FALL IS IN THE AIR

The two cards below are made using the same Stampin' Up stamp set Happy Blessings (retired) but using different images from the set.  They both use the same sentiment stamp which is hard to read, it says:


happy thanksgiving,
happy fall,
happy blessings
to one and all.
                   

The card above  is for the WT293 Challenge to use fabric on our card and F4A35 to make a flap card.

I have had this fabric by my sewing machine just waiting for the right time to use (have several pieces like that) on a card. I ironed a piece to Heat 'n Bond, cut out with pinking shears and ironed to a piece of More Mustard cardstock. Since I was making a flap card I just used a single piece of Really rust for the base so my card wouldn't be so thick and heavy. I stamped Happy Blessings on watecolor paper using Stazon Saddle Brown ink and watercolored with ink pads using an aquapainter. Distressed all edges and used More Mustard around the image panel edges. The sentiment inside the flap 'cardlet' was cut out using the round and scallop punches. Added some orange buttons after discarding ribbon ideas.  The image panel raises up to show the sentiment like a flap.

This card is for SCS Sketch Challenge 303  shown above. 

 

My oval punches didn't work for my image so I changed to rectangles for my image panel. Stamped Happy Blessings image on Canson watercolor paper using Stazon Saddle Brown ink. Used Faber-Castell watercolor pencils and a aquabrush to color. Used scissors to distress the panels.  The base card is SU More Mustard cardstock and the checked and striped paper is from K-ology.

                             

                                                                               

WHITE OUT

This card was made for two challenges:

1.  One Layer Wednesday (OLW24) to use no white, cream, red or green on our holiday cards..

2. Splitcoaststampers (F4A34) to use no white on our winter cards.

 

My card base is SU Blush Blossom and the sleigh scene from SU Sleigh Bells Ring set is stamped using SU Eggplant Envy.  The sentiment is from a Penny Black set-this and every year.  I used my Fiskars scoring blade and scored a couple of lines by the sentiment. Easy card to make and would be fast to duplicate if you have several holiday cards to make.

                                            

PINK IN THE FALL

I love fall and I love the color pink in all it's variations.  I still have a few 'pinkish' flowers blooming. 

Watermelon crepe myrtle is a beautiful reddish pink.

Sedum Autumn Joy goes through lots of beautiful shades of pink  before settling on a rusty red.

Neon sedum is just that--a gorgeous neon pink.

My Four-O-Clocks have several different shades of pink-beautiful!

The Four-O-Clocks have been really lush and beautiful this year-love the smell.

My lone Cleome plant.  Came up in the front of this bed-not the best place but I left it.  Need to collect seed and plant in a better place next year.

Love the color of this Rose of Sharon bush.

Have just a few Echinacea (coneflowers) blooming.  The hot dry months of July and August slowed things down as I don't water from our well.