Fall Leaves and More Mountains

I made this card for one of my hubby's coworkers that I have also became good friends with. She loves dogs and I usually do something with a dog theme or flowers but she was just talking about getting her fall decorations out and I thought I could make a fall theme card she could display with her decorations.

I inked up the embossing folder and then ran it through my cuttlebug to get the colored background, everything else is dies that I inked through.

Spellbinders -- Fall Foliage, Romantic Rectangles and Cherry blossom (branch) dies
Stamp on it -- sentiment sticker
Wink of Luna -- Gold (on sentiment sticker)
Wink of Stella -- Clear glitter pen on leaves and pinecone

I was going through my pictures again and saw these last ones that were taken on the day of the Grand Tetons but I am not sure if they were in the park or on our drive out, but I just loved the look of the clouds on the mountains so I thought I would share them.

Lastly one of the pullovers that was looking over the river, there was a wall made out of stone that I sat on just to soak everything up while hubby was taking picture of his own and he came to sit beside me and we were so happy that I thought this was a great moment to capture on camera, so this selfie was taken with my phone.  It would have been neat if I captured a better reflection in our glasses, LOL! But I will remember this moment for always :)  Thanks for sharing my trip with me.

Wow another one of those weeks that has really flown by, I hope you all are enjoying our fall weather.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and your sweet comments I do appreciate that you let me know you stopped by,

Connie

Trucks and Grand Tetons Part 3

My Great nephew has turned 16 and this is the card I sent to him, decided to go sepia tones with this one. I think this is the second time I have used this truck for my great nephews that have turned 16.

Our Daily Bread design -- Special boy stamp set colored with markers
Spellbinders -- Long classic rectangles small, Lg. Deckled Rectangles and A2 matting basics A dies
BasicGrey -- Basics Kraft paper pad
Eyelets
Jute

I am sharing my post today with Stephanie's Roses of Inspiration Link up .  She mentioned this is the last one she will be doing for a couple of weeks, so head on over and see what everyone is up to.

Now on to our last bit of our trip to the Grand Tetons.
This first picture is to show you the view we had for our lunch that day, the day before in Yellowstone we had lunch at a River side picnic area, in the Grand Tetons the picnic area was on the lake.

My husband took video of this little guy and was able to freeze this frame so I could share this picture of him, he was just too cute sneaking all around and watching us.

The mountains are quite hazy here but I liked this shot of the river going through the trees and the mountains in the background.

Through Stephanie's link up party I have gone to a few blogs that do links to fences in their posts, and thought they might like to see this fence.

I have a few shots after we left the park and maybe I will share them next time.
Hope your week is off to a good start, yesterday my hubby and I spent the day in St. Louis at the Botanical garden, I haven't had a chance to see how the pictures turned out, if I was able to get some good ones I will share in a later post.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hello, so good to hear from you,

Connie

Pumpkin and Grand Tetons Part 2

Saturday was World Cardmaking day, and both of my groups had challenges but I only managed to get one card made since we went to that Fall Festival. One of the challenges was to use old products and we know I have plenty of those, so I remembered these stamps that I had bought in the Michaels or JoAnns dollar spot clear stamps of Fall items and when I was going to that folder to get them out I saw this template for a Popsicle card I had made years ago, it was upside down and it just looked like it could be a pumpkin too, all I would have to do is change the stick into a stem, and that's how this came about.

Stamped out the little pumpkin, indian corn and leaves, cut them out, shaped them a bit and added them to the card with foam adheasive.  I shaded the pumpkin and stem with distress inks. I stamped the Indian corn once in a light memento ink cut it out and then stamped again in a darker ink for the actual corn part and cut that out and layered on top, colored with distress markers.

Popsicle template for the pumkin
Inkadinkado -- $ stamps
Impression Obsession -- Sentiments II stamped sentiment
Twine

On to more Grand Tetons pictures, this was another pull off along the way with hiking trails along a river.  A lot of water pictures this time.  There is just nothing better than water, mountains and trees :)
This area was where they were launching canoes from.

This picture shows how clear the water is, I had to stick my hand in and it was a little nippy.

Look at the colors in the water here.

