Pumpkin Chai Latte

Hello friends ~ 

It's cold and rainy here today so I've made you a pumpkin chai latte to enjoy.

 

I was mainly playing around with the new to me, Holiday Citrus Layering Stencil from The Ton.  

 

Even though the Holiday Citrus stencil is meant fro Christmas, I decided to repurpose it for a fall card instead.

 

I popped it onto this large coffee mug from Marianne Designs and added a sprinkle of cinnamon to the whipped cream using silk microfine glitter from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

 I'll be entering this card into the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Fall Challenge

 

Time Out Challenges ~ inspired by the coffee mugs and warm colors

 

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Sunflower Card ~ World Card Making Day

Good morning friends ~ Did you participate in any of the festivities for World Card Making Day?  I played along over at A Cherry On Top and was able to add quite a few cards to my stash.  

The fall card challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to use up some of this design paper from Graphic 45.  It's been in my stash for much too long.

 

This fabulous sunflower die is also an oldie from Cheery Lynn Designs, and to this day is still one of my favorite sunflowers dies.  

 

I'll be popping this card into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

A Cut Above ~ October Challenge 

Sunday Stamps ~ Autumn Whispers

 

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Sunflower Postage

Hi friends ~ I'm bringing you a little sunshine with this bright and cheerful sunflower postage card featuring Sunflower stencils from Waffle Flower.

 

I honestly can't get enough of all these fantastic WF stencils!  For it's first use, I stenciled both the rectangle and the circle images not knowing if I'd use them both on a single card, but as you can see I did.

  

I don't have the coordinating dies for this set, but I found that the Elizabeth Craft Designs postage stamp fit the rectangle image perfectly.  I also rummaged through the circle dies and found this Stitched Pinked Circles from Impression Obsession that fit pretty well.

 

I used the WF postage stamp stencils around the edges of an A2 card base, giving it the look of an air mail envelope and then stamped a couple of the postage stamp images from their postage stamp set.  
 

 I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

A Cut Above ~ Anything Goes September

Triple B Challenge ~ Yellow

 

I hope this is Clean and Simple enough for the CAS Mix Up Challenge ~ Sunflowers.  If not, I'm sure they'll let me know.

 

Time Out Challenge ~ Seasonal Colors Where You Live

 

 I chose these colors because we've had beautiful blue skies to set off the lovely yellow sunflowers growing in our garden right now. 

 

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Halloween Pup

Hello dearies ~  

 

What started out to be a Christmas card, turned into a Halloween card.  I had seen a Christmas card with this style of background on Pinterest and set out to make one for myself. 

 

 

Using Waffle Flower Postage Stamp stencil and die, I pulled out Crackling Campfire DOX ink but when I put ink to the kraft cardstock it was orange and not red. I had never used this color before and the color on the cover looked red to me.  It was a head slapping moment for me when I realized campfire isn't normally red.  Anyway, I proceeded to turn this into a Halloween card by stamping some postage and Halloween images into the sections of the stamps.  I also added some black ink splatters and set that aside to dry while I perused the Halloween dies.

 

Spellbinders Woof-or-Treat die won out.  I bought this little guy last year and never used it so this is his maiden voyage.

 

The sentiment and spider are both from Poppystamps.  You can see in the close up that I added some Onyx Black Liquid Pearls to their eyes.  Isn't that the life of a crafter, sometimes we just have to switch gears and let the process play out.  I like how the background has a vintage-y look to it.  I will try again to make a Christmas background.

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:
Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Two Old Bats Halloween ~ Anything Goes

Cut It Up ~ Black and Orange

A Cut Above ~ September Anything Goes 

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A Welcome Breeze

Good morning stamping friends ~ 

 The temps have shifted here on the east coast and fall is on the horizon.  I've been enjoying having the windows wide open.

 The Greetery's "Fresh Air" beckons the fresh, crisp fall air.

 

I cut the window out of the front panel and when you open the card, the scene is pretty much the same.

 

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

The Paper Players ~ CAS 

 

Krafty Chicks Challenge ~ CAS

 

 Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

  

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Foraged Just For You

Hello and happy August!  Today's card is a sweet, summer shaped card featuring mushrooms which I foraged just for you.

 

To begin with, I used these new Keyplate Etched Dies from Say It With Stamps.  This past winter I was the winner of a whole box of brand new dies from A Cherry On Top, and this set of dies was among them.  I hadn't used them until now and I'm so pleased with them! 

 

The mushrooms and fauna are from Cottage Cutz.  I die cut them from textured cardstock and added color by sponging on Distress Inks.

 

The printed papers are just a gathering of scraps found in my scrap box.  

I really like how this card turned out and it's one more birthday card added to my stash.  Bonus, that it can be used for a masculine or feminine birthday.

 

I'll be adding this card to the following challenges:

Time Out Challenges ~ Nature

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

Love Those Pretty Papers ~ No Option
A Cut Above ~ August 

 

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Fall Colors ~ DD Challenges

Good morning.  Are you gearing up for Thanksgiving day?  My friends and I over at DD Challenges have a new challenge starting today, and the theme is "Fall Colors".

 

I was scrolling through Instagram one day and came across a lovely hourglass card made by Kelly Schirmer using this die set from The Greetery.  I just had to recreate my own version of it using printed papers from my stash. 

 

The printed paper is from the "Fall Break" collection from Carta Bella.  It's quite retired by now, I think.

 

The leaves and acorns are from Lawn Fawn, tied with a twine bow and the sentiment is from Honeybee Stamps.

 

The paper collection is 6x6, which allowed me to cut two images from one sheet of paper.  Two cards for the price of one.  I love it when that happens.  

 

 

The gals at Double D Challenges have some lovely cards for inspiration for you, but here's an inspiration tile to get you started:

 

 

and here's the prize you could win when you play along:

 

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Fall Wreaths ~ DD Challenges

Hello my friends ~  The girls at DD Challenges are at it again.  We've got a new challenge starting today and the theme is Fall Wreaths.

 

 

I used Rustic Floral Wreath from Pinkfresh Studio and stenciled using DOX inks, and then cut the wreath out using the coordinating die. 

 

I added some yellow stickles to the flowers for added interest.  The sentiment is from Honeybee Stamps.

 

I placed the wreath onto an oval cut using Stitched Scalloped ovals from My Creative Time and placed it over a background that was die cut using an old PTI cover plate.  Sorry I don't remember the name of it, as the package is long gone.

 Please take a quick moment to visit DD Challenges to see some other beautiful work from the talented design team.

 

Here's the inspiration board:

 

and here's what you could win when you play along: 

 

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Retro Halloween Box

Hello crafty friends ~ 

 

I've been sitting on these Tim Holtz costume boxes for way too long. These came out a few years ago and I just loved the vintage / retro graphics.  He had a line of Christmas boxes as well, which I've used in the past, and I still have some.  What can I say.... I just love everything vintage!

 

Anywho... This image from Crafty Secrets (also ages old) was sitting in my stash and I thought, how perfectly they go together.  The pumpkins are from Pretty Little Studio.  I just adore their line of vintage die cuts.

 

If you peek into the box, you'll see I used some wild polka dotted paper to line the box with, and I added some cheese cloth behind the trio of trick-or-treaters.  This adds a layer of texture and softness.

 

I remember having so much fun coming up with our own ideas for creating costumes for Halloween.  Very rarely did our costumes come in a box.  They came from our imagination.  Those were the days.

 I think I'll add this project to the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday ~ Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Anything Fall

Neglected Stuff Challenge ~ The box and image 

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