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Hey there! Happy Monday!
I hope everyone had an incredibly fabulous weekend! Are you ready for our second week in the Fall Themed challenge over at Inky Paws?

I couldn't put the Falling Leaves stencil down so I created another card with it :)

I started with a grey piece of cardstock and added various fall colors in distress oxide ink over my stencil. The colors muted back a lot on the dark cardstock, but you can still see the different tones shining through the embossing. Once they were all inked, I coated the whole stencil with versamark and added some clear sparkle embossing powder and heat set that. Then repeated the inking process a second time but used ultra thick embossing powder for 2 more layers. The leaves now have great dimension and shimmer with all the layers of embossing powder.

Since the background turned out so awesome, I didn't want to cover it completely up. So I opted to use a sentiment from the Shades of Autumn stamp set and embossed that on vellum with some liquid platinum powder. Then layered the vellum onto some black cardstock and scattered a few sequins for a little extra shimmer.

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Hello and Happy Monday!
Welcome back to a new challenge at Inky Paws! The challenge for the next 2 weeks is Fall Theme! Which is perfect because man is it chilly outside!

I had a little stencil fun with this card. I used the Falling Leaves Stencil and first inked up the smaller leaves in some fall colored distress inks. Once they were all colored, I covered them in clear embossing powder and heat set them. Then went back over top of the same area and inked up the larger leaves. This gives me a ton of detail and leaves! I went back over top of the smaller leaves with some glittery embossing powder just to help them stand out a little bit more.

Paired this panel with some patterned paper and then colored up some snuggling kitties from Newton's Antics. Trimmed them out and mounted them along the top border of my leaf panel. I heat embossed my sentiment onto some acetate and added that behind my kitties. The finishing touch was a few clear drops.

I hope you will join us for this fun Fall challenge! Just remember to use Newton's Nook products!! <3

Happy Friday!
There's a new super cute release out today at Sami Stamps called Fall Skunks! These guys are just so stinkin adorable (haha..)!

I wanted to create a little scene with my cute little Skunk image so I pulled out the Hero Arts Layered Tree set and stamped it out several times before fussy cutting around each tree. Since it's a wooded scene, I decided to do a woodgrain background in dark brown ink stamped onto some kraft cardstock.

I did a gorgeous deep yellow fall blended sky behind the trees and then layered everything together, adding tiny pieces of foam tape behind the tops of a couple of the front trees. Then colored my frame with the dark brown ink that I used for the woodgrain stamp and coated that with a thin layer of shimmer pen.

My little skunk was colored in with my pencils and fussy cut out. I stamped and embossed a fitting greeting onto some vellum and tucked that behind him before adhering the whole thing down to my card.

You still have a little time to enter our Anything Goes challenge! Just remember to use a Sami Stamps image!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a fabulous weekend <3

Happy Friday!
We're starting a new challenge today at Sami Stamps and it's an easy one! Anything Goes!! The only requirement is that you use a Sami Stamps image!

We don't have a new release for you this time, so the DT has created some fun fall cards using their favorite fall images from Sami's collection. I chose to work with Sunflower Kitty.

I started this card by printing off my image with a super faint outline. I really wanted to do some no-line watercoloring on this adorable little kitty and didn't want a bold black line getting in the way. Once the image was printed, I used some of my Inktense pencils to do some simple coloring on the image. It may be simple, but I think it is just so adorable! I of course had to paint the kitty like my little Cloud...couldn't help myself.

For the background, I wanted to do something fun with a tone on tone design. So I inked up a piece of cardstock in a dark green color and then added some green ink to some embossing paste so that it was just a little bit lighter than the background color. Spread that on through a striped stencil and then sprinkled it with some glitter embossing powder. I set that aside to dry and finished working on my kitty panel.

I trimmed the whole thing on an angle, fussy cutting around the kitty. Then embossed my sentiment on some vellum and wrapped that around the lower portion of my panel.

After the embossing paste had dried, I hit it with my heat tool to set all the glitter embossing powder. Added my kitty panel and a few Sparkling Clear Sequins and that was it!

