Leaves @Cards und More

Good morning bloggers
Its been a whole month since my last post for Cards und More so it must be a month since we came back from our jollies, The weather here has certainly turned autumnal it chucked it down yesterday and with the wind from the east there was a definite chill in the air.
This time the challenge for you is to create something with the theme of

LEAVES

Well as the drive will testify, there are plenty of those on the ground at the moment but I suppose your project doesn't have to be autumnal in colour so long as there is some stamping and leaves visible.
Here is my card for your inspiration

Yep, you've guessed it, I've got the Brushos out again. Well actually I didn't as there was plenty of card left from my last couple of plays! See here and here.
I used a new die for this wreath Sizzix Holiday Foliage to cut out the oak leaves from the Brusho panel and the berries from red card. I used a beech leaf punch for the green ones.
I stamped some kraft paper with my SU woodgrain stamp in Versamark then heat embossed in clear and mounted it over a panel of Brusho coloured card. I added some vanilla twine and a die cut sentiment from Spellbinders to finish it off before mounting on an off white A6 base.

OK that's about it for the moment, so please check out the rest of the DTs inspiration and join us over at Cards und More.

I shall enter the following challenges -

Time Out Challenges- Case this card

I took inspiration from the colours and the leaves as well as the thank you.

Alphabet Challenge - Round or Rectangle (I did both!)
Clear it Out Challenge - Theme -Thanksgiving  Stash - Twine

See you back here in an hour for another new challenge, bye for now.

Time Flies

Good morning, hope I find you well.
Another Saturday dawns so it means another challenge over at Fantasy Stampers.
This time we would like to see your creations that have the theme of-

TIME FLIES

Now that had me thinking, clocks, reunions, lots of different sayings but eventually I settled on this.

Do you remember blowing dandelion clocks when you were little to try to tell the time depending on how many puffs it took to clear the seed head of spinning seeds? Well that is what inspired this card.

I used one of my favourite stamps, Dandelion Wishes from Inkylicious and a sentiment from a new set to me from STAMPlorations.

I'm afraid the Brusho's came out again for this, which I added to the base after embossing the seed heads in white on linen cardstock. I added the sentiment aferwards using the same white embossing powder. The frame was cut using a Spellbinders Romantic rectangles die but I kept the outer and put the actual rectangle to one side for future use, I popped the frame up on pads to create added dimension.

OK that's about it for today. Why not pop over to the main site and see what the rest of the fab DT have come up with for your inspiration, then join in, we'd love to see your creations.

I shall enter the following challenges-

STAMPlorations October Challenge - Stamps and embossing

Love Rubberstamps - Anything Goes

Time to Retire

Good morning folks.

Another Tuesday so time for another challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. This week we would like to see your projects related to the theme:-

TIME TO RETIRE

Well I'm sure you can come up with a few interpretations on that theme but here is mine.

The card was made with the sketch over at The Male Room in mind, with a nod to my teamie over at ATSM, the wonderful Loll. This was her card which stuck in my mind.

This is quite a plain design and I thought that having the recessed vertical DP panel added a touch of interest and dimension. I kept the colours to the autumn palette in keeping with a few of the other challenges floating around at the moment. I used Copics to colour the image which is a LOTV stamp- Lazy Afternoon. This is an old one of theirs but I don't think it is being retired unlike some of their stamps, get them before they sell out! The DP is a scrap of a NitWits paper from the stash.

I added a sprig of foliage as I cut off the top of the stamp and thought it needed a little something. The sentiment is from a Woodware set - Small Greetings, I think which I picked up this week from Sir Stampalot.

OK, that's about it. Pop over to the main site to see what the rest of the fabulous girls have for your inspiration and why not join in.

I shall also enter the following challenges-

The Male Room 

Stamping Sensations - Autumn Colours

Crafty Little Fairies - Only one DP

LOTV - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and come back soon, leave a comment if you can it always brightens my day to read them.

Muse #87

Afternoon folks. 

Couldn't join in with National Cardmakers day yesterday as I was out shopping with Nich but I'm back in the craftroom after Ben and Co have returned up the M6.

Its great to have them over but he is an early riser and I'm a tad tired now. 

The cold front has arrived as promised and there is definitely a chill in the air. Better make the most of the sun though as rain is forecast tomorrow if not later on today. I shall be out to cut the grass after lunch or when Al returns from removing Crassula from the top pond. It is an invasive plant that came from New Zealand for use in aquariums but escaped and is now choking ponds across the country. It was so thick that Max could walk across it, so it has to go as sheep will no doubt try and they will end up stranded or drowned! Al has been researching how to get rid but not with much success. Its a type of succulent so any bit left will reshoot and start the process off all over again.

Anyway while he's up there I have been playing and here is the result.

I made it with a few challenges in mind especially the one over at Muse where the fabulous Kimberly Wiener is their Guest Muse. This is her fabulous card.

I made mine using a selection of Creative Expressions stamps, a SU sentiment and one from Personal Impressions, stamped with Versafine Vintage Sepia. Spatters in coordinating colours.

As the challenge at AAA is watercolour I forsook the brushos for a softer w/c colouring effect. I do prefer the bold colours of Brusho but hey its good to play with other media.

I shall also enter the challenge at 

Allsorts - Autumn 

PS Almost forgot 

Less is More - Autumn Beauty

 OK, that's about it, thanks for popping by.

Owl I want for Christmas

Good morning peeps.

The Indian summer looks to be coming to an end by the weekend with threats of an advancing cold front. Still we can't complain after the driest September on record!

As I was checking through my blog links this morning I came across the latest challenge at 

Curtain Call. Appropriately it is 

SMOOCH

as they are sponsored by Paper Smooches!

Anyway I was inspired by this to use a new stamp set that was laying around on the desk and join in with this and a couple of other challenges. Here is my card.

It's a set by Lawn Fawn called Winter Owl. We don't see many Lawn Fawn items around here so it stood out for me and I thought the sentiment was cute. I coloured him with Copics and fussy cut him along with those teeny tiny hearts!

The heart is from my Little B hearts die set and the background was embossed with a Cuttlebug folder. Snow drifts cut free hand from a scrap of white card.

I will also join in with a few  more challenges such as -

TIME OUT Challenges - Stamping -with the optional twist of apples, I chose not to twist!

Less is More - Mostly Words - hope the owl won't count against me!

Addicted to CAS - Cuddly, I'll leave that link to your imagination!

Virginia's View - CAS

OK that's it, I better take the dog out and stretch the old legs.

Thanks for calling around and big thanks to you who leave such lovely comments, I really appreciate your kind words.