 Hi and welcome back, it's Vicky here and today I have a couple of fall cards for you. I will be playing with products from the latest collection that I have here by my favorite things. They have wonderful products, just like always, so you will see some of them in action. Make sure to check them out, you will find links to the latest collection down below in the description area. So for today I'm going to create a card for fall, as well as one for Halloween. And let's start with the fall one. This is a lovely stamp set that I will be playing with today. It's called Autumn Blessings and it comes with a lot of pumpkins, different leaves and acorn and lots of lots of lovely sentiments. So I'm going to start by stamping the leaves and the pumpkins. I am using extreme black ink by my favorite things and working with my misti. I'm working with extreme black ink just because it is alcohol friendly and I'm planning to use my alcohol markers to do all the coloring for today. Likely I tend to grab my tree blends for alcohol markers, I find them super easy since in one bottle you get all three shades of a color, light, medium and dark. I always prefer spending my time when I am creating a card, mainly on the design rather than on coloring. So that's why I like to do my alcohol marker coloring super quick and simple. And that's the benefit of using the tree blend markers. So here I'm starting with the lightest color, I'm then adding some shading with the mid color, I'm going to switch to the darker shade and then all the way back to the lighter one. I'm going to repeat the same process for all the three pumpkins. The marker that I'm using here is called burnt orange blend and if you are familiar with the codes of Spectrum Noir these are BO1, BO2 and BO4. Now for the leaves I'm going to switch to the green marker and this one is called alpine green blend and if again you are familiar with the coding of Spectrum Noir these are AG1, AG3 and AG5. You will find linked everything down below. So again I'm starting with the lightest color, adding some shading with the mid and the darker shade and I'm going to move on, continue coloring all the leaves that I have here and then I will use the matching dies. You can get the die set separately than the stamp set and when you get dies by my favorite things they come connected so you need to use a little tool to cut them out. I secure the dies down with some washi tape and I will run them through my die cutting machine. Now I also did use this lovely frame, this is a stitched frame and it's probably one of my most used dies by my favorite things. I like it because it creates a lovely window with a stitching all around and it creates the perfect area to nest inside your focal points or even to stamp a sentiment. Now I need to have a background for this window, for that I'm going with craft cutstock and I want to have some dimension so I'm going to add some foam tape and then stick on top my craft cutstock. Now of course you can easily turn this card into a shaker card but I'm not going for a shaker card for today. I'm going to stick the panel there and when I turn it around I have a lovely area where I can nest my pumpkins. Now I should have done this step beforehand but in any case my mistake is going to be super helpful since I want to emboss my sentiment underneath the window. I'm going with the autumn blessings sentiment and I love when a sentiment combines handwritten font with a typed one. I'm going to do some embossing, that's why I'm going to use my pillow there just to make sure that the embossing powder is not going to stick all over the place. Now I have a set of metallic embossing powders by ranger and the one that I'm going with is marigold so I'm going to ink up my stamp with VersaMark ink. I did stamp that a couple of times to make sure that I have a good impression. The cardstock that I'm working on is not smooth. It has some texture which is going to show on the embossing powder and I absolutely love that look. If you don't like that you can always work on top of a smooth cardstock to get a super even impression. And now finally it's time to put my card together. So here I have the pumpkins using some foam tape at the back. The smallest pumpkin is going to go on top by an over the looks glue and then I'm going to embellish the whole composition with the leaves on the left and on the right. Now all that's left to do is to stick this panel on top of a pre-folded card that's four and a quarter by five and a half but I'm going to finish it off by sticking down a few of those copper gems just to add some extra sparkle. Here you can see here some close-up photos on the first card for today. If you need a full stamp set with leaves and pumpkins then I'm sure you will have lots of fun with it, especially because it includes lots and lots of sentiments for the season. For my second card I decided to play with pattern paper. This is a latest one by my favorite things. It's a Happy Halloween pad and it's called Creepy Confections. This is the Creepy Greetings stamp set and I will be working with ghosts and the pumpkin as well as a pad from this one. I like the size of the ghosts, they are quite big and they really make a statement on a card. So for today I'm going to play with pattern paper to create my background. I'm picking three of those pattern papers from the pad and I went with the black one. I'm also going to pick up this one that has lots of sayings that have to do with Halloween, such as candy corn, carving pumpkins, cauldron, you wouldn't spell on me, lots and lots of fun sayings and I'm also going to pick up the orange one. So for this card I'm going for a landscape orientation. I'm going to cut out my different pattern papers into size so that I can stick one on top of the other and to tell you the truth using pattern paper always made me really happy. I enjoy playing with pattern paper and although it doesn't seem to be on trend lately I always like to go back to it from time to time. Now I combine those two pattern papers and you can easily read at the bottom all those sayings from that pattern paper and I'm going to cut out a very thin strip of that orange pattern paper and I'm going to stick it where those two pattern papers meet. My card base is now ready, I'm going to work on the focal points for that I picked some of the images from the stamp set so you see here I'm picking up some of the ghosts and I'm not actually going to use both of them. I'm also going to stamp the bat, I did stamp one of the pumpkins and the gravestone. I did use my alcohol markers, again I went with my tree blends to color all the images, used the matching ties to cut them out and with the magic of video editing here are all the elements ready to go I'm going to stick them down and I always like some dimensions so the ghosts and the pumpkins are popped with foam tape. Now for the sentiment I'm going to go with haygul and this comes from another die set by my favorite Frinks from the latest collection. I did die cut the sentiment from the orange pattern paper and I do have some sticky tape at the back double sided tape so when I round it through my die cutting machine all the letters are going to be stickers if I peel off the backing so I'm slowly removing the die from the pattern paper and you can see that most of the letters have already peeled off from the backing and they stayed inside the die and you see here I wasn't very careful and the letter H is going to stick on my hand but I'm going to be very careful with that and now I'm going to place that die on top of my background and with my poke tool I'm just going to press down all those letters they are going to stick on the background and I don't have to stick them down letter by letter or to mess with glue but anyway it works for you it's fine I just found that this method was the quickest for me so I'm just going to place the letter H that I have on my fingers and I'm going to complete the sentiment with the letter O that is still stuck inside the die I still have the bud to stick down and all I have to do now is to stick the whole panel on top of a standard card that's for a quarter by five and a half and you can see here some close-up photos just like always you will find links to everything I used down below in the description area I hope that you had fun today that you got inspired thank you all so much for spending some time with me today and I'll see you all next time