Two Fall Cards!

A couple weeks ago I made some Fall cards for a little challenge at The Clique Facebook page for World Cardmaking Day, so I thought I should share them here while Fall is still in the air!

The first card was a challenge to use vellum and a diecut. I layered a handcut vellum banner over a woodgrain paper background and tucked some diecut leaves behind it.

 Then, I used the 'thankful' and pumpkin cut files from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine - it's free and  you can download it here along with other free files!

I used some Fancy Free patterned paper behind my pumpkin and added some sequins and a couple drops of yellow Izink. Some faux stitching using a red pen on the vellum finished it off.

For my second card the challenge was to fussy cut an image, and I watercoloured a cute little pumpkin girl stamp sitting on a tree stump, both older stamps from C.C. Designs. I masked off the girl to make her look like she was sitting directly on top of the stump and then used Distress and Tombow markers to watercolour the image before fussy cutting her out.

I layered her over the free string art cut file from The Clique and backed the cut with BoBunny papers from the Believe collection. I love the look of different papers behind a diecut!!

Inside, I used a sentiment and pumpkin image from the Pretty Cute Stamps Thanksgiving Eats stamp set.

I added some pretty sequins and a button from the 28 Lilac Lane collection, and used a cute little ribbon across the top of my card. I gave this to my niece at Thanksgiving, which in Canada was a couple weeks ago, and she loved it!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful, crafty week!

Linked to:

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper - Oct Link Up

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Autumn

DL Art - Thankful Thursday Oct Link Up

FCCB #287 - Pumpkins!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #287-Pumpkins
Make a project about pumpkins!

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And we are giving away a $25 Amazon gift certificate, courtesy of FCCB Design Team! This prize will be given if there are 10 entries or more.

To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

For my project I started with the sweet Pumpkin Spice Latte cutting file from our awesome sponsor, Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons. I love coffee and I'm a sucker for a Pumpkin Spice Latte, so this was the perfect place to start! I placed it on the PPPR Side Step Card and started layering.

I used a woodgrain embossing folder in my Cuttlebug and embossed the panel behind both the coffee cup and the diecut Love You A Latte sentiment, which was cut from the Just Because Cards Cricut cartridge. A little Distress Ink around the edges of my diecuts as well as over top of the wood embossing just adds a bit of highlighting.

I stamped this cute sentiment from Pretty Cute Stamps, the PPPR sister store, from the Harvest Happiness stamp set (on SALE until October 13, 2016 - see bottom of blog post!) directly onto my diecut pumpkins from the CTMH Artistry Cricut cartridge. That pretty pumpkin silhouette border is from the Stretch Your Imagination Cricut cartridge and I layered it over an orange panel.

I added some Distress Stickles to the Love and Latte diecuts on this cute sentiment.

For the finishing touch I added my newest addiction - SEQUINS! from the Autumn Joy and Mocha Mint Dream sequin collections from the SpiegelMom Scraps Store. I've added a 35% off CODE at the bottom of this post!!

Thanks so much for dropping by today! Be sure to head over to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog to see what all the other amazing Design Team members have come up with for this Pumpkin Challenge - and stop by the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons blog to show some love for our sponsor!

SALES!!
Here's that SALE code for the SpiegelMom Scraps Store, valid until Oct.30th 2016 - MOVE35
and see the details in the photo below for the awesome SALE at Pretty Cute Stamps!

Linked to:
PPPR Linky Party - October Linky Party
Sunny Day Crafting - AG

FCCB #261 - Shape Up!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge!

Challenge #261-Shape Up
Make a Shaped Card (anything but a square or rectangle)

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To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. If you use a Cricut Explore machine, at least one cut must be from the Cricut catalog of images.

And, if you submit a project in our challenge that isn't a card, you will get two entries for a chance to win the prize instead of one!

