Color Hues #143

No Halloween from me for the orange and black challenge at Color Hues.  

I knew I wanted to use my Honey Bee Coneflower for the challenge so I cut it in SB Carrot, inked the inside edges and added a black cone.  The background is a reverse stencil print that I got by using Brushos through a stencil for another challenge. The panel was trimmed down to show a black border and a heat embossed sentiment from The Ton finished it off.  

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Freshly Made Sketches #759

Today's card is for Freshly Made Sketches.  It took a while to decide what to do.  I don't usually send autumn cards, I have a plethora of birthday cards, and I even have enough Christmas cards made.  Guess what I went with?

Only because I bought a vintage paper pack from The Paper Studio and wanted to use some of it.  I also have the Mini Holiday Florals from Honey Bee that I have never used so I put them together and voila'. I'm sorry the leaves look black.  They are actually Altenew Mountain Pine. Since the DSP is 'vintage' I couldn't use white cardstock with it so PTI Rustic White to the rescue.  The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio's Ornaments.  I'm getting a head start on next year's card.  That's the only reason I have so many ready to go - I keep making all year long.  

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The Paper Players #808

Stef wants to see clean and simple autumn cards in the gallery at The Paper Players.  I aim to please.

I love all the fun colors that pumpkins and gourds come in and made a barrel full using Honey Bee's Fall Bounty.  They were cut from scraps of colored cardstock and inked for shading. The barrel is a Sizzix die cut from woodgrain paper.  I wanted them to pop so placed it all on a dark brown panel with a sentiment from Honey Bee that was embossed in copper. 

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Just Us Girls #846 - Stencil Week

I'm hosting Stencil Week over at Just Us Girls and it's Anything Goes.

My image is from Altenew's Lush Garden Craft Your Life Kit.  It comes with stamps, dies, embossing folder and stencils.  After embossing the panel, I stenciled it with Altenew inks, using alcohol markers for the center of the smaller flowers.  The sentiment is from BetterPress.

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CAS Christmas October 2026

The prompt for CAS Christmas is Poinsettia and it was a difficult decision to choose one from the many I have until I accidentally ran across a forgotten one from Waffle Flower and that became the star of my card. 

Just to be different, I went with C9 Dragonfruit for my poinsettia, inking it up with Altenew Razzleberry for depth.  The background is one I got from Darnell ages ago.  I loved the embossed panel but the folder was discontinued so she sent me some.  I used quite a few in the beginning but I'm glad I had a few left so I could use one on this card to make it clean and simple.  The sentiment is from Pinkfresh Studio and although it looks a different color on screen it's actually the same paper.  Side note:  In die cutting the poinsettia I lost the little circle die for the center.  A silver embellishment from PPP did the trick.  

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