I hope you will join us this month for our Anything Goes challenge at Sami Stamps!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    CAS(E) This Sketch #197
    Craft Your Passion #336-Anything Goes
    Fab n Funky #325-Animals
    Simon Says Stamp-Thinking of You
Word Art Wednesday #254-Anything Goes

Have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by! <3

Happy Tuesday!
We have a new challenge starting for you today at Tuesday Throwdown. This week it's all about Thanksgiving. Our awesome sponsor is MyGrafico and they provided some great sentiments for us to use on our projects.

I decided on a very simple design for my card. The sentiment was printed out so that it would span the width of the card. I then took it to my paper trimmer and cut out a little frame, leaving the sentiment attached, and then just trimmed around it.

There is a little piece of foam behind the sentiment to help it pop up off the card a bit, but the rest of the frame is adhered flat to a piece of vellum to help mute down the starry background. I wanted the bright colored leaves to stand out a bit more from the dark paper, so that was the reason for the vellum.

The leaves are from Newton's Nook. I added 2 colors of distress ink to each leave, spritzed them with water and then did a bit of rock and rolling with the stamp on the paper. I found that this helped get the water and colors to blend a little easier without leaving a lot of hard lines where the colors met. And the results were gorgeous!

To finish the card off, I added a green stitched line around the outside and some clear droplets for a bit of shine.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Fussy and Fancy #175-Shades of Fall
Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes

Be sure to stop by Tuesday Throwdown to see the rest of the DT's creations and then join in this fun challenge!

Thanks for visiting! <3

Time for a new challenge at Tuesday Throwdown. This weeks theme is Festive Pumpkins and our awesome sponsor is Doodle Pantry!

I have chosen to work with the Pumpkins image from Doodle Pantry. The image was printed out and colored in with my colored pencils. I created a stitched frame and cut that out with my Silhouette before adhering a piece of acetate.

Inside the shaker are some fun little bits that I found at Michaels. They are the perfect size for little shaker cards like this. For the background, I did a fun resist by first using a stencil to create my embossed grid. Then blended some yellow and green inks over it. I used the same pearl embossing powder for the sentiment.

I'd like to enter this into the Simon Says Stamp Totally Resistible challenge.

Be sure to visit Tuesday Throwdown for this fun challenge!
Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Friday.
Stopping in quick to share another card from last weeks Sami Stamps release - Halloween Hoots.

I used a lot of the same products from last weeks card, but this time added ink to the Glass Bead Glitter Gel and then applied it to my card front through a stencil. Pretty fun effect with all the glitter.

Stop by Sami Stamps and join in our Add Texture challenge for this month.

Have a great weekend.
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! I hope you have some fun plans for today, whether it's with friends, family, or both :)

I wanted to put together a little decoration to have around for the holidays and decided that a couple of Sami Stamps images would be perfect for this fall banner.

I bought a roll of burlap ribbon and cut it up into little pieces for each of the banner flags. Using my Silhouette, I cut out a couple of leaf shapes and the letters. I inked up the edges of all the leaves to help add some depth and life to them. You'd be amazed how much of a difference just a little color on the edges makes. Changes the whole look of the leaf :)

I cut out frames for all the letters and then started to assemble my banner.
The first image I chose to use was the Little Acorn Bird from Sami Stamps.

I settled on a Gold Finch design and watercolored in the image. It turned out so stinkin cute! Once everything was dry, I arranged it all around these little yellow daisies I made and then glued it all down.

The other image I used for the second end cap was the Little Acorn Squirrel.

(sorry for the not so perfect pictures...it was super late at night and we were using our projector to get some nice bright lighting...but it left a lot of weird shadows...)

I watercolored this image in as well and once again arranged everything together on the banner flag.
The fun part about this whole banner is that I stitched all the elements on to the flags, so when the season changes, I can remove them and change out the theme! And there is plenty of burlap left so if I need more flags, I can easily add them :)

Be sure to stop by Sami Stamps...we still have our November challenge of Anything Goes running! Just remember to use a Sami Stamps image!

