Happy Fall to My Friend

 Happy Friday, peeps!  Wowza, fall has fallen in my neck of the woods....I know these temps and wind will go back to normal soon but right now it is definitely feeling "fallish"!  I thought I would visit my friends at As You See It because they have a really fun sketch this week and I wanted to incorporate the Just Add Ink challenge in there too! 

So I chose masking and friend as my two choices for my card today, and I pulled out a lot of different stamps to create it!  Here we go:

My Buffalo Check background stamp with inked with a combination of Sahara Sand and Tim Holtz's Antique Linen inks, then I stamped my pumpkins in Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzaza, Antique Linen and Lost Lagoon inks, masking each one as I went along.  The sentiments are a combination of SU (Biggest Wish and Endless Birthday Greetings), Papertrey (Wreath for All Season) and Paper Studio (Everyday Expressions), all stamped in  Lost Lagoon:

I used some Burlap Ribbon on which to put my little circular sentiment and I also embossed the panel with the Subtle EF!

I enjoyed getting all my stamps inky for this fun card!  Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!

I found a new bird on my walk yesterday morning...there were several of these flitting around my neighbor's tree and they actually didn't fly away as I took a picture!  My camera does not photograph very well, so they're not clear, and I still am not 100% sure as to what kind of bird it was!  The consensus on my birding FB page was a Tennessee Warbler, but whatever it was, it was fun to watch!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life."  Proverbs 4:23

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Biggest Wish, Friends are Like Seashells, Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Endless Birthday Wishes (ret), Buffalo Check (ret), Everyday Expressions (Paper Studio), Wreath for All Seasons (Papertrey)
Card stock & Papers	Basic White, Sahara Sand
Ink	Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie, Pear Pizzazz, Lost Lagoon (ret), Antique Linen (Tim Holtz)
Accessories	Mini Dimensionals, Burlap Ribbon (ret)
Tools	Big Shot, Stylish Shapes Dies, Subtle EF (ret), Stamparatus

TCC162 Autumn Gratitude

 Happy Wednesday, peeps!  Time for a new Card Concept challenge...I love this little scene, doesn't it look so inviting?:

I really loved that pillow in the background; it reminded me of  CTMH set called Poster Tidings, so I pulled it out and inked it up, along with some other fall-imaged stamps:

The words were stamped in Cherry Cobbler on some Very Vanilla cardstock; I stamped a pumpkin in Crumb Cake, and leaves in Poppy Parade, Old Olive and Crushed Curry.  As an afterthought I stamped the swirls to give it some "motion", then ran it all through the Tasteful Textile EF and adhered it to a Sahara Sand card base.  I kept wanted to add some ribbon or sequins or something but in the end, just left it simple, so I am calling this a Clean and Layered style!  

I love these fall themes!!  I hope you'll find some inspiration from our prompt this week--flowers, plaid, wood, textures--could be anything!  Just tell us your style when you do share it with us!  Can't wait to see what you create!  Thanks for popping by!

This child would never eat shrimp before...now she gobbles it up!

This happens to be my favorite Perkins meal too--Teriyaki Shrimp!  Yum!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Paper Pumpkin (leaves, ret), Poster Tidings Fall (Close to My Heart), Autumn Squares (Impression Obsession)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla
Ink	Cherry Cobbler, Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Crumb Cake
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Tasteful Textile EF, Stamparatus

IB148 Count Your Blessings

Howdy, peeps!  Hope your week is going by nicely!  It's time for a lovely new Inspired By challenge!  I am constantly amazed at how Laurel and Danni keep coming up with these fabulous inspirations for us!  Check out this week's: 

And here's the optional sketch...you can use one or the other, or combine them!  

I sort of did use the sketch this week:

I really had a good time putting this card together!  So many fun elements, and I had a chance to pull out some old goodies as well as current!  I used some woodgrain paper to diecut a window and backed it with some retired printed vellum:

Then I stamped some pumpkins from my favorite Pick a Pumpkin set, and gave them a little garland of leaves from Beautiful Autumn upon which to rest:

And I finally used the Mug Mat die from the Greetery (that I just had to have) and a pretty little sentiment from an old My Creative Time set:

I think this is one of my favorite cards this season!  Be sure to stop by the IB blog to see the fabulous creations the rest of the DT made....and be sure to share yours with us too!  

