Inspired Paper Flower With Warm Regards

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Paper Towel Flowers. I am like Lynn I love the colors of Spring flowers but also love the fall colors as well so I was inspired by this photo from Saturday's OUR CREATIVE CORNER CHALLENGE . I needed a card for a co-worker who gave me a huge compliment and pat on the back in front of our CEO last week so I am also using Today's THE PINK ELEPHANT CHALLENGE # 40 - Be Thankful. I was hoping I could get a really good pic of this flower as it really sparkles in the light. NOT happin'. I need photo lessons. Anyway I punched the Maurvy Extra Giga, Giga, Mega Fiskars scalloped circles, SU Scallop circle and 1in circle using my paper towel then I started with Glimmer mist added to Barely banana then summer sun, then dusty durango then choc chip spraying randomly as I added new colors. I love how this turned out. The center is a big brown brad that I had no idea what I was ever going to use these huge brads on and it certainly worked today. Whoo Hoo. I love it when a plans comes together. Anyway my dp is Recollections Autumn stack and I used some dusty durango polka dot ribbon. My sentiment was stamped in dusty durango then punched with SU large oval punch and layered with dusty durango. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:

Stamps: Warmest Regards
Paper: dusty durango, vanilla, Recollections Autumn
Ink: dusty durango, barely banana, summer sun, choc chip
Accessories: ribbon, paper towel, glimmer mist, mini mister bottle

Mistletoe Kiss Digi Contest

Oh I absolutely LOVE these digi images from THE GREETING FARM and this one especially. These 2 kissing skunks just tickle my funny bone. I stamped the image in graphite black then colored with copics. Seems I am so neglecting my prismacolor pencils and gamsol lately. Need to get them back out again soon. Anyway. I trimmed the focal image using my Fiskars 2.5in circle template and a pencil then used my scissors to cut the circle and around the image for an out of the box style. I cut the mat with the 3in template. My dp is some of Hobby Lobby's Season glitter stack I just bought Saturday. I love this stack. I also bought an EK Success, what I thought was a border punch, that turned out to be a strip of hollies and berries as it trims both sides of the paper. Guess I need to read the box better huh? Oh well I used it on this making the black matt wide enough to allow for both sides to be trimmed. I made this for the Guest DT contest 1st week challenge to use one of Maria Neira's image and create a WILDLIFE theme. What could be more wilder than 2 skunks kissing. LOL. Man I hope they like it.

Christmas Cupcake CASEing

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Chrisations.ink. I found this darling SILVER CANDY CUPCAKE.
I changed: the layout, colors, theme, left off the silver embellies.
My layout is from Monday's MOJO SKETCH 111. The darling dp is from a set I just bought on a shopping trip with Shannon to Valdosta's Michaels and Hobby Lobby. This is HL's Christmas glittery dp. The stamp set I used is called Christmas Cupcakes and I got it from TREEHOUSE STAMPS. My image was stamped in graphite black on vanilla cs then colored with copics. The icing is heated liquid applique. I used some 1/8 in green ribbon to cover the seam between the red cs and dp. I stamped the holly leaves in versa mark then cut them out. The red berries are from my hole puncher attached together with the holly leaves and attached to the corner of the focal image. I also stamped the holly & berries image in versa mark on the upper and lower right corners of the red cs. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Christmas Cupcake - THS
Paper: vanilla, red, green, HL Christmas dp
Ink: graphite black, versa mark
Accessories: hole puncher, ribbon

CSS Winter Sneak Peek Altered CD Case

This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Jonathan Adler and I found my inspiration from the colors in this darling PIG ORNAMENT & GIFT BOX. I love blue so this just popped right out at me. And OOHhh do I love snowmen and the ones in this darling WINTER set being released on the 15th of this month from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPS are no exception to that rule. They are just too cute.
This wintery set is right up my alley since I love Christmas sets and snowmen. I received this CD case from the CSS company as a gift and thought I would alter it and add store my Christmas CD's in here so I can find them eaisly. I used some Image That textured CS from yrs ago I got at Wal Mart to cover the top then the front was decorated with 2 shades of blue cs. The focal image was stamped in black on white cs then colored with copics and attached. I applied some stickles bc you can not have snow that does not sparkle and shimmer can you? LOL. Hope you like it and be looking for this and many other sets on the 15th from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPS.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Winter - CSS
Paper: blue, white, Winter Textured dp
Ink: graphite black, pacific point, basful blue
Accessories: cd carry case, copics

Cowboy Snowman for Noah

What am I doing up at 3 am? That is what happens when you wake up screaming in your sleep from a nighmare. I hate it when that happens. This time I woke up my hubby as well. At least he has been able to go back to sleep. Me I have to be up in a couple of hrs anyway so I am probably up for the day. While I was up I figured I might as well make the best of it and check out the challenge. So this is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - a Christmas RAK and for my layout I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE. What a sad time this must be for Noah's family. You can find a link on the Limited Supply Challenge above to read about this darling little boy who the doctors say probably will NOT make it to Christmas so his family is having an early one for him. I am sending this out in express mail today and hope it finds him with a smile on his face. I braided 3 colors of hemp together and added a cowbow hat button for a bracelet. I love this darling snowman and hope he will too. Image was stamped in graphite black then colored with copics E33, E34, E37, E39, R24, R27, R29. I stamped the rope image in espresso ink My panel 2 is actually a wide Christmas ribbon. I am writing Noah to have him mom tie his bracelt on him. I sure hope he likes iit.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cowboy Snowman - HH, rope corner - Hambo
Paper: red, whtie
Ink: black, espresso
Accessories: copics, ribbon, hemp, cowboy hatt button
Techniques: copic coloring

CSS A Taste of Christmas

This is for today's CARDVARKS - Circle of Friends challenge to make a circle card. I used my Nesties Circle Scallops and large circles to make this card. I love making different shaped cards. I used a set released last month from CLEAR AND SIMPLE - A Taste of Christmas. I stamped the cupcake on white cs using graphite black then colored with copic markers and traced the design with my white liquid applique. I stamped the topping in graphite black colored with copics, cut out and popped it up on top of the cupcake then used some liquid pearls for the candles and stickles on the flames. My sentiment was inked with SU real red and glorious green then stamped above the focal image. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: A Taste of Christmas, CSS
Paper: white, red, green
Ink: graphite black, real red, glorious green
Accessories: Nesties, stickles, liquid applique, white liquid pearls

THT022 Christmas Stationary Plus DT Call

It is Thursday and time for another challenge from Ashley for the TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE # 022 - Stationary. Yep, Ashley has challenged us to make a Stationary set. Any style or version is acceptable. I have created a Christmas Stationary set for my Mother In Law who so much appreciates the hard work put into my designs.
Here is a snap of the outside of the folder. I used some textured red cs and some new My Minds Eye dp. I stamped the sentiments in real red and garden green and used some gree ribbon to secure the folder.

From the inside view you can see the decorated pages for writting on as well as the 2 Christmas cards.

Here is a close up of one of the writting pages.

And here is a close up view of the 2 cards included which also have decorated envelopes. Shannon will be so pleased these are ready to sign, address and mail. LOL. I used 3 of THS sets making this Stationary set : Christmas Cupcakes, Christmas Greetings, and Christmas Favorites. Whoo Hoo. I love making these sets and hope you do too. Hope on over to the Treehouse Stamps Blog for more eye candy from the other DT Members and news from Treehouse Stamps as well regarding DT Call time. Come on play along.

Double Embossed Eat Ham

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I included Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Neutrals with a Pop, and did another of Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Double Embossing. I had to do another of the double embossing challenge since I finally figured it out and missed the CC Tuesday so I had to include it as well. I am addicted and can not help it. LOL. I used the cuttlebug Houndstooth folder and the large rectangle Nestie on the focal panel which was then stamped in espress ink and colored with copics E30, E31, E33, E34, E35, 337, R24, R27, R29, Y08 and Y17. My main image is matted on creamy caramel. Panel 2 is summer sun and panels 4 is a real red 1in square spilt in the middle. My stamp set I used was recently released by TREEHOUSE STAMPS - Eat Ham. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Eat Ham - THS
Paper: vanilla, creamy caramel, brown, summer sun, real red
Ink: espresso
Accessories: copics, Cuttlebug Houndstooth Folder, Nestie Lg Rectangles
Techniques: double embossing

Wonderful Winter Polar Bear

Well Jessie and his parents are back in Augusta for his Mom's skin graft tomorrow. I have an empty house. This morning was a frustrating time as I wanted to stamp and the TLC was pointing to a techique video that was not working. ggrrrr. I had seen this video a couple of wks ago and wanted to try it but did not write down the steps. So I was in the dark and could not watch the video until this afternoon. So after work I came home and this is what I came up with. This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Double Embossing. I used today's sketch from MOJO MONDAY. My stamp is from the dollar bin Snag'Em images from TREEHOUSE STAMPS. My image was stamped in black and colored with copic markers after using the Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder and Labels #3 for the double emboss center. This is matted on baja breeze cs. This polar bear is just too adorable. My dp is from My Minds Eye Wonderful Winter. It is so glittery and shiny. My base is kiwi kiss cs.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Polar Bear - Snag'em from Treehouse Stamps
Paper: white, baja breeze, kiwi kiss, MME Wonderful Winter
Ink: black, kiwi kiss
Accessories: 3mm gems, ribbon, stickles
Techniques: double embossing

Fall Studio CASEing Ms.Boo

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Ms.Boo. I love Jen's CAS style and decided on her FALLING LEAVES. I changed the colors, replaced the dotted line with a sentiment, used only 3 leaves which were also from a differnt set, and used a different type of ribbon. My color combo inspiration came from Saturday's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - Franz Porcelain's using this gorgeous GOLD LEAF AND ACORN DESIGN TRAY. I love the changing colors of fall. The stamp set I used has just been released today from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPS called Fall Studio. I used old olive, crushed curry and dusty durango for my leaes and sentiment attempting to simulate the colors of the changes. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Fall Studio - Clear and Simple Stamps
Paper: white
Ink: old olive, crushed curry, dusty durango
Accessories: ribbon
Techniques: CAS

CSS SOTM November Fall Studio & BLOG CANDY

It is the 1st day of a new month and you know what that means? Right, Clear And Simple has a new set, a new Copic Trio and and new Template for you to enjoy, so here it is

SOTM: Fall Studio


The bright hues of the changing leaves always paints a beautiful picture that the Fall season is upon us. We have embraced the changing seasons with a set that contains a variety of leaf images and patterns for you to create your own fall inspired paper crafts.

In addition to offering our $1 off incentive, below are our Copic SOTM bundle and our monthly template:

COPIC BUNDLE:
For November the bundle will include the Copic Trio Set: Yellow Green 1 (YG01, YG03, YG07)

Copic Marker Bundle with the SOTM for the bargain price of $26 - that's a $15 stamp set and $15 Copic Marker Trio set combined at a $4 reduction in price - you won't find a better bundle anywhere! (HINT HINT...it will will be $25 if using the DTBlog $1 Discount too)

BLOG DISCOUNT CODE: DTBlog1109

TEMPLATE: Basket of Thanks

Here is my basket from this darling template. I chose to go alittle riske' and will be giving this to my darling hubby for putting up with my stamping addiction. LOL.

I used white cardstock stamped wtih one of the wheat background stamps in black. I covered the edge of my basket with black ruffled lace. The handle is white cs topped with black then white sheer ribbon. I stamped the tag in black then punched with the large and small tag punches. I punched a slot at the top the thread the ribbon through and adhered the tag to the side of the handle. I sure hope he likes it cause I filled it with choc covered cherrie flavored kisses. YUMMY.

Check out the rest of the DT members to see their eye candy:

• Jen Tapler
• Kim Howard
• Lori Tecler
• Maria Levine
• Robyn Weatherspoon
• Sue Berker
  

BLOG CANDY

The fun doesn't end here...We are giving away {1} Stamp of the Month - FALL STUDIO stamp set. Wanna play? Create a Basket of Thanks using the template and put a link to your project in the comment section of this posting found on the CLEAR AND SIMPLE BLOG SITE. Be creative and have fun with it. A winner will be chosen at random Wednesday, November 4th.

Retiform Autumn Blessings

This is for today's TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE - Color Combo (Crushed curry, dusty Durango, soft suede, & a neutral). Ashley has chosen some perfect colors for us to be inspired by the changing of the seasons all around us. It is good to see the trees finally turning around here in the deep south. If you don't have these SU colors then she says still please free to play along with colors you do have close to these mentioned. I also did not get to do and wanted to try Monday's TECHNIQQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Retiform so I had to try it. Not as difficult as I thought it might be. I trimmed some of my post it notes in various shapes and began with crushed curry rolled then placed my post its and rolled dusty durango, then more post its and a light roll of soft suede on top to sorta give it an aged (distressed) look. My layout is from Sunday's CARD POSITIONING SYSTEMS SKETCH CHALLENGE # 139. Love this sketch. I used dusty durango for my base and a strip of durango on top of my retiform background panel. The sentiment on my focal panel was stamped in soft suede then the leaves inked in crushed curry and rolled in dusty durango then stamped randomly. I punched out 2 different types of leaves from Fiskars punches in crushed curry and sponged the edges with dusty durango then popped them up. The focal panel and matt were cut with Labels 4 Nestie. The nesties and the stamp set used called Autumn Blessings can be found at TREEHOUSE STAMPS. Hope you like it and come on play along with the THT challenge this week. Last week we had 22 stampers play along with the THT challenge. Ashley would love to see those 22 and more come back this week and play along with the color challenge, just remember to include THT021 in your keyword/tags when uploading to SCS or Paper Craft Planet. Thanks for taking a look and let me know what you think.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Autumn Blessings - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: white, dusty durango
Ink: crushed curry, dusty durango, soft suede
Accessories: Fiskars leaf punches
Techniques: Retiform, 3D

It's Your Birthday Old Brawd

This is another one for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. OK ladies I need some help here. I have been talking with Shannon about how to kick up my designs a bit as they seem dull and plain to me. She suggested that I stop trying so hard to combine so many challenges. So this is just one challenge. I colored this darling image from a set I just got from Totally Stampalicious called Old Brawd. I just love this sassy lady. I used copics to color her. I cut the image Out of the Box and matted it on Riding Hood Red cs. I stamped the sentiment in black on kraft cs. I used some Indian Summer dp for the 3 side panels. I layered some primas and added a purple daisy brad to hold them all together and folded a strip of ribbon to place under the primas. So what do you think?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Old Brawd - Totally Stampalicious
Paper: white, black, kraft, Indian Summer
Ink: black
Accessories: copics, primas, ribbon, daisy brad
Techniques: out of the box, 3D, copic coloring

ETA: Rebeccah contacted me the day I loaded this asking for permission to add to the on line gallery and after I thought about it for an entire 1 sec I rapidly replied "YES", it is now on thier gallery page. Whoo Hoo. I am so thrilled that this company liked what I made.

Diva Airlines

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used the color combo from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE. The stamp set I used is called Diva Airlines and it is from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPS. I just love this airplane. If I could find a job that would require flying I would take it. I love being up in the air. My image was stamped in black brilliance the colored with copics, matted on melon mambo then popped up. The sentiment on the kraft layer was also stamped in black. I used a sheet of Rasberry Lemonade dp for the 3 panel strips matted on white then on black. A strip of black ribbon is joining panels 1 and 2 together and covering the seam. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Diva Airlines - CSS
Paper: white, black, kraft, melon mambo
Ink: black brilliance
Accessories: copics, dimensionals, ribbon
Techniques: copic coloring

Waterlily Acceptance

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Krafty Black Melons. I used a set called Waterlilies that I recently purchased from Flourishes for today's FLOURISHES TIMELESS TUESDAY CHALLENGE - Border punches. I used my Fiskars scalloped with holes border punch on the black cs layer. My layout is from today's MERCY'S TUESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE #45. I love this simple yet versatile sketch. I decided to have my focus mostly on a sentiment so it was stamped in cameo coral on white. I then stamped the fish separately in black brilliance, colored with copics, cut them out and placed them around the sentiment. I layerd my oval focal panel with cameo coral using my Marvy Mega oval scallop punch. I used some Kraft pattern paper for the border punch panel and popped all of this up on white cs. I love the contrast of this. Hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Waterlilies - Flourishes
Paper: white, black, cameo coral, kraft pp
Ink: cameo coral, black brilliance
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, Marvy scallop oval punches, Fiskars oval template, Fiskars scallop border with holes
Techniques: copic coloring, 3D

Vivi the Elf

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Rachelhope13. I enjoyed browsing through her yummy gallery and finally decided on CASEing her DANCE SAVANNAH CARD. I have never seen this Anya before but I do love it. I just received this adorable Vivi from The Greeting Farms newest release and I love her. She is just tooo cute. So I decided on using her for this weeks OUR CREATIVE CORNER where Lori challenged us this week to be inspired by our fav holiday movie or book. My alltime fav holiday is Christmas and all of the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen are a must see all year long. I changed the Theme, colors, layout and left off the ribbon, pearls, tags and primas. I used a sheet of cs that I also just received from TGF called Merry Merry, Is it not the cutest? I changed the layout of Rachels card to use this weeks sketch from CARD POSITIONING SYSTEM. I stamped the image in black brilliance then colored with copics E50, E51, G14, RV10, RV23, RV25, Y00 & Y11. I colored the bell with a silver Bic pen. The rim around the top of the hat is covered in glitter glue. It is just soo shiny. I used my Nestie Large Oval for the image panel then embossed it. This is matted on a Fiskars oval that I cut out in Pink Passion. I used a wavy paper trimmer to make the 3 strips in the center. I hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Vivi - TGF
Paper: White, Merry Merry DP, Pink Passion
Ink: Black Brilliance
Accessories: copics, Nestie Oval, Fiskars Oval
Techniques: copic coloring

Embossed Best Witches Girlie Wiper Card

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Girlie Girl to make a girlie card without pattern paper unless made with stamps. My patchwork Witch image is also for Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Patched Up. I heat embossed my witch image for Thursday'a TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE # 020 - Emboss It. My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE. My card style is from Monday's easy, adorable, and fun TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Wiper Card. I used a recently released Halloween set from TREEHOUSE STAMPS called Best Witches. My image was colored with copics after heat embossed on vanilla cs. I made the 2 side panels with cameo coral using the small rectangle image from the set stamped in bravo burgandy. I used a black cs base. I love how this turned out and hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Best Witches - THS
Paper: black, vanilla, always artichoke, cameo coral, bravo burgandy
Ink: versamark, bravo burgandy, always artichoke
Accessories: metal dots, black embossing powder
Techniques: heat emboss, wiper card, copic coloring

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANNON

Oh Me Oh My why does the time Fly By. Where have these years gone and why did they go so quickly when it took forever for me to get from 12yrs to 16yrs of age. LOL My oldest daughter, Shannon, is celebrating her 2nd anniversary of her 29th birthday as she calls it. I don't know how many anniversaries she is planning on having but I am thinking of cutting her off next year. LOL.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU....

Hope you have a fantastic day.