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
    Fussy and Fancy #152-Thankful
    Sassy Studio #309-Happy Thanksgiving
    The Crazy Challenge #211-Everything Goes
    Word Art Wednesday #211-Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting, and Happy Thanksgiving!!! <3

Happy Friday!!!
I hope everyone has had a wonderful week! We've been fighting off head colds all week, so it's been a bit slow going here. But we are on the mend and ready to take on Thanksgiving next week!! Glad the sickness hit now instead of then :)

We have an adorable little release this week for you at Sami Stamps. It's actually a bundle deal - if you spend $8 or more in Sami's shop, you get this sweet little collection of 3 fox images for free!! Let me tell you, these little foxes are so stinkin cute! I had a hard time choosing which one I wanted to use, because I wanted them all!!

I chose to use Acorns Under My Paws for my card. Even though I felt like complete crud working on this card, I'm so happy with how it turned out!

I started by first inking up a fun chevron brick stencil with some Pumice Stone distress ink. I tried to keep it nice and soft. Once it was all applied, I left the stencil on my card front and misted it with some shimmer mist. Leaving the stencil in place allowed for the shimmer to only hit the inked areas, resulting in a nice shimmery pattern. I love it!

Then I started working on my image. I wanted to have a really pretty fall sunsetish style scene. I printed off my image on both regular cardstock and some labels that I could use as a mask. Masked off my image and started to apply my ink. I started with Pumice Stone and Frayed Burlap for the dark shadowy area behind the fox. Then added Squeezed Lemonade for the sky. I took the edge of my ink blending foam and tapped it into my ink pad and swiped it across the sky randomly to get the fun swirly cloud design. I used Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade to do this. There is a little bit of Pumice Stone in the sky just to add a bit more depth and darkness. I finished off the scene with some Forest Moss for the grass.

After uncovering my image, I colored it in with some colored pencils and used a white gel pen to fill in the little buds on the flowers.

Grabbed some coordinating paper from a Lawn Fawn pack and added that across the top of the card. Then adhered my sentiment, which is embossed onto some vellum, across my image and lined up where the background stripe is. The greeting is from an awesome Simon Says Stamp set called Lots of Thanks.

I finished off the card with a scattering of some Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear sequins. I adore this card! It turned out almost exactly as I planned. And for being under the weather while making it, I'm proud that I could still get something together :)

Be sure to stop by Sami Stamps to take advantage of this awesome little bundle you'll receive with an $8 purchase!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Curtain Call-Foxy

Freshly Made Sketches #213

Incy Wincy Designs-Critters Large and Small

Thanks for visiting! <3

HI!
It has been really quiet around here this last week...I've sort of been in a little slump and am struggling to pull myself back up out of it. It's always frustrating when the desire to work and create is there and absolutely zero ideas come to mind...I just stand at my desk and stare at things, getting more and more frustrated with each day that passes and I haven't pulled anything together?

Do you struggle with lost inspiration? How do you overcome it? I feel like I've tried everything, and I'm still drawing a blank...super frustrated!

I did find a little relief from my "crafter's block" this week with Sami's new release - Halloween Mermaids! I'm thankful to be on this wonderful team! Sami always manages to put together the exact thing I need to get my craft on and this release really helped to get a little creativity flowing.

I used the beautiful Pumpkin Mermaid 2 image for my card. As I looked her over and tried to pull some sort of idea together, the thought struck me that she sort of looked like she could be floating in the water on that pumpkin. So I rolled with that and absolutely love how it all turned out!

I started by creating a little mask so I could get a nice horizon line on my water. Inked up the water with Tumbled Glass and Mermaid Lagoon and then spritzed it with some shimmer mist. Once that was dry, I reversed my mask so I could make the sky. Added a little Squeezed Lemonade and Spiced Marmalade for the sunset and then Spun Sugar and Stormy Sky to finish out the sky. I adore how this all turned out! I really looks like a sunset on the water!! Made me so happy :)

Then I colored up my mermaid using some new ShinHan markers my fabulous husband bought me to try and help me out of my funk :) I love him so much! Not chocolate or flowers...markers :) He knows my heart!

Once I had finished coloring my image, I trimmed it out and layered it onto my sunset inked panel. Trying to create that background without full adhesive sheets to use as a mask would have been a super pain, so I just opted to color the image separate and add it on top. I did add a water line on the pumpkin...but then I covered it up with the sentiment...oops :)

To finish off the card, I wanted to still stick with the fall theme, so I used the Falling into Autumn set from Newton's Nook and chose several of the smaller leaves. I did some rock and rolling with those stamps onto some Stampin Up ink pads and then cut them all out to arrange them along the sides of the image. That was a lot of cutting, but I think these leaves add the perfect finishing touch to this card!

I used a sentiment from that stamp set as well and heat embossed it in liquid platinum onto vellum before adhering it down and adding a few clear sequins. I did add some sparkly stars in the sky and a few shimmer details to her fins.

I hope you enjoyed this card! Hopefully I will be over my crafting hurdle soon and back to posting more regularly...it's been a frustrating couple of weeks and I'm ready for it to be over, but I also know that I need to take some time to refocus on me in order for the creativity to flow properly. Hang with me! <3

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Crafty Cardmakers #150-Autumn Colors
    Craft Your Passion #285-Anything Goes
    Penny's Paper Crafty #251-Anything Goes
    Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes
    Word Art Wednesday #207-Anything Goes

Be sure to check out the rest of the release at Sami Stamps and thanks for visiting! <3

Hi Everyone!!
I hope your week has been fabulous! It's been a bit rainy and cool here in Washington, but I absolutely love it because fall is in the air!! Don't get me wrong...I love summer too but nothing beats cooler weather and the smell of fall. Which is what inspired my card today, along with getting new goodies from Newton's Nook :)

I had so much fun putting this card together! I'm not sure the background works all that well combined with my pumpkin kitty, but I couldn't resist putting the two of them together.

To start my card, I blended together 4 different colors of ink onto a piece of cardstock. Then stamped my leaves from the Falling Into Autumn set from Newton's Nook with Versamark and clear embossed them so the ink colors below would show through but be protected so I could go over the whole background with black ink. I left the black ink layer a little light so that hints of the colors below would show through but the black would still be bold enough to make the leaves pop. I learned this technique from a card that Kelly Latevola shared over on the A2Z Scrapbooking blog.
Lets just say I loved it and will probably be using it a lot more :)

I couldn't decide how to add my kitty from the Newton's Perfect Pumpkin set to this fun background. I didn't really want to stamp her on white and have all that bright white paper clashing with such a dark bold background. In the end I decided to stamp her onto watercolor paper and watercolored her in to match my sweet Cloud. Die cut out some grass and blended some greens to give it a little dimension. Then popped it all up on foam tape.

The sentiment is from the Autumn Blessings set from Simon Says Stamp. I clear embossed that onto watercolor paper and then blended the red around it, just like I did with the background, making sure the edges were a bit darker than the rest of the tag.

To finish it all off, I die cut a curve along the bottom and added some sweet Lawn Fawn paper so it would just barely peek out.

Love this card so much! It's nice to finally get the chance to really play at my work desk. We've had so much going on that my desk has not seen a lot of love. But hopefully that is changing now :)

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
AAA Cards #47-Spectacular Embossing
    Creative Inspirations #325-Warm Colors
    Incy Wincy Designs-Anything Goes
    Newton's Ink Paws Challenge #24-Sketch

Inky Paws #24 Sketch Challenge | Newton's Nook Designs

Simon Says Stamp-Make It Colorful
The Paper Shelter #217-Embossing
Time Out #39-Make Your Mark

Thanks for stopping by! <3

Hi Everyone - Happy Friday!!!
I am so excited to share with you the new Sami Stamps release this week! It's too darn cute...just yeah...so cute!! You don't want to miss it!

I couldn't resist and chose 2 images from the release to use on my projects. This first card features the Butterfly Kisses image!

I know it's a fall release, but I decided to go cute and girly for this card. I don't have a ton of fall colored papers in my collection, but man I have a lot of pink! I really wanted to keep this kitty nice and white for the card, but after finishing it all up, I realized that the kitty kind of gets lost and blends in with the white background. A few of my wonderful teamies suggested maybe darkening up the shadows on the kitty to help pull her away from the white background, so I may give that a try. She just turned out so cute, I really didn't want to "try" something and then totally ruin the whole thing.

To get a matching strip of paper, I found that by using the victorian velvet distress ink with just a light layer of picked raspberry on top, the color matched perfect for my background paper! I love how easy it is to get the right color with those distress inks! The sentiment is white heat embossed, I colored in the hearts with my wink of stella glitter brush pen and then covered them with glossy accents to help them stand out a little.

