With Gratitude

It's time for a new challenge at Less Is More. Challenge #431 is to make a Clean & Simple creation with more than one type of foliage. 

Our wonderful sponsor and awesome supporter is Uniko.

For my card, I went into the deep, dark recesses of my wood mounted rubber stamp collection, and pulled out Hero Arts Woodland Leaves and Grasses. I used a variety of inks from SU and Papertrey Ink to stamp the images in autumnal colors across the bottom of the card.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp Gratitude Sentiment Strips, die cut with Pink & Main Sentiment Strip Dies.

Please head over to the Less Is More Blog and see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I hope you'll play along with us to share your creations and for a chance to win. Remember to keep your design Clean And Simple.

To be eligible for showCASe and PRIZE WINNER choices you will need to carefully follow the guidance on our GLOSSARY OF TERMS and our HOW TO PLAY pages. Your design should feature lots of clean / white / blank / non patterned / non textured space. All challenge details are on the Less Is More blog. Good Luck!

I am also playing at:

Krafty Chicks Challenge #530 - All Occasions

Use Your Stuff #408 - Autumn/Fall Theme

The Card Concept #142 - Autumn Bounty

Inspired by the theme of Autumn - CAS

Global Design Project #263 - Season Of Thanks

Shopping Our Stash #431 - Happy Fall Y'All

Stamping Sensations October Challenge - Autumn Glory

We Love Chocolate Baroque - Anything Goes

Gratitude

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Time for a new challenge at Time Out. The theme for Challenge 118 is Home Sweet Home: A photo inspiration challenge with a homey twist!  

You have until September 26th at 5:00 PM BST to enter.

Our sponsor is Poppy Stamps. Challenge winner gets a $20.00 gift voucher. Poppy Stamps Design Team is joining us for this challenge. You can see the projects created by their designers HERE.

Our Guest Designer is Angie. Angie is such a wonderful, talented crafter. Her work is sure to inspire you so please visit her blog and get a wonderful dose of inspiration.

For my card, I die cut a background that I had made with Distress Oxide inks with Poppy Stamps Floral Stem Collage die. I paired it with some linen textured green paper, and mounted the die cut panel on vanilla cardstock. The sentiment is an old wood mounted rubber stamp from Hero Arts.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenge Blog to see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. I can't wait to see how you are inspired as you post your card in the gallery!

I am also playing at:

Fusion Citrus Challenge - Colors in the photo.

Muse 282

City Crafter Challenge Blog #429 - Fall Colors

CAS On Friday #141 - Flowers

The Flower Challenge #24 - Anything Goes

Thankful

I love this season of gratitude and the colors, sights, scents and mostly everything that goes along with it. When I saw the CAS Colors and Sketches Challenge #246, Concord & 9th's Layering Leaves dies came right to my mind. I smooshed 3 panels of watercolor paper with the three Color Throwdown #466 Distress Ink colors, sprayed them with Ranger Distress Antiqued Bronze Mica Spray Copper, and die cut them. I mounted the die cuts on Ranger Distress Woodgrain Cardstock, framed the panel with a snippet that had been cut from Avery Elle Scalloped Pierced Rectangle, and added a die cut sentiment from Honey Bee Stamps Thanks and Giving Honey Cuts. I must say, I love the way it came out.   

I'm playing at:

CAS Colors & Sketches #246

Color Throwdown #466

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

featuring Concord & 9th Products.

ATCAS - Leaves

TCC #80

Colors and the icing sprays of leaf-like decoration on the sides of the cake.

Gratitude

I love this season of thanks and giving. This card is for the amazing woman who helps my sisters and I care for our mother.  I can't thank her enough for the loving care she gives my mother and the comfort and peace she brings to the family. I used CAS(E) this sketch #149 for my layout.  The top panel is watercolored (Just Us Girls #319), and the Ginko leaves are embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum EP (CAS-ual Fridays CFC145).

CAS(E) this sketch #149

Just Us Girls #319 - Use watercoloring

CFC145 - Use Precious Metals

Thank you for visiting today. As always, I so appreciate your comments.

Make It Monday #188: Stamping Ombre Backgrounds

This is my take on PTI's Make It Monday Challenge for this week: Stamping Ombre Backgrounds. I don't own the Ombre Builder stamp set, so I chose one that I thought would work with this technique:  Background Basics: Vines. I used many PTI inks in Fall hues, and in ROYGBIV order as applicable.  I decided to die cut a banner from the panel that I made with the technique and go from there.  I love the way it turned out. This was a really fun one, and I can see many possibilities for this technique.

I am thankful that you stopped by today. Happy Saturday. It was a cold one here in the Northeastern US.

