Bee Happy

Sharing another stamp set that came with my Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine.

I wanted to make a little scene on the tag with the hive and bee but it looked a bit bare so I added a die cut for a branch and some grass. The big bee diecut came with it also and so I die cut that twice from gold papers. Sentiment is from the same stamp set.

You can't see very well but I put some sparkle pen on the stamped bee wings and added it all to an embossed background that I lightly inked so that it would show up better, topped it off with some gems.

Paper Sutdio - Honeycomb Embossing folder
Bee Happy stamp and die set from Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine
Poppystamps - Pinpoint Main street tags and Climbing vine dies
Fiskars - Grass border punch
Gems

Hope your week is going well so far, thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Fall trees

I bought the Autumn flower soft to make fall trees, so you know there has to be at least one done each year :)

Linking up with the Sisterhood of Crafters Fall is in the air challenge.

Masculine card once again.

The background was done with Distress inks, the little stamped leaf on the sentiment tag was from the same stamp set as the sentiment.

Stampin up - Trees from 2001
Spellbinders - A2 Distressed edges and A2 matting basics A dies
DCWV - Wild Spender paper
Flower Soft - Autumn
Distress inks for background - Tumbled glass, mowed lawn and Forest moss
Stamps of Life - Minis 4 circles

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by.
Connie

Autumn

First full day of Autumn we went to a park and then to a nature conservation area to see what was blooming at the time. We don't hit peak leaf color here in Southern Illinois until late October.

Now some of these you may have to click on them to see the bugs I was able to capture and look real good, LOL!  I seemed to scare them all away so I would stand back and zoom in to get them.
This next is a dragonfly on a leaf that was floating in the water, almost middle of the picture.

You will really have to click on the next to see all the bugs enjoying this plant, I even caught one in mid flight to the left upper corner of the picture.

The grass was very thick and I was wearing capri pants at the time so I didn't want to walk into the thick grass.

As I would walk bugs would just go flying everywhere, I don't know if it is because we have had a nice amount of rain this summer or what but there just seemed to be more than normal.

Debbie let me know that the following butterfly I posted in an earlier post at my home is called a Buckeye, so it was neat to see one out here too.

Can you spot the dragonfly in this picture?

As you can see we had not only a beautiful day with nice fluffy clouds but it was also nice temperatures that day.

Here is my last butterfly :)

Thanks for joining me today on my first day of Autumn outing.

Connie

Thinking of you

A friend lost her daughter in law to cancer recently, they were quite close.
I brought out a chipboard tag and paper that came from a papercraft magazine and an embossing folder that came from another.  Punched the paper with a border punch.

I can't ever seem to find a green card stock that I just love the color, and I wanted a soft look to my green but all I seemed to have was almost neon, so I first sponged my cardstock with my inks a few different shades and then die cut my leaf from that and I actually like that color, figures I forgot to write down the colors I used.

Country Diary of Edwardian lady --Chipboard tag and paper, from craft magazine
Garden Party embossing folder from Craft magazine
Spellbinders - Foliage die
Martha Stewart - border punch

Well they are saying we may break the heat record today, we are to reach into the 90's and it should be in the 70's right now, we have lost our fall temps, hopefully they will come back next week sometime.

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

Connie

Floral Birthday

The sentiment for today's card comes from a Birthday card quote book, all I did was cut it out with a die and added a big of ink to highlight the words. This ended up turning out a lot more spring like for a fall birthday.

The flowers  and leaves were also die cut, shaped and layered, with some liquid pearls added to the centers. I also added a piece of paper ribbon to divide the two papers I used but by the time I added the flowers you can't really see it.

Hot off the press - Cardmakers Birthday card quotes
Spellbinders - Romantic Rectangles die
Papertrey ink - Hodge podge papers
K&co. - Smitten white paper ribbon
Tim Holtz - Small tattered florals die
Liquid Pearls - lemon yellow (flower centers)

Do you always stick with the colors of the season with your crafting and gift giving?

Hope your week is off to a good start, thanks so much for stopping by,

Connie