Arches National Parks

I am doing this park in a few different posts because I just had to hard of a time deciding which pictures to post and I didn't want to overwhelm you with pictures.  I believe I have the correct info about each of the photos but I will have my hubby check when he can and let me know if I am wrong :)

This first picture is not of the park but a summit over look of a few different ranges of mountains, with the Old Dillion Reservoir in Colorado.   I love when we find these little pullovers where we can see such beauty and get a bit of time out of the car. This is the kind of stuff I like instead of flying to a destination.

This is the South window Arch

South and North window Arches

I don't believe we were at the top yet when I took this picture, but this was the view when I turned around, you can see to the left the parking lot, and see a few people on the trail to the arches, the paths are pretty good, a bit tiring because it is a constant hill. That range of mountains in the background has double arch.

Turret Arch, As you can see on the steep trails there are stairs, but the dirt is filling them in.

I just loved the texture in this one, so I had to share :)

Here is another picture of Turret Arch from the other side after we climbed up those stairs in the last arch picture.

Ok that is it for today, we stayed until Sunset and I will be sharing those pics tomorrow.  This was a beautiful place.

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

Connie

Birdies Trio

Here is my post for Dies R us blog.

Yes I know it is coming on Autumn time but it isn't officially yet so I am sharing one more summer time card.

I colored up Tutti Designs Birdie Trio die with my Spectrum Noir marker. Do you see how the wings are a different color, those wings come out so you could leave that area blank if you would like but I decided to color them a different color than the rest of the bird so it would stand out.  If you don't like to color, you could always take some scrap paper and cut those out of a scrap piece of cardstock if you wanted it to stand out or just cut it all out of the same colored cardstock, I love how you can do different techniques with your diecuts and each card will be so different.

Next I added my die cut to my Memory Box Stitched Circle Layers die.
For the background I went with some designer paper from DCWV, Old World stack and on top of that layered Amy Designs Wire Frame Die. I could have added my Bird die to the frame directly but thought popping it up on a separate background looked better.
The sentiment comes from Hero Arts -- Birthday messages stamp set.

Here are the dies I used for today's card, all the links are above in the description.

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Back from Vacation

Hi all, sorry I haven't had a new post in a few days, I had some preposted while I was away on vacation but forgot to post this one I had done before I left.  I have been gone since August 31st and just got back last night so I am a bit behind on visiting all your blogs. When I had time I did get on and check my emails and was able to visit some of your blogs but we had bad connections at a few of our hotels and there was problems getting on to some of the blogs, so bare with me over the next week as I try to get caught up, I think I am a week behind :)

We went out west again this trip, and if I got some good pics I will share them in future posts, of course my hubby took some Beautiful shots.

Now on to my card I made for a friend at church.

I did a little inking while the flowers were still inside the die.  This is a premade tag so I just added the flowers, the button with a bow from floss and brad , added a strip of paper at the bottom and rounded the corners of the card.

Spellbinders -- Asters and poppies dies
K&co. -- Classic K, Bailey paper and tag
BasicGrey -- Brad
Button
Floss for bow in button
Fiskars -- Corner rounder punch
Gina Marie stamps -- Birthday words

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and your sweet comments, Hope you all have a great weekend!!

Connie

Bears in the Thicket

Hi, this is my post for the Dies R us blog.

My nephew just got back from taking his family to Tennessee for their vacation, so I decided to do a little scene that might remind him of that trip for his Birthday card.

I went about die cutting the  Poppystamps Thicket frame from a piece of glossy paper that I applied Adirondack Alcohol inks in Ginger, Sunset Orange and Lettuce.

I decided to use the same applicator and just add a bit more Lettuce alcohol ink to it onto another glossy paper to make the grassy hills, using the Poppystamps Stitched Landscapes dies. I was able to cut out both hills with one piece by having the cutting edge of the dies facing each other, the only part wasted was that thin strip in the middle.

I then cut out two Frantic Stamper Small Oregon fir dies out of green cardstock, colored the trunks with brown marker and then did a little bit of shading with some Pealed Paint Distress ink.  I also cut the Poppystamps Mama and baby bear dies. Here is a close up before adding the thicket frame with foam tape for dimension. As you can see in this picture I had done a little shading on craft cardstock for the bears, but as you can see in the final picture I ended up cutting the bears out of all brown cardstock, I think it helped them jump out a little more from the scene.

The sentiment is from Penny Black -- Sprinkles and Smiles stamp set.

The following are pictures of the dies I used with the links above in the description.

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Mouse Birthday

I think these little mouse birthday stamps are so cute and I found this one at the yard sale at my Stamp store so I just had to get it, the next day after making the card I thought to myself the wood embossing piece ended up being too big, I wish I would have made it thinner but I used some good adhesive and there was no taking it off.

Stampabilities -- Amanda blows candles stamp, colored w/ Spectrum Aqua markers
Teresa Collins -- He said she said paper
Tim Holtz -- embossing folder
Spellbinders -- Classic ovals, scalloped ovals and sentiment one dies
Paper studio -- gems
Stickles -- yellow on flame

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Connie