Embossed Autumn Blessings

Hello everyone. It is Thursday again and that means it is time for another Treehouse Thursday Challenge. This week Ashley is challenging eveyone to an embossing day of fun. Emboss something using heat emboss, dry emboss, or even faux emboss...just have fun. If you have Treehouse images please do use them, if not just use what you have and have fun doing what you love to do.
For this card I stamped my pumpkin image from a darling recently released set from TREEHOUSE STAMPS called Autumn Blessings. I stamped in versamark then applied gold embossing powder and heat set. I love embossing. Such a fun technique. I layered my pumpkin panel in more mustard cs. The 2 pieces of dp are from Recollections Autumn pack. I love that pack of dp. My layout is from Monday's MOJO Sketch challenge. My kinda sketch. CAS(clean and simple).. LOL. Come on play along with the design team so we can see what you come up with. Just make sure to incluce THT020 in your keyword on SCS or Tag in PCP.

CSS Cookie Bake Wiper Card

Good News I am hoping! It looks like my MIL may get to come home today if the skin grafts done yesturday look OK today. She will have to go back next week for them to recheck but I know she would rather be home than stuck up there in that ICU and I am ready for my hubby to fill his side of the bed. Last night I kept moving over further and further trying to feel him over there.

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Always Bravo Cameo for my color combo and made another of Monday's super fun TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Wiper Card just because they are so much fun and so adorable. I love using the little pop up for short messages. The stamp set I used for this is called "COOKIE BAKE" and is from this month's release from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPS. I also used a background stamp from a set called "WHEAT" for the 2 thin panels. I stamped my 3 cookies in the 3 different colors from the CC then covered them with stickles. The sentiment is stamped in bravo burgandy on the cameo layer. I love these quick and easy but adorable wiper cards and I love how this one turned out.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Cookie Bake, Wheat - CSS
Paper: Vanilla, Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgandy, Cameo Coral
Ink: Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgandy, Cameo Coral
Accessories: ribbon, stickles
Techniques: wiper card

Simple Get Well Wishes Wiper Card

Whey I have missed my stamp time. I will be glad when my life returns to normal if it ever does. LOL. I usually do NOT stamp in the evening but am soo missing my dh as he is in August with his Mom so I thought I would knock out some challenges I missed. Jessie's Mom has seizures and for the 2nd time in 2months she has had a seizure while cooking at the stove that resulted in 2nd and 3rd degree burns. This time it was really bad and covered the entire inside of her right arm and the hand as well. After a short time in our ER here she was shipped to Augusta's burn center in ICU. Today they have began debriding and such. He is up there with his Dad.

So this is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Always Bravo Cameo, Monday's TECHNQIUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Wiper Card and my layout is from today's MERCY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 44. I love Mercy's sketch for today and knew I wanted to use it somehow. I had also viewed the video Beate did for the wiper card and I am a visual person so that was a great help and thought I would give it a try. Love it. I used my new Quickutz embossing folder I got at HL last Friday called diamonds and dots on the cameo layer. I stamped the open leaf image on my bravo burgandy base from this darling set called Simple Wishes found at TREEHOUSE STAMPS in bravo burgandy ink. I just can NOT stop using this darling flower set. I stamped the vanilla layer with the large flowers in cameo coral and the dotted centers with bravo burgandy after stamping off. Stickles to the centers. The leaves are in always artichoke. The little tag that pops up was stamped with get well wishes in burgandy and the small flower in cameo coral after stamping off. The 4 faux brads on the corners are from my crop-a-dile punch. I love how this turned out but what do you think?
RECIPE:
Stamps: Simple Wishes - THS
Paper: bravo burgandy, vanilla, cameo coral, always artichoke
Ink: bravo burgandy, cameo coral, always artichoke
Accessories: crop-a-dile, stickles, ribbon, Quckutz, Diamonds and Dots Embossing Folder
Techniques: Dry embossing, Wiper Card

