’m delighted to be joining you on World Card Making Day for a Creative Uses post! I get a little thrill when I run my eye over the latest stamps and dies to look for a different spin; wondering which set will trigger an ‘a-ha’ moment! As the deliciousness of the STAMPtember release was laid out in front of me, my eye was caught by the pumpkins from the Thanksgiving Table set and how similar to hot air balloons they were when turned upside down. I stamped the two sizes of pumpkin in Memento Tuxedo Black and then coloured them (in any colour other than orange LOL) and cut them out with their matching dies from the Thanksgiving Feast set.
All was looking good apart from the stem of the pumpkins sticking down, I fixed this by stamping and die cutting the toppers from the Ornaments set. The toppers are coloured to match the balloons and then trimmed along the top to remove the ring area. These were then glued to the pumpkin stems and any overhang trimmed away. The balloons were then mounted over elements from the Cloud Bank die onto a patterned paper panel. The sentiment from the Road Trip set is stamped in Black onto a white banner again from the Thanksgiving Table set :D
While the Holiday Ornaments die set was on my table I thought that one of the ornament shapes was suitable for turning into a light bulb. I cut the die from some scratch paper and then used the negative space to blend in Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed and Black Soot Distress Inks onto a white panel of card. The perfect sentiment is from Objects of Love and the die cut heart is from the Large Holiday Shapes set cut from Lipstick Red card and then coated liberally in Xmas Red Stickles.
There’s a little Lawn Fawn twine tied around the panel and then it is mounted onto a white card base with Wendy Vecchi white embossing paste swiped through the great Zig Zag Dots stencil. I love this stencil for adding just the right amount of subtle detail :D
I hope you get the chance today to make a card for World Card Making Day!
I love the use of the pumpkin dies for balloons…..very clever…
cool ideas for both cards!
very clever to use pumpkins for hot air balloons.
stamping sue
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Happy World Cardmaking Day to everyone. I have been busy making birthday cards today. Love the cards shown today.
I love when I see dies and stamps used for different things than they were intended. So creative.
Oh wow – I never would have guessed those balloons were pumpkins. Genius!
Love those pumpkins! I really admire people who can look at an object and see a completley different use for it. Thanks for sharing your inspirations with us.
She makes cardmaking look easy! Love her style!
Love Debby’s creative style!! Fun cards!
Love the dual use pumpkins for balloons, total genius! Happy World Card Making Day! Qishing everyone a creative day.
Debby, you are incredible! I’m constantly inspired by your creativity!
Fab cards – I would never have guessed your balloons were pumpkins!
great Ideas to use stamp and dies in other ways like they where thought of !!!
CU hellerlittle
Debby makes amazing cards….love her!
I’m addicted to your ‘spin’ on things! Pumpkin into a hot air balloon – GENIUS. As for your presentation and photography – the complete package. You are brilliant.
Brilliant twist on the pumpkins. Greate cards!
Wow. These cards are simply STUNNING. So beautiful and creative! Thank you for sharing.
So clever!!! LOVE the balloons!! :)
<3 J
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HerPeacefulGarden.blogspot.com
love the card with balloons
How fun to use the pumpkin as the hot air balloons! Fun card!
Such gorgeous cards!!
Such a cute, clever cards! Love the pumpkins as balloons and the heart in the lightbulb!
Great cards and way to think outside the box the way you used the pumpkin stamp!
Clever idea to make a pumpkin stamp into a hot air balloon.
Beautiful cards ! I love !
Like the out of the box thinking of using the pumpkin turned upside down for a hot air balloon & the ornament for a light bulb. May scraplift the ideas.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
GREAT IDEAS!!! Thanks for sharing!
Honestly..pumpkin stamp for hot air balloons? I envy your creativity and applaud the efforts to get more out of our stamps. Thanks.
What delightful cards !! Hope everyone had a great craft World Card Making Day :)
Great out of the box thinking…thanks for anew look at things.
I’m blown away – again – by the amazing talent of SSS designers.
Adorable! Esp love that little Christmas light bulb. TFS Hugs Kristina
Love to see how we can stretch our stamps. Funnily, though, when I saw the first card, my first thought was, those shapes look like pumpkins. I could use pumpkins stamps to recreate this look, haha.
Oh wow. . I didn’t know today is world card day. . . Thanks for sharing. . Im relatively new to shopping on sss and I hope to get some great inspiration from this blog
Love the creative use of the stamps!
I love how you can see “other” uses for the stamps! Makes the stamps go along way when you can use them for other things then their original theme!
You surely do know how to light up all our lives, Debby! Love to see you change things up… so creative!
=] Michele
Cute card, beautifully colored! Just ordered some of those tiny wood stars, can’t wait to get them!
I love the use of the pumpkin die for the balloons and the ornament die for the light bulb! Very, very clever and cute!
Beautiful! I love the pops of colors on these cards!
Wow, Debby, your style just gets more and more refined. So subtle but INTERESTING, with your background treatments and then bright pops for the signature detail. THanks for sharing with your fans today!
Fun cards! Im blown away! :)
Love the lightbulb card
Great cards. Thanks for the ideas
Love the great idea of using the pumpkin dies for the balloons!
What a great way to use stamps for a different purpose! Love it!
I love these cards! and the photos of cards are gorgeous.
Wow! When I saw the hot air balloons, I thought, “how did I miss those?” LOL! I totally didn’t realize they were pumpkins until I read your entry! What a creative mind you have!!! I’m good at combining things together in unusual ways, but I still need to learn to think outside of the box more… Thanks for the amazing inspiration! Happy World Card Making Day! :)
Debby, your cards are so cute, I just love your style. when I look at stamp sets I don’t see other things, think I will practice with that. Thanks so much for your ideas.
So beautiful cards and clever! Thanls Debby for sharing!