All About Circles

Hello! Back with another quick post.   This card was made with a Pumpkin stamp from Repeat Impressions that I stamped with Memento Tangelo ink on white card stock and fussy cut.  I simply attached a panel of orange and white dotted pattern paper from stash to a white card base and stamped a GKD sentiment with  the orange ink and heat embossed with clear EP.  I attached the pumpkin and glued on some orange dots punched with a hole punch.  Made it look like one of those fancy designer pumpkins! Easy, peasy!

Challenges:

Double D Challenges: Orange and White
The House That Stamps Built: Challenge DCC 0219 Circles

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Fall is in the Air

Hello! It's beginning to feel like fall and the time to create some fall cards.  This card was made with a patterned paper from Gina K Designs Sun Kissed Autumn paper pack (had in my stash awhile), GKD Fresh Asparagus and Honey Mustard CS's, and GKD Skeleton Leaves stamp set. I stamped the leaf 3 times with DOI Spiced Marmalade on a strip of White CS. Assembled the card adding some Dewdrops and a sentiment from GKD Always Autumn set.

Challenges:

Gina K Designs Monthly Mix Challenge: September Challenge Fall is in the air- create your own patterned paper or use some of your Gina K. Designs patterned papers with a fall theme.

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: September Always about using Patterned Papers.

Allsorts Challenge: Week 536 Autumn Colors

Creative with Stamps: CWS #42 Autumn

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Thanksgiving Modern Grid

Welcome to the studio.  Today I have a Grid Card for the  Modsquad Challenge- make a modern grid on your background.  The header for the challenge said "Floral" but the challenge did not call for this to be a floral card? This is my first attempt to make this type card where you draw grid lines skipping over the focal image.  I decided to go with a Thanksgiving theme for my card.  I used only Gina K Stamps, actually used stamps from 9 different GKD sets.  I used pumpkins as my focus and included fall items pinecone, acorn, caterpillar, and abstract designs and some doodles as well. Colored with Copics, Memento inks, and DOI.  It took longer to find the stamps that I used than to make the card. Finished with some Dewdrops.
The GKD sets that I used: Always Autumn, Seasonal Sentiments, Holiday Wreath Builder, Tiny Textures, A Year Of Flowers, A Year of Leaves, Buds & Vases, Candles & Cake, Gifts of the Sea.

Other Challenges:
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Thanks/Thanksgiving
Simon Monday Challenge: Simon says Thanks/Thanksgiving
Always Fun Challenges: #84 Pumpkins

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Playing With Fall Leaves

 Hello!  The first card shown is made with older Gina K Design stamps from 2009 - leaf from Signs of Autumn set and sentiment from Life is Good set. I used Memento Markers Cantaloupe, Potter's Clay, Dandelion, and Pear Tart to ink up the leaf 4 times and stamped on White CS.  Sentiment stamped in Potter's Clay.  Added some scoring on outer edge of panel with image and also inked the edges.  Used white card base.
Challenges:
Stamp TV: Monthly Mix Challenge Autumn is in the Air MMC 9201
613 Avenue Create: Challenge 213 Anything Goes Optional Twist CAS
AAA Cards: CAS Game #123 Sketch.
CAS Mix Up Card Challenge: September-Ink stamps with markers +Stamping + Your choice.
     I inked stamps with Memento Markers, stamped the leaves and sentiment, and did scoring.

My second card uses 2 leaf stamps from GKD Signs of Autumn set (2009) and a sentiment from GKD Always Autumn( 2014).   I stamped the leaves randomly with Memento Potter's Clay, Rhubarb Stalk, Morocco, and Tangelo inks.   Used a card base of Tomato Soup and mat of Sweet Mango(?) both GKD CS. Matted the stamped sentiment with the same CS's and tied on a brown twine from Jellibean Soup.

Challenges to enter second card:

Stamp TV: Monthly Mix Challenge Autumn is in the Air MMC 9201

Retro Rubber Challenge: #94 Anything Goes.  All stamps used are over 1 year old. Leaves are 9 years old and sentiment 4 years old. 

