Owl Birthday

I think this card has the best coloring I have done so far, there aren't many that I get done with and I am satisfied.

Inkadinkado -- Bird Assortment, colored w/markers
DCWV-- Rustic paper pack
Spellbinders -- Captivating Squares die
Hot off the press -- Folder tabs template
Hero Arts -- Birthday Messages
Ki -- Metal Accents

Well I hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend, we are going to go and do a Fall color drive, I will have to share the pics I take, if any are worth posting :)

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

All Stamping

Yep I made a card with no designer or patterned paper, that just doesn't happen very often with me.  I have another great nephew turning 13.  September and October are the two months that I have to make a lot of masculine cards, I have a lot of guys born in those two months, so get ready for masculine cards coming up.

I started off with a DCWV Textured card base, stamped Studio G stars stamp in two sizes for the background. The sentiments and baseballs are also studio G stamps sets, after I stamped the sentiment and balls I decided it was too plain so I got out my Martha Stewart border punch and added that to both sides.
 I added some faux red stitching on the balls they were a little too plain for me
Spellbinders, Lg Deckled Rectangles die was used to cut out the make a wish sentiment. Did a little bit of shading with ink while the paper was still in the die.

Fall has arrived, it has been absolutely gorgeous here.  Temps in the 70's during the day getting down to the high 50's at night, just perfect :)

Hope your enjoying the Autumn weather wherever you are.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Connie

ODBD World Card Making Day 2013

Check out Our Daily Bread Designs celebration of World card making day HERE .  By participating you can get a 20% off your next purchase of their stamps.

I love this stamp of a lighthouse, they have wonderful sentiments/verses to go with it but since I wanted to do a Birthday card for my brother in law I had to use a different stamp set for the sentiment.

Our Daily Bread Designs --- Keep my lamp burning stamp set, colored with markers
BasicGrey -- Basics white and Basics Kraft paper pads
DCWV -- Earth tones Mat stacks
Spellbinders -- A2 matting basics A and back to basics tags dies
Doodlebug designs-- sentiment stamp
Bazzill basics papers-- brads
Ki -- metal accents
Twine

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Hope you enjoyed a wonderful weekend and that the week holds many blessings for you,

Connie

P.S.  I made a mistake on my card, not until after posting did I go back to add my link did I read that you can only use all ODBD stamps on your card, so this card is disqualified because I used a sentiment stamp from a different company.  Just wanted to point that out incase you would like to join along in the celebration!

Recycle

Can you find what recycle item I used on this card?  I used a sketch from My Favorite Things for this card and when I was wondering what I would use for the strips I looked over at my empty Puffs tissue box and thought I could use that it is a pretty design, so I looked through my papers and found some I thought would work with it.

You can see the picture cast a bit of a shine on the tissue box strip.  While our Michaels was rearranging their store they had a bunch of their stamps quite cheap and I liked the collage look of this one so I picked it up.

DCWV-- Linen Closet paper
Hampton Art -- stamp
Spellbinders -- Classic Rectangles, Eyelet circles and Flower bouquet dies
Inking and shading done with Vintage photo distress ink
Liquid Pearls -- Copper pearl

I have saved a few boxes because I like the pattern so you may see some more tissue boxes on my cards :)  Maybe you will be inspired to look around and see what you would like to recycle and put on your cards.

Our Sunday School class is going out to a family run farm here in the area called Eckerts tomorrow night.  They have all kinds of family acitivities, apple and pumpkin picking,  they shoot pumpkins out of a cannon, have pig races, pony rides ect.  At the end of the evening they have fire pits that you can rent for your groups and we all get together roast hot dogs and have great fellowship. There is rain in the forecast so I am hoping it isn't very hard or very long.

Hope you have something wonderful planned for this fall weekend.
Thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie

Fence w/flowers

This was  a really last minute card to make.  It will be nice when I am finally caught up, LOL!
I used already made things for this card.  The fence was one I cut from a Cricut cartridge some time ago and never ended up using it, I didn't have the time to cut out the flowers that actually go with it, so I took Prima flowers and layered them and added them to the fence. If you would like to know which cartridge this fence comes from I could look it up for you.

Cricut cartridge -- fence
Prima -- Flowers
Rasberry Road Designs -- Love lives here paper pack
Martha Stewart -- Leaves and tag punches
Fiskars -- Cloud Punch (one has dimensional adhesive to it
Sentiment was hand written

It is once again getting hot out we have been in the 80's the last few days but they are telling us we will be getting down into the 60's this weekend.  I need to head out and help my hubby with the lawn.
Hope you all are enjoying a great week.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by, it is very appreciated!

Connie