And the last one for today, I liked this shot of the mountain through the trees.

 I have more pictures to come, I actually think I enjoyed my time at this park more than Yellowstone.

Hope you enjoyed a great weekend and the week to come holds many great moments!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hello :)

Connie

Super Day and Grand Tetons Part 1

My great nephew turned 5 and this is the card I made for him.  The image was stamp I colored and cut out all the rest is from a daily scrapbook calendar I bought a few years ago, I have looked for them ever since and don't see them anymore.  My Oldest great nieces and nephews are now in Adulthood so I may soon be having Great Great neices and nephews, that just amazes me, our family will be growing more and more.

As you may have noticed in the post title I am splitting up the pictures of the Grand Tetons, when I was going through trying to figure out which ones to share I just couldn't decide so I thought well I guess I will have to have multiple post so I don't overwhelm you with pictures :)

The first is what we came along after shortly entering the park.  I will have to say if you like to hike and bike this is the park for you, they have great trails for both and clearly marked.

The following pictures are all from one turn off that had great hiking trails. The first is the stream that leads into the lake.

This bridge had a sign on it that read  yield to bikes, this is part of the bike path.

Here is the lake that the stream led into, the walk along the stream to the lake was so pretty and peaceful.

They had a boat trip that you could go on that was even boarding when we got there that goes around the lake and you can get shots of the mountains you can get by the trail but we decided against it since we only had the one day in the park and there was so much more to see, and I am glad we didn't do it for time sake but if you go to these parks to really enjoy them and see it all I can easily see taking two days.

I hope you all have a great weekend planned. Do you have any fall festivals in your area?  Since my hubby has to work this afternoon we are going to head out this morning and go to one that is a couple towns over that has a small downtown festival and they have crafts booths too :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and say Hello,

Connie

Forgotten Treasures and Yellowstone

I realized the other day that I hadn't used any of my older supplies (forgotten treasures) in awhile so I added some of these chipboard pieces to my card, they have been painted. Yellow flower center and the swirls (leaves).

I saw the glitter tulle at Walmart in the Halloween supplies and wondered if I could use it on my card in some way.  I tried using my Spellbinders dies to cut flowers but it couldn't quite do it, so I went with the Tim Holtz tattered florals steel dies and it worked I was able to cut them all in one pass. They didn't quite look like flowers when I layered them and I had one white flower left from another project so I used that and then I was looking around for a smaller center and that is when I came across the chipboard pieces I haven't used in some time, so I painted it yellow and added some pen work to it. The brad was also colored with markers.

 I need some more ideas of what I can do with this tulle because I don't know how I think of it in flowers, I may have to use it for home decor.  If you are thinking of purchasing some I will let you know that the glitter comes off very easily and was over everything on my desk and myself by the time I was finished.

Tim Holtz -- Tattered Florals die
K&co. -- Chipboard diecuts and shapes
Distress paint-- mustard seed
Adirondack -- Lettuce paint
DCWV -- Earthtones prints paper
Fiskars -- sentiment stamp
Stampendous -- class a peel stickers

On to our Yellowstone part of the trip:

We had a bit of a drive to Yellowstone so to break it up we decided to stop by Devil's Tower, my hubby said we had to because it was in Close Encounters, yep my hubby is a Sci Fi fan :)

First Stop in Yellowstone was the Sulphur springs, oh my the smell was just awful, this one was just bubbling all over

This was named Dragon's mouth spring, and as you were walking up the sound was just like on a dragon movie, it was the way the water was being pushed out of the hole here, very cool

Gorgeous waterfall you walked along it until you got to this point where you could see it head on, I can't tell you how many pictures I took here but I thought this one showed how huge and amazing it is.

Old Faithful just starting

Here it is a little higher, all the other shots I have are not centered and not good, I just snapped pictures as I watched it so I didn't get them lined up well.

That evening we stayed in Jackson Hole and all around town were these Antlers in shapes of things, this is the only picture I got because we were at a stop light.  I never did ask if they were real antlers, but I thought it was cool, something you don't see everyday :)

Next time will be the Grand Tetons.

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your comments to let me know you did,

Connie