Glittered Pumpkins

Here is a fall card I made for yesterdays color challenge on Splitcoaststampers. The colors I used were Stampin Up!'s 'Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss, and Very Vanilla'. I used three different stamp sets to make this card: Hero Arts "November" and "Happy Thanksgiving" and Inkadinkado "Harvest Expressions".

I stamped the large pumpkin twice so I wouldn't have to cut out the swirly stems. First I stamped on the vanilla carstock, then I stamped it again and cut it out, placing it over the first stamped image. The other two smaller pumpkins were also cut out. I used Stampin Up! 'Heat and Stick' powder and 'Dazzling Diamonds' to get the glittery look on the pumpkins. The leaves are from Walmart. They come with the glitter already on them and I got the whole bag for only $1.00. The ribbon is from Michaels. The edges of the vanilla cardstock were sponged with 'Tangerine Tango' and 'More Mustard' ink from Stampin Up!.

I don't know about you, but the colors are definately starting to change where I live. I'm hoping to get out and take some pictures of my yard today so you all can see what my garden looks like in the fall. Its not peak fall season yet, but my 'Autumn Blaze' maple is looking particularly lovely right now, so I'm hoping to capture that beauty on film before its gone.

Till tomorrow, Amy

Boo!

I don't normally do 'Halloween' cards, I prefer to do 'Fall Cards', but my local Scrapbooking Store has a monthly card contest for its customers and they specifically wanted 'Halloween' cards. So I used the most 'non-scary' Halloween images I had. LOL! I also submitted this card for the World Card Making Day Color Challenge on Splitcoaststampers. This was one crazy color combo, but I somehow managed to fit them all on one card!

All the images are from the 'Happy Halloween' set by Hero Arts. All the cardstock is from Stampin Up! I stamped the 'Only Orange' background with the candy corn image using orange ink. I stamped the 'Yo Yo Yellow' background with the small pumpkin image from the set also using orange ink. The main image was colored with my copic markers. I sponged the edges with yellow and orange ink. I embossed the cat and the sentiment with black embossing powder. The panel was mounted up on dimensionals and I added a fall ribbon from Michaels. 'Basic Black', 'Basic Grey' and 'Green Galore' were the other cardstock colors used on this card.

Thanks for looking! Amy

Paper Flowers

Saturday was World Card Making Day and Splitcoaststampers.com had a lot of great challenges in honor of the holiday. One of the challenges was 'Nested Flowers' by Suzy_H. To make a nested flower, you simply cut 5 circles, any size, making each circle smaller than the first so that they 'nest'; then just pierce thru all 5 layers and attach a brad to hold them together. My flower is made of designer paper, but you can use anything: fabric, tulle, mesh, velvet, felt, ribbon, lace, etc. There were some really beautiful cards made with fabric on the Splitcoaststampers gallery, but I was too busy and behind on too many projects to go to that extreme, so I just did a simple paper flower.

My background designer paper is Basic Grey, which is adhered to Stampin Up! 'Sage Shadow' cardstock. The yellow panel and paper flower are unknown designer papers. I used a pair of little scissors to create a fringe on all my flower layers, then I curled them slightly with my fingers. I then stamped a stem using the Stampin Up! 'Live Like You Mean It' set, tied a pink ribbon around the card, and added my sentiment from Stampin Up! 'For a Friend' set, which was mounted up on dimensionals.

Thats all for today. I hope you have a chance to make a paper flower today! Amy