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Betsy’s card pulls in a trendy teal color ( she says there are real pumpkins that come in a similar shade) to watercolor her die cut pumpkin focal image. The background is stunning with a crisscross leaf die and stenciled gourds, along with a heat embossed frame and sentiment too. Learn more at The Greetery blog.

When Halloween is over keep out those pumpkin themed stamps and paper crafting supplies, they are still perfect to use on Fall themed cards and crafts. Surround those pumpkins with colorful leaves, pretty florals and use rich colors to create birthday, anniversary, Thanksgiving, thinking of you and sympathy cards with an Autumn touch that’s sure sure to warm someone’s heart on a chilly Fall day. Let’s looks at some new inspiration using pumpkins to create Autumn cards.

Melissa’s beautiful card features a pumpkin seed packet which has been heat embossed for the frame and the words over a fancy edged die cut panel with ink blending on the background and the die cut pumpkins too. There’s also pattern paper, scattered gems and orange seam binding tied around. Find step by step directions on the Papertry Ink blog.

Yana’s amazing one layer, edge to edge card uses a large pumpkin background stamp to fill the entire space. She heat embossed it in gold and colored them in with alcohol based Copic Markers. The sentiment has a vellum base with a die cut gold frame and more gold heat embossing. Find all the details at the Simon Says Stamp blog.

Cathie used products from Tim Holtz to design this wonderful Autumn pumpkin card. There’s dry embossing for the crackled background and the shapes on the die cut pumpkins along with stamping on the leaves and sentiment with lots of ink blending and ink sprays for a rustic Fall card. I spotted her idea on the Day Dreams in Paper Instagram page.

Michelle’s lovely card has a wheat inspired background created with dies, cutting it from different colors and puzzle piecing them back together. In the center is a large die cut pumpkin with a paisley design and a die cut house. It’s tied with pretty cream ribbon and there’s also a stamped sentiment as well. Take a closer look at the Concord and 9th blog.

If you’re needing to create quick and easy Fall cards try using pre-printed embellishments like Tya did on her sweet design. She added extra details by die cutting the tag and layered panel with a tiny dot edge, making a base with 3 different pattern papers and a enamel button tied with twine. Check it out at the Simple Stories blog.

Who doesn’t love a warm pumpkin spiced coffee on a cool Fall day? Judy’s card captures that perfectly with a shimmery foiled ray on a die cut panel with a sentiment circle in the center and stamped mug, pumpkin and leaves colored with alcohol markers around the center. Find all the details at the Therm O Web blog.

Kendra used a trendy arch shaped die and pattern paper to create a fun shelf to place Fall pumpkins on. The pumpkins are die cut from cardstock  along with a layered “hi” sentiment. The bases have inked cardstock panels, more pattern papers and some scattered gems. I spotted her idea in her Kendra Edlin gallery at Scrapbook.com.

Jill’s card has a pretty stack of ombre’ die cut pumpkins going from light to dark orange, colored with Liquid Watercolors. There’s a soft blue painted background behind the white die cut frame and some tiny die cut white flowers with pearl gems in their centers and a stamped sentiment strip to tie it all together. Watch her video tutorial on the Penny Black blog.

Monica’s amazing design has a wash of orange watercolor and splatter on the background with a die cut of interlocking circles, also water colored in green with a stamped sentiment in the middle. Around that are wonderful stamped Fall images like pumpkin, acorns, leaves and gourds, colored with markers. I spotted her idea on the Whimsy Stamps Instagram page.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this stroll through the pumpkin patch with me today!

-Heather

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