This amazing Pumpkin card uses dies for the pumpkins, an orange stamped sentiment and a fun interactive element of honeycomb paper. That section folds flat for mailing and has room on the back for stamping. Take a closer look at The Greetery blog.
The gourds are here! Pumpkins are such an icon of Fall and Halloween and now that Autumn is here let’s include them in our handmade cards. Whether you use stamps, dies or stencils these bold orange veggies can be used with cute, creepy or elegant designs. They don’t even need to be orange, they naturally come in lots of other colors like yellow and green but you can also use trendy shades like pink and teal. Let’s jump into some fresh new card ideas using Pumpkins for Fall and Halloween.
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Su used a shopping cart die and filled it with stamped pumpkins, adding a stamped Jack O’ Lantern face to the top one for this super fun card. She added texture with a dry embossed background and postage stamp edges. And the purple card base work so well with the orange! Find more info at the Aromas and Art blog.
Layering stencils and rich Autumn colors of ink were used to create these lovely cards with Pumpkins and other types of gourds. The Kraft cardstock background and some splatter adds a nice rustic touch. Add a sentiment and these ready to mail. Watch a video tutorial on the Spellbinders blog.
These are a few of my favorite things: books, coffee and pumpkins! Samantha stamped and colored her Autumn stack over a beautiful cloudy stenciled background and added a heat embossed sentiment in white. Take a closer peek at the Newton’s Nook blog.
Leanne filled a die cut barrel with pumpkins for this fun and festive Fall card. She also included some die cut leaves and adorable stamped mice. I love the background she created with a die and stencil combo that created a wonderful soft plaid design. Find more info at the Sunny Studio blog.
This cool Halloween card has two matted layers of Halloween pattern paper with a matted Sentiment and a row of stamped pumpkins. Notice how the stamped pumpkins are in brighter colors so they pop against the more muted background. I spotted this card on the Crafter’s Companion Instagram page.
These ghosts are having fun with pumpkin on a dark and spooky night on this Halloween card from Suzy. She used stamps from Whimsy stamps to set her graveyard scene creating an amazing night sky with purple ink blending and splatter. Take a closer look if you dare at the Simon Says Stamp blog.
Wow, this pumpkin shaped card from Christine is incredible! She used dies to create the pumpkin, cut from orange, green and black cardstock, backing the openings with vellum paper and tying a sentiment tag to the stem. But the best part is that it lights up! Find more info at the Trinity Stamps blog.
Susan used brand new dies of leaves and pumpkins for her two awesome Autumn cards. She included trendy postage stamp edges and added stamped sentiments to each card too. I love the stripes of different orange she included on the second card, it adds so much interest! I came across these ideas on the Taylored Expressions Instagram page.
These darling die cut cards from Grace include pumpkins, sunflowers and little foxes for Fall baby cards. She used soft pastel colors with vellum and a subtle plaid background for adorable designs. Learn more at Lawn Fawn blog.
Amy R. created an elegant Pumpkin card with a large background stamp embossed in gold and water colored. Some splatter and gems adds nice texture and the simple embossed sentiment in black is the perfect finishing touch. Watch her tutorial video at the Prairie Paper and Ink blog.
Amy designed an amazing scene of critters getting ready for Fall by raking leaves and gathering pumpkins. She used a masking technique to put the scene together and colored her stamps with Copic markers. Find more info at A Thousand Sheets of Paper blog.
I hope you’ve found some inspiration today to include some pumpkins in your next Fall or Halloween card design!
-Heather
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