Simon Monday Challenge: Simon Says Fall/Autumn

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon Says Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge: L is for Leaves

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Turkey from the Past

Hello!  Today I am playing with Pattern Paper scraps and using a Turkey design from the past.  I cut 2 circles from Brown CS and added feathers, legs, etc. free cut from scraps.  Finished with a Green card base and a mat of another Pattern Paper. Tag is also a pattern Paper.  

Challenges:
Use Your Stuff: Challenge UYS #288-Use 5 or more Patterned paper on a project.  Used 7 patterns on this card.

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge #504 Birds/Animals

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Anything goes with Pattern Paper. 

Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #343 Thanks or Turkey. 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Thanksgiving Theme

Hello!  For fall cards, I keep going back to this Pumpkin stamp that I think is PSX and I have had many years.  I created this card for several challenges adding a Sunflower to the card with an old MFP stamp. The sentiment is from Gina K Design set.

Other Supplies: Papers-GKD Ivory CS, Heartfelt Creations Classic Edition Collection; Inks-Memento Rich Cocoa, SU Always Artichoke, Distress Ink Antique Linen, Copics.

Challenges:

Cards In Envy: Just Pumpkins. Card is flat for use in an envelope. 2nd entry.

Retro Rubber: Challenge 51 Be Thankful. Inspired by photo to use pumpkin and sunflower. Pumpkin stamp is older than 2 years+ as well as the sunflower stamp.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly: #207 Gobble 'til you Wobble. Make a Thank You or Thanksgiving Card

Double D Challenges: Harvest Blessings/Give Thanks

Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Thanks/Thanksgiving

The House That Stamps Built: Challenge DCC119 Being Thankful

Just For Fun November Challenge: Give Thanks

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: November Use Patterned Papers

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Made with Real Leaves

 

Hello!  When I saw the inspiration photo at All the Little Things challenge, I immediately thought of  some patterned paper that I created a few years ago by collecting fall leaves, arranging them on my scanner, scanning them and printing my own paper design.  I made the quick  and easy card  by simply adhering a panel of the paper on an Orange Card base and attached words cut from Brown CS with Cheery Lynn designs.  I don't think this will be considered a real entry for the challenges but just wanted to share how you can make your own pattern paper with Little Things from Nature.

 

Challenges:
Inspired By All The Little Things: #29 Photo

Simon Monday Challenge: Theme is Autumn. My card is very simple but screams Autumn.

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Falling Leaves

Hello!  The leaves have being falling really fast with the rain and wind that we have had in the last few days.  Just waiting for them to dry before raking begins. But in the meantime, I made this card with falling leaves.  I used SU More Mustard, Old Olive, and Really Rust Reinkers and Ink pads with an old PSX Leaf Stamp and a GKD Splatter stamp.  I also did some water coloring on the leaves with a water brush and added some gold to the edges with a Pilot Gold Marker The MFP Stamp was heat embossed with Gold EP. A Grass Green card base and a layer of pattern paper from my stash finished the card.
Challenges:
Inspired by All the Little Things: Photo Inspiration #29
Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge: #70 Tic Tac Toe-Top Row-Leaves, Green, Patterned Paper
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper: October Challenge

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Chevron Pumpkins

 

Welcome!   I have another Pumpkin card.  I found this pumpkin stamp from the past and just had to ink for this quick and simple card.  The stamp is unmarked but I think it is from PSX.   I stamped the Pumpkins twice with Memento Espresso Truffle ink - once on a creamy paper and once on orange CS. I colored the vines and stems with Copics and fussy cut the orange pumpkins.  I embossed the pumpkins with a Chevron EF and inked the raised stripes with Brilliance Platinum Planet ink before attaching to card.  The verse is form GKD and stamped with SU Always Arthichoke ink.  I finished the card with an Orange card base and a couple of Dew Drops.  I love how the texture of the Pumpkins pop out of the photo.

