Just Peachy Stamping

Ready for Fall with the September Pals’ Blog Hop!

Sep 10, 2025 | Pals Blog Hop | 5 comments

Welcome to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop! The Pals are “Ready for Fall” and hope to inspire you with card and paper craft creations using Stampin’ Up! products. Links to the participant’s’ blogs can be found at the end of each post to help you “hop” along!

Here’s my Ready for Fall card:

As soon as I saw the Sunflowers 3D embossing folder, I knew I would be using it to create all my Thanksgiving cards for this year. I usually make about 20 of them for family, and am planning to use a variety of colors and card folds to make the cards individually special.

Measurements:

Trim a piece of Early Espresso cardstock to 11 by 4-1/4 inches and score at 5-1/2 inches to create a tent card for the base
Start with a piece of Crushed Curry cardstock measuring 4-1/4 by 5-1/2 inches for the front
After running the cardstock through your Cut & Emboss Machine using the Sunflowers 3D embossing folder, trim it to 4-1/8 by 5-3/8 inches
After using the Sunflower embossing folder for a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock, trim the cardstock to 3/4 by 4 inches for the bottom of the inside of the card
Trim a piece of Timid Tiger 6 x 6 inch DSP (designer series paper) to 6 by 2-1/2 inches for the envelope flap
Punch a 1-inch circle of coordinating DSP and run it through the XYRON create-a-sticker for the envelope seal
Trim a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock to 4 by 5-1/4 inches for the inside of the card

Adding Color and Finishing the Card:

Using the debossed side of the cardstock (meaning it the side with the sunflowers lower than the background), swipe your Early Espresso ink pad over the cardstock
- You can add as much or as little ink as you want
I used daubers for Crumb Cake ink (centers of flowers), Timid Tiger (outer ring of centers) and Old Olive (leaves)
Then I used a dauber with Crushed Curry ink to highlight the petals
- The color is barely visible, but it did lighten up the petals just a bit
Stamp the inside sentiment and outside sentiment on Very Vanilla cardstock using Early Espresso ink
- The outside sentiment comes from the Beautiful Butterflies
- The inside sentiment is from the long retired Banner Year stamp set, but it’s the only one I have that says Happy Thanksgiving
Add a piece of Timid Tiger ribbon around the Crushed Curry cardstock and tie it in a square knot
Unless otherwise noted, I used multipurpose liquid glue to adhere pieces together
Crop a scrap piece of Timid Tiger cardstock and the outside sentiment using Stylish Shapes banner dies
Adhere the sentiment on top of the Timid Tiger cardstock, then add dimensionals onto the back of the Timid Tiger cardstock so it straddles the ribbon
Adhere the embossed and colored Sunflowers front to the base of the card
After adhering the strip of the embossed Very Vanilla to the bottom of the inside of the card, adhere it to the inside of the card
With that, I’d finished this coordinated card, envelope, and envelope seal

I really hope you give this a try! I’ve been playing around with ink colors on white cardstock and have been having a great time. Try swiping the colors on both sides of the embossed cardstock because the effects are so different.

Back to the Stampin’ Pretty Pals’ Blog Hop:

This month’s projects have been full of ideas you can use—whether you’re making cards, gifts, or just adding a little sparkle to your everyday creativity. The Pals have their own projects ready to share, and trust me, you don’t want to miss them! Click through the lineup below to see everyone’s creations, then mark your calendar for next month’s theme: “thanks.” We’ll be making Random Acts of Kindness projects, thank you cards, and even some Thanksgiving ideas you’ll love.

Until then, enjoy your craft space.

Stampin’ Pretty Pals Blog Hop Lineup

Thank you for stopping by today!

Have a Peachy Day!

Sue

Colors Used:

Supplies Used:

It’s Live!

The September – December 2025 Mini-Catalog is now available!

Of course, this means there are new Online Exclusives as well! Here are some examples:

This Peaceful Garden Suite Collection is beautiful, and I love non-traditional colors for Christmas. I thought I would be able to use this suite for all my Christmas cards.

This Modern Christmas Suite Collection is absolutely gorgeous! I told myself that I wouldn’t need anything other than the Peaceful Garden Suite Collection. I was wrong. This suite is already in my cart: