Happy Halloween

I usually only make one Halloween card a year and that is for my daughter and her husband, I was lucky enough to have received a wonderful package from Bibiana in the mail before I made their card and it was full of all kinds of goodies to make a card, so most of this is from her wonderful package, she sent one of her lovely tags I just loved along with a cool decorated bag with all the card making goodies inside.  You have to go check out her post that she did today of a Halloween scene and all of her creations Here on her blog .

I also did this card for another challenge with my group, you had to use 12 items on your card and only one of each kind of item, as if you use a stamp it can only be one stamp, if use a die only one die, ect.

Items from Bibiana -- Die cut spider web, clipart image, purple flower gem, bat sticker
Echo park -- the apothecary Emporium paper
Ribbon
Twine
sentiment
inking around sentiment
Prima flower
Glitter tulle
Leaf brad by sentiment

It is raining here today but hopefully it will quit for tonight so the kids can get out and show off their costumes.  It is always fun to see what they all dress up as.  I wonder what will be the most common, I am thinking characters from the Frozen movie.  That is the fun of this night getting to go out dressed up and see what everyone else is wearing too, I enjoyed it as a kid, fun with my daughter dressing her up and now watching the neighborhood kids come to our door.

Greg and I went to Springfield Illinois yesterday to celebrate our anniversary, we have lived in this state for 10 years now and first time we have made it there.  I will have to see how the pics turned out and maybe I will share those.

Here are the pics I forgot to share of the end to our day, we never knew that there was a platform on the Illinois side to check out the view of St. Louis until my hubby googled where to take the best pictures of St. Louis and there is a park where you can walk up this ramp and it has 3 levels to get different shots of it.

You can see to the left here is the ramp we walked up, poor peanut could only make it up one so I had to carry her the rest of the way, let's just say 20 pounds gets heavy very quickly!

It was pretty cool and once you got to the top they had a web cam that you could call someone and give them the address and they could see you live, so I just had to call my Sister and daughter Amanda and say Hi, since we live so far from each other, wish we could have seen them back.

We came back to town and it was supper time so we went and ate at one of my favorite places Qdoba and after leaving we were heading home and this is the sky that we had and we just had to pull over and get this shot of the sun setting, end to a wonderful day out!

Hope you all are enjoying a wonderful weekend,
Thanks so much for stopping by and saying Hi,

Connie

32nd Anniversary

Today Greg and I are celebrating our 32nd Anniversary, my how time just flies by doesn't it.  Feel so blessed to have been able to share my life with him, he brings so much laughter, fun and love to my life.  Which made me go toward this stamp for my Anniversary card for him, I just loved the sentiment that went with this image in the set.

This card measures 5x7 I used a corner of the paper that had embossing on it already.

Our Daily Bread design -- Thankful song, image and sentiment, colored w/markers
Spellbinders -- Circle Lg., Labels one and Fall foliage (acorns) dies
Anna Griffin -- background die (has been inked and then used marker on the raised areas
DCWV -- Tattered Time papers

Greg made me a card too. He bought some Chameleon pens awhile back, so he decided to use them on my card, he drew this first and then colored in with the pens, well let me just say he doesn't have a lot of patience so he didn't care for how many times he had to tip the pen to get the color he wanted but I would say it turned out lovely so I am glad he gave them a try and stuck with it throughout the card.  If you haven't heard of these pens you can Check it out here .

He did good right :)  First card he has made me in a while that he didn't use any punches or dies on it, and I love it.

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

Connie

Smoosh Stamping

On this technique in my group we were to add ink (at least 3 colors)  to our mats or acetate sheets, spray with a mister about 8 inches above a couple of times to add some water to the mix and then take our stamp and stamp it into that mixture and then on to our cards.  For some reason I didn't get a good full coverage of the stamp, but I thought it still gave a pretty watercolor feel to it.  I stamped mine onto watercolor paper but the girls were getting good results stamping on smooth paper, I will be trying this technique again but with smooth paper next time.

This is for my great niece who is a teenager.

Stampin up -- of the earth stamp set
Distress inks -- Dried marigold, fired brick and peeled paint
WeRmemory keepers -- anthologie paper
Watercolor paper for stamping
Martha Stewart -- gems
Stamps of life -- minis 4 circles sentiment stamp

I keep forgetting to share some of the pics from our leaf viewing on Sunday.

Here is my little Peanut, she is 15 now and can't hang as well as she use to, I think her old bones are taking a toll, but she tried so hard to keep up with us.  When we would put her in the car she would be totally asleep and snoring until the car stopped again and she would be all for getting out again, when we got home she went to her bed and barely got up and when she did you could tell she was hurting, I want to take her with us because she acts like she enjoys it but I hate to see her hurting later for it.

I loved how blue the sky looked against the colorful leaves in this one.

When we were walking back to the car I couldn't get over how bright the tree was so I took another picture, I love it when you can still see green in there too.

If I remember next time I will share some pics from the rest of the day.
Hope you have had time to get out and enjoy the fall colors.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and letting me know,

Connie

Bisque Pottery Technique

The next challenge was to do this technique with an embossing folder, I have done this many times and it is probably my favorite technique with an embossing folder.  If you haven't tried it yet the lady that posted the challenge gave us this VIDEO as a link to watch so instead of me explaining it I am sharing the link also. She has a good tip about brayers also, I have heard it before so I always store my brayer off the roller.

Cuttlebug -- Textile embossing folder
Memento -- Desert Sand
Spellbinder -- Anemone Flower topper die, with gold inking
Candi Minis -- Icing sugar (flower center)
Ribbon
Martha Stewart  -- tag punch
ODBD -- Mini tag sentiment stamp set

After I finished the card I liked it but then the next morning I thought oh no I was going for elegant and now it looks like it could be a sympathy card, what do you think could it work for both?

We are getting our rain today, it looked like we were in a bit of a clearing so the hubby and I went for a walk but it ended up lightly raining, not to bad but enough to get a bit wet.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by and saying Hi,

Connie

Rustic

This challenge was to post a stamp and embellishments that gave the look of a rustic card, perfect since I needed another masculine card for my nephews birthday.

Stampscapes -- Cabin, colored with pencils, roof colored with gray marker
Fun Stampers Journey  -- Board wall stamp w/ distress ink in walnut stain
Spellbinders -- Labels Trio and Lg. Deckled Rectangles dies
DCWV -- Foiled Cardstock for the sentiment
Prima -- Tiny Junkyard findings, vintage trinkets on sentiment tag
Die - Namics -- You're just my tape sentiment stamp

Gina is hosting a great Christmas give a way on her blog HERE lots of goodies to get started on some cute Christmas cards, stop by and check it out.

Hope you enjoyed a nice weekend and the start of this week will be a good one,
Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and visit, love hearing from you,

Connie