I also used the victorian velvet distress ink to change the color of my twine to match better. It was white and grey but the white was just too bright, so changing the color helped tone it down nicely.

I'd like to enter this Butterfly Kitty card into the following challenges:
    Crafty Cardmakers #126-Cut it Out
    Let's Craft and Create #98-Animal Antics
    Retro Sketches #139

My second card features the Feather Nap image.

I so adore this image! Sami is always the best at drawing up little kitties, and they always speak to my heart and beg me to use them :) I decided to color this sweetie up like my little princess Cloud. She's been sneezing a lot and moving a little slowly the last few days and she was just heavy on my thoughts while I put this card together.

I used some Lawn Fawn papers for the background, which are about the only fall papers I have :) But they worked perfect for this card! I used a grid stencil from Memory Box to make up the blue background around the edge. It's soft enough that it doesn't distract from the center of the card, but still adds the perfect touch.

I finished everything off with a printed sentiment, a large bow, and a few matching pearls.

I'd like to enter this Feather Nap card into the following challenges:
Catered Crop-Gratitude
    Delightful Challenge-Patterned Paper
    MilkCoffee-Hand Colored Image
    Simon Says Stamp Wednesday-Thinking of You

Be sure to stop by Sami Stamps to see the rest of this amazing release! And check out the DT's creations...you're not going to want to miss those! Totally blew me away with this release, they are pretty awesome ladies! <3

Oh! And we start a new challenge at Sami Stamps today too - Anything Goes!! Nice and easy, just remember to use a Sami Stamps image!!

Thanks for stopping by! <3

Happy Thursday!!!
I know it's still been super quiet around here even though I keep saying I'll be back...it's been hard to get things created lately. While I have the drive to get stuff done, the ideas and inspiration just don't seem to be popping out of my head. I've been busy! Just not with cards to share with you...other than my design team works, because I love using images from my design teams :)

So today is the start of a new challenge at Meljen's Designs. They have the most adorable images to use, and there is always one that works perfect for every situation! Well our challenge is a fall photo inspiration with some super bright fall colors! Not the typical fall colors you'd think, but still so beautiful. I really wanted to try and match them as best I could, not sure I succeeded but I'm close :)

Even though the challenge is for bright fall colors, I figured since my family in MI received some snow this week, and we are expecting some of the white stuff over the next few days, that I'd through in a snowman on my card.

Like I said before, Meljen's Designs seems to always have the perfect image for everything, and this time is no different! How perfect is that Harvest Snowman? He's fall and winter together! Love it!!

I also tried something a little different with him this time. Since I had taken the colors from the inspiration photo (below) and did a watercolor wash for the background with them, I wanted to watercolor the snowman as well. But trying to watercolor an image that has been printed never really works for me because my printer ink bleeds really bad with the water. But since watercolor paper is a little thicker, I thought maybe the ink would stay wet enough after printing to be able to emboss it.

So I got all my supplies ready right on top of the printer so I could do everything as soon as the paper was spit out. I sized up my image, stuck in my watercolor paper and printed. It looked pretty dry when I pulled it out of the printer, which had me worried, but I poured on the clear embossing powder anyway. And it worked!! The whole image was coated with embossing powder!! Ahhh...now I can paint it :)

My only tip would be to probably use black embossing powder instead of clear though...the embossing powder melts a little bit off of the printed line, so some of the paper underneath shows through the watercolor. Maybe that wouldn't be there if it was embossed in black.

Anyhow!! I painted up my snowman, added a piece of vellum over my watercolored background to really tone it down, cuz it was quite bright. I embossed my simple "Thank You" sentiment and added lots of enamel dots and gems around the snowman. Super cute!!!

So join in the fun this week with our awesome Autumn Brights color inspiration photo!!