Challenges:

The Card Concept: #60 Chevron Pumpkin.  I consider the style of this card Clean and Layered as I used paper piecing and embossing with some embellishments.

 

 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Glittery Pumpkin

 

Hello!  I have combined pattern paper, gold metallic CS, die cuts, and a fussy cut pumpkin to create this card.  The Repeat Impressions pumpkin was stamped on an Oyster Pearl CS with Versamark and embossed with Gold EP.  I decorated the pumpkin with Metallic Gold Dots to make even more glittery. 

Supplies: DCWV Shimmery Gold CS, Metallic Gold CS, MME Stripe and Dot Pattern Paper, Cheery Lynn Dies Happy and Thanksgiving, Sakura Gold Metallic Pen, Repeat Impression Stamp.

Challenges to enter:
Curtain Call Challenge: Photo Inspiration Glittery Gourds

Tuesday Throwdown: Challenge #316 Festive Pumpkins

The House That Stamps Built: DCC1012 Food or Beverage

Pals Paper Arts: Challenge PPA322 Sketch

Sweet Stampin Challenge: Seeing Spots and/or Stripes.

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: October Challenge

 

 

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Pumpkins for Thanksgiving

I'm back!  Again I am playing with the Carved Wood Background technique that I saw here on Stamp TV.  You make a wood grain design on cardstock with scoring and inks and then emboss with an EF and then wipe with white pigment ink to get the final result.  This is a second card for the WCMD challenge at Gina K Design.  I thought I could improve on my first try at this technique.

Supplies: GKD White, Ivory, and Brown  CS; Stamp-Gina K Always Autumn and Signs of Autumn; Inks-Morocco, Memento Rich Cocoa and Desert Sand, Brilliance Moonlight White; Copics; Cuttlebug EF Victoria.

Challenges:
Stamp TV: WCMD1 challenge-use Carve Wood Technique
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says anything goes.
Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge: #67 Sketch
Addicted to Stamps: Challenge 213 Holiday

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy Thanksgiving

Hello! Today I am sharing a card that I made using an already colored Dearie Doll digital image.  Uncolored images are also available but I went the easy (lazy) way and the colors are so bright and perfect.   This card was so easy to create I almost feel guilty that I did not work that much.  I simply printed the image on white CS and trimmed with Spellbinders Divine Eloquence die and placed on a orange mat and then a brown CS base. I stamped the MFP Happy Thanksgiving with Memento Rich Cocoa ink.   Even the die cutting was easy since I used dryer sheets with my die and the pieces popped right out.  Have you tried that easy step? 

Challenges:
Cards in Envy: Put some extra layers on.  My card does not have that many layers but the image is wearing a jacket.
Die Cuttin Divas: #242  is Thanksgiving. Used Spellbinders Die.
Tuesday Throwdown: #271 challenge is Shopping Spree.  My card shows some Pumpkin Shoppers.
Simon Monday Challenge:  Challenge is Thanks/Thanksgiving
Shopping Our Stash: #228 Challenge is make a Thank You or Thanksgiving.

 

 Wishing everyone a great  and blessed Thanksgiving!

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Colors and Patterns Challenge

Hello!  The challenge at The Shabby Tea Room for week #262 is Colors and Patterns  shown in the graphic on the right.   When I saw the colors, I thought of a Thanksgiving card and pulled out polka dot and chevron patterns to use on rectangles --the shape inspired by the shapes of the bottles. The pine cones in the photo reminded me of an Embossing Folder Pine Branches by Darice.
I began the card by embossing a Ecru Glossy card stock and inking the raised designs with Memento Rich Cocoa and Tangelo inks. I cut the strips of Pattern Paper from Echo Park and created the chevron pattern by embossing a strip of the Ecru glossy paper and inking the surface. I fussy cut another pine cone using the EF and attached to the lower corner.  I cut the words with Cheery Lynn Dies to finish the card.  I think I managed to capture some of the colors and patterns from the inspiration.

