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: 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

Gather With A Grateful Heart

Hello, and thank you for visiting! I have a post today for MIM's challenge

featuring Laurie Schmidlin and Faux Gilded Leaves.

My DH and I are visiting our daughter, and I brought some supplies to play with 

while away. Fortunately Leaf Prints was one of the sets I brought along.

Laurie mixed her embossing powders to create a gilded look on her leaves. So 

much fun, I can't wait to do this again!

Forest Floor: August had this cool shaped banner, and I loved the sentiment,

and the darling acorns, so they got some gilding too.

Text and Texture: Leaves and Pierced Rectangle Frames.

The powders I used are from a set I've had, of course with no names on them. 

The iridescent aqua looks so good with the copper, I love using them together.

Then there's the gold and a touch of silver, just pure richness!

Laurie, thank you! Your card and tutorial were fabulous!

Have fun, and play along on the PTI blog.

SAF '17 with Stephanie Gold: Cotton

Stephanie Gold in her very 1st SAF, made a glittery card full of cotton candy!

Well, it certainly looked every bit like the real thing.

One of the things she showed us on her video, was applying glitter.

And that's one of the things I used on this card.

Using double sided tape in 1/4 & 1/2", I sprinkled on black German Glass Glitter, pressing it

down for even cover. Stephanie suggests topping off with GA to seal it. I didn't. 

My cotton is cotton string, dyed with Terracotta Tile reinker. Rather turned out pink, but like

the ombre effect on the string.

Gran's Garden & Scripted

Projects coming soon! Isn't this fun? 

Back in a flash.

2nd Anniversary Tradition, Cotton - with Stephanie Gold