Fall-ing

Hi crafters. Happy dreary and cold and rainy Thursday! It's soooooooo not nice here. And I was not able to get a good photo of this project yesterday or today. Major bummer. It's 100% fall here, so I thought it was a good time to use Season of Friendship and another BTB project!
The bag today is a 2-5-7-10 bag (it's called that because you score the cardstock at 2-5-7-10 inches! so clever!). The bag uses one sheet of cardstock (Really Rust here) and I used scraps for the tree. The image spills over the edges of the very vanilla cardstock. A 12" piece of more mustard 1/4" grograin secures the bag closed. To get variation of the leaves, I stamp the image two or three times WITHOUT inking in between. This gives different shades and stretches your ink pad color selection even further! Bonus! :)

Let's quickly talk about the cost of this bag. Very Vanilla and suede for the focal image were scraps and will not include in the cost of the box. One sheet of colored cardstock approx. 23 cents, ribbon approx. 11 cents, I used about 5" of sticky strip up one side and about 7" on the bottom flaps of the bag totaling 12" or 25 cents worth of sticky strip adhesive. TOTAL COST OF BOX: .23 + .11 + .25 = 59 cents!

Enjoy your fall day! It's almost the weekend (I do hope it clears up or it will be a movie weekend at my house!!)

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Season of Friendship
Ink: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Really Rust, Soft Suede
CS: Really Rust, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla
Accessories: 1/4" More Mustard grograin, hole punch

A Full Tree

This set is super fun! I love adding the different leaves. I thought I'd better post this quickly before all the green leaves are gone! I distressed the edges, I like the look it adds. Really Retro is on the Dormant list, #113754. It's a great set of phrases. Check out the entire set below!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Really Retro, Season of Friendship
Ink: Certainly Celery, Soft Suede, Whisper White
CS: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Soft Suede
Accessories: Modern Label Punch, Button Latte, Linen Thread

It Feels Like Fall

First, I must shout out to all my Buffett people, holy cow did we rock the show last night! We partied at Nissan all afternoon and enjoyed JIMMY! Here in DC, we're experiencing fall-like weather. It's crazy, but I LOVE IT. Pair this card with some apple crisp and an afternoon football game (ahem, who's loving there's football tomorrow!?!??!) Ok, let's get onto the card. Again, I'm using DSP. Lots of DSP. Ok, 4 rectangles to be exact. The tree and the leaves are separate in this set, so you can decorate your tree as much, or as little as you'd like.
This card is 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" so it will fit in standard envelope. Instead of cutting your 8 1/2" x 11" cardstock at 5 1/2" (along the 11 side) to make the card base, I cut it at 4 1/4" on the 8 1/2" side. You're still left with 2 card bases from one sheet of cardstock, it just changes things up a bit. The taller card fit the tree better. What do you think? Do you vary your size of your cards?

Sweet Deets (all supplies Stampin' Up!):
Stamps: Season of Friendship
DSP: Autumn Traditions
Ink: More Mustard, Really Rust, Ruby Red, Soft Suede
CS: More Mustard, Soft Suede

Fins to the Left,
SHERRI