Inkspirational #146

This photo at Inkspirational

inspired me to make this card.

I noticed the bittersweet hanging from the basket which was a perfect way to use my PTI Fall berries.  A few leaves from HA, a sentiment from Jillian Vance and some spatters were all I needed to finish up another Thanksgiving card.

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CAS Watercolor #1

There's a new challenge in town.  CAS Watercolor is a sister to challenge CAS Mix-up and the brain child of Bonnie and Loll.  I'm thinking this will be a very successful endeavor.  The theme for this first challenge is Autumn.

The stamp from Penny Black is watercolored with Distress Inks.

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Time Out #65

I've finally had a little time to get some crafting done and it feels good.  My card for this post is for Time Out.  Their theme of  "Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year" brought about this card.

Using my MISTI, I stamped the tree from Stamplorations with several shades of Distress Ink, then cut a panel with MFT's Wonky Stitches.  The sentiment is from PTI.

As I look out my craft room window I see trees beginning to turn.  Nooooo. I'm not ready yet even though I love Autumn with all it's beautiful color.  It also means raking leaves, a chore I'm not fond of.

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Time Out #42, The Challenge #47 and Curtain Call

I'm so glad I got a steal of a deal on the SSS pumpkins.  There are a number of challenges now, and I'm sure some coming up, that are asking for pumpkins.

The photo inspiration at Time Out.

The photo inspiration at The Challenge

and the photo inspiration at Curtain Call.  I just saw this one and although my pumpkins are a little different in color, they're still pretty.

The papers are from a variety of paper packs.   I made my own black and orange pumpkins by coloring black and white paper with a Distress Marker.  The sentiment from PTI is embossed on a strip of black cut with a MFT banner.  It looked a little plain when I was laying out my design so I white embossed the background with the MFT burlap stamp.

I can see I will get a LOT of use from those dies.

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Inkspirational #92

I love the little scene that is the inspiration over at the Inkspirational challenge.  Autumn is my favorite time of year, even if it is the precursor to winter.

I had several different things I wanted to try but my first idea came out like I imagined it and so that's what I'm going with.

To me, my Tim Holtz stripe stencil looks a little like trees so using Soft Stone cs I inked over the stencil with Stormy Sky Distress Ink.  I was a little nervous about splattering DI for the leaves but it's only paper after all.  If it doesn't work I can try something else but I was delighted with the results.  The sentiment is computer generated, inked with DI and popped up.  The photo makes it look like it's on crooked but it's not.  Truly it isn't.

ETA: I'm also going to send this over to Time Out whose challenge is "Autumn ... the year's last, loveliest smile".  Thanks for reminding me, Sandie.
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Harvest Time

The Sweet Sunday sketch this week looked like this.

And my card looks like this.

The digital image is from pcCrafter, an online site for what we used to call "clip art."  I have a lot of images that I purchased between 2005 and 2010 but haven't used in a while.  I decided it was time to break them out and add them to my cards.  I tried to hang the pennants from a branch to emulate the sign in the image but they didn't get spaced evenly.  I cut them out by hand and inked them up.  The background is dry embossed with the Tiny Mosaics Cuttlebug folder and the scalloped border with decorative scissors.  How many different things can I use in one card: digital image, Cricut cut, decorative scissor cut, hand cut, embossing, inking.  I guess bling would be the only thing left and this card just wasn't ready for that.

Autumn Challenge

I have decided that sketch challenges are not necessarily the easiest ones to do.  The sketch itself is interesting but if it's not the kind of cards you usually do, it can take a while for it to all come together.  Case in point:  this card.

The sketch was from Sweet Sunday Sketch and I thought I could also enter it into Sentimental Sundays - Autumn.  I struggled some with what to do for a border and the 2 little embellishments.  I tried a number of Cricut cuts but nothing looked right.  I think my final decisions work although it took most of a day to finish to my satisfaction.

All the printed papers are from DCWV's Amber Autumn stack (what else? lol).  I layered two different papers with a green between.  The sentiment was printed on the computer, matching the ink to the green.  The border is an MS punch and the little leaves are cut from Doodlecharms.  All the cream paper was inked with Distress Ink in Vintage Photo, Marigold, and Shabby Shutters.  A piece of shiny rust colored ribbon runs across the punched border, covering up the center holes.  The squares were mounted on dimensionals in two layers and the leaves have dimentionals between the green and cream layer.

Now I need to check out what other challenges are out there.  Hopefully I can get them done a little faster.