Fall Birthday

 Switching to another masculine birthday card, this time I used a pattern paper from my scrap box for the background, a few stamps, die cuts and stickers to finish it off.

• Tim Holtz - Leaf Fragments die
• 49 and Market - Creative Combo's Stamps and dies
• Ecstasy Crafts - Happy Birthday sticker colored w/markers
• Paper Studio - Block Print Stickers (mushroom)

I have been out of town for the last 5 days, we went to Arkansas, stayed in a cabin, did a little hiking and shopping and just enjoying getting away from everything, celebrating our anniversary, so I am a little behind on blogs again but not too bad, I was able to look at a few a couple nights :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Get well soon

 My friend recently had knee surgery, so yes once again I used that paper pack but I added a printed image from Graphic Fairy this time. The image had a blank space so I added a stamped sentiment to it.  I matted the image onto cardstock and used dimensional tape on the back. Before applying I added some twine that I wrapped around a couple times and tied it off with a bow!

• 49 and Market - Peach 6x8 mini collection paper
• Graphics Fairy - Printed image
• Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A die
• Hero Arts - Everyday sayings sentiment stamp
• Twine

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Thinking of you

 One of the girls in our cardmaking group lost her brother.  The tag in this sticker pack already had a gold leaf on it, but looked a little empty so I added another flower sticker to it. The border is a sticker out of the pack too. Sentiment is a stamp. I used a piece of paper from my scrap bin.

• Recollections - Stickers (Frame, Flower and Border)
• The Greetery - Thinking of you sentiment stamp
• Scrap paper

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Autumn Embossing

 Using more of the papers I shared in my last card. This time using a new to me embossing folder, I have had it for some time but just never gave it a try and I decided to use pattern paper with it to see how that would look. This embossing folder cut the inside of the flowers out, so I added orange strips to the back to make the cut out parts stand out against all that pattern. Then I took my small ink brush and added some inks to the raised areas of the embossing.

• 49 and Market - Peach 6x8 mini collection
• Spellbinders - Blooming Sprigs Cut & Emboss folder, inking on raised areas
• Diamond Press - Ribbon die

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Best Birthday

 Well I did it, I bought the same paper pack twice.  I hear about others doing it but it finally happened to me. The stamp store has a clearance section and I only go there a few times a year, so when I went this last time and they had these papers that I thought would look great for my Autumn cards and it was 40% off I just had to get it. When I was going through my papers for another card, guess what I found, yep the same paper pack that I had already bought off her clearance the time before must be because that one was 40% off too, at least I got them both on sale.  So since I had two packs of the same papers I decided to see if I could use up one of the packs this Autumn since I will have a whole other pack to use.  So you will be seeing a lot of it over the next month :)  The time before I had picked up some laser cuts too so I have enough for both paper packs probably.

• 49 and Market - Peach 6x8 Mini collection paper, Peach Laser cut Elements (Flowers and tag behind it, butterfly, Sentiment tag and Faux ribbon)
• Simon Says stamps - Tiny words Birthday sentiment stamp

I would like to share my card today with Word Art Wednesday anything goes challenge

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie