Winter Snowman

Today at Catch the Bug it's New Release day or an image has been added to the new store that was from the old store.  Today we have Snowman Winter.  I added Stickles to the snow areas and some bling to the snowflakes. And I went with a traditional red and green...I know shocking since I do prefer non-traditional colors.  Welcome to Claudia, my new follower, if you leave a comment with your blog address I will follow you too.

Patterned Paper:  Paper Studio

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections; DCWV

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Snowman Winter (see above for direct link)

Stickles

Bling:  Recollections

Challenges

Sketch Saturday - Ch. 587

CHNC - Ch. 461 Anything Christmas with optional make your own background

Cardz 4 Galz - Ch. 108 Something beginning with "S" (Snowman, snowflakes, stickles, spots)

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 605 Sparkles

Winter Wonderland - Merry and Bright

Sparkles Christmas - Make us laugh

The Cutie Pie Challenge - Ch. 140 Anything Goes as long as it's cute

A is for Autumn

Today at Catch the Bug is a new Stella Says Sketch and for my card I used Scarecrow Sitter and a sentiment from TLC, Create.  Right now all Halloween and Fall images at 40% off at Catch the Bug. Autumn is my favorite time of year, until I have to rake. We have had sooo much rain. I managed to get a quick walk in today before it started to rain...again. They say we don't have a good display of leaves also because of our rain and winds just knocking the leaves off the trees so we are not having the beautiful colors, argh. I have a few pictures as I leaving for work in the morning and tonight had a beautiful sunset.

10-22-19 Tuesday

10-23-19 Wednesday

10-26 Saturday

Patterned Paper:  Bo Bunny

Cardstock:  Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Scarecrow Sitter (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - A is for Autumn (see above for direct link)

Ribbon:  Michael's

Spectrum Noir on hat buckle

Punch:  EK Success

Challenges

QKR - Ch. 369 Anything Goes

Di's Digi Design - Halloween or Harvest

Papercraft - Ch. 48 Fall

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 121 Forever Autumn

Creatalicious - Ch. 173 Anything Goes with optional Autumn/Halloween

CIC - Ch. 481 Fall theme

Autumn is in the air

Today at Catch the Bug is Friday Freebie and for my card is Scarecrow and a sentiment from TLC, Create.  With the temperatures dropping and having to turn the heat on...my skin has been dry so I feel like it is scratchy like a scarecrow.  So I feel that I look like this image, lol.

Patterned Paper:  My Mind's Eye

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Scarecrow (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Autumn is in the air

Hemp:  MayArts

Pearls:  Recollections

Die:  My Favorite Things

Challenges

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 410-411 Anything Goes

CIC - Ch. 481 Fall theme

Papercraft - Ch. 48 Fall

Sparkles Monthly - Ch. 121 Forever Autumn

Creatalicious - Ch. 173 Anything Goes with optional Autumn/Halloween

Lavinia Halloween

Well I just love the Lavinia stamps and I finally made a card with them. I used a pre-made background of their papers which is 6 inches X 6 inches which I thought was perfect for fall colors. Then I used black embossing powder for the images and foam dots for the TLC, Create sentiment that I colored in to match the paper. For the spider web I used a sparkly black embossing powder. And so ta-dah, my first Lavinia card.

Magical Moonlight

Mooch

Bats

Fairy Web

Mini Branch

Forest Scene

Maple Leaf Mini

Mini Leaf 1

Patterned Paper:  Lavinia Magical Moonlight (see above)
Stamps:  Lavinia Stamps: Mooch, Bats, Fairy Web, Mini branch, Maple leaf mini, Mini leaf 1, Forest Scene
Versa Mark
Embossing Powder:  Hampton Arts; Ranger - Black Sparkle
Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Halloween scalloped label
Foam dots

Challenges
Lavinia World - Ch. 12
Her Peaceful Garden - 2019 Cat Lovers Blog Hop

Double D - Silhouettes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 31

Crafty Animals - Ch. 31

Creative Knockouts - Ch. 321 Embossing

Crafty Friends - Ch. 121 Embossing

Double Trouble - Ch. 41
   Thing 1 use at least 3 colors purple, green, blue, orange, yellow, red, brown
   Thing 2 Crafting Happiness

   Thing 3 Include something that flies (bats)

Tuesday Throwdown - Ch. 443 One Layer Wonder

Foil Christmas cards

I went to a Stamping Conference and got a foil machine. I was like a kid in a candy shop when I saw all the goodies that they had made and the sparkles and shine....I couldn't resist. So since there were a couple challenges with metallics and silver/gold I thought I would do a couple quick cards.  Then since I had my computer, space heater, Alexa and then turned on the foil machine I blew out my power in my office....argh. So once I got the electricity turned back on and a few things turned off I pulled out the foil.  Here are my first two cards.

Patterned Paper;  Foilables by Creative Vision

Cardstock plain & glitter:  Darice

Foil:  Creative Vision: Silver and Queen's Crown

Spellbinders:  Small and Large Circles

Punch:  EK Success

Sentiment:  Gina K Foil Christmas Sentiments

Foam dots

Challenges

CHNC - Ch. 460 Anything Christmas with optional flower or a few

Allsorts - Wk 542 Add Gold and/or silver

Incy Wincy - Use Something Metallic

Creative Sketchy Girls - Ch. 41 Christmas card

Crafty Cardmakers - Ch. 243 Sparkle

Cute Card Thursday - Ch. 605 Sparkle

C4C507 Sympathy

I still need to make a bunch of sympathy cards for Mom.  So here is one with a sentiment from TLC, Create using the newest sketch for Crazy 4 Challenges.

Patterned Papers:  My Minds Eye

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Recollections

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Sympathy on the Loss of your Wife

Dies:  My Favorite Things

Punches:  Martha Stewart

Challenges

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C507 Sketch (see above)

Word Art Wednesday - Ch. 410 - 411 Anything Goes

CHNC Patterned - October

little red wagon - Don't forget about me

Incy Wincy - Use something metallic

Allsorts - Wk 542 Add Gold and/or Silver

Black Cats Prowl

Today at Catch the Bug is Humor Me Wednesday and I made a card using Cute Halloween Set 2 and a sentiment from TLC, Create and this is to celebrate Black Cat Day which is on October 27th.  Now, I only have Siamese cats, but years ago we used to have a solid black cat. Which used to freak me out when I would wake up and she would be standing next to me staring at me. She was soft and beautiful, but could not get along with the Siamese.

Patterned Paper:  Carta Bella

Cardstock:  Bazzil; Core-dinations; Recollections

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Cute Halloween Set 2 (see above for direct link)

Sentiment:  TLC, Create - Black Cats Prowl

Flower & Spiders:  Recollection

Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black

Challenges

Always Fun- Ch. 133 Something Scary

Your Next Stamp - Ch. 125 Trick or Treat

Your Peaceful Garden - 2019 Cat Lovers Blog Hop

Show us your pussy cats - Ch. 47 Meow-loween

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Ch. 31

Crafty Animals - Ch. 31

Sweet Stampin' - Feature a Creature

Autism

Today at Catch the Bug is a New Release day and for my card, I have Bugaboo Brat Autism Boy and the patterned paper is from Imagine That Digistamp Awareness Ribbons Autism Digi Papers.  My daughter teaches 4th grade and has 20 students and has 9 with special needs of some sort, not all have Autism. But she works hard with her students and I know that she sends home cards to her students.

Patterned Paper:  Imagine That Digistamp Awareness Ribbons Autism Digi Papers (see above for link)

Cardstock:  Neenah

Stamp:  Bugaboo - Bugaboo Brat Autism Boy (see above for direct link)

Challenges

QKR -  Ch. 368 Anything Goes

Aud Sentiments - Ch. 238 For a child and a sentiment

Dream Valley - Ch. 212 Add a sentiment

The Paper Players - Ch. 464 CAS Large sentiment as a focal point

Scarecrow gifts of Grace

I went for walks in my neighborhood this weekend since we had beautiful and unusually warm weather. In our area, we have had lots of rain so we haven't had a lot of the trees turn color yet. But I did see quite of geese at a pond in the  park resting and flying south. Also since we are getting some MORE rain, we had a wonderful sunset which pictures don't do justice.
For my card, I used an image from QKR Scarecrow Digital Stamp and a sentiment from TLC, Create. I used some die cuts oval and leaves.  I added some burlap ribbon.

Patterned Paper:  Sweet Shoppe - Autumnal

Cardstock:  Bazzil

Stamp:  QKR - Scarecrow Digital (see above for direct link)

TLC, Create - Bless those gathered

Dies:  My Favorite Things

Punches:  EK Success and Fiskars

Ribbon:  Really Reasonable Ribbon

Challenges

QKR - Ch. 368 Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Ch. 479 Anything Goes with optional colors of Autumn

Di's Digi Design - Halloween or Harvest

Papercraft - Ch. 48 Fall

Sparkles - Ch. 121 Forever Autumn

Creatalicious Ch. 173 Anything Goes with optional Autumn/Halloween

CIC - Ch. 481 Fall

PINspirational - Ch. 249