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I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
AAA Cards-Watercolor
    Catered Crop-Gratitude
    Creative Fingers #54-Anything Goes/Layers
    Fussy and Fancy #126-Thankful
    Word Art Wednesday #157-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!! <3

Happy Friday!
I know this space has been quite quiet lately...took a small break from making cards as I just wasn't having much fun with it. Decided to do some scrapbooking in the meantime, which I haven't done in forever...so that felt nice to catch up a little. It still might be a little quiet here as I try to get the card mojo back, but I'll be around again soon :)

But now - it's one of my favorite times of the month: Sami Stamps release time!!!
Sami always nails it with her releases, and this weeks is no different. With the leaves changing and covering the ground, the temps coming down to the perfect level, and all the wonderful fall smells in the air, it has no doubt put me in the fall/Halloween mood.

I chose to use the Two Pumpkins image from this new release, but I also paired it with an image from last years release: Scaredy Cat. Before I started, I lit my pumpkin spice candle, cracked open the windows to get some cool air flowing, and debated on a cup of hot chocolate...only to decide against it for now :)

I have been completely in love with making scenes for my cards lately. It's a strange change for me since I've always been a clean layers type of crafter. But it's been so fun to stretch my imagination and come up with fun cards that don't include patterned paper!

To start this card, before masking off my moon, I laid down a light layer of some scattered straw distress ink, just so the moon wouldn't be completely stark white. Then masked it off and set to work on the rest of the sky. I used a whole mess of distress inks, but they blended so well together that it made the whole sky perfect! The blues were faded jeans, stormy sky, and tumbled glass. I used some seedless preserves for the purple around the moon, and then some spiced marmalade for the moons glow. Black soot darkened up the edges perfectly and made this whole sky just super awesome and a little spooky :) I misted it a few times which is what created the fun speckled look.

For the green hills, I used some peeled paint and forest moss, along with some black soot on the back hill for some depth and dimension. The bats where printed right onto my card and colored in with a black marker. I cut out the fence with my Silhouette, and rearranged it so that it followed the curve of the hill.

My first idea for the pumpkins was to just use my ink blending tools to get the shading on them, but that totally smeared the printer ink on my paper and I had to start over. So I printed them onto watercolor paper and used the spiced marmalade and scattered straw colors to watercolor them in. Worked much better :)

I totally love this card! It turned out exactly as I wanted it to and everything just works so perfectly together!!

So yeah, be sure to swing by Sami Stamps to see this super fun release, and to check out the rest of the DT's creations!! Oh! And then be sure to join in our challenge starting today - Use Orange!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
2 Cute Ink #116-Halloween
    Craft Your Passion #233-Purple, Orange, Green, Blue
    Divas by Design-Spooky
    Fab n Funky #231-Halloween
    The Corrosive Challenge #209-Halloween Colors

Thanks for visiting! <3

Happy Saturday!
I hope the start to your weekend has been fabulous! Right now I am probably in the middle of running my first ever Tough Mudder race!! Eek! So as you can guess, this post has been scheduled :)

I am so excited to be a guest designer over at Send A Smile 4 Kids this week! Thank you so much for having me SAS4K!!

The challenge there this week is to use fall colors and make a creation for kids! The sponsors are Jelly Park (offering 4 images), QKR Stampede (offering 5 images), and Sassy Studio (offering 4 images). Such awesome sponsors and prizes, so be sure to join in!!

For my card, I've used the adorable Jumping in Leaves image from Jelly Park. This was such a fun image to color, with all those sweet leaves. Just made me smile!

I paired the card with some really fun fall papers from my stash, and used a doily in the background. To soften the doily and not have it be so stark white, I used some Antique Linen distress ink around the edges.

When I saw this fun sentiment from Create with TLC, I knew it would fit perfectly with this joyful image!

Be sure to swing by the Send A Smile 4 Kids challenge and join in the fun!!

Thanks for visiting today! <3

Happy Monday! I hope everyone had an absolutely amazing weekend! It was so gorgeous here! Matthew and I had anniversary pictures taken by one of our awesome friends, went out shopping a little bit, and found the newly opened Target!!! I'm so above and beyond excited that we finally have Target here in Montreal! It's like the most perfect place to shop ever! Lol :)

Anyhow, since it's Monday, that means it's time for a new challenge at Paper Makeup!! This week's theme is Playing with Leaves!! Perfect for this time of year with the leaves turning all those gorgeously bright colors and falling off to crunch under our feet. I just love fall!