It's Your Birthday Horses

Well there are about 20 people coming to my house this afternoon expecting a wonderful dinner and fellowship. We have 4 birthdays in October and the are all on just 2 days, 16th nad 22nd. Weird right?? Anyway I did not have a lot of time to think and scout out challenges so this is just one challenge and it is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Dancerriley.
I chose her darling GET WELL SOON card to CASE. I changed the colors, theme, and ribbon placement. I used a set I just bought Friday on my shopping adventure with Shannon from Inkadinkadoo called "Horses" and for my sentiment I used SU It's Your birthday. I love this seasons dp from Recollections - Autumn. I made my own background stamp from one I got in the dollar bin. My image and sentiment are stamped in close to cocoa.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Horse
Paper: Appricot Appeal, Recollections - Autum dp, blue cs?
Ink: close to cocoa
Accessories: ribbon, oval punches

THT019 CASING Me with Autumn Blessings

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Autum Leaves and for today's TREEHOUSE THURSDAY CHALLENGE 019 - CASEing Neva. Yep, that's right, I am CASEing myself this week. Hey I love a challenge and there is not many I will not do. TeeHee. OK so I love trying to make unique shaped cards and this SUNSHINE SCALLOPS Circle Card was soo much fun I decided to try a pumpkin shaped card when I got my new Nestie Pumpkin dies. I envisioned not taking my folded CS all the way to the top would allow for a fold at the top and it did. YEAH! I used the largest for the base and the next one for the front which was also embossed then I used my birthday present to myself that I bought last week on shopping trip with my darling hubby. I bought an air compressor for my Copic Airbrushing system as I am terrified of the cans. I know stupid right, but a fear of explosion is real to me. So I am not so afraid of my compressor, go figure. Anyway I used some Y11 in the center with the die still in place, then some Y26 around the edges. I placed the leaves punched in kiwi kiss around the sentiment stamped in dusty durango. I love how this turned out and hope you do too. Come on play along with the THT challenge. Ashley and all the DT would love to see what you come up with. Just make sure to include THT019 in your keword.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Autumn Blessings - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: Orange Textured CS, White
Ink: Dusty Durango
Accessories: Copic, copic ABS, Nestabilities - Pumpkin
Techniques: Embossing, Airbrushing

Clear and Simple Autumn Release

AUTUMN COLLECTION

WANT IT ALL

You can order the entire collection in one single click. This is a package valued at $135, including all {9} newly released stamp sets.

Spooky Sweets / Woodlands / Holi-Dazzle / Holly Jolly / Cookie Bake

Taste of Christmas / Autumn / Wheat

I just absolutely love the sets released this month. I made some sucker treat toppers. I used some Recollections - Halloween design paper.
For this one I used the pumpkin image stamped on white and colored with copic makers then matted on orange and purple cs. I used some halloween ribbon. The sentiment was stamped in real red.
I stamped this darling image in black, colored with copics and matted on green then orange cs and used some halloween ribbon for decoration.
Here they are side by side.
And here is a picture of the sucker peeking out of the cover.

Come on and visit the rest of the design team to see what they have for your viewing pleasure.

Spooky Sweet Treats Easel Card

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE and Monday's TECNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Easel Card. I love these darling cards and made this one for a special purpuse. I used this month's Stamp of the Month from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMPSrelease called Spooky Sweets that I just adore. Such a fun set to work with. I stamped the candy corn image and sentiments in dusty durango to match the colors in the dp. I found this dp yrs ago when I first began playing around with this addictive hobby. My easel base is some yellow textured cs I have also had for yrs. Maybe if I stop buying NEW stuff I can use up all of this old stuff. LOL. My 3 focal panels are popped up on dimensionals. I used my Fiskars layered deckle punches for the 3 squares on the front and the 2 on the inside with a button attached. Got another early and long day ahead at work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Spooky Sweets - CSS
Paper: white, yellow textured cs, orange, candy corn dp
Ink: dusty durango
Accessories: button, hemp, dimensionals, deckle layered punches, button, hemp
Techniques: Easel Card, 3D

