Turning the Page October 2025

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

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)

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Sending You Gnome

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

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)

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Stenciled Leaves

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

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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Wild Blossoms for Seize the Birthday

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

I am happy and honored to be a Surprise Party Guest at 

Seize the Birthday!

I have two cards to bring to the party.

First of all, the challenge, brought to us by the very talented Nanc'

  

I've used a new to me stencil from Papertrey Ink.

I'll confess the first card I did with it was not quite CAS.  It turned out to

be my favorite.  I'll share that at the end of this post.

I used Distress inks and blending brushes to stencil the designs.

After I had the stenciling done, I cut the design and used the Subtle embossing

folder on the part I intended to use.  Then I had trouble figuring out how to

lay it out and keep it CAS.  

The Peek-a-boo Frame rescued that dilemma.

There was a flower left over so I got another CAS card.

Finally the not CAS card...

Now it's your turn.  

Be sure to go see what the wonderful Design Team and Johanna have done.

You're sure to be inspired.  Then join us with a birthday card.  You can use this option

or any birthday card will do.

Seize the Birthday

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  

Ink:   Wild Honey, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, Wilted Violet

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Wild Blooms Stencil (PTI), Subtle EF (ret SU), Peek-a-boo Rectangle die (MFT), Bright Butterflies die (SSS), White Gel Pen

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink: Wild Honey, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, Wilted Violet  

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Cajun Craze

Other:  Wild Blooms Stencil (PTI), Subtle EF (ret SU), Burlap EF (HB), Bright Butterflies die (SSS), White Gel Pen

Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  

Ink:   Wild Honey, Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, Wilted Violet

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Crushed Curry

Other:  Wild Blooms Stencil (PTI), Subtle EF (ret SU), White Gel Pen

Enjoy!

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Jumbo Mum

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As soon as I saw the sketch at The Flower Challenge, I knew exactly what I 

wanted to do with it.  Usually a sketch makes me scratch my head.

But time has been tight and I was happy to be able to use my idea and even

happier that it worked out as I'd hoped.

I stamped this beautiful mum and leaves with white ink and heat embossed it 

with white powder.  I used Distress re-inkers as watercolors and

cut the flower and leaves out with the matching dies after it dried.

After mounting it in the corner of a piece embossed with the subtle embossing

folder, I trimmed off the excess and stamped a sentiment.

Here's the sketch and the link to The Flower Challenge.

 

Card Recipe

Stamps: Jumbo Spider Mum (Ton), Thoughtful Messages (SSS) 

Ink:   Whisper White, Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Re-inkers (Spun Sugar, Abandoned Coral, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade), Jumbo Spider Mum die (Ton), Subtle EF (ret SU)

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Thanksgiving Berries

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

Here's another card with leftovers from that last class.

My sweet friend Bobby chose a mood board for the Just Us Girls #793 challenge.

I was inspired by the orange berries on her mood board and there's orange berries

on the Four Seasons mood board too.

The berries are die cut from cold press watercolor paper and I found the easiest

way to color the cut was to use a finger dauber to add ink, then use a waterbrush to 

blend.  The markers left a too dark border that wouldn't blend well.

We used a different embossing folder for the class card too.

It used the layout of the card you can see in this post and berries from another

card that I colored orange this time.  Here's the card from class...

Challenges:

Four Seasons - Fall

Just Us Girls #793 -  Mood Board 

Penny Black Saturday - Use Penny Black (die) with option of spots or stripes (spots on the berries?)

  

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bountiful Harvest (Verve OOB)

Ink:   More Mustard, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green

Paper:   Watercolor (Arches Cold Press), Cinnamon Cider, Neenah Natural

Other:  Winter Berry Branch die (PB), Decorative Sentiments die (EMD), Fallen Leaves EF (SZ)

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Falling Leaves

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

It was a busy weekend with classes and this card is a spinoff from

a card we did for the classes.

