The Card Concept: The Colors of Fall

 

The Colors of Fall, the Card Concepts new challenge begins today!

This photo and it's colors captured my heart, and inspired my Layered and Elegant

card. 

I used the colors of the inspiration photo to a point, but added orange and purple,

and used several new sets from the Greetery's Calico Collection.

The scene is a mix of Rolling Hills, Thankful Heart and Rolling Hills Tree Details.

Play along at the Card Concepts' blog. We love seeing your creations.

The Card Concept #181 {Colors of Fall} 

The Card Concept: Harvest Adventures

 

You've picked a wonderful day for a visit! The Card Concept has a new challenge, and it's 

full of Autumn inspiration!

Colors? Leaves? Truck? Fall Season? Like I said, lots of inspiration.

My style is full of layers, and it's not really clean, so I'm going with 'stamped and layered card'.

Perfectly alright to choose your own style (or make one up!).

I definitely stuck to the color swatches on the inspiration photo.

Here's a closeup of how I arranged some of the Greetery's Botanicuts under the stamped leaf.

Hope to see you in the lineup on the challenge blog, and hope you're enjoying

a wonderful autumn season!

All products used: The Greetery

Harvest Home, Botanicuts: Ginko, Curio Autumn Foliage, 

Rustic Wreath Twigs, Let's Have a Word: Autumn Die.

  The Card Concept #161 {Harvest Adventures}

Double D Challenge: Leaves

 

Hi there! I'm playing along with a new challenge (to me), called Double D. 

I found it while visiting my friend Birgit Norton's blog. She's on their design team. 

The theme is 'Leaves'.

Thankful for the Greetery's new release, and this awe inspired sentiment, 'Grace Upon Grace'.

I chose an oldie from the Greetery to accent my sentiment, Autumn Sketches. It's a 4 step

stamp. I wanted the actual leaves to have a watery effect, so I sponge daubed the stamp

while still in the Misti before stamping. That way I could blend my colors rather randomly.

The challenge run for 2 weeks, check it out here:

LEAVES

Autumn

 

Another card with the Greetery's new release, this time with the shiplap die. 

The background was covered with the die cuts, turned on a diagonal. 

I just love the 3 step stamping for the pitcher and leaves. Actually the leaves are 

a 4 step. 

Hard to see, but I used a clear Nuvo drop on each of the berries.

Celebrating today with the news we had rain in the Sierras. Much needed and prayed for,

and helping to put out the fires. 

Did you order any of the Greetery's latest release? What a beautiful way to

start the autumn season.

Enjoy your weekend!

Supplies:

 The Greetery

Shiplap die set, Bittersweet, Pitcher-esque

All inks Altenew

All Blessings Flow

 

Blessings, everyone! 

I had the chance to ink up the new 'All Blessings Flow'

from the latest Greetery release.

I'm in love with the font of the verse and how amazing it

looks surrounded by the flora included in the set.

The die cuts were fitted in my Misti and sponge stamped many times

for a watery multicolored look.

I just had to try the new Square Dance die, so I did a 

second card, this time die cutting the font before adding

it with foam tape.

This time I tucked the sprigs and berries around the verse

I don't have a recipient for either card in mind. It really 

is a blessing I needed, reminding myself to praise God in

all circumstances.

I live in California's Central Valley, very near the fires that 

have ravaged the sierras. As of today, nearly 200,000 acres

have been lost. We have a family cabin near one of the lakes

in the Sierra Nevada Range, and, thank God, our cabin still stands.

But I am aware that many lost homes, and even the road that

leads up to hills is impassable. 

The fires all over California have been horrendous, sending

choking smoke and ash for miles into our valley. At one

point, the valiant firefighters formed a rim around the town

of Shaver, and would not let the fire advance! They saved

all but a few cabins and stores. So profoundly grateful to

them!

Our forests and redwoods are the jewels of our state, and to watch them 

burn breaks my heart!

Thank you for letting me share a bit of my heart today.

Card Creating has been a joy of mine for years. And 

through the stamps and making cards, I remember the blessings 

and rewards being creative brings, in good times and bad.

The Card Concept: Summer Harvest

Hello! The Card Concept is back folks, although they had a summer edition. We

begin again with fall,

And we have this challenge photo to inspire.

My inspiration came from the sunflowers, and this is my card,

Marybeth Lopez included this embossed sunflower in her recent 12 Kits package, and I

saved it for this post. Magnificent Sunflower by Memory Box was embossed and ready

to paint! I chose to use my Metallic watercolors and call this card, Mixed Media.

The luminance is amazing! Sentiment by a new stampset called Beatitudes 1 by

Stamp Simply.

Background paper: Memory Box.

The Card Concept designer have some gorgeous inspiration for you. Be

sure to read our rules, and come have fun with our fall challenge!