I did a little inspiration searching on the internet to come up with an idea for my card this week. I didn't necessarily want to use one of the Paper Makeup fairies on my card (even though I love them), I wanted to really stick to the leaves theme. And I saw several creations where they used a large leaf in the middle of the card as their focus image with a sentiment in the middle. I love that idea, so set out to make it happen!

I used a couple of the leaves from the Color it Autumn set from Paper Makeup and printed off the large one big enough to fill my scallop circle. Then I used a cotton ball and "sponged" ink onto the leaf to fill it with the appropriate fall colors. I've never done that before, but love how it turned out!!

Once the leaf was done, I decided on a few colors for my roses, found my scraps and cut them all out. Assembling them took forever, like always but I just love these roses so much that the assembly time is worth it :) I did the same sort of "sponging" on the little leaves and tucked them under the roses. Then made a double layer bow with my ribbon and tucked it into the arrangement.

The stamp sentiment is from the Wonderful Wishes set from Verve. I thought it fit pretty well. The fall season is comforting to me. I haven't quite figured out why yet, but it just seems to calm my soul a bit more than the other seasons.

Be sure to stop by and check out the other Makeup Artists awesome creations!! Then grab your fall supplies and a digi and join in the fun for your chance to win some gorgeous Paper Makeup images!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Chocolate, Coffee, Cards #49-Flowers
    Creative Fingers #5-Anything Goes w/Ribbon or Lace
    Eclectic Ellapu-Celebrate Autumn
    Fan n Funky #187-Ribbon
    Ruby's Rainbow #64-Autumn Colors
    Word Art Wednesday #100-Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!! <3

Happy Monday!
We're starting a new challenge today at Digi Makeover. It's a little bit of a tough one, but I know you can come up with something super awesome for it. We're challenging you to make a motion card! Include something on your card that physically moves!

I had a lot of fun with this card. I went through a lot of tutorials trying to decide what to make (splitcoast stampers has an awesome collection of tutorials for ya!!)
With the leaves changing and the temperatures drastically dropping, I decided to go with a fall themed card this week :)

It has been beyond forever since I made a shaker card...I think the first handmade Christmas card I ever made back in 2002 was a shaker card...and I haven't made one since...so this was so much fun to create!

I used the super fun Leif Monster image from Paper Makeup. He's so fun, and perfect for fall/spooky cards. I wasn't sure what sentiment to use with him, and almost decided not to add one, until I remembered this stamp and thought it would be perfect! It adds a little bit of that spook without being too creepy :) It's like a cute spook!

All the edges are distressed with my scissors. I cut out a scallop frame with my Silhouette and then cut out the center for the shaker bubble. I had no idea what to use for the shaker bubble when I started this card...I don't have those sort of things around very often since they aren't a common card for me. But, being the scrappy crafter I am, I realized the packaging that my double sided tape comes in has this awesome bubble in the middle that would work perfect! So I trimmed it out, and tada! A shaker card :)

I cut out some of the leaves from the background paper to include in the shaker along with some red/brown/white beads. It turned out so cute!!

I do hope you will join us this week! Take the plunge and try something new! You could win some adorable Paper Makeup images!!

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    613 Avenue Create #37-Anything Goes w/Happy Fall Y'all
    Artistic Inspirations #59-Anything Goes/Frame It
    Crafting When We Can #53-Seasons
    Craft Your Passion #180-Autumn/Fall Colors
    Pollycraft Challenge #7-Harvest Colors

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Happy Monday to everyone!
Wow...sorry it's been so quiet around here. Haven't been having the greatest of weeks lately.
I'm finally moved back into my craft room and reorganized, which feels really good, but it's taking longer to get the inspiration flowing than I thought it would...

But I'm back again today to share with you our new challenge at Digi Makeover! It's a photo inspiration challenge. I never seem to do good with photo inspiration challenges...you would think that a photo would offer the most amount of inspiration and cause the ideas to fly...but it just doesn't seem to work that way with me. But it's a gorgeous photo and I knew I could draw something from it, so I just sat and stared at it for awhile until something formed in my head :)

I love everything about weddings! I would have a wedding every year if I could! They are just so elegant, gorgeous, happy events and I just love that.
So I decided to stick with that theme instead of just pulling the colors from the photo.

