Creative Confetti - All about the (Pumpkin) Spice

 

 Julie said it is all about the spice and to add some fall flavor to our carfting.  I just got this digital stamp this weekend and did not need to look any further.  I colored it up using the real images that Marcella showed us on her blog. 

 

At first I thought it would be overwhelming, but after I got started, it was relaxing and took very little time.  These fall colors are so bold and bright.  I will be entering this in the Creative Confetti for this week.

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Creative Confetti - Design in the Dark

Oh My goodness!  What ideas That Julie Korber has come up with.  This week, we are to stamp on dark cardstock and color.  You can find out more here.  Just scroll down until you see the Creative Confetti challenge.

 

I took out my darker gray cardstock and stamped the Chinese Lanterns on it and then colors with my Copic markers after using clear embossing powder to the image. I love this stamp set and colored in orange, it looks great with the gray.

Here is my card

Supplies:  Power Poppy stamp Sunny Harvest

Copic markers and gray card stock

Swiss dot embossing folder and Penny Black die Border Edgers

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Seize the Birthday - Use a Die Cut or Punch

Welcome to another great challenge here at Seize the Birthday!

 Our "Toppings" option this time is...

Use a Die Cut or Punch 

                           If you're not a toppings kinda person, well.....you can just
                                     stick with our usual "Anything Goes"Birthday!

                                                  The choice is yours!

Just remember to keep it a Birthday Theme!

For this challenge, I used a die cut that I have only used once before, but after this, I think I will be going to it more often.  I loved how this turned out.  Next time I will make a few minor changes.  

Here is my tag birthday card.  

This is how it looks closed and the front decorated.  

When you open the tag book, it looks like this.  You can decorate it any way that you like.

 I fussy cut the butterfly and flowers as they are older stamps 

and no die was available for them, but cutting works.

 A closer look at the inside.  I love the look of the hand sketched stamps. 

They were fun to color and I did quite a few of them and used them all. 

The YOU has glossy accents on it.  It really stands out that way. 

Here is what I used to make this tag book:

Karen Burniston tag book pop up

Gina K Designs YOU die

Simon says You Matter stamp ( sentiment on the front)

Stampin Up stamps Winged Things and Wonderful You.  I have had them for a long time.  

Distressed Oxidie inks and a stamp from Darkroom Door called scrip 

Be sure to check out the other design team inspirations for you too at Seize the Birthday. 

And Our Surprise Party Guest Marianne 
From Marianne's cards and stuff.  
 

I hope to see you on the blog this challenge and I do appreciate your wonderful comments.

 

Power and Spark Challenge - Hit the Books

There are two challenges going on at Power Poppy and I am going to make it my goal to join in every one of them.  This Challenge is not new and it has been going on for quite some time.  Each month a designer challenges us to step it up. Katie Sims is the host for this month and she has challenged us to Hit the Books. You can find out more Here.

 

Besides crafting, my other joy is to read and I am a member of several book clubs.   So I was happy to combine my love of books with crafting.  My mind went right to a stamp set that I have not used ever.  It is an old one and maybe only Marcie will remember it.  I bought it when she was designing for another company.  I only used one small stamp from it, but I will show you how I made it work.
                                                         Here is my card.

Do you see the small stamp on the lower left corner?  That is the one that I used for this card. I wanted to make a stack of books and with the masking method, that is entirely possible

 Here is the mask that I stamped and then cut out to place over the already stamped images.  I kept stamping more books until I got the stack that I was looking for.  Then I colored them with Copic markers and added the sentiment from the same stamp set.  By the way is was the Flourishes set called From the Desk of. I die cut the image with the Frantic stamper Stitched rectangles die and then cut another frame from blue cardstock.  I placed it a bit wonky on the base.  I think it looks like stacks of paper and added to the bookworm feel.  Thanks so much for stopping in and leaving a comment.  I sure do appreciate your taking time to do that.

Creative Confetti - Fab Finds

With the start of a new month, Creative Confetti has chosen a challenge that was REALLY a challenge for me.  We are to pick out a circular or catalog that inspired us and make a project.  Well, since so much is online now, we don't get the newspaper, so I had to dig out some catalogs and found one. It was called Costal Living and I really found several pictures that "spoke" to me.  I finally settled on this one that I love with the texture and soft fall colors of gray and blush orange. 

This is a calming picture and I was inspired by the texture in the quilt and the soft gray with a touch of black. I thought right away of a stamp set that I have not used yet.  

It think it worked well for these colors.  

Here is my card. 

I used the Feeling Fall stamp set by Marcella.  This is the first time I have used the cat and pumpkins.  I stamped in Antique Linen Distressed Ink for a no-line look, on watercolor paper.   Colored it with my distress markers. I used an EF that looked similar to the quilt and had to used several ink colors to get the tone of the quilt.  It is a bit darker than I wanted, but works.  I placed this panel on a layer of dark gray and then a base of light gray cardstock.  The black strip is from my stash and I have no idea what it was used for, but it is plastic and shiny and sticky.  It worked for the touch of black that I wanted.

 There will be a challenge each week for the next month and if you do them you will have four chances to win the prize.  Mostly I just love doing them for the creative fun. 

Thanks so much for stopping in to see more, I sure appreciate your comments and the time that you take to do them.