Grateful for YOU!

Happy Friday to you!

In my book, it is always a good time for a fall card!   I could have easily used spring colors for this card, but I REALLY like fall!!

This wee cutie is "Acorn Cutie B" from A Day for Daisies:

Our challenge this week is to use glitter, and I have used Stickles brand glitter glue on the skirt leaves and the die cut leaves (Tim Holtz)

All that Glitters is on the blogs of my teammates:

Alison Arielle Cathy Cindy Jen Juliana Tanja

I hope to see your glittery creations on the A Day for Daisies Blog!  Please join us!

Catching up leaves!

I love fall!  I love the weather (cooler, windy, crisp,) ! I love the clothes (sweaters, jackets)! I love the foods (apples, pumpkins and squash)!  But my favorite part of fall is the leaves.

I walked to school most of my life (except when Mrs. Phillips, a merciful neighborhood mom, drove us).  I loved crunching on the leaves to and from school.  Also, sometimes after a rain they would temporarily stain the sidewalk in a cool overlapping pattern.

Over on SplitCoastStampers.com it is time for "Hope You Can Cling To"!

One of the challenges was "Peaceful Leaves" and here is my card:

I hope you can participate in "Hope You Can Cling To" as well.

ALSO... it is HOGtoberfest over at Hambo Stamps. They are having an additional 30% off items on their sale pages.  THIS is the time to buy stamps!

 

Card Details: 

• Stamp Image: Snail Rake;
• Papers: Reds, Oranges, and White Cardstock; Cosmo Cricket DP; 
• Ink: Various Tim Holtz Distress Inks for shading leaves;
• Accessories: Spellbinders and Tim Holtz Dies; Sizzix Embossing folder, foam tape, Copic Markers; Diamond Glaze;

Autumn Vellum

There was an important announcement on the Hambo Hoedown Blog, yesterday!  I am now a Bacon Bit.  In other words I am a part of the Hambo Design Team.

Speaking of Hambo... Please check out yesterday's post on Talk to the Ham (Hambo Stamps Blog).   You will find out some important information on how stampers are coming together to help fund research to combat breast cancer.

The current Hambo Hoedown Challenge is to use vellum on your project. Here is my card:

Details: 

• Image: Sweet Gum Leaf by Hambo;
• Papers: Vellum (from Staples: it went through the printer like a pro!), Lt. Yellow, White & Kraft cardstock; patterned paper from Pebbles Inc.
• Accessories: Spellbinders dies; foam tape, Copic Markers; clear embossing powder, Perfect Pearls in pearl; corner rounder punch;

To get the pearly (doesn't show up as pretty on the pic as IRL) leaf outline, I sprinkled embossing powder on the vellum as soon as it came out of the printer.  After heating the embossing powder and letting it cool, I dusted it with Perfect Pearls Pigment Powder (pearl).  I reheated it from the bottom (wrong side of the vellum).  Once cool I removed the excess powder with a used drier sheet.  

The leaves were colored with Copic Markers on the wrong side of the vellum.

If you have played along with the Hambo Hoedown Challenge, you might want to check out the changes: HERE.
I sure hope you can play along with the Bacon Bits!

A little spooky...A little late...

We have been having some drama around here.  We were without power for the majority of this past weekend, and now I am just getting caught up!

 One thing that I missed was the Rubbernecker Fall Blog Hop!  The card was 99% ready, when the power went out...and that is where the drama began.   I say drama, because there was no loss of property, no health endangerment, and it was only light raining outside (no snow, hail, tornadoes or freezing rain).

Here is my late contribution to the hop:

What I used:

• Stamps: Sleepy Hollow Tree SKU:590; and sentiment; all from Rubbernecker;
• Ink: Dark Brown Fluid Chalk Ink; Tim Holtz Distress ink (in order from bottom to top) Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Aged Mahogany, Barn Door; 
• Paper: white, brown, dark and light purple cardstocks;
• Accessories: Spellbinder's dies; ticket corner punch, edge distress tool, Stickles glitter glue;

How I did it: 
I stamped the tree image with the Fluid Chalk Ink (it is waterproof and will not smear; Dark Brown).  I punched a circle from a scrap and applied removable adhesive to the back and placed it on the image.  This will become the moon.  

Using a scalloped circle for a template (experiment with different sizes for different effects)I started at the bottom and worked my way to the top of the image (see product list for colors and order) with an ink blending tool.


I then removed the punched circle.  I added Stickles glitter glue and smeared it to become fog.  I cropped and mounted the image and distressed and inked the edges.  The sentiment was inked and mounted as well.


Want some more inspiration??? Check out my other team members who were able to participate in the hop!