See you in the lineup!

The Card Concept: Thanksgiving Table

Happy Holiday Greeting to you!

With the holidays around the corner, I love to send autumn card to an inner

circle of aunts, and close friends.

My card today is an inspiration for the Card Concept Challenge which features this

photo and begins today.

Isn't this a gorgeous photo? And you can take your inspiration from

any of the elements for your card. I used the colors from the vase of 

flowers for my Layered and Elegant card.

Hope you're off to a good start with all your holiday projects. And hope you play 

along with this week's Card Concept Challenge.

PapertreyInk: Text & Texture:Leaves,  Penned Elegance Christmas,

Seasonal Borders: Autumn

Poppystamps: Brilliant Leaf Frame

The Card Concept #123 {Thanksgiving Table} 

12 Kits of Occasion October: Autumn Days

Happy Fall y'all! It's time for 12 Kits of Occasions, and this month it's courtesy

of Sharron Gregory of On Papillon Wings. Sharron sent a kit full of seasonal 

delights, wonderful die cuts and plenty of sweet images to color.

I made 4 cards with this month's kit, and starting off with a favorite of mine,

made with 3 lovely leaves Sharron stamped for us in  soft autumn colors.

Sharron sent us this acorn die cut with a lacy cutout. I paired it with the Greenery's Oval 

frame cut from one of the beautiful autumn papers included in the kit.

Hello Autumn is Penny Black's masterpiece stamp. One of those sweet images 

that tells the story all by itself. I just love her!

My last card is my wish for the season, a Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

So sorry this post is late. My hubs and I celebrated a milestone anniversary a

few months early by taking a river cruise up the Hudson River. It has been a 

dream of mine for some time to see first hand the glorious exhibition of color

along the eastern seaboard. We live in the west, and while a few trees change 

nothing surpasses the concentration of wild glorious color the Hudson has!

Take a look.

Nothing matched natures' beauty does it? Hope you enjoyed a few reminders of 

fall's glorious transformation!

Thanks for the visit and thanks to Sharron for a kit full of fall's beauty!

The Card Concept: Rustic Fall

Hi and welcome to a new challenge at the Card Concept.

It's the last day of October, and we have this wonderful Rustic

Fall Inspiration for you.

I loved the warm rustic country feel in this photo, and went with the colors and 

pumpkins for my Classy Elegant Layered card.

Hope this gives you some inspiration. There's plenty more on the Card Concept's blog.

You're welcome to pick any of the styles on the blog, or combine them or even come up

with a style of your own. 

Our challenges are for 2 weeks and I love seeing your takes on the inspiration.

Hope you have a crafty week!

PapertreyInk product links will take you to the item in their store.

Text & Texture: Wood Slices Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Simply Gourd-eous Die

Simply Gourd-eous Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Pierced Feature Frames Die

Leaf Prints Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Leaf Prints Die Collection (set of 4)

Make It Market Mini Kit: Color Pop Autumn

PTI Blog Hop October '18

It's the 25th of the month and that means PTI's Blog Hop. 

We have this Autumn beauty to inspire us this month,

and be warned, this post is photo heavy! Hope you have a cuppa handy!

So much to choose from in our inspiration this month! 

And so many ideas came to me, I decided to do, well, just about

all of them!

I couldn't wait to play with Betsy's Dashing Through the Snow Pick-up!

She added the picket fence to one of her posts, and I know Marcia Hill did one similar.

Once you do one, the rest come easy, and assembly line was a breeze!

  I found the jelly pumpkins at Home Goods, but couldn't bear putting them 

in the truck beds without the bags!

Warning No. 2: Be sure to buy enough for snacking!

Each of the 6 pickups get a notecard and matching envelope. The notecard is stamped 

with BB: Gingham, and Smoky Shadow ink, and the medallion with versa mark, 

white embossed and colored with pencil, rather like the chalkboard in the 

photo. All the products I used are listed below. 

Do you have a favorite? Kinda partial to the Ocean Tides. Reminds me of my mom's old pickup.

Inside the notecard.

Made my square envelopes with an oldie pattern pack PTI used to sell called, 

Autumn Abundance. I love making my own envelopes, and it's so easy with 

a We R Memory Keepers Punch Board (Amazon).

My little trucks lined up and ready to give to the grandkids!

Play along all day on the PTI blog. You're sure to get a truck load of inspiration!

PTI Products

Papertrey Ink - Dashing Through the Snow: Pick Up Die

Fence Line: Autumn Stamp Set

Autumn Pumpkins Stamp Set

Background Basics: Super Gingham Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Tag Sale #12 Die

Papertrey Ink - Noted: Scalloped Square Die Collection (set of 5)

Papertrey Ink - Picket Fence Die

Barnyard Sentiments Mini Stamp Set

Keep It Simple: Halloween Mini Stamp Set