Time to make the jack-o-lanterns...you'll have to come back to see the final results!

Yep, those seeds feel yucky!  LOL!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me." 

Micah 7:7

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Beautiful Autumn, Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Just for You (My Creative Time)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White (ret), Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Woodgrain DSP (ret), Graceful Glass Vellum (ret), Autumn Day DSP (Photoplay), Thankful Heart DSP (Recollections)
Ink	Pumpkin Pie, Craft White, Soft Suede, Early Espresso, Sahara Sand, Only Orange (ret)
Accessories	Candy Dots (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Autumn Punch Pack, Patterned Pumpkin Dies (ret), Mug Mat Die (The Greetery), Small Madison Arched Window Die (Poppystamps)

IB147 Fall is Sweet

Hi stampers!  Happy Thursday!  It's time for  a new Inspired By challenge....look at these yummy goodies!  I wouldn't mind eating every one of these, LOL!

And here's our optional sketch:

 

As much as I love a sketch with three elements on it, I opted not to use it this week!  I did use a couple of retired fall favorites, Merry Cafe and Pick a Pumpkin, to make my sweet fall birthday card:

So even though it might not be noticeable right away, there's a lot going on on this card!  My Early Espresso base is embossed with a swirly die; the Old Olive layer is stamped with the Buffalo Check background stamp, and the Terracotta Tile layer is stamped with a sprig from Banner Year.  The coffee cup was stamped on some patterned paper and fussy-cut; I then hand-drew the sleeve and added some stamping to it:

I added a few fall pumpkins just for fun and mounted it all on a layer of Very Vanilla that was embossed with the Cable Knit embossing folder.  And I carried the colors over into the inside with some birthday sentiments from Itty Bitty Birthdays:

I am sorry they retired this set so quickly, it has a lot of fun coffee and tea-themed images for the holidays and I am happy when I can use it again!  And I did use a challenge sketch; it's from Tuesday Morning Sketches:

And I am also throwing this into the ring at Festive Friday, because I've got a hot drink, plaid, cream, brown and diecuts!

Be sure to stop by the Inspired By blog to see what the DT has created...they're a talented bunch of stampers and I always love to see how their creative minds interpret the challenge!  Thanks for popping in today!

School picture...one of the nicest!

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Buffalo Check, Banner Year, Itty Bitty Birthdays, Merry Cafe (ret), Pick a Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Terracotta Tile, Old Olive, Crumb Cake, Old Olive DSP, Nightfall DSP (Authentique)
Ink	Memento Black, Pear Pizzazz, Terracotta Tile, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shots, Patterned Pumpkin Dies (ret), Cable Knit EF (ret), Blends, Swirled Dots Embossing Plate (Altenew)

IB144 Autumn Blessings

Hey peeps!  Happy Thursday!  Happy October!  Our beautiful Inspired By photo is this one for the week:

Love it!  And here's our sketch, which I sorta followed:

And here's my simple card; I was inspired by the little wreaths with the pumpkins, as well as one of the pillows and the soft green color:

A stamped a wreath from CTMH's Woodland Greetings in Stazon black directly on some My Mind's Eye papers, then colored each little element in with a blender pen and ink.  The pumpkins are from the retired Pick a Pumpkin set, stamped in Mellow Moss and backed with some Old Olive linen thread:

I combined the words from a couple different sets for the sentiment and added a fussy-cut leaf from the CTMH set; then it all went on a Mellow Moss card base:

I am also submitting this to Hand Stamped Sentiments' Mood Board challenge, too, as those little pumpkins in the top row just make me happy!:

There are so many elements from this photo that could inspire you...which ones will you choose?  Share your creation with us at Inspired By so we can see it too!  Thanks for popping in today!