Gratitude Attitude

The current challenge over at Catered Crop is all about taking an attitude of gratitude. For this challenge just make a thank you card for any occasion, or, since its the season of thanks, make a Thanksgiving card.  Thanksgiving is my very favorite holiday because it is all about gratitude and gifts of the heart. Here is my take:

I don't get here much these days.  I am grateful for your visit. 

Supplies:  

Stamps: Phrase Play 7 Mini Stamp Set

Ink:  Versamark

Paper: PTC Canyon Clay, TE Vintage Cream, Gina K black, Authentique Enchanted DP

Other:  PTI Phrase Play 7 Die, gold embossing powder, sequins, Dimensionals

With Gratitude

The current Catered Crop Recipe Swap challenge is to add buttons to your project.

This is my very simple take on the button challenge using strips of paper from BasicGrey's Indian Summer collection, buttons from PTI's Vintage button collection,  SU linen thread, and sentiment from Paper Smooches Chit Chat set stamped with VersaFine Vintage Sepia ink.

Thanks for your visit. Have a great day!

Thankful CASE Study

I am in a mode of gratitude. This creation is inspired by this week's CASE Study challenge #115. Their November Muse is Angline Yong of The Creation of Creativity and I just love her inspiration piece.

I am thankful for your visit today.

Supplies

Paper~Taylored Expressions Buttercream Choice Cardstock, SU Haiku DSP, Chocolate Chip.

Ink~VersaFine Vintage Sepia.

Stamps~PTI Counting My Blessings.

Accessories~PTI Beautiful Beads, Counting My Blessings and Loop De Loop dies, Crop-A-Dial Corner Chomper.

PDCC156

The aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and PDCC156 inspired this creation.  I have so much to be thankful for.  I have a warm house, plenty of food, family and friends who are close and safe even though many still do not have power after Sandy.  My heart is breaking over the devastation of the (my beloved) Jersey Shoreline. Heard news this morning that there is a large stretch on the barrier island where Seaside Heights is, from which people are being evacuated today because of a huge break in a sewer line.  The area is toxic and there are fires and all kinds of other devastation.  They are estimating that in some of those towns, people will not be able to go back to their homes for 8 months.  Many have no home to go back to at all. The stories and the pictures and the reports are almost too much to bear.  And these areas are relatively near to where I sit in my warm home crafting. Gratitude. There is so much to be done here. So many prayers needed. So much money needed to restore the shore and many otherea of the beautiful Garden State and and surrounding states to make their residents whole.  I am overwhelmed with gratitude and sadness today.  Please keep a good thought for New Jersey and the other places that were hit by this devastating storm.  Thanks for visiting and reading on.

Gratitude

I love this season of Fall, and I love celebrating the things in my life for which I am grateful.  I combined the color challenge of Dynamic Duos this week with the layout of Card Positioning Systems #285 and came up with a creation of gratitude.  The color I chose for my Dynamic Duos combo is Memento Cantaloupe.  I used the rock and roll technique with the Hero Arts leaf images that I have had in my stash for a long time.  The sentiment is also Hero Arts.  These images and sentiments never get old. I pull them out every Autumn.  It's hard to see, but the vanilla squares are embossed with PTI Woodgrain IP, and the background of the vanilla panel is embossed with PTI's linen IP.  I am grateful for your visit today.  Enjoy this wonderful season.

Ever So Grateful

When I saw the inspiration photo for this week's ColourQ Challenge, I immediately thought of PTI's Rosie Posie set and this card came together.  Thanks for stopping by today.

Grateful For You

I was visiting my friend Jenny's blog earlier tonight, and she inspired me to give the Runway Inspired Challenge a whirl.  This is my first attempt at this challenge, and I had fun with it. I am screeching in at the last minute. I had fun looking at all of the interpretations of this challenge. I will surely keep my eye on this one and play again in the future!

Gratitude

Whew! Just getting this one in under the wire for this week's Less Is More challenge. 

This week it is a colour challenge with the colors of Red and Orange in remembrance of the 'Gunpowder plot' of 1605 in the UK.

I have had one of those weeks - work all day, out for various obligations every night.  I awoke this morning at 4:30 with a gazillion things in my head, including this design for my LIM card that I probably would not have time to make.  I could not go back to sleep, so I got up, made a cup of tea, and put my idea together.  I love the result.

I inked the leaves from PTI's Harvest Berries in Tangerine Tango.  I then used PTI's new Premium Dye Ink in  Pure Poppy to ink the outer edges of the leaves.  These new ink pads are shaped in such a way that you can cover a large or small area easily.  They are really wonderful.

I mounted the image on Cherry Cobbler, added some linen thread, popped it up with Dimensionals and added the sentiment from Autumn Word Borders by Hero Arts with Versafine Vintage Sepia ink.  Have to get back to work now.  So glad I had a little time to post this.  Have a great day and thank you for stopping by!