 Some of the leftover leaves made me think of dear friend Michele's sketch at 

Freshly Made Sketches.

Here's her sketch...

For the leaves, I had wet a piece of watercolor paper and dropped re-inker into

the water, moving it around a bit with the waterbrush.  I dried between colors and left

space for other colors.  One piece ended up too light and the other too dark so it

balanced the leaves out.

Here's the card for class.

It used a different embossing folder and the corner was folded instead of torn.

There were fewer leaves too, including one that was "invisible" and needed

a closer look to find it!

I wish you all could have come and stamped with me!

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use and embossing folder/option of using layers

Freshly Made Sketches #704 - Sketch by Michele

 

Card Recipe

Stamps: Bountiful Harvest (Verve OOB) 

Ink:   More Mustard (SU)

Paper:   Cinnamon Cider, Neenah Natural, Watercolor (Arches CP)

Other:  Re-inkers (Crushed Curry, Tangelo Twist, Taken with Teal, Old Olive), Leafy EF (SB), Caldwell Label Set (PS), Layered Leaves Dies (MFT)

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Birthday Poppies

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

I'm still trying to get through my NBUS box.  It seems that I take 2 steps forward

and 3 steps back.

For this card I used a stamp and die set that a treasured friend sent me for my birthday.

She knows how much I like poppies!

I stamped the layered stamps on watercolor paper and blended the colors with

a waterbrush and Distress re-inkers used as watercolors.  I love the intense color

I was able to get.

I embossed a piece of Naturals White cardstock with my linen embossing folder.

Die cut the watercolored poppies and popped them on the embossed panel.

A foiled sentiment finishes it off.

Challenges:

Krafty Chicks #786 - CAS

NBUS #78 - Never Before Used Sctuff

Seize the Birthday #313 - Use Embossing

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Poppy Fields (EH &ALT), PP It's Your Day

Ink:   Toffee Crunch

Paper:  Watercolor (Arches HP), Black, Naturals cardstock

Other:  Poppy Fields dies (EH & ALT), Morning Blossom die (SSS for stems), Burlap EF (HB), Distress re-inkers (Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Candied Apple, Barn Door), White Foil

Enjoy!

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Poinsettia for Color Hues

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

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

This month our colors were chosen by the very talented Jules.  

I love these colors together and they were perfect for this NBUS background

poinsettia stamp.

I bought the background stamp a couple of years ago when Wplus9 closed up shop.

I don't know why it's taken me so long to pull it out of the NBUS box.

I had so much fun making this card that I made another using a different shade of blue

that is more aqua.  It doesn't look that different in the photo though.

For both of these cards I did an emboss resist on mixed media paper.

After wetting the paper, I dropped re-inker onto the card and used a

waterbrush to "guide" the color.  It takes awhile for it to dry, but it's well

worth the wait!

Now let's go over to Color Hues and see what the my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designer Birgit have done to inspire you. 

I hope you'll create a card using Smokey Blue and Sage Green 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 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!

Challenges:

Color Hues - Smokey Blue & Sage Green

Peace on Earth #95 ATG Christmas or be inspired my mood board below

NBUS #78 - Never Before Used Schtuff (background stamp)

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Joyful Poinsettia (W+9 OOB), Tin of Tags (ret SU)

Ink:   Whisper White, Sage Shadow (DOX)

Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore), Neenah Solar White, Soft Seafoam

Other:  White EP, SU Re-inkers (Bordering Blue, Sage Shadow), Layered Poinsettia Die (WF), Botanicuts Pine Bough dies (Grty), Stitched Circle Die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Joyful Poinsettia (W+9 OOB)

Ink:   Whisper White

Paper:  Mixed Media (Strathmore), Dapper Denim, Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer (SU)

Other:  White EP, DI Re-inker (Speckled Egg), Layered Poinsettia (WF), Eucalyptus Sprig (?), Mini Spring Cover Die (Ton)

Enjoy!

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