When I first finished my card, I wasn't totally happy with it. It's a bit...boring...and I didn't like the hard line of the two papers in the middle. But now that I have slept on it and am seeing it with fresh eyes...I kind of like it :) I love the soft background colors with the pop of green in the middle. And the pearls give it that elegant edge.

I used a little cake image from the So Sweet set from Paper Makeup, and the congrats sentiment flag is from the Little Moments set. I used my Cameo to cut out the scallop circle and the swirl and then finished it all off with some sparkly ribbon and a bow.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
    Come and Get it-Flourishes and Swirls
    Digi Design-Fall Colors
    Lia Stampz #28-Autumn Colors
    Stamp n Doodle-Use a Digi
    The Crafty Pad #196-Cake
    The Stamping Boutique #57-Fall

Be sure to visit the rest of the Makeup Artists and see their wonderful creations!! Join in the fun and remember to use a digi :)

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Hello everyone! Glad you stopped by today :) I know it's been quiet around here other than my DT cards. Not having access to my craft room has left me pretty uninspired lately. I'm still doing what I can, but squares and circles get a little boring after awhile :) I bought a new punch last weekend though, and wanted to try it out. Not a fancy punch...just a 5 petal flower, but I miss making my roses so much that I had to get something to help me out with that. So I bought it...and another one that's a little bit smaller :)

Isn't she cute? I just love this Saturated Canary image. This is Cinders, colored in with my colored pencils.
I printed off the yellow chevron paper from my digital stash. It printed pretty good...I think because it's a lighter color than what I normally try to print.
My new punches were used on the flowers, more specifically the center roses :)

I cut out the large daisy from the Anemone Spellbinders die set and inked the centers in yellow. Then I punched out 3 layers of the 2 flower sizes that I had and inked around the edges/centers. I saw a little tip somewhere in blog land about using a brad in the center when constructing roses, so I gave it a try this time. It worked pretty good! I've learned to be patient when making these little tiny roses. The glue has to be quite dry before I can add the next layer, otherwise I crush the whole thing and have to start all over :)

Once everything was dry, I glued them onto the centers of the daisy and added some star dust stickles.
The image is cut out with an Oval spellbinders. I used my scallop scissors around the edge and then added lots of gems around the frame.

I really love the black and yellow together! Just so eye catching :)
I'm also a guest bar-tender at Raise the Bar this week! Check it out! <3

This card is entered in the following challenges:
    The Crazy Challenge #130-Handmade Flowers
    Cupcake Crafts #213-Autumn/Winter
    Designed To Color-Bingo (I used: Chevron, Bling, Colored Image, Yellow, Double Matted Cardstock)
    Little Red Wagon #154-Fallin for You
    Paper Crafting Journey-Add Some Bling
    Send a Smile 4 Kids-Punches and/or Die Cuts
    Whoopsi Daisy-Flowers Galore

Thanks for stopping by!! <3

Happy Wednesday to everyone.
I've been busy making cards this week but haven't really been in the mood to blog about them...sort of lacking a little motivation and inspiration so they have been not so great cards...
But I wanted to share a fall card today. I fell in love with this image from Paper Makeup and have been dying to use it on a card.

The image is Twisty Tree. It offers up so many possibilities, from simple fall to spooky Halloween. Today I've used it for a fall card and paired it with a sentiment from Create with TLC.
I cut the frame out with my Lacy Labels cartridge and I have distressed all the edges with my scissors. So love doing that now that I've figured it out..lol :)

I embossed the middle band with the Leafy Branch folder to help carry the leaves throughout the card. Not too many details on this card, which helped it come together really quickly. But I'm happy with the simplicity of it :)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
    Bearly Mine #54-Add a Sentiment
Designed to Color-Autumn
    Dilly Bean-Autumn Colors
    Love to Create #34-Anything Goes
    Pixie Dust Studio-Fall Theme (Pixie Flixs Legends of the Fall! Seriously one of my forever favorite movies! Watched it all the time growing up, along with Last of the Mohicans and Dances with Wolves :) )
    {Pin}spirational Challenge #26-Fall Photo Inspiration
    Ruby's Rainbow #38-Trees
    Sassy Studio #143-Fall Colors
    Sentimental Sundays #121-Autumn
    Timeless Tuesday #188-Fall Theme

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