Pick of the Patch is one of the new stamp sets I just got from the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini Catalog and this Pick of the Patch Pumpkin Card is my first play with it! I had no particular plan in mind and I’m not saying this is the best I could do with the set, but I got a card made! While I only ordered the stamp set, there is a Pick of the Patch Builder Punch you can also order for punching two different pumpkins, a leaf, and a stem. If you get both the punch and the stamp set together in the Pick of the Patch Bundle, you can save 10%.
I didn’t need the punch for this card because I only did stamping with the pumpkins and gourds. This will be a stamp set where you might need to use the masking technique. If you are unfamiliar with masking, it means covering up one stamped image so you can stamp another one to look like it is behind the first one or if they overlap on the sides. It is handy to do this with something like a sticky note. Stamp the images, such as a pumpkin, on the sticky note so that when you cut out the pumpkin you will have some of that adhesive to hold the mask in place. Now Stampin’ Up! sells Masking Paper that has adhesive on the paper that you use for a mask. So you stamp your image on the masking paper (take a peek and make sure that the side of the paper you are stamping on is the sticky side!), cut it out, them use it as a mask when you need it. Just keep it in your stamp case because you can use the masking image over and over.
The card base is Pumpkin Pie cardstock with a layer of Basic White. I stamped an assortment of pumpkins and a gourd, in Pumpkin Pie ink and Crushed Curry for the gourd and added some stems and vines. Then I stamped the leafy plants all around the pumpkins in two different colors of green. There is a stamp with three little leaves on it so I pulled out some Stampin’ Write markers (NOT Blends!) in Pumpkin Pie, Granny Apple Green, and Crushed Curry. I colored directly on the stamp with two or three of the marker colors and then stamped to give them a little fall multi-color.
For a greeting, I chose one in the Pick of the Patch Stamp set and stamped it with Pumpkin Pie ink. Then I used a rectangle die in the Timeless Arrangements Die to cut out the greeting. I cut out another rectangle of the same size in Mossy Meadow cardstock. Since it is the same size, I can’t use it as a layer, but I went about it another way. I cut the green rectangle in half horizontally and just adhered the two pieces to the top and bottom underneath the greeting to help it stand out a little better.
That’s all to this card. As I said, I may have just been trying out the pumpkins but it did turn out to be a card in the end! I look forward to using this set a lot more during the fall, for Halloween, and for Thanksgiving, anything fall! And while I’m stamping and cutting out pumpkins, I can pretend like it’s not still 100 degrees outside!