For my project I've used the Pumpkin Card from the Mini Monsters Cricut cartridge, a Basket from the Art Philosophy cartridge and leaves from the Creative Bug cartridge, all cut with the Cricut Explore. I also added the scroll cuts and sentiments from the Pretty Paper Pretty Ribbons Fall Phrases SVG files.

I stamped and heat embossed with a scroll stamp using gold embossing powder on the base layer of the card. Then, I ran the top layer through an embossing folder in my Cuttlebug and gently sanded it to highlight the embossing detail.

I changed the scoring feature to 'Write' on the leaves and used an American Crafts white chalkboard pen to draw in the veins on the leaves. I added my PPPR sentiment inside the card and some scrolls and leaves to my card and box. I thought this box would be nice as a Thanksgiving table decoration!

On the opposite side of the box I added another sentiment and leaf.

Here's a look at what's included in the PPPR Fall Phrases Cutting Files:

Don't forget to pop over to the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog to see what all the other Design Team members have come up with for this fun challenge! You can enter your own project with at least one Cricut cut for a chance to win an awesome prize from our Sponsor - Pretty Ribbons Pretty Paper!

The Pumpkin Patch!

I am sure enjoying summer, but these Little Pumpkins are really making me look forward to fall! They are so happy and cute with these adorable faces you can mix and match - how can you not smile when you look at these guys?!!

I pulled out some papers from my 6x6 paper pads to use on this card as well as using a Spellbinders frame diecut which I cut from watercolour paper. I used some Distress Inks on the frame and then spritzed with Perfect Pearls spray mist to blend the colours and give it a shimmery look.

I stamped the pumpkins on various orange patterned papers from my stash, added the faces, and used Prismacolor Markers and a white gel pen to colour in the face and stems.

I chose a Happy Halloween sentiment for my card - I'm sure a friend is going to love it when Halloween comes around! I used some of the star stamps from the Superheroes set!

Here's a close up of the set:

Little Pumpkins

Thanks so much for joining me today!! Be sure to check out the Pretty Cute Stamps blog to see all the amazing projects over there right now as well as our current challenge going on right now!

Pretty Cute Stamps - Sneak Peek August 2015 New Releases!

I am having a wonderful summer, and I hope you all are too! And even though I am fully enjoying my summer I am really excited about the new releases this month from Pretty Cute Stamps!!

For today's sneak peek I'm sharing the awfully cute Little Pumpkins stamp set! These guys have little interchangeable faces! You decide which pumpkin gets which face - I love it!! I made a watercolour background using Distress Inks and then used Perfect Pearls to stamp stars on the background from the Superheroes stamp set.

I stamped this sweet sentiment (and you have to see all the sentiments!!) with Versamark ink and heat embossed in white embossing powder.

The pumpkins are stamped on orange patterned papers from my stash. I used an alcohol marker to create a shadow around the edges and underneath them.

I stamped another sentiment inside using purple ink to match the background on the front of the card.

You are going to love seeing all the amazing sets in this release! Don't forget to stop back tomorrow for the New Release hop where you get to see everything included. You can stop by the Pretty Cute Stamps blog to see what the Design Team has been doing with all these fun sets all week!

Thanksgiving

I like to make something special for the Thanksgiving table when we host, and I saw this cute pumpkin tutorial on, I believe, Tip Me Tuesday on www.tipjunkie.com.  Their newsletter is so awesome! So many great ideas from so many talented and crafty people. So, just wanted to pass along how to make these cute little pumpkins...

 Cut 8 strips of cardstock, 2.5" x .5", 2x 1" circle and a small green stem

 Start by gluing one end to circle. I found gluing opposite ends helped get an even placement around the circle, and then added in the last 4 strips between them.

 Gently curve the strips with your fingers.

 Glue the open ends under the second circle, using a chopstick to push on last strip.

 Ta-Da!

I made one for each place setting at the table, but I'm sure you could resize and make it larger too.

Of course you can place these around for little fall/Halloween decorations as well!

 My sister made a beautiful Thanksgiving card!

My 11 year old niece also brought an amazing Thanksgiving card!

Two very talented ladies :)