Give Thanks

Entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp

WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

Here's a beauty! First I stamped an Altenew wood grain stamp on brown paper 

for background panel and die cut it with a stitched rectangle die.

 I used an embossing folder to create some "curtain" paper which sits 

behind the open windows. The window is a Spellbinders Die which I love! 

The cut out pumpkin and leaves are from Memory Box and Elizabeth Craft dies.

 I created the wreath by gluing lots of leaves on a card stock circle with the middle cut out. 

Give Thanks is from the Lawn Fawn set.

Love - I Pick You

#sharehomemadekindness

I made this card for my sister, to cheer her up! Thank you Jennifer McGuire 

for starting this campaign of homemade kindness. 

Love the new stamps for it and the fact that money is going toward 

an effort to stop bullying. Here's a link to Jennifer's blog

Share Handmade Kindness week 1 - family and friends

From the front you only see the top of the mouse gazing up toward the apple tree. 

But when you open the front panel, there is the basket of apples 

and the one picked by the little mouse. Hence, I PICK YOU! 

Also, I'm entering this card in the Lawnscape Challenge

THINKING OF YOU/ LOVE/ ENCOURAGEMENT

Golden Thanksgiving

Love the effect of the brusho water color powders on this paper. I sprayed the whole sheet with Heidi Swapp Gold color shine and boy did it glow. Might be hard to see in this pic. The Lawn Fawn leaf dies were cut out of distress ink colored paper. The leaf in the middle also has Distress crackle paint on top. Check out the close up shot below. The Thanksgiving die is from Poppy, cut from gold card stock, and some gold ribbon to tie it altogether. 

Entering this card in Simon Says Stamp 

Monday Challenge SO GLOSSY

and the SSS Wednesday Challenge Thanksgiving

Brusho and Black

Hi everyone! I still had some of the paper I created with brusho left over from my other projects, so I decided to make one more card with it. Here I chose to combine the colorful fall paper with black accents! My stamp "fall is when nature turns to gold" is an older Inkadinkado one. I should have used the misti so I could have stamped it twice. It's not as dark as I'd like it. But the rest turned out fine. It's hard to see here, but the card is very shiny.

Going to enter this card in the Simon Says Stamp 

Monday Challenge Glossy

Sending Mice Wishes for Thanksgiving

Two cards were created using the paper I colored with Brusho water color powders in yellow, orange, and red. I used the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Grand Maple die to create a space in the panel and swirled some Antique Linen distress ink on white card stock for the background for the mice (colored with copic markers and die cut) from Lawn Fawn "Thankful Mice." Love these little guys!  The smaller leaves are from Lawn Fawn stitched leaves set cut out of brown paper and "painted" with wink of stella gold. The sentiments are from two sets, Hero Arts and Stampendous "Bery Mice." 

Entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp 

Wednesday Challenge THANKSGIVING/ THANKS

 

Harvest Mouse Blessing

Here's another card with the My Favorite Things Harvest Mouse Stamp Set. The brown paper was stamped with Altenew wood tone stamp first then cut using Die Namics Stitched Companion die. I love these dies because they fit on A2 cards so perfectly. Takes the guess work out and saves you a few steps. The card was finished with some ribbon, a red card base, the copic colored mouse and basket of apples. Cute huh?

Entering this card in the Simon Says Stamp

Wednesday Challenge THANKS/ THANKSGIVING

Leaves, leaves, glorious gorgeous ginger colored leaves!

Going to enter this in the Simon Says Stamp  Monday Challenge

So Glossy!

A few weeks ago I watched Jenn Shurkus coloring leaves with distress inks, blending colors together, applying Tim Holtz crackle and highlighting with browns. They were gorgeous! I had to try it. The gold ones below were done the same way as Jenn's using distress inks and the crackle paint on Lawn Fawn leaf dies. But the orange ones were accomplished with brusho powder water colors. I used the brusho in reds, oranges, and yellolw on two pieces of water color paper covering the entire area. Then I spritzed the paper with gold spray (need to check the brand!), let them dry and cut out big leaves with the Simon Says Stamp Stitched Grand Maple die.

I used a spellbinder die to cut a design from my "fall" paper and layered it on brown card stock and a white card which I colored with a bit of distress inks around the edges. I was looking for something to place in between my leaves, and decided on a pumpkin from Poppy. I covered it with versa mark and used a clear embossing powder which created a dark glossing brown. I liked it so much that I decided to do the same for the "Happy Halloween" sentiment which is from Poppy. 

I wish the shine showed up better here. It's really bright and pretty!