Eat Ham Easel

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Chocolate Bay Appeal and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Easel Card. Oh these easel cards are so much fun. I love them. I also love this new set recently released from TREEHOUSE STAMPScalled Eat Ham. I love this turkey image and the font on the sentiments are just darling. I stamped my image in espresso ink on vanilla cs, colored with copics, then covered the feather sections with stickles. I hope you like it. I have a long day at work away from my puter so I will be back later this afternoon to oohhh and aaahhh at everyone elses creations. Can't wait to see what everyone else makes.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Eat Ham - THS
Paper: Choc chip, appricot appeal CS and PP, Bermuda Bay, Vanilla
Ink: espress, taken with teal
Accessories: oval punches, copics, stickles, CB Argyle Embossing folder
Techniques: Easel Card, Dry Embossing

THS Best Witches

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Easel Card. It took me longer to load this than it did to make it. What a quickie and fun card this is. I will be making more. I also had to make my own button which was TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - 5 Layer Buttons from a few weeks ago. Love that one too. I used Recollections Halloween dp for this and kiwi kiss on the front panel. I punched a Martha Stewart Witch and Cauldron & Spider in black and stamped this cute sentiment from a recently released set called "Best Witches" from TREEHOUSE STAMPS in black. Here is a close up of the button I made using a different piece of dp from that same stack of Recollections. I love making my own buttons.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Best Witches - THS
Paper: Recollections - Halloween, kiwi kiss
Ink: black
Accessories: Martha Stewart Witch and Cauldron & Spider Punches
Techniques: Easel Card, 5 Layer Button

Simple Autumn Blessings for Fall

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Glowbug. I found this FALL/HARVEST RECIPE BOOK and loved the way she used the sunflowers behind the pumpkins. I never have been good at mixing dp's and probably not a good one here either but I tried by using her SCARECROW for inspiration. So I combined combined my 2 inspirational pieces together. I changed the layout by using this weeks OUR CREATIVE CORNER CHALLENGE - SKETCH and I changed the colors. This is also for Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Simply "Fall"ing. My images are from 2 of the recent releases from TREEHOUSE STAMPS called Autumn Blessings and Simple Wishes. I just love both of these sets so much and can not stop using them. Hope you do too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Autumn Blessings &imple Wishes - Treehouse Stamps
Paper: vanilla, MME, Olive, Orange
Ink: Old Olive, Essresso
Accessories: dimensionals
Techniques: masking, 3D

Simpy Falling Harvest Inspiration

This is for today's CARD POSITIONING SYSTEM SKETCH CHALLENGE, Saturday's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - TzaddShop, and Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Simply "Fall"ing. I found my inspiration in this darling picture of this Reversible Prima Glass Art Necklace - Prairie Sunrise. I love fall weather and all the colors of fall as well. I used the cornicopia image from "HARVEST" and a sentiment from "PRAISE HIM" both from CLEAR AND SIMPLE STAMS. My image was colored with copics and the sentiment stamped in real red. My dp is from a stack from My Minds Eye. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Harvest, Praise Him - Clear and Simple Stamps
Paper: white, kiwi kiss, MME, orange
Ink: black, real red

Inspired Autumn Blessings

This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE - TzaddiShop. I found my inspiration from the colors in this lovely AUTUM TREE GLASS ART NECKLACE. This is also for Friday's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Simpy "Fall"ing. I love fall weather and especially the colors of fall. It just does not seem to last long enough. My image was stamped in black brilliance and then colored with copics. My dp is called "June Bug" and stamp set called "Autumn Blessings" are both found at TREEHOUSE STAMPS. This is just one of the 4 stamp sets recently released from Treehouse Stamps and they are all such fun sets. My layout is from today's OUR CREATIVE CORNER SKETCH CHALLENGE. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Autumn Blessings
Paper: white, red, mellow moss, orange
Ink: black brilliance, pumpkin pie, mellow moss
Accessories: oval punhces, copics
Techniques: Out of the Box, 3D