Happy Magical Monday

Nilla has offered up a challenge to all of us to use this recipe: 1 ribbon, 2 embellishments, 3 DPs, and 4 flowers.   Once again, it was truly a challenge for me – I am so accustomed to “doing my own” thing, that being part of a DT is a challenge in itself – but one I am truly enjoying, and it really is good thing to work “out of your box” so to speak.  My image this week is “Harvest Geese” and you can find it in Nina’s shop HERE. I think this is a most beautiful Autumn scene and so peaceful with these sweet geese – and they truly are sweet, we have a lot of geese here during the summer and I love to go to the lake, feed them, and have them nestle in beside me and take naps with their babies – one of life’s great simple pleasures.

The image was colored with a combination of PrismaColor, Crayola, RoseArt, and Koh I Noor pencils and blended with OMS. My 2 embellishments are paper piercing and the stacked buttons with gem in the center of the 4 flowers all on my 1 ribbon.

Here’s a close up of the button/gem embellishment.

 

Come play along with us – there’s always a free image available, you can use one you already have, or stop by the Paper Cupcakes Shop and pick up a new one – there’s so many cute images to choose from – and have fun!! There’s always a cool prize for a lucky someone too!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful week! For anyone interested, I’ll be posting more banners this week also!

Dru

A Season that Sparkles...

Tonight is the release party on SCS for Flourishes. All I can say is I need to have my ATM card ready - the new sets are gorgeous and will definitely put you in the mood for holiday cardmaking. This card was created for the October Release Party Challenge Since I do not have any Christmas stamps from Flourishes, I went with Fall.



The papers are Bazzill Basics, gold metallic, and Classic K Baily Brown Floral by K & CO., the embossed panel is Victoria by Cuttlebug, the gems are from Me & My Big Ideas that were colored with markers and the ribbon is from Michael's. I used the Falling Leaf set from Flourishes and embossed it in gold and bronze with a touch of green and rust glitter. Unfortunately I was unable to really get a good photo of this, but IRL it really does sparkle - if you click on it you'll be able to see it a little better.

Happy Friday everyone, have a wonderful weekend.

Another Fall Card

Good Morning! This is another card created for the shop in town. I absolutely love the Designer Paper from K & Co. on this one and so I wanted to see as much of it as possible. The image is again from Inka "Bats and Cats" and was colored with Prismacolor pencils and blended with baby oil. Gold Stickles from Ranger was used to accent. The corners were punched with a Fiskars decorative corner punch and I love this sheer bronze ribbon from Michael's. It is then mounted on a standard A2 size top folded card base of deep rust cardstock by Bazzil. This is really a very simple and straightforward card. Hope you like it.

Take care and try to spend at least some time today doing what you love.

Happy Fall

Happy Friday - where did the week go?? This is one of the cards I have made for the shop in town that sells my cards, tags, etc. I love Fall and all the colors and crispness in the air, so this card I made to reflect those colors. It' a very easy process. The card base is actually a bright gold from one of Michael's paper packs, I then sponged Butterscotch and Rust Adirondack inks over the entire surface along with a little lt. brown. I then inked up a leaf stamp from Impression Obsession with the same three colors but a little heavier with the rust and stamped several images on the background - I also stamped a few on the inside of the card just to finish it off. The image is from Inkadinkado "Cats and Bats", which I colored with Prismacolor pencils and blended with baby oil, and accented with Stardust Stickles from Ranger. The off-white space was sponged with the same three colors of ink. The leaf is a punch from EK Success which I outlined and accented veins with a Stardust Gelly Roll pen from Sakura. The one with more green on the pumpkins was done generally the same - the only difference is the coloring style of the pumpkins and I used only the Stardust Gelly Roll pen to do all the accenting.

I like a more simple look and so I really like these. I hope you do also. Thanks for visiting, please come again, and have a great weekend. Spend at least a little time doing what you love.

Take Care

Fall Decorating

Do you believe another post on the same day - but I did say I wanted to show you the centerpiece I put together for our dining room table. We went to Apple Hill Saturday and I brought home one of the beautiful "Fantasy" or "Fairy Tale" pumpkins, and wanted to display it in a way that I would see it every day. Pumpkins and anything Fall related make me very happy. All I did was wrap a ready made twig garland around the base, and then kept adding leafy garlands until I was happy with it. I does look better in real life - not quite so messy - but I love the natural feel of it. I also have included a close up of the tablecloth I beaded last year - really simple - took a little time, but well worth it in my book. If you let me know, I will do a tutorial for you. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day.

First Post

O.K. So my daughter has shamed me into finally posting to this blog I've been working on for a couple of months. She's been working on hers for only a couple of weeks and has already posted. Might have something to do with 3 brainiac daughters and their friends who help her put it together. The truth is I've just been putting off posting because I wanted everything to be just perfect before I started (somewhat of a control freak) and I'm thinking I won't be able to post as often as I should or even want to - I know it doesn't really matter in the greater scheme of things - but those are my reasons. So anyway, I am finally posting today, September 1, 2008 - and the air is full of Fall.

Fall is my favorite time of the year and has been for as long as I can remember. I love everything about it. The changing colors of the trees - we have many Aspen groves up here and soon they will be changing to shades of orange and yellow with still a little touch of green - they are just beautiful. The crispness of the air, the smoke curling from chimneys as we begin to warm our homes, fires in the fireplace, falling leaves, and the thought of soon-to-be family gatherings for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas - all a part of this most wonderful time of the year.

The card I am posting today was made for a Crafty Secrets Challenge "Oranges" on Splitcoast Stampers a couple of weeks ago. Their vintage images, papers, and clear stamp sets are just beautiful and make cardmaking and projects so easy to come together (that is unless you are like me and overthink everything into oblivion - that's a slight exaggeration - but not much really. Anyway I hope you like it. The image is from Crafty Secrets "Seasonal" Hearwarming Vintage Booklet, the paper is from their "Earthy" paper pad, and the corner stamp is from their "French Mail" clear stamp collection.

I hope you'll come back - I'll really try to get much better at this. Have a wonderful long weekend, and make a little time for yourself.