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

Got Game

Another masculine card today, my great nephew is now going to college to be a computer programmer, and so when I saw this die on sale at Hobby Lobby I had to pick it up and thought it would work for others that love computers and playing games.

The background I had in my stash already, one I had done but thought was too dark ended up working great with this card, I put a die cut background over it and it worked perfectly.

The buttons on the controller were embossed, so I added some white gel pen to it so they would stand out a bit, the sentiment comes with the die set. I tried to make a desk for the computer to set on so it wasn't floating in space, not sure if it looks like one or not, LOL!

Spellbinders - You've got game, Symmetry in space and A2 matting basics A dies
Fiskars corner punch for the "desk"
Background made from Colorburst

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Connie

Butterfly

Debbie's beautiful butterflies pictures is what inspired this card, she is a wonderful photographer but I will have to say her birds and butterflies just get me every time, she is such a natural at capturing them!

I made a frame from cutting the oval and floral dies at the same time.  I colored the butterfly with Distress inks and oxide ink and marker for the body.

DCWV - Old World paper
Pizzazz Aplenty - Butterfly die, sponged with Distress ink and Oxides, body colored w/marker
Spellbinders - Floral Oval and classic oval dies to make frame, Labels 4 die for sentiment
Fiskars - Essential Sayings stamp
Prima flowers
Nuvo glitter drops - White blizzard for flower centers

I hope you are enjoying a nice fall season so far, it has been so nice to have our doors and windows open and enjoying the birds singing and fresh air.

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

Connie

Pine Challenge

My stamp group had a Pine challenge for our Christmas cards this month and since I had finished all my cards for September I could play along.

First I went with a new ornament I had bought.  I cut the ornament out and then wasn't sure what to put behind it, I had cut it out of silver and thought a blue would look nice behind but wanted to have yellow around the star area, so I found a background in my stash I had done earlier that had blues and yellows on it and it worked, I just cut around the ornament and then I went searching for paper, I found this one that I thought could look like wall paper.  I showed my hubby and he said oh that ornament clashes it needs to be gold, it will go with your paper better, so off I went and cut again in gold and he was right, so I just layered it on top of the silver I had there.  I also cut the bow again out of the yellow I had left from doing the ornament, although it is hard to see with the pine branches.

Impression Obsession - Pine branch die
DieVersion - Starry Nativity ornament die
Distress oxides for ornament background
Anna Griffin - Christmas paper, shaded with Antique linen distress ink

Second I tried a one layer card using watercolor card I had from a Spectrum noir purchase and this card is so thin that it warped terribly, so bad in face that I cut it off the card and tried to add it to a firmer card base and it still was curling, even with a full taping on the back.

I colored the trees using my Spectrum Aqua markers directly onto the stamp then spritzed with water and stamped them onto the card, then did a second stamping for the trees in the background.  The deer were cut from wood grain paper, I liked the texture it gave to them.  You can't see it but I added sparkle pen to the background in blue and some stickles on the trees.

Rubber Stampede - Pine Tree, colored directly to stamp with Aqua markers
Impression Obsession - Small deer die
Spectrum sparkle marker - moonstone for background
Stickles - diamond on trees

Lastly I went with my trusted Graphic 45 pad and used their image and papers and added a sentiment that I die cut twice. Stickles added to the candles on the trees and some gems to go with the sentiment.

Graphic 45 - Christmas Emporium paper and image
Spellbinders - Holiday sentiments die cut twice
Stickles - Diamond on candles in tree
Ki - black gems

Pretty excited I managed 3 more cards, I can't remember how many that gives me know but I can say I am much farther along than I have been in any other year :)

Thanks again for stopping by,

Connie