I'm back again with more cards from the Falliday challenges on Splitcoast.
Challenge: Time to make an Autumn Collage with the items of your choosing!
No need to use a special die for your layout, though there are wonderful collage-specific dies out there that you are welcome to use. Arrange a combination of squares and rectangles in various sizes onto your background and place your Autumn related items inside these shapes. This can be done with a paper trimmer or even punches, if using paper to make your squares and rectangles. The space you leave between shapes will automatically create frames around them and along the outer edges, allowing the background to show through. This can work for card layouts, scrapbook pages, tags, journals, etc.
I cut out the postage collage die and added different elements into the rectangles. I used Fall rub-ons, die cuts, designer paper and stenciling. I stamped my sentiment and added it over the top of designer paper. I added ink to the die cuts and layered them. Then I added gold stickles to the flower center. This will go on a dinner tray at a local hospital.
The die set comes with a frame with squares and rectangles. It also comes with different shaped dies you can use.
You can also add a stencil kit to these to make some amazing cards.
This set of stencils makes this type of card. One great thing Waffle Flower does is they show you the colors they used to make these.
What I did was cut out my paper with the die and used my own items to fill the squares and rectangles.
Here is a card I made using those stencils. I didn't use the post card stamps on my card. It's fun to cut out a few of these with white cardstock and use them vertically or horizontally as well as with the stencils or without the stencils.
There are so many different sets of stencils that can go in these frames. What I found worked best because you are using many different colors of ink was, sponge daubers or very small blending brushes.
You can also cut them apart and use them.
There are so many creative things you can do with these sets. I've only scratched the surface with the way I've used them.
I realized that when I made my Christmas Star Quilt card that was a Book Binding card, that I didn't have a video for it that I made. So tonight I made a video to post.
This card has a fun element that I don't usually add which is a wobbler.
I thought I had a video on how to use wire to make your own wobblers, but I can't find one. Sorry about that.
Here is the book binding Card I made.
Here's a video to show you how to make this card.
In this video I'll show you how to make a book binding fun fold card using Gingham Gallery designer series paper, the stamp set Santa's Hat, the embossing folder called, Softly Woven 3D and the Christmas epoxy shapes.
Stamps: Santa's Hat- Sept.-Dec 2026 catalog
Paper: Card Base-real red 4 1/4" x 8 1/2" score at 5 1/2" and 6 1/2"
white image panel 2 1/2" x 4"
white piece for front 7/8" x 4"
2 white squares for front and inside- 4" x 4"
Designer Series Paper-Gingham Gallery-Online Exclusives 3/4" x 4" and 3 3/4" x 3 3/4"
Ink: Real Red
Peaceful Pine
Accessories: 7" real red and white stitched ribbon-Online Exclusive
1 bow from the red and white ribbon
glue dots
wobble
Christmas Epoxy Shapes-Sept.-Dec. catalog
scissors
Wink of Stella or other way to add sparkle to Santa's Hat if you'd like
Well, that's it for today. I hope you give this card a try.
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I'm still working on challenges so here are three more.
Our challenge was a photo today.
I stamped the image in memento rich cocoa and colored it with Copic Markers. The image is from a retired Stampin' Up set called, Peekaboo Forest. I fussy cut it as well as the sentiment and pumpkins. I dry embossed the background panel with and embossing folder from Darice called, Foliage. Then I pulled the inks, Distress Ink-vintage photo, rusty hinge, aged mahogany and SU-pumpkin pie across the panel in a direct to paper technique. I added the images and sentiment with dimensionals.
Accessories: scissors, Darice-Foliage embossing folder, Copic Markers, SU-Stampin' Write Markers, Sharpie black fine line marker
Techniques: dry embossing, direct to paper, coloring
Neurographic art is characterized by random lines crossing the page.
Where the lines cross on the page the corners are rounded.
I like how this technique looks. I struggle releasing perfection and allowing them to truly be random.
I recently came across a technique that helps those lines to be more
random and organic. It is called pushing pennies.
Basically you use a pencil or pen to push the penny across the page.
Horizontally several times, and vertically several times.
where the lines cross you round the corners.
at first I was skeptical but the lines really look random because pushing
a penny is harder than you would think.
Penny pushing technique video
I know they say there is a penny shortage, but I hope you can find one for my challenge.
My challenge is to try the penny pushing technique.
There are several ways you can do this-
Easy do the lines on dp:
Our challenge was to push a penny across a piece of paper vertically and horizontally. I traced the penny lines with black marker then colored in the bottom ones to look like pumpkins. I put the bear holding a pumpkin on top of the pile then added a sentiment above him.
Here's my card. I have to tell you I was very much outside of my comfort zone with this card. I had no idea what I was going to do with it once I "drew" the lines with a penny. Then I looked at this little bear with a pumpkin and thought, I could make pumpkins from the blobs at the bottom of the paper! LOL
Paper: white, coastal cabana, designer paper from a friend
Paper Size: A2
Ink: pumpkin pie, memento rich cocoa
Accessories: penny, Copic Markers, Graph-O black marker, dimensionals
Techniques: Pushing Pennies, coloring
The cute bear stamp is from Gerda Steiner called, Pumpkin Bear.
Our challenge was to make a quilt card. I used the Our Daily Bread Designs Star Quilt to make my card. I cut out two papers from the same paper pack and used one for the star and one for the border. The designer paper I used is a retired paper called, Elegant Pine Snowflakes. It is from last year. I added an evergreen ribbon to this. This type of card is called a book binding card.
Here's what the die from Our Daily Bread Designs looks like. I used two different designer series papers when die cutting. When you take the pieces out of the die there is a frame left which is what you use to fill in with your papers.
Well, that's all for today. I'll be stamping with two friends tomorrow so I'll show you what we made. I'll also show you more cards from my stamping desk.
