WWC #245 Anything Goes Challenge

Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  As it's the 5th Wednesday of the month, it's an Anything Goes Challenge.  

My card today is an Autumnal Thankful card. 

This was made by taking some white card and using the Newton's Nook 2 part stencil with Altenew's Autumn Blaze and Firebrick inks.  I then added the light orange card stamped in with Catherine Pooler Icing on the Cake ink with a sentiment from Catherine Pooler's Autumn Blessings.  I added a die cut strip of dark brown card.  I die cut a number of Kraft leaves from an older Cuttlebug set of die cuts and used some Altenew watercolour paints to colour them up.  One they dried I scrunched them a little for some texture before adding to the card base.  A few sequins to finish. 

Come and join the fun.  Check out the projects that the other artists at Watercooler Wednesday

Challenge have created.  Then take our challenge ant link your creation to the challenge post.  We'd love to have you join us.  You have until Monday at 5 pm  Mountain Standard Time (Tuesday at 11.00am NZ time ) to link up your project. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Twofer Wreath.

 

I haven't played along with Darnell's Twofer card challenge for awhile but the arrival of my Gina K Wreath Builder stencil this week, got me enthused to join this month's Wreath Challenge.   

I took a couple of stamps from Catherine Pooler's Candy Cane Lane set (the two holly stamps and the matching berries) and started off my wreaths.  Both cards use the same design 

I did the Christmas one first, using some Altenew inks for the holly leaves and the berries.  Once I had these done, I used some little peg stamps from Rubber Stamp Tapestry to fill in the rest of my wreath.  Added a few red Nuvo drops.   The centre of the wreath was stamped with a Penny Black sentiment.   I used my score board to make around the edges of the panel and mounted it onto a dark green mat.  The card base was also scored.

My second card is a fall colour card with a thankful theme.  I used the holly leaves in brown/orange inks and darker different greens for the extra little bits and pieces.  Added some dark blue glitter N dr

I die cut the thankful die from some shimmery brown card and added it as a mat as well.

I really enjoyed using the holly stamps as autumn leaves. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Autumn Mini Pizza Box

Hi.  It's my day at Die Cut Divas and I'm sharing an Autumn Project.  Our theme this month is Autumn/Halloween.    Our sponsor is DiesRUs.

 I used some alcohol inked background to die cut some leaves.  Add with some leaf flourishes and some flowers spritzed with some Lindy's Gang spray - gives a real shine in real life. 

A fun little project that I will use to use as a gift box for a friend. 

Thanks for stopping by

It's time to Celebrate with Die Cut Divas

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It's my day at Die Cut Divas again....

So here's my Fall inspired card using some Hero Arts stamps and a Spellbinders circle die.

Here's how I made this one
1. Die cut Spellbinders Die circle die out of scrap card to make a mask
2. Sponge on Distress inks in Peeled Paint and Tumbled Glass through the mask
3. Remove mask and stamp the trees (Hero Arts Color Layering Fall Tree)  in Hero Arts Cup o'Joe ink.
4. Stamp the layering leaves in Frayed Burlap, Spiced Marmalade, Aged Mahogany, Mustard Seed inks
5. Stamp the sentiment - From an older Hero Arts set
6. Layer onto black mat and then white card base.

I do hope you will join us at Die Cut Divas for the last few days of our Fall themed holiday. 

Autumn Leaves

 Today I'm sharing a card I made for Die Cut Divas. 

I used Mia (available here).  I coloured her with Copics and cut with a Spellbinders oval die.  I used some techniques I learnt in the latest Online Card Classes - clouds in the background and the grass.  My background was fun to make.  I used some heavy kraft paper and embossed it.  I then took a Kaleidacolor inkpad called Autumn colours and using a brayer coloured up the embossing and the background.  I then used the same ink to colour another piece of paper and stamped a leaf from a Winnie & Walter stamp and fussy cut the leaves.  The sentiment is from the same Winnie & Walter set and is stamped in a speech bubble die cut from Penny Black.  

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll come and join me and the Divas with your Autumn or Spring projects. 

A new challenge at Die Cut Divas.... Autumn and Animals

Hannah has set a new challenge over at Die Cut Divas for October and it's a goodie.... Animals/Autumn.... or a combination of two.  Hannah's lovely sample combines the two.

For my card I chose to do an Autumn card.

I used a sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.  The card started life as a single layer, but the base was a bit flimsy, so it got trimmed and added to another card base.  I sponged a white linen card with Aged Mahogany distress ink and stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in the middle.  The leaves are cut from an old book with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die. I used 4 distress inks ~ Dried Marigold, Tea Dye, Iced Spruce and Aged Mahogany to distress the leaves. I entered it into the September challenge over at Penny Black and More

It is Spring here in New Zealand so the idea of doing Autumn cards is a bit backward for me.  But I did have fun making this one.   

Please come and join us this month with your Autumn or Animal projects ~ just remember you need to use your die cutting machine, either to emboss or to die cut.                              

I'm just off to put away some fresh Snapper that hubby has just finished filleting.  Our son went out on a fishing trip today and dropped in a couple of fish on his way home.  Tomorrow night.. fresh fish for dinner!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great week.

