Happy Fall

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I'm so excited that Fall is here!  I love the colors and the smells of fallen leaves.

Not much color here but leaves are falling.  They're mostly yellow and brown. Hopefully

some cooler weather will encourage brighter colors.

I recently had a gathering of stamping with friends and this was one of the cards

we did.  I added a butterfly to this one since it will go to my aunt.  She loves butterflies!

I used a new to me pumpkin die from Penny Black and die cut from  yellow cardstock 

and cut the flowers from the same piece.  We brushed color around the edges leaving

it lighter in the center.  It was all placed on a new to me embossing folder.

I'm so glad to lighten the load in the NBUS box!

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use an embossing folder

Four Seasons - Fall

Darnell's I.D.E.A.S. - Embossing Week

NBUS #90 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Penny Black Saturday - Use Penny Black items/option of die cuts

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps: Mum's the Word (PTI) 

Ink:   Warm Cocoa, Pumpkin Pie, Crushed Curry, Granny Apple Green

Paper:   Natural (MFT), Neenah Natural, Lemon Tart (PTI), Granny Apple Green (SU)

Other:  Pumpkin Blooms (PB), Stitching Butterflies (SSS), Tomei Branch die (PS), Oak Forest EF (SB), Tiny Tendril die (MB)

Enjoy!

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Agapanthus

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you had a nice weekend.  It's going to be a busy week here, but it

looks like the weather is going to turn more fallish. That will be a relief!

I used a past calendar page for Judy's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Agapanthus (TT- OOVB), Banner Sentiments (PB)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Midnight Muse

Other:  White EP, Copics (B21, B23, B24, YG07, YG17, G46), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils for details, Delicate Designs EF (ret SU), Border Builder Die (LI), Stitched Butterfly Trio die (PS)

Enjoy!

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Feathers for Fun

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

Last week I designed some cards for friends and had some leftover feathers.

So I put them on some cards for my Friday fun this week.

This is very similar to the cards the group did.  I had some cork paper that had

been given to me.  It has flecks of copper in it.  There was also some pretty but

lightweight copper paper.  When the light hits this, the copper glows.

My sister and brother-in-law have an anniversary coming up soon and I thought

the feathers would make a nice anniversary card.  So I added some copper thread

from my stash and punched some tiny hearts from scraps of the copper paper, 

gluing them onto the thread.

And another....

I put the feathers going in the opposite direction.  It started out with just three

feathers, but it kinda looked like I was giving the finger so I tucked an extra gold

feather in the middle. LOL

I hope you have a lovely weekend and get to have some crafty fun.

Enjoy!

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Purple and Artichoke for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for a new challenge at Color Hues.

This month Sheri picked our colors.  She chose....

I die cut and watercolored one of my favorite flower dies from Canson watercolor paper

and colored with re-inkers.  I really like these colors together, especially for flowers!

A two layered Elegant frame over a piece of embossing made a good 

place to mount this flower.

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Amanda have done to inspire you.

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

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on September 29th.

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!

Edited to add: Thanks Darlene

Sisterhood of Crafters - Frames

Can You Handle the Pressure - Embossing

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Nature's Dance (SB)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Watercolor (Canson)

Other:  Distress Re-inkers (Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Peeled Paint), Morning Blossom die (SSS, Elegant Frames die (MFT), Petunia Cascade EF (SB), Burlap EF (HB), Nature's Dance die (SB)

Enjoy!

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Star of Wonder

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you had a nice weekend.  We had some much needed rain and the 

promise of a couple of cooler and less humid days.  I'm looking forward to that.

Karren's Freshly Made Sketch #753 has so many possibilities!

I've always loved this star.  It's one of those retired Stampin' Up sets that I haven't

been able to part with.  I hope I've captured some of the shine.

The star an sentiment are heat embossed with silver and I've added a shadow of

silver foil behind them.  I had another silver label and added it behind the

star to make it stand out a little better.  I do love a mostly white card!

I know the team has wonderful inspiration. Now I'm going to check out the gallery.

I'm sure it's just as inspiring!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Star of Light (ret SU)

Ink:   Encore Silver

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Silver Foil 

Other:  Star of Light die (ret SU), Snowflake EF (MS), Silver EP, Decorative Sentiment dies (EMD)

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