Other Challenges to enter:
Cheery Lynn Designs Blog: Challenge is anything goes with the use of Cheery Lynn Dies
Creative Corner Challenge:  Use no stamps



Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Thanksgiving Pumpkins

Hello!  Glad you stopped by on this first day of October!  Soon it will be Thanksgiving, time for some pumpkin fun.  My card today is a square one made for Stamp TV 's Gina K Designs Release Challenge called Autumn Square.  We are to make a square card with an Autumn Theme. 
I used Gina K Always Autumn stamp set for my design and her Pattern Paper from The Simple Things pad and Ivory CS. Other supplies were Memento Tuxedo Black and Morocco inks, Copics YR02,18,20,21, YG93,95, E25,34, and a Leaf Brad.  The color inspiration came from my table placemat shown as the background in the photo.

Other challenges:
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Use pattern paper
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says anything goes.
Sweet Stamps Blog: October challenge is anything goes


I love reading your comments.
Thanks, Theresa

Pumpkin Card

Hello!  My fall card really looks better in real life than in this photo.  I made this for some of the many fall/ autumn challenges.  I used the sketch from Tuesday morning but rotated to a horizontal layout. I made the background with leaf stamp and distress inks.  I actually added a gold ribbon tied around the strip of ribbon after this photo was taken....will have to add another photo.

Supplies used: Stamps from Gina K Always Autumn, Memento Tangelo and Espresso Truffle inks, Distress Inks,  Green Copics, Ivory CS, Rust CS, Pilot Gold Marker, Vesamark, Gold EP, Bit of Leaf Ribbon with Metallic Thread, Spellbinder Die.

Challenges:
Tuesday Morning Sketches: #319 Sketch by Debbie
Simon Monday Challenges: Use a Stamp
Addicted to Stamps: Challenge is Addicted to Holidays
Stamp TV: Mix It Up Monday Time For Fall-Make a fall card
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says No Designer Paper

Have a great day! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Thanksgiving Couple

 Hello!  It soon will be Thanksgiving and we have so much to be Thankful for and I thought of those Blessings as I created this card using a great digital image from Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps who has so many cute images for FREE.  I printed this Pilgrim Couple ready to give thanks and colored them with Copics and Pencils. I trimmed the image and placed on a GKD Pattern Paper with orange ribbons from stash.  The Card Base is a rust colored CS.  The stamp is MFP"s inked with Memento Rich Cocoa.  I followed the sketch from Sweet Sunday but with a flip.

Challenges:
AAA Cards: Thanksgiving CAS
CAS on Sunday: Use ribbon or twine
Craft Your Passion Challenge: Pumkins or Turkeys
Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge:  Make a Thank You or grateful project, or make something based on the Thanksgiving theme.
Sweet Sunday Sketch: #245 Shown on right.
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

Thanksgiving Card

Hello!  The month of September has flown by and Thanksgiving will soon be here.  I made this quick card focusing on some pattern paper printed from GKD Digital paper pack All About Autumn.  I have many digital papers but  forget to use. I placed the pattern on a card base of Dark Brown CS and then added a strip  with a border of Fall Acorns and Leaves that was embossed with Ranger Embossing Pearl Gold. The stamp is from GKD A Year of Borders by Melanie.  The sentiment from GKD Always Autumn by Theresa was embossed in the same way on a Rectangle die cut with Nestabilities.

Challenges:
Mod Squad Challenge: Word Challenge Holiday              
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

I did another version of this card for Stamp TV Challenge Mix It Up  Monday Falling Leaves using a verse from GKD A Year of Leaves by Melanie shown on left.



   I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa

What a Turkey?

I am back with another card using my fingerprints and a thumbprint for the center. The One Layer challenge at Less is More this week is to Adapt a Fingerprint. I decided to make a turkey....saw this on the web.   I used Memento inks Rich Cocoa, Peanut Brittle, Tangelo, and Cantaloupe. Colored eyes and beak with Glaze pens.    I finished with a sentiment from Creative Visions double stamped with Potter's Clay and Rich Cocoa inks.  
 
Signing off with inky fingers.
I enjoy all your comments. Thank you. Theresa