Autumn woods

I think we have been going on so many Autumn trips here lately that it has given me plenty of inspiration for cardmaking :)  I had planned on posting this on Thursday but my hubby had off Thursday and Friday so he said we should run over to Branson Missouri and see how the colors are in that area of the Ozarks, so off we went, even though I always have fun and enjoy looking at the fall colors I can honestly say I am ready to be home for awhile.

Here is another card using the Mega flakes on the frame, I just love the colors in this Autumn Blaze.

I did a little sponging with the tumbled glass distress ink on the back of my cardstock before putting together the scene to give a bit of sky color to the background. Also did some inking on the diecuts and added some white dots to the deer.

Poppystamps -- Thicket frame and stitched landscape dies
Indigoblu - Autumn blaze mega flakes on frame
Taylored Expressions -- Evergreens die
Memory Box - Valley deer trio and birds die

Wishing you a fabulous weekend!!
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today and letting me know you have!

Connie

Cabin

I have had these leaves left over from other projects on my desk for awhile now and instead of putting them somewhere that I would never find them again, I decided it was time to use them, I searched through my stamps and decided to use this cabin, but instead of coloring it I decided to just emboss it with copper embossing powder to go along with the leaves that had been done with mega flakes. A little bit of  sponge inking inside the die before removing.

Stampscapes - Cabin 140E, embossed w/copper embossing powder
Ms. Sparkle & co. - Fall paper
Spellbinders - A2 distressed edges, A2 matting basics B and Circle delight dies
Tim Holtz -- Design tape, Rose
Hero Arts -- Birthday messages sentiment stamp set
Leaf die with Indigo Blu, Autumn blaze mega flakes
Starform - Transparent Glitter gold dot (center of sentiment)

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by today and letting me know you have.

Connie

Autumn arrangement

This is certainly my favorite time of year and there are a few challenges out there that I would like to link my creation with today.

Double D challenge- Feeling Fallish
DiesRUs anything fall
Cropstop October challenge

Tim Holtz -- Wood Grain embossing folder
Spellbinder -- Fall Foliage die set
My Favorite things - Essential sentiment stamp set

I used my brayer to add ink to the embossing folder before embossing to get the background color. Cut the leaves out of paper I had made from Colorburst that was in my stash.
I added some white ink to the embossed areas of the pinecone to bring that out. Shading with ink on all the rest.  Added a little jute bow and the sentiment was embossed with white embossing powder.

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

Connie

Floral Frames

I was walking through JoAnns and I saw this package of Acetate frames and I thought oh my those are pretty, then I saw some little round images that went along with them. Now normally before I buy something I think how I might use them or for what situation I would use them, but this was one of those buys that I bought just because I thought it was pretty :)

I wanted the frame to be lifted up, so I used some clear pop up dots and tried to put them behind the images on the frame, the little round images come with little sticky pop up dots on them already.

 The paper in the background reminded me of a lattice and added the stamped sentiment with some pearl pen accents.

Here is a close up to show the glitter that is already on the images.

How do you shop for your craft supplies, do you think about how you might use it or do I have something similar already, or do you go by what ever you like and figure out how you would use it later.

K&co. - SW floral acetate frames and SW floral Icon
Teresa Collins -- He said she said paper
Spellbinders - Floral Ovals die
Gina Marie - Birthday words sentiment stamp set
Pearl Pen - Salmon

Hope you enjoy your weekend, we are suppose to have above normal temps so hopefully I will be able to spend most of it outdoors enjoying this Autumn season and hope you can too!

Thanks so much for taking the time out of your busy life to stop by, loving hearing from you if you do!

Connie

Oh Deer

Using another daily calendar coloring image for today's card.  Oh Dear was the first thing I said when I flipped the calendar page and saw this image, but then the more I thought about it, I thought it would make a cool Autumn card.  I used another one of the backgrounds I made and showed in an earlier post using the Alcohol inks in the water. Did a little bit of sponging around the border while the background was still in the die.

Colored the image with pencils and cut out.

Calendar image - colored w/pencils
Alcohol ink, water color background and sponging of ink around edges
Spellbinders - A2 Distressed edges die
Penny Black - Sprinkles and smiles sentiment stamp
Mark Richards - Metal nailheads

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie