So Thankful

Good Monday Morning!

I did a card for The Card Concept, and had no sun to photograph

until this morning. Getting in under the wire 

with my freestylecollage card.

PTI: Paper Clippings: So Thankful, Chevron Cover Plate, Leaf Prints

PTI Cardstocks & felt

Ranger Distress Inks: Spiced Marmalade, Cracked Pistachio

Card Concept #60 {Chevron Pumpkin}

12 Kits of Occasions October '16: Let's Be Thankful

Good morning and welcome to 12 Kits of Occasions, 

a day earlier than usual. We usually post the last day of the month,

but tomorrow being Halloween, we are coming to you on the 30th.

'Let's Be Thankful' is our theme this month, with a super sweet kit

full of a variety of stamps and dies from 

our hostess, Michele Ferguson.

I send out as many thank you cards as birthdays, so

I welcomed Michele's lovely papers, die cuts, ribbon, pearls, sequins, and

even a laser wood cut butterfly.

Well, just look at Lindsey's beautiful photo of all our goodies in the photo above!

Hope you enjoy my cards, I loved making them!

Thank you Michele. The first card was done with you in mind,

knowing your love of butterflies!

So many gorgeous papers

2 sets of these die cut leaves. Used them on this card.

Used my zigs on this die cut.

Michele included some printed doilies, which I put under this dual fold card.

She gave us pearls I copic colored.

So easy to just add the 'thanks' die cut to these coordinated designer papers.

A shaker with some of the sequins

Copic colored this kitty, and created a tag attached to a polka dot bag

Michele gave us in the kit.

Thank you for the visit.

You won't want to miss the other designers, and see what 

they all did with Michele's wonderful kit!

And we have a talented guest too, Leanne Pugliese.

PTI October 2016 Blog Hop: A Friend like You

Hello sweet blogging friends! It's time for October's

 Blog Hop at PapertreyInk, and just look at our inspiration!

Time to sing an 'ode to Autumn'!

After a very long hot summer, these are the days we long for in our valley.

Cool crisp, and full of bounty!

PTI: Biblioplile, Autumn Pumpins, Branching Out.

Sentiment: Autumn Acorns.

Background: Cuttlebug folder.

All PTI cardstocks & inks

Copics

Come play along all day!

October 2016 Blog Hop

Also adding this card to SSSM Challenge

 Simon Says: Autumn

Oh Holy Night

Make It Monday with Lizzie Jones, and Dry Brushing our background.

Love this technique!

Did a few, while the brush was wet, 

and can't wait to use them again.

You wouldn't believe that I used Pinefeather for my ink, 

it lightened up so much. It looks like aqua mist. 

Tried to keep the sides a bit darker than the center, so my snowflake would 

seem to be glowing. 

Christmas Faith, Snowflake Medley,

Glossy Accents

Make It Monday #265: Layered Dry Brushing

Also playing along at Merry Monday, 

where the theme this week is 'Birds'.

Merry Monday #219 {Birds}

Spent the morning baking,
with these delicious results!

Our persimmons are ripe, and they make the best chewy cookies!

These are filled with dates, raisins and pecans.

Wish I could send you all some!

Have a great week!

Jugs Challenge: Olive, Gold & Rust

Did a batch of copic colored Autumn Pumpkins, (PTI) and had this rust one

left over. Perfect accent for the Just Us Girls Challenge: Color Week,

Olive, Gold & Rust.

Background embossed with Cuddlebug folder, and lightly inked.

PTI: Autumn Hills, gold embossed.

Thanks sentiment: PTI: Swoosh die

BG: Lil Inkers

Autumn Hills colored with copics

Hope your week is filled with crafting!

Just Us Girls #365 - Color Week

With Joy

Mid week, blogging friends, and playing along with

Merry Monday, a Christmas card challenge, with this inspiration:

Plaid!

I love plaid! Any plaid, so I have lots of plaid paper.

But couldn't find one that I wanted to use, 

so I made my own with PTI's Plaid Builder.

Let me just say, much easier with my misti!

Loop de Loop border die provided my 'trim'.

What the Doodle: Tea Time

Spruce & Sprigs

Tiny Tags

I  die cut the tea cup from shimmer card stock, but it's hard to photograph.

Also added red glitter stickles to the heart.

Merry Monday #218 {PLAID}

A few more days to play!

Thanks for the visit, and happy crafting!

Give Thanks

Melissa Phillips shares her talents for creating beautiful backgrounds

with die cut stencil shapes.

Her attention to detail wins me every time.

And it's always delightful to learn her secrets!

Melissa used an ordinary paper towel to apply her inks to the 

die cut stencils. I did some of my background like she showed us,

and part with sponges.

