AUTUMN IS HERE

Well it has been a while and cannot believe that we are nearly at the end of October and yesterday Tesco had the usual orange pumpkins in store ready for Halloween. A few years ago we went on holiday to San Fransico at this time of year and came across a pumkin patch where you pick up a wheel barrow and fill it with the most amazing collection of pumkins you could image as over there they really do go all out to celebrate this time of year.

 

Now onto a card which is inspired the season and also the challenge over at friday mashup where you have to include trees or leaves and or the colour orange or everything together.


 

 



 

 

This stamped tree is the Lollipop Tree stamp from IndigoBlu and then framed with gilding flakes.

Around the edge sprigs of leaves using Cheery Lynn die Flourish Leaf Strip and a couple of metal embellishments and then a sentiment to complete the card.

 

The weather is wet and horrible so a good excuse to carry on doing more crafting this afternoon before settling down tonight to watch the final of The Great British Bake Off on BBC2 can't wait although I do have a favourite.

 

Take care and do check in again soon

 

 

 



YOU ARE IN OUR THOUGHTS

What a miserable day wet, windy and very cold I think the central heating will have to go on even though I try to hold on until October because as soon as I turn it on the weather usually warms up again.

I may have mentioned before but I work now and then as a TV extra and yesterday I was on the set for a funeral service which weirdly ties in with my sympathy card today.

For this I used my newly purchased spellbinders delicate-doilies which I love and from Kaisercraft stamp sets "Get Well" and "Blae and Ivy" with the sentiment being stamped on a strip of white baking parchment.For the finishing touch a few purple flat-backed pearls.

 

I will be entering this into the challenge over at friday mashup which is no 127.

Thanks again for looking in and comments are always welcome so take care for now.

 

 

 



HEY HOW ARE YOU

Here again with a rather late in the day post and trying to do a bit of catch up before a busy weekend and so for today a card for  the 205 challenge at colour Q.

 

I used a matching stamp and die set , that I had not used before, from Marianne Collectables COL1304 and coloured with Promarkers then once dried covered with Inkssentials Glossy Accents

The flowers were mounted onto grey card that had been embossed using Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Dainty Dots and the sentiment is Waltzingmouse stamp set Compact Sentiments.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you join me again for another blog so until then take care.

 



TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF

Back today with a cheery card for a friend  that is not feeling too well so bright colours will hopefully put a smile on their face and will be off to put in the post tomorrow.

 

The flowers I made using Heartfelt Creations stamps and dies " Delicate Asters " which were stamped using Perfect Medium and then embossed in white.

The sentiment is from Kaisercraft Mini stamp set " Get Well" and then die cut using Spellbinders A2 Locking Loops and then to finish off the card randomly added drops of Cosmic Shimmer Vintage Pink PVA glue.

The colours were inspired by the fabulous challenge over at Color Throwdown this week.

Take care friends and back soon with another crafty blog post.



STAMPING WITH A DIFFERENCE

Hello and today a card stamped without a stamp and yes you did hear right as this is the challenge over at the friday mashup. At first I thought a crazy idea but now that I have tried it I will be using my stamp  blocks a lot more for blocking colour.

 

Using just one size of block I then picked a multi coloured ink pad for more effect and then placing them on the card in different directions.

Each square was cut using Spellbinders Classic Squares Small and then went round each edge with a Silver Marker pen. The lettering is Spellbinders Donna's Alphas which I cut from some fun foam which I love using and die cuts beautifully.

Very pleased with the result and thanks to the Friday Mashup I now have a whole set of new stanps to try out.

Thanks for stopping by and take care until the next time