Fall Swap

Every month I participate in a swap with fellow demonstrators that my upline organizes it. The other day as I spoke to her I was so excited to start working on my swap for this month, anticipating the arrival of my new products from the Holiday Catalog. I had put my order in a couple of days before and expected it would be Tuesday morning at the latest. I was very puzzled when 10:30 came around and my order hadn’t arrived. I went back to my computer and pulled up the order . . . the order I forgot to place. It was still sitting in the spool waiting for me to click the final button. So that changed my plans for my swap card. I went to work with the idea I had and changed the stamps I would be using. I decided that Basket of Wishes and Beautiful Bouquet were about the only fall set I had left unless I wanted to do leaves. This is what I came up with.

This is the first one I made with the Layering Circle dies and punches.

I wasn’t really happy with it so I played around some more and I created another card. My final card was a combination of the two. It is the same as the first except that the ribbon is tied on the side like the oval one. I liked some things about each of the cards but I wasn’t really thrilled with either one of them. They are ok in my book. I am glad they are not supposed to be WOW cards like they are in October. I hope you enjoy these they are easy to make. The second one was made with the Layering Circles dies.

• Adhere the 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 Peekaboo Peach to the Early Espresso
• Stamp the image in the lower right corner of the 11 x 3 3/4 Very Vanilla with the Basic Black Archival pad. Score the Very Vanilla at 5 1/2
  
• Cut a circle or oval from the Very Vanilla using the Layering Circle Dies (or oval dies). Keep the scrap and stamp it with the greeting in Early Espresso or the image in Basic Black Archival. I used the center scraps to create the circles and ovals needed for the card
• Cut the scallop circle from the 5 1/2 x 4 Peekaboo Peach (Keep the scrap) for the inside circle or oval
• I stamped 3 little flower images randomly on the front of the card and placed a rhinestone which I had colored with a sharpie in the center.
• Attach the Vanilla to the Peekaboo Peach
• Adhere the circles (ovals) through the front circle (oval) on the Vanilla. When you open the Vanilla it will show the circles (ovals) inside.
• I colored the image with Peekaboo Peach, Pear Pizzaz, Crumb Cake, So Saffron and Early Espresso.These are easy cards but they take time to color the images.Below is all the product that I used to create these cards. You can shop 24-7 by clicking on the shop link or by clicking on any of the images below. If I can be of any help please contact me.