Today, I’m delighted to be joining Simon Says Stamp for a blog hop to celebrate their new Make Merry release. More details on the hop below, but for now I am keeping with the season and celebrating all the leaves! I’ve linked all supplies with compensated affiliate links used where possible at no cost to you.

WATERCOLOURED DIE-CUT LEAVES #1

The colours of autumn are my absolute favourite, and so I made two cards using the leaves I’d made with the Autumn Leaves stamp and die set, but I could’ve made so many more!

KEY INGREDIENTS

• Simon Says Stamp Autumn Leaves
• CZ Design Clean Line Gratitude
• Simon Says Stamp Tiny Dots Stencil
• Watercolours – I used Daniel Smith paints

STEP BY STEP HOW TO

• Stamp all the leaves from the Autumn Leaves set in clear embossing ink on Fabriano Watercolour Card and heat emboss with Antique Gold powder.
• Die-cut the leaves with the matching Autumn Leaves dies.
• Pick some autumn watercolours (I used Daniel Smith paints) and loosely paint the leaves. Leave some areas unpainted, other areas with intense colour, let the colours mix and blend.
• Splatter with white gouache, leftover paint and Liquid Pixie Dust.
• On a piece of Fog card, swipe white embossing paste through the Tiny Dots stencil and leave to dry.
• Stamp a greeting from the Clean Line Gratitude set in clear embossing ink and heat emboss with Antique Gold powder. Trim to a banner and add a skinny strip of gold card to the bottom edge.
• Add foam adhesive to the back of the sentiment panel and adhere the leaf stems to the underside of the strip.
• Add foam adhesive to the leaves and attach to the Fog card base.
• Add the Fog panel to an Ivory card base with foam tape.
• Stamp a coordinating greeting from the Clean Line Gratitude set in clear embossing ink on Slate card and white heat emboss. Trim and add underneath the main sentiment strip.
• Randomly apply Distress Collage Medium to the leaves and sprinkle with Distress Mica Flakes for a frosty look.
• Accent with Copper Penny and Duck Egg Nuvo droplets and Eggshell pearls.

WATERCOLOURED DIE-CUT LEAVES #2

KEY INGREDIENTS

• Simon Says Stamp Autumn Leaves
• CZ Design Clean Line Gratitude set
• Simon Says Stamp Chisholm Wreath
• Simon Says Stamp Tiny Dots Stencil

STEP BY STEP HOW TO

• This card uses some of the leaves from the first card.
• Swipe white embossing paste through the Tiny Dots stencil and set aside to dry.
• Die-cut the Chisholm Wreath from Ivory card.
• Attach a few leaves with foam tape to the wreath.
• Add a twine bow with a glue dot.
• Add the wreath and leaves to the Fog panel.
• Stamp and emboss greetings from the CZ Design Clean Line Gratitude set. Stamp the Thanks on Ivory card and emboss with Antique Gold Powder and the coordinating sentiment on Slate card and white heat emboss.
• Use the matching die to die-cut the thanks greeting and attach the greetings to the card base with foam tape.
• Add the panel to an Ivory card base.
• Randomly add Distress Collage Medium to the leaves and sprinkle with Distress Mica Flakes.
• Embellish with Copper Penny droplets and Eggshell Pearls.

MORE INSPIRATION

You can find the original post for this card here which uses the Center Cut Holiday Floral set.

BLOG HOP

As mentioned above, today’s post is part of a blog hop to celebrate the new Make Merry release from Simon Says Stamp. Hopefully, you’ve arrived here from Laura’s blog, but if not then Simon’s blog is a good place to start.

• Shop the Make Merry release and use code FSTV25 to snap up some Stickles Festive Glitter Glue for free! Offer expires 10/11 at 11:59 pm EDT.
• Simon is giving away a $25 coupon to every stop on the hop comments left, so pop below to leave me a comment! Simon will choose winners over the weekend and post on the Simon Says Stamp blog on Wednesday, the 14^th of October.

Now it’s time to hop on over to …

Amanda Korotkova!

Simon Says Stamp Blog
Laura Bassen
Debby Hughes
Amanda Korotkova
Heather Hoffman
Yoonsun Hur
Laurie Willison
Bobbi Lemanski
Preeti Chandran
Dana Joy
Daniel West
Keisha Charles
Anna-Karin Evaldsson
Bibi Cameron

SUPPLIES

You can find links to the supplies I’ve used below; click on the picture or shop icon to get taken directly to the product. Where available I use compensated affiliate links which means if you make a purchase I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you! Items marked with an asterisk (*) provided by a store or the manufacturer. You can read my affiliate and product disclosure here. I genuinely appreciate your support.

PIN ME

Summary of the project which gives all the views of the card in one photo :D I’d love if you pinned and called by on Pinterest :D