Autumn Toile Thanksgiving Gatefold Z Fold

Hello! That blog title sure is a mouthful…right?! I’m back once again with a unique fun fold courtesy of Jeanie Stark’s Mystery Monday Fun Fold series. This is a fun way to experience new folds to add to your card making portfolio.

With the holidays quickly approaching, like they do every year, I’m winding down on creating Autumn cards and looking toward breaking out all the Christmas goodies in my stash. So, this may be my last fall-themed card for the year.

I’ve had such a good time creating with the Autumn Toile Designer Series paper this season and just had to create one more card with it…until next year when I’m sure I’ll revisit it again. It has to be one of my all-time favorite collections.

Along with using the Autumn Toile DSP, I also used the sentiment and coordinating dies from the Simon Says Stamps November Card Kit.

The sentiment on the inside is also from the SSS kit. The fonts in this stamp set are wonderful!

To get the full, detailed directions, please head to Jeanie’s blog HERE and download her free PDF. I think you’ll find this fold very fun as well as easy to create.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Take care,

Rosanne

Tri-fold Accordion Thanksgiving Card – #TTTC282

Are you ready for another Tic Tac Toe Thursday? Today’s challenge board is brought to you by my fellow teammate, Betty and it’s full of seasonal and non-seasonal elements to inspire you.

Since I find myself being a seasonal stamper more and more, I decided to check off another Thanksgiving card from my list.

I chose to go two ways here: First row across: Leaves, Enamel Dots/Sequins, Fun Fold and Middle column down: Enamel Dots/Sequins, Free, Fall Colors

Let’s begin with the layout. Again, my inspiration came from playing along with Jeanie Stark’s Mystery Monday Fun Fold series. This fold was from a few weeks back and all the details and instructions can be found on her blog HERE. The card has several folds but fits nicely in an A2 envelope as shown above.

Here’s a look at the first fold. I used SU’s Gathering Together Designer Series Paper along with Gold Foil and Early Espresso card stock. The image on the front is from a Power Poppy stamp set, Feeling Fall. As I mentioned before, I have several Power Poppy stamp sets in my stash that remain favorites and see ink quite often…they are just that good! The sentiment is from the September 2025 Paper Pumpkin kit.

And here’s the fully opened card…

If you’ve been around Stampin’ Up! for as long as I have, you may recognize the inside sentiment. It’s from the long, long retired, Day of Gratitude stamp set. Again, some sets are just too good to let go or not to use. I’m finding that I have the most fun creating when I give myself the liberty to use whatever is in my craft collection. And for me, this hobby is all about sharing and having fun!

I hope that you’ll find the challenge board inspirational and dig into your stash to create a project to share with us at the Tic Tac Toe Challenge this week.

Take care,

Rosanne

Clean & Simple Stenciled Thanksgiving Card

I recently purchased Simon Says Stamps November Card Kit called Giving Thanks. This kit is full of so many awesome and useful products. You can see the details on the Simon Says Stamps website. I used the stamp set and coordinating dies on the sentiment. I’m looking forward to creating more with this kit.

The stenciled panel was created using Lawn Fawn’s Leaves Background Stencils. I stenciled a 6 x 6 piece of Very Vanilla card stock so I would have enough to use on the inside of the card and the envelope.

The inside sentiment is also from the card kit. I think the font is wonderful!

I playing along with The Paper Players CAS challenge HERE

Happy Crafting,

Rosanne

Delivering Tricks & Treats for Halloween

Happy Monday! I hope you enjoyed a fabulous Fall weekend. We had spectacular weather here in PA this weekend and enjoyed some well spent time with our grandsons. My card today kind of relates to what we did this weekend. I’ll share that at the end of the post.

But for now, let’s get on with the card.

I created this fun Halloween card for my grandsons, who love trains and of course, Halloween, too. I used Pretty Pink Posh’s Halloween Train stamp set and coordinating dies. I love the cute images in this set. The train is colored with a combination of Copic and SU Blends markers. I also ink blended white card stock before adhering the train to the card front. I got a little heavy-handed with the brown “dirt” on the railroad tracks. After blending, I embossed the top part with a stars embossing folder.

The inside sentiment is from SU’s Words for the Seasons stamp set.

I’m playing along with the Sunday Stamps sketch challenge HERE.

On Saturday, we took a ride on the Strasburg Railroad in Lancaster County, PA with Emily and the boys. Jack and Luke love to ride this train and do it quite a bit, so it was nice to catch a ride with them.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a good week ahead.

Take care,

Rosanne