Melissa’s Fab Friday Feature

Hello, Everyone! Welcome to Melissa’s Fab Friday Feature

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I love Ink to Paper’s Hay Bale Dies and wanted to show you just one way of using them. These can be used in such fun ways and for my card today I wanted them stacked, dimensional, and as realistic as possible.

STEP 1: Before cutting hay bales from Vintage Cream cardstock, sponge Honey Nut ink over surface.  Honey Nut combined with Vintage Cream cardstock creates a great hay color.  Reserve pieces of straw left over from die cutting.

STEP 2: Loosely adhere hay bales together, allowing pieces to stick up and flow freely.  Adhere reserved pieces of straw so that some pieces are sticking up above or below bales of hay.  You can save this step for after your pumpkins are in place, tucking them under each pumpkins if desired.

STEP 3: Stamp and die cut pumpkins and leaves from Kraft cardstock using the Hello Pumpkin stamp set and dies.  I used Honey Nut ink for my detailed layers on the yellow and orange pumpkins, stamping the solid layer in Summer Sunrise and Orange Zest.  My green pumpkin was stamped in Ripe Avocado as the detailed layer and the solid layer was stamped in Spring Moss.

STEP 4: Using the Border Bling:  Skinny Diagonals die, cut center from Vintage Cream cardstock and outside form Bitty Big Honey Nut.  Sponge ink over the top portion of card to mimic a soft sky.  Stamp sentiment near upper left corner using the A Little Wispy stamp set and Olive Twist ink.  Lightly splatter with white paint.

STEP 5: Stack hay bales and pumpkins.

STEP 6: Add more pumpkins :)…and their leaves, loose straw, and gems.  Mount on a cardstock base and add Honey Nut border to finish.

 

 

 

 

 

STAMPS:  A Little Wispy, Hello Pumpkin
INK:  Summer Sunrise, Saffron Spice, Honey Nut, Orange Zest, Ripe Avocado, Spring Moss, Limeade Ice, Prairie Grass, Olive Twist
PAPER:  Vintage Cream, Kraft, Bitty Big Honey Nut
DIES:  Hello Pumpkin, Hay Bale Dies, Border Bling:  Skinny Diagonals
OTHER:  gems, white paint, Speckled Egg Distress Ink

PRIZE

One winner will be chosen at random to receive a $25 gift certificate.

RULES

To enter, participants are required to create a Thankful project using Ink to Paper/Papertrey Ink products and share it via the link below. We can’t wait to see what you make!

Only one entry per person and the deadline is September 11th at 6am. This post will be updated with the randomly selected winner.

CHALLENGE

EDITED TO ADD THE RANDOMLY SELECTED WINNER

Congratulations, Lyn!  Please send an email to customer service and provide them with your full name and the email address you would like your gift certificate sent to. Thanks so much to everyone for playing along!