Make It Market: Garden Gate provided the die cut stencil, and 

fall leaves for my background.

Friendship Jar: Fillers (smaller pumpkins)

Autumn Pumpkins (larger pumpkins), & sentiment 

All the pumpkins were die cut, stamped with Hero Arts Wet Cement,

then copic colored.

Make It Monday #264: Die-cut Stencil Shapes

Also playing along with:

Inspired By All The Little Things featuring Marisa Ritzen!

All those gorgeous velvet pumpkins!

Thank you for stopping by.

Hope your week is full of happy crafting!

Tag You're It

LeighPenner is our featured muse for Tag You're It!

Her striking fall tag inspired me to do one as bold!

I followed Leigh's lead and went with PapertreyInk dies.

Tag Sale #3, Inspired: Blessed, Autumn Pumpkins, Leaf Prints dies.

PTI Cardstocks, Smokey Shadow, Terracotta Tile, Soft Stone, Vintage Cream, 

Simply Chartreuse, Copper Shimmer

Hope you're inspired to play along! 

I'd love to see what you create!

Love from Our Home

Good Weekend Morning!

I have a card for a couple of challenges,

Merry Monday's Vintage/Retro Theme

and Happy Little Stampers' Anything Goes With Dies

So happy to see a vintage themed challenge!

Perfect excuse to use the new Post and Parcel kit!

The dies in this kit are amazing!

Mounted a sponge inked linen card stock with an oval window, over another 

piece of card stock that was also sponge inked.

And all over a pattern piece included in the kit.

All stamps and dies included in the kit.

Mailbox flag & ornaments embossed with Ranger's Liquid Platinum.

I used a silver gel pen to add a shimmer to the bough's fir, 

and note up top.

PTI's Make It Market: Post & Parcel

PTI Inks: Pale Peony, Aqua Mist, Fine Linen, Pure Poppy, Summer Sunrise,

Terracotta Tile, Pinefeather & Ocean Tides.

White EP on Mailbox.

Create Along With Us: October 2016

Create Along With Us, PTI's challenge this month, 

features a new Tiny Town house, with all the Christmas trimmings.

Thought I'd use Betsy's idea for her gumdrop roof.

I love the new candy cane portico and trees, and can't wait to case this and

several other holiday houses I've seen.

I stuck with an all kraft and white theme, similar to what Nichole 

posted as inspiration posted on her blog:

Can't you just smell the gingerbread?

A view from the top. 

Front details from Make It Market Kit: Holiday Folk,

In the Meadow and Believe.

Create Along With Us: October 2016

Before you go, check out some more

 inspiration for creating these sweet little structures

on these blogs:

Marcia, Birgit and Patti:

August 2016 Tiny Town Challenge with Birgit & Patti,

Marcia, Patti & I ~ A Challenge Between Friends ,

TINY and Teeny Tiny 

and Marybeth

Many Products Today

I am sure there are many more, forgive me if I've missed 

you. And please, in the comments, mention your post where you

made a 'Tiny Town' treasure. I'd love to add you to 

my list, and I'll edit this post to include you!

Hugs!

Thanks

While I had Botanical Blocks (PTI), out on the work table, 

decided to do another watercolor card for the

DT call at Happy Little Stampers.

So excited to see the watercolor craze on so many challenge blogs!

PTI: Botanical Blocks, Color Pop Autumn, Bloomin' Cute Sentiments

Windsor Newton watercolors, Ranger Distress Inks

Stampendous White Embossing Powder

My Craft Spot Metallic Sequins

Happy Little Stampers feature several monthly challenges,

and will begin a watercolor challenge starting in 2017.

Watercolor Thanks

Hi, playing along (again!) with Cas Watercolour Challenge.

Bonnie and Loll have given us the theme, 'Autumn', 

for the month of October.

Sunflowers are in full bloom everywhere right now, 

gorgeous reminders of fall sunshine. I chose the lined drawn sunflower

 from PTI's Botanical Blocks.

Sharing a couple of techniques with you.

First, to color onto dark card stock: painted on bleach 

within the embossed image,

When dry, watercolored with Zig pens.

Background dry embossed with PTI's Bloom Builder's die.

Then spritzed with water, and colored randomly with watercolors.

Flicked Terracotta Tile and Ripe Avocado Inks, (PTI), after the 

background was dry.

Thanks from Swoosh dies.

Olive Twist cardstock: PTI

Watercolor cardstock: Canson

Card base: Rustic White: PTI

'Thanks': PTI's Cream shimmer

Do you love to watercolor?

Play along here:

CAS Watercolour October Challenge and DT Call

adding also to:

Challenge #98 - Watercolour