Playing with The Greetery's Calico Collection

 

Well hi, crafty friends. Did you get any of the Greetery's latest release?

I had to play with some of my order immediately, and chose The Stencil Shapes

Autumn to play with first.

For this card, I followed Lori's tutorial on You Tube, and didn't stray far from her 

brilliant and careful instruction. I liked this, but wanted to do more. 

So I did.

I went bolder with my colors, and cut the panel with the Patchwork die. Love all the 

stencils, and the result is a gorgeous design with a panel for my sentiment.

Honestly, Betsy's brilliant!

Lastly is the Botanicuts Apple dies, with the Bushel Basket. Once again, followed 

the great instructions from Lori, and added a stenciled panel from Printshop Calico

stamp and stencils, cut with Cozy Cup Coaster die. 

The EF is an oldie from Cuttlebug. 

I left this card without a sentiment, so I could use it later. 

Hope to do more soon. Love this release!

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}

Autumn Blessings

 

Hi and welcome to fall! And it's fall at the Card Concept Challenge blog, 

where our inspiration is this photo:

Fanciful Fall! All the colorful patterned leaves were my inspiration. 

The leaves from the Greetery's Botanicuts Mighty Oak, are such 

a fun leaf set to color, and I cut the dies from watercolor card stock

 before inking with Distress Oxide Inks. When you spritz them with water, 

the random droplets appear. They rather reminded me of the

polka dot patterns in the inspiration photo.

Shiplap Die holds the Autumn sentiment from Bittersweet Bouquet, 

another set from the Greetery's Autumn release.

Style? Layered, Elegant and some Mixed Media with the Oxide Inks.

Will you join us for the challenge? I'd love to see what inspires you!

12 Kits of Occasions: August

Welcome to the 12 Kits of Occasions August post!

Today it's all about 'leaves', and our hostess, Marybeth Lopez,

(marybethstimeforpaper) gifted her teammates with leaves of hope

for a much needed fall!

As you probably know, we in California have been in a firestorm lately, and can't wait

for cooler wetter weather. I pray every day for those whose lives are on the line

fighting these awful fires. 

Marybeth included a wood grained pattern paper in pastels, and I think I

used everyone for my cards!

I loved the large Altenew letters spelling out 'HUGS' and used an Altenew stamp

to decorate them.

Bold leaves to frame a scripture verse 

And another scripture, with a bouquet and bow from the Greetery.

The other designers are sure to wow with inspiration, be sure to

visit them, and spread a little love while you're there!

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!

Give Thanks

Hi there! Hope it's a lovely autumn day you're enjoying!

I'm playing along with the gals at Just Us Girls today, with 

this photo inspiration:

Fall is everywhere in this dreamy photo. Leaves of color, and

a truck on a journey left to the imagination.

I couldn't wait to ink up the new Glorious Globes: August, with the encircling fall

leaves, and pair with Seasonal Borders: August, both from PTI. 

I kept it close to the colors of the photo, all traditional and warm.

Also cut into the card base with the Seasonal Border die.

The challenge runs through Saturday and there's lots of inspiration on

their blog!

Just Us Girls #459

PTI Sept. '18 Blog Hop

Hi! It's time for Papertrey's September Blog Hop!

Fall is finally here, and we are given a photo inspiration of pure autumn splendor!

Lots of pumpkins for my fall scene, made with Fence Line: Autumn

Play along on PTI's blog!

 September 2018 Blog Hop 

If you look closely at the scarecrow's shirt, I hand drew the plaid.

Supplies Listed are direct link to PTI's store

Fence Line: Autumn Stamp Set

Papertrey Ink - Fence Line: Autumn Die

Papertrey Ink - Pierced Feature Frames Die

Text & Texture: Leaves Stamp Set

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!

Autumn Blessings

So excited to be playing along with the Coffee Lovers Fall Blog Hop!

Paper Sweeties is one of the sponsors,

and the prizes are amazing!

Hop on over to see the list of sponsors and all 

that's up for the win!

My card is made with the stamp and die set PS is giving away to one of the winners,

Homemade With Love. It's a Christmas set, complete with dies to match.

I changed up the look by cutting off the holly, and adding pumpkins

and sunflower, and using fall colors.

Very easy to use any time of year! 

Hope to see you in the lineup.

It runs through Oct. 2nd.

2015 Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop!

Autumn Blessings - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Homemade With Love - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Homemade With Love Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Stand - Add on 2 Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties