Rust and Yellow for Color Hues

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It's time for another challenge at Color Hues.

This time the challenge is brought to us by my sweet friend Marcia.

She chose.....

Aren't they perfect for Fall cards?

I've die cut the sunflower blossoms four times from So Saffron and Pale Papaya

cardstock, then colored with tiny blending brushes and Distress Inks.

I stacked the two yellow and two rust with alternating petals and popped

a die cut center over each.

Leaves were die cut from a snippet of kraft cardstock and I sponged the

edges with some Toffee Crunch ink.

This leafy embossing folder has an unembossed circle in the center that's

perfect for adding the sentiment.

Now let's go over to Color Hues and see what the my talented friends have done to inspire you. 

I hope you'll create a card using Rust & Yellow and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Please only use hues of these two colors. Neutrals are welcome.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on October 14th.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Super Day (PB)

Ink:   Soft Suede (SU), Mustard Seed, Rusty Hinge (DI), Memento Toffee Crunch

Paper:   Neenah Natural, So Saffron, Pale Papaya

Other:  Autumn Serenade EF (SB), Sunflower Serenade dies (SB)

Enjoy!

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Turning the Page October 2025

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Time to turn the page on our calendars to a new month.

 

I make calendars each year for my desk and my family.

 

I thought I'd set up a regular post on the first day of each month to share them.

 

I hope you enjoy my “Turning the Page” posts.

 

Here's our October page.

By the way, the calendars 4 ½ x 7 inches and and can be displayed on an easel

or hung on a push pin or magnetic hook.  We all have a different way to display them.

 

If you would like a word document with the calendar, email me

and I will be glad to send it to you so you can design your own.

Email link is on the sidebar.

October Recipe

Stamps: Autumn Air (PB)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Other: Faded Jeans, Prize Ribbon, Tattered Rose, Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Peeled Paint, Pumice Stone)swiped on palette and added with damp brush. 

Enjoy!

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Berried Cottoneaster

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This past week I've taken a dive into my stencils.  It was mainly because I was 

invited to Seize the Birthday as a Surprise Party Guest and the challenge is A CAS card

using a stencil.  This was my first try and it would have worked fine except that I was

careless when I went back to emboss again after coloring and got a crease on the

front of the card.

Hence the sentiment layers.  They work to cover up the boo boo, but took 

some of the clean and simple out of the card front.

The photo doesn't show the texture from the embossing.  That's my favorite part of this card.

Lucky me that Lisa at Just Us Girls is asking for Anything Goes with a stencil.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Special Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Early Espresso (SU), Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Aged Mahogany, Mowed Lawn, Forest Moss, Vintage Photo (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Early Espresso

Other:  Berried Cottoneaster EF & Stencil (Alt)

Enjoy!

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Sending You Gnome

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Last week our Craft Group met and our hostess had stamped some

gnomes for us to color and put on cards.

I was having a hard time coloring that day and ended up with gnomes in 

the trash, but I had stamped and colored some of these gnomes when my friend

had lent me the stamps and dies at an earlier time.  Those gnomes were waiting

patiently to find their place on a card.  

Freshly Made Sketches to the rescue!

Here's Narelle's sketch

The gnome was colored with Copics and the background is a new embossing 

folder that I just had to buy after seeing Donna's fabulous cards.

I'll complete the sentiment when I know what I'll send it for.  I'm thinking it would

make a good get well card.  A cup of hot tea and a good book always make me

feel better.

I'll take this to the Darnell's NBUS gallery too since this is the first time

I've used this embossing folder and Jan's gnomes.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Storytime Gnomes (SB), Sending You Phrases (Creek Bank)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Storytime Gnomes dies (SB), Copics, Cracked EF (TH), Slim Stripes die (PFS)

Enjoy!

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Stenciled Leaves

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I have another stenciled card today.  This one is for a grandson's birthday and it's

a monarch size slimline card that works great for a money holder.

I have lots of stencils, but I'll admit that they are not something I think to pull out

unless there is a challenge to use them.  That doesn't stop me from buying more though.

And I always usually enjoy using them.

I thought these leaves would work well for a masculine adult card.  It's hard to believe

that he is an adult now.  Time flies!

I used brushes to add fall colors of ink through the stencil and added some

depth with watercolor pencils.

Then I added some stamped splatters.  I'm not sure I like them, but they are

here to stay.

Challenges:

Krafty Chicks #787 - Masculine

Time Out #298 - Pick two from the board below (I picked Season (Fall), Edge and if stamped counts I've got spatters too)

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thoughtful Messages (SSS), Splatters (?)

Ink:   Early Espresso, Baked Brown Sugar (SU), Crushed Olive, Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade (DI)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Leaves stencil (SSS), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Dk Carmine), Arteze Watercolor Pencil (Hazlenut) 

Enjoy!

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