Friday, August 1, 2025

Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop - School Days

Welcome to the AUGUST 2025 Edition of the Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop! You'll see projects in our hop from Stampin' Up! demonstrators around the world--I'm in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Note: I can only sell to customers in the US, so any prices mentioned are in USD)

We generally hop the first Friday of each month, and our theme for today is School Days! My project today features a stamp set which can now be found in the Online Exclusives section of my online store, even though it was released in the 2024 September-December Mini Catalog. 
{you can find all Product Purchase Links below the Blog Roll near the bottom of the post}


The "School Days" theme makes me think of Fall, and the stamp set I used is called More Than Autumn. It is actually still available in a BUNDLE (with coordinating dies) at a discounted price. This rarely happens - the discount is usually removed from bundled products that appear in a catalog, after the end of a publication period. So, go grab the discounted bundle while you can!
 
To make the pumpkin on this card, I used the Modern Oval Punch. I made curved score marks on the pumpkin with my Bone Folder, and shaded the edges of each oval using Sponge Daubers. I hand snipped the Granny Apple Green Cardstock to get the look of grass, and curled little skinny strips to get the look of vine around the stem. The stem was hand trimmed, and I stamped words over and over at the top of it to give it some shading. I also hand trimmed out the fence pieces. I know...so extra. But I knew how I wanted it to look. For the sky color, I crumpled up a piece of Balmy Blue Cardstock, then smoothed it out. That gave it just a touch of texture.  


Behind the pumpkin stem, I placed a mini "velcro" closure. The pumpkin is only adhered to the bottom panel of the card front, so the pumpkin was holding the card shut, but it just wasn't holding it as flat as I wanted without the "velcro" dot. The front panel with the pumpkin folds down, too, but I thought the picture would look super boring, being opened to just plain cardstock!
 
To get the background looking the way I wanted, I attached a line of multiple words to a bigger block, so I could stamp a line at a time. I offset every other line. 

Stampin' Supplies: More Than Autumn Stamp Set (or you can get the BUNDLE if you want it), Basic White Cardstock, Crumb Cake Cardstock, Granny Apple Green Cardstock, Balmy Blue Cardstock, Pumpkin Pie Cardstock & Ink Pad, Pecan Pie Cardstock & Ink Pad,  Modern Oval Punch, Sponge Daubers, Loose Gold Sequins, Multipurpose Liquid Glue, Stampin' Dimensionals, Bone Folder, Paper Snips, Paper Trimmer, Simply Shammy (for cleaning photopolymer stamps), and Grid Paper. And don't forget Medium Basic White Envelopes if you would like to mail your card!
{see Product Purchase Links under the Blog Roll}

Click the Next arrow below to see more creations with this month's theme!
(or check out the Blog Roll below the arrow for navigation)


Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop AUGUST 2025 Blog Roll
1. Kimberley Morris YOU ARE HERE!
2. Jan Musselman


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~Kimberley Morris Colorado Springs, CO
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