And here are a few autumn blessings from around the field that I saw recently:

       

I love how even weeds can be beautiful!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate--bringing forth food from the earth: wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart."  Psalm 104:14-15

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Woodland Greetings (Close to My Heart), Take Three Fall (Papertrey), Grateful Heart (Right at Home)
Card stock & Papers	Mellow Moss (ret), Gingham Farm DSP (My Mind's Eye)
Ink	Stazon Black, Mellow Moss (ret), Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Memento Black
Accessories	Old Olive Linen Thread (ret), Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Patterned Pumpkins Dies (ret), Blender Pen

 

In(k)spire Me 401 Fall Collage

Happy Monday, peeps!  Just a quick post today---I have two Christmas card stamp camps today, so it's going to be busy but fun!  I thought the In(k)spire Me sketch was a fun one---they actually have a color challenge too but I chose to only do the sketch--and here it is:

I pulled out a retired set, Pick a Pumpkin, and its matching dies, Patterned Pumpkins, and stamped a few in Pumpkin Pie, Sahara Sand, Grapefruit Grove, and Crushed Curry and Old Olive, cutting them out and clustering them around a cool collage print from some papers by Carta Bella:

I cut some tendrils and the little horizontal embellishments from some Photoplay papers, and that was about it!  I toyed with adding a sentiment, but nothing really worked, so I left it plain and mounted it on an embossed mat of Sahara Sand.  I'll add a sentiment inside when I send it out!

Aren't these little pictures so fun?!  Love them!

Thanks for popping in today!

Here's another little fall vignette, LOL!  

Do you think that Eden adores Cassidy?  I think she does!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla,  Naturals White (ret), Fall Break DSP (Carta Bella), Autumn Day DSP (Photoplay)
Ink	Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie, Grapefruit Grove, Crushed Curry, Old Olive
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Nested Labels Dies, Patterned Pumpkins Dies (ret), Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Soft Suede Marker

GDP156 Pumpkin Hello

Happy Wednesday, peeps!  I had a lot of fun making today's card; I got to use some PUMPKINS, woohoo!    The Global Design Project challenge this week is to CASE the designer, and here's our inspiration:

And here we go:

I began with some embossing paste, dyed with Old Olive ink, and stencilled a background with one of the Pattern Party masks.  I then stamped and diecut images from last year's Pick a Pumpkin set; such a cute set and barely enough time to use it!  I added some color to the sprigs with Blends, and finished it with a sentiment Right At Home's Grateful Heart:

This reflects how happy I am that our weather has finally gotten a little more seasonal!  Bring on fall!  Thanks for popping in for a visit today!

Since I can't seem to get a picture of Cassidy lately, I'll share her school picture:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin (ret), Grateful Heart (Right at Home)
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Adhesive Sheets
Ink	Grapefruit Grove, Gray Granite, Lemon Lime Twist, Pumpkin Pie, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Dimensionals
Tools	Big Shot, Patterned Pumpkins Thinlets, Embossing Paste, Old Olive Ink, Palette Knives, Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Blends, Pattern Party Decorative Mask, Crumb Cake Marker

FMS308 and CC79 Rustic Neutrals

Hi all!  I had a nice relaxing evening and had fun creating this neutral-hued card for The Card Concept and the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:

So here we go:

For the "style" that I used here, I guess it could be called Classy Elegant or maybe Shabby Chic!  I started with a Crumb Cake background and pulled out a really old background stamp called Weathered and stamped it with Craft White ink.  I used a Tim Holtz brick embossing folder for the Very Vanilla panel; the wreath is made with some Kraft cardstock; the pumpkins are stamped in various neutral shades, and the leaves were diecut from Soft Sky, Mint Macaron and Lost Lagoon that were sponged with Craft White ink to soften the colors a bit.

I added some sequins, a Champagne Foil horizontal panel, and a sympathy sentiment inside and out:

  

So happy you dropped by today!

Cassidy was proud to show me the plant she is growing in school!

  

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Pick a Pumpkin, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Happy Birthday Gorgeous, Weathered (ret)
Card stock & Papers	Champagne Foil, Smoky Slate, Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, Kraft (ret), Soft Sky, Mint Macaron (ret), Lost Lagoon (ret)
Ink	Soft Suede, Craft White, Sahara Sand
Accessories	Marshmallow Sequins (Pretty Pink Posh)
Tools	Big Shot, Swirly Scribbles, Patterned Pumpkins Framelits, Bouquet Bunch Framelits, Brick Embossing Folder (Tim Holtz), Banner Dies (Nestabilities), Dimensionals