The Stampin’ Up! products used in this project:

• Crushed Curry and Soft Suede cardstock
• Watercolor paper
• Blender Pen
• Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango, and Soft Suede Classic Ink pads
• Soft Suede Polka Dot Grosgain ribbon
• Tearing Tool
• SNAIL Adhesive
• Paper Snips

Instructions

1. Cut standard card from Crushed Curry. Horizontal layout.
2. Stamp leaves along the bottom of the page and then color them using a blender pen and the Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango and Soft Suede inks.  With the stamp pad closed, squeeze the lid and bottom (this put ink on the top of the ink pad – shown below). Then dip the blender pen into the small pool of ink to then color the images. Aqua Pens are also another great tool for watercoloring.

   
    

3. Cut a piece of 5-1/4 x 3 Soft Suede and use the Tearing tool to create the ripped edge.
4. Cut the Watercolor paper slightly to 5 x 3 and also tear (as shown below in step 7).
5. To create the watercolored pumpkins, we will use masking. First stamp a large and small pumpkin on scrap paper. Then cut them out.

   
    

6. On the Watercolor paper, stamp 2 smaller pumpkins in desired locations.  Then place the small cut-out over the previously stamped pumpkin (to hide it) and then stamp the larger pumpkin (shown below).  Notice, the larger pumpkin now appears behind the smaller one.

   
    

7. Then color pumpkins and the rest of the front panel with the inks and blender pen (as you did previously for the leaves).

   
    

8. Adhere the Watercolor paper to the Soft Suede.
9. Adhere the panel to the front of the card (without putting adhesive along the tear, since you will put ribbon underneath it).
10. Wrap a piece of polka dotted ribbon around the card front and adhere to the inside cover as well.
11. Stamp, cut-out, and color a large pumpkin to put on the inside of the card. Then adhere on top of where the ribbon met to hide the seam.

    
     

12. I used a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock for the inside of the card to later write or stamp a holidy greeting.

Other suggestions

• Stamp and color the small pumpkins on scrap. Cut out and then adhere to the card front using Stampin’ Dimensionals to give a raised look to them.
• Also would have looked great with Pumpkin Pie, Really Rust, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip and Old Olive inks.
• Try sponging with Soft Suede around the main card and Watercolor paper edges.