The Music is all around us!

all you have to is Listen.... isn't this a great sentiment.  I found it on the 'net and used it for a card I made for the recent 90 minute scramble on this card

While I was participating in the scramble I made a background but due to the fact I used Green ink and that was not in the brief....and as I was not happy with this card... I did some de-constructing and some re-constructing.

As you can see, I took the die cut sentiment piece off, removed the stars, took the background music off and replaced it with the background I made.  I added the sentiment die and then stamped the Penny Black birds onto watercolour paper and coloured with Inktense pencils.  I did the colouring while I was Skyping with Isha in Switzerland.  I am much happier with the card now.

We've off to dinner with friends tonight.  One of the local Indian restaurants is having a good special on so we are making  the most of it. 

I'll leave you with a photo I took this week that show that Autumn is making itself felt here at last

Mygrafico Monday Feature ~ Fall into Fall

Here I am back with another Monday Feature for Mygrafico.  Still continuing in our theme of Fall cards.... the team got to work with a fabulous set from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff....

Not only does it have these fabulous images in JPG and PNG formats but it also has SVG cutting files for use with SCAL, MTC or other cutting software that supports SVG files and die cut machines that support SVG files.  How cool is that!  I don't have an electronic cutting machine, so I worked with the images and cut them out by hand.

I used a Hero Arts stamp ~ Square Pattern Background ~ and Kaleidacolor ink in "Autumn" and trimmed a piece for my centre panel.  I printed out the pumpkins and fussy cut.  I highlighted the shadows on the pumpkins with a glitter pen.  I added some curls of wire to the stems.   The sentiment is from a Simon Says stamp set.   I finished with some faux stitching around my card.
Entering this into Addicted to Stamps ~ Autumn Colours

Pop over to the blog to see the other's came up with.    And a heads up.... there's a DT call coming up shortly over at Mygrafico ....so if you love working with digi's and can do some fun projects and take some creative photos.... then keep an eye open and try out for the team...

I've had a great evening organising my distress inks and labelling them.   Do you know, I'm only missing one colour of distress ink... I didn't even realise I had that many!!!!!!


Dawn

Autumn colours

With Fall coming in the Northern Hemisphere, lots of challenges are around that theme.  I love the autumn colours... the rusts, browns, oranges, etc.  Hero Arts have a Fall theme this month and I decided to play with some new HA stamps and a couple of older ones....

My new stamp is the Square Pattern cling.  I inked it up by brayering Kaleidacolor ink "Autumn"  and stamped it onto cream card.  I used part of it for this card and some for another one ~ for a DT sample.  I inked up some card with brown ink and trimmed off a couple of thin strips to put either side of the panel.  The sentiment is an older HA stamp that I've had for ages.  I added the leaves, all stamped in various Distress ink and fussy cut, with a button and twine.

As it's Sunday, it a new challenge over at Red Carpet Studio.  This week it's the turn of the Layout Team to inspire you.  They have a great sketch challenge.   Do pop over and have a look.

Enjoy the coming week....

Dawn 

Mygrafico challenge ~Autumn

Northern hemisphere folk are well into their Autumn (Fall) with leaves changing colours.... and this week at Mygrafico we are celebrating with an Autumn challenge.  The Design team got to use this Autumn Elements Stamp by Dilek Design Studio and you have a chance to win it...by joining us in the challenge.

I decided to use the scarecrow image for my sample...



I used a Word document to make my scarecrow scene, using the above stamp and a sentiment from Tiffany Doodles (here) I printed it out and then made a mask.  I stamped Hero Arts Silhouette Grass in distress ink.  I printed the scarecrow  onto some patterned paper and pieced his coat. I coloured the rest with Copic markers.  My card base was stamped with Envelope Pattern in Tea Dye distress ink.  I added my scene panel and then did some hand stitching around the edge.   The seam binding was coloured with the distress ink.

Hop over to Mygrafico and see what my team have come up with using this set, and join us for the challenge.  Entries will be accepted until November 18th, midnight ~ Please review the rules as some rules have changed – rules can be read here.
To be considered, entries must use the Autumn theme.  

Thanks for stopping by.   

Cheers

Dawn

CFC #19 ~ Falling to Pieces....

 

CAS-ual Friday's challenge is fun this week... to use paper piecing with a Fall theme.  Well here in NZ we are heading to spring... so it took a bit of thinking to come up with something suitable.... helped though by some Tiffany Doodle digi images I won this week.

As I wanted to enter Hero Arts challenge this month~Anything Autumn, I combined some leaf stamps and my TD images.  The frame and sentiment are digital.  I combined the two images in Word and printed once on white card and once on some green PP from Cosmo Cricket Pixielious.  I then pieced the frame and leaf onto the white card.  Coloured the rest of the frame with a Marvey Le Plume II marker.  I then cut the lot out.   My base card is pumpkin colour and I added some texture with HA Raindrop background in Tea Dye distress ink.   I then took  the smallest leave from HA Three leaves set and stamped it on the PP.  I cut them out ( does that count for paper piecing?)  I bunched the leaves together and added to my base then popped the frame.  

Today brought even more happy mail.... cards and a couple of little stamp sets... thank you so much Anne and Donna... and Brenda.  You made my day.   Mail was there when I got home from my first walk of the day.... wet and cold as I got caught in a shower of rain.  Made me feel better.

Enjoy your week

Dawn