• Bev Gerard
• Charlene Driggs
• Charlene Merrick
• Frances Gumprecht
• Holly McMillen
• Jacquie Peifer
• Jen Charboneau
• Jennifer Cuthbertson
• Joan Ervin
• Judy Rozema
• Julia Aston
• Karen Hunsaker
• Kecia Waters
• Kittie Caracciolo
• Maria Gurnsey
• Rubbernecker Stamps

 Thanks for stopping by today!

Heavenly Pleasures

There is a tree on the way to my daughter’s school that the leaves have turned crimson, but the leaves on the ground (most are face down so we see the back side) are a wonderful magenta!!  Paired with the colors on the trees around the magenta, I came up with the color scheme for this card:

•  Stamps: House Mouse Image—THANKS STACY!!; Mini Positive Words (Starving Artistamps); Victorian Leaf Panel (Rubbernecker Stamps);
• Ink: StazOn Jet Black; Tim Holtz Distress Ink-Spiced Marmalade;
• Paper: Dp (?); Prism Cardstock;
• Other items: flower, button, ribbon (May Arts); Prismacolor pencils (with baby oil to blend); Stickles; Perfect Pearls (misted on flower);

Here is a close up to see the details.  Namely the Stickles.  The flower was misted with a Perfect Pearl and water solution.  I tried to get the shimmer to come out on the photo—but that seems to be beyond my photographic capabilities.

The layout for the card was from Get Sketchy:

I hope you have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

 

 

Peaceful Leaves

The card I did today is for two challenges.  The Sketch Challenge(#250) on SplitCoastStampers and the Color Thowdown #64.

Here is my card:

 

I am afraid this was the closest to Baja Breeze I have right now.

Supplies:

• Stamps: Fall Trilogy Set and Victorian Diamond Panel Background –all from Rubbernecker Stamp Company;
• Paper: Prism Cardstock; Sahara Sand Cardstock (SU!);
• Ink: Sahara Sand;
• Other Supplies: ribbon, charm, foam tape, Stickles;

Detail to see the Stickles:

!Thanks for stopping by!!!

Sing in the Rain…

I love this time of year!!!  I love the colors, the weather,  the smells.  I love fall leaves, which is why this card uses one of my FAVORITE Rubbernecker stamp sets,  Leaf Set by Stamp Oasis.  It reminds me of the leaves I would walk through on the way to and from school.

• Stamps: Leaf Set by Stamp Oasis from Rubbernecker Stamp Company;
• Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Ink-various colors;
• Paper: Bazzill and Prism; Watercolor paper;
• Other Items: Spellbinders Nestabilities; Clear embossing Powder; Stickles; foam tape;

It didn’t show in the picture, but there are stickles around the edges of the cut out leaves.  The leaf stamps were inked, misted, stamped, re-misted, and then re-stamped.
The trees in our yard are just starting to turn—but many trees in our neighborhood are blazing with festive colors!!  BEAUTIFUL!
I hope you are having a great autumn day!
Thanks for stopping by!!!

Apple Tree

This card is a double challenge card.  It uses the theme from Stampin’ Sisters in Christ (challenge #5) and the layout from Clean & Simple Stamping (FTL #60).

The SSC challenge was to use Fall colors.  I chose the colors of the apple tree: red, brown and green.  Apples are one of my favorite things about fall—especially apple cider.   I also like the term “apple of my eye” (see Deut 32:10; Ps 17:8; and Pr 7:2)

The Fall-to Layout #60 is:

• Stamps: DoodleFactory Into the Woods and sentiment;
• Ink: Memento: Pear Tart and Rich Cocoa; SU! Classic: Real Red;
• Paper: Prism Super Smooth White; SU!: Kraft, Kiwi Kiss and Real Red; Bazzill Green (?);
• Other items: Judikins Diamond glaze; felt flower; felted brad; paper piercer;

I am truly enjoying these DoodleFactory Into the Woods stamps.  I really like how they can go “fancy” or plain.

Thanks for stopping by here, today!!

(and don’t forget you can get these stamps {as well as other DoodleFactory and Starving Artistamps stamps} for 10% off by using the discount code: savetenJS)

Starving Artistamps--CPS #89 Sponsor!

How cool is this!! Starving Artistamps is sponsoring CPS sketch #89!! WOO HOO!
Tami Mayberry has come up with another WONDERFUL sketch!

This is a fabulous sketch for people like me who LOVE to stamp their own designer papers.
Here is my take:

The stamps are from the Bees Sheet (from Starving Artistamps). The background was made by making my own stamp pad and re-inkers for the solid oak leaf, then I masked the solid leaves to stamp the skeleton leaves. The leaf embellishment was made from chalk ink and shrink plastic.
There are more cards by the Starving Artistamps Design Team on the Starving Artistamps Gallery Blog!
Thanks for stopping by!!