Happy Fall Y'all

Happy First Day of Fall, so sad I love summer!

However, I do enjoy sweater weather, changing of the leaves, pumpkins, apple picking and more fall fun.

I thought I would share one of the decor elements I used on my glass door pane. I actually did in on the inside (good thing my name begins with W, easily reversed). You can do it on the outside and have no problems with the elements. I chose the inside as it was a lot cleaner and easier for the application.

I took the photo while my new mums are still alive. I never have much luck with plants, but the man at the nursery said to water it daily as mums love their water. We'll see if they make it to Halloween.

Candlelight switch

A quick one today, this is for Beate's weekend sketch. I had a busy day with one son's football game this morning and another doing a kick-a-thon for Cancer for Karate, mid-afternoon.

Between laundry and grocery shopping, I went up to my craft room to play. This is a new set for me Autumn Harvest. I got it to replace one of my favorites-carved and candlelight, which retired. (I sold it to my good friend Holly, so she could enjoy it)

This is the new Halloween paper, basic gray cs. I used the basic gray ink and my watercolor crayons. I don't have any Halloween sentiment stamps, so I punched this out from the designer paper with my 3/4 " circle punch.

card slump

I was trying to complete two challenges on demo challenge forum this week.

1) to use a new stamp set for demonstrable card- snow swirled

2) for workshop wow, to go back and use the original 48 colors in SU color palette. (here bravo burgundy and always artichoke)

For me, I wanted to try to make an easy card to use for upcoming Holiday Stamp-a-Stack. This was easy, but I think it needs some more bling somewhere, perhaps some dazzling diamonds? Or maybe just some gold brads on starburst?

Feedback???

BTW-Christina I got your tag. I will try to get to it and tag some others this weekend :}

zoo much fun

Another scrapbook page to share with you. My white gel pens were dead, so I could not journal.
This uses zoofari set, a set I at first was like "who would want that?", now I use it all the time.
This is still from our April trip to San Diego. I got a lot of great shots from bus tour and my zoom lens.

Demo Up

Okay, I finally got around to doing one of my goals- doing some of the demo challenges on SCS. This one was super easy, so no reason not to play.

This is based off Diane Gibbs tutorial of covering a kit kat bar. All you do is take a 6 x 6 piece of designer paper and seal it around the kit kat bar and at both ends, then you run it through the crimper. Then you add a belly band and voila fun candy wrapper. I finally got my ghostly greetings dsp on Friday, so that is paper I used. I embossed the scull from batty for you.

Cardinal Christmas

This was for Beate's weekend sketch! I just got this set from Winter mini, the only set I really loved.

I also tried embossing using classic ink, if you dump clear e.p. quickly on classic you can get it to adhere to emboss. You have to be quick though because classic dries almost on contact. I haven't ordered any Christmas paper yet, alas SU is going to make me broke! I am loving the new taffeta ribbons in riding hood red and kiw- gorgeous!

recipe:

cs: watercolor paper, old olive, riding hood red, choc chip, ww

ink: riding hood red, brown stazon (old olive and choc chip to watercolor)

access: oval punch, clear ep, taffeta riding hood red, dimensionals.

Oh Baby

Our friends had their 3rd child (10 years since their last one). I was going to be in their town on Thursday so being short on time- I needed a quick card.

This is the baby onesie card that Laura M came up with. If you never have done one she has the tutorial on her blog here. It only takes about 10 minutes to do and is super cute!

I used eyelets vs. brads for snaps because I bought them and hoarded them, and then SU retired them. So better use them up now!

I also, made them some baby thank you cards to go with the super cute outfits I bought baby Nora. (don't you just love the outfits they have for babies???)

Again, short on time- made these up at football practice, a little crooked in my assembly on a clipboard.

I apologize for grainy scan- I think I have some residue glitter on my scanner. I did not have time to clean it off as I was scanning and running out the door!

This features zoofari set and some retired dsp.