A few weeks ago, I went to a Stampin' Up! regional event in Louisville. In addition to some great make-n-takes, I came home with some really great and mostly seasonal swaps. I didn't get this card, but I remember seeing one similar to this. I really liked the different colors on the leaves, and with the help of fellow demonstrators, we decided the original was bleached first. Kind of a scary idea, but it's worth it to create this card. Stamp you stamp onto a bleach soaked paper towel like you would a stamp pad. Then stamp directly onto your paper. This card was done with Early Espresso so the bleached area turned kind of yellowish. (Different colors of cardstock bleach differently). So that was a perfect base color for fall leaves. I just took my Stampin' Pastels and rubbed color onto the bleached area once it dried. It was interesting to see the different looks the ladies in stamp club created just by choosing different pastel colors. We stamped over the top with Early Espresso ink to finish it off.
I cleaned my stamps as soon as everyone was done with the bleach first with water and then with Stampin' Mist. Here's another type of
bleach technique we did in stamp club a while ago.
Aft first this card looks a little intimidating but with the new Circle Card Thinlits Die it is so easy. I designed this card as a Thanksgiving card, but it also worked for some of my stampers as fall birthday cards. I added a piece of my favorite retired Designer Series Paper for some additional color. There are several papers in that package that worked great with this card. 
Gently Falling is one of my favorite stamp sets this time of year, and it seems to be very popular among my stampers. So we made this card as a fall card that could be made into a Thanksgiving card too. I saw a lot of birthday and thank you versions of this at my stamp-a-stack. 
This is so similar to a card made by my friend, Cathy Roy, that I am calling a cased card. But that's the beauty of working with such a talented group of stampers. This was a card I received in a swap of mini catalog stamp sets. It was so great as it was that I made only a small change so that I could do it with the supplies I had on hand. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
This little card covers a number of techniques. The wreath was made using Poppin' Pastels technique on that great fall wreath stamp in the mini catalog hostess set, Warmest of Wishes. A little sponging on the 4 panels gave the door some texture and the little bow is a fork bow. 
We are doing Fall cards this Friday at my Stamp-a-Stack. Here's another one of the cards we will be doing. Let me know if you would like to join us!
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