Still Thankful!

I am truly thankful for you today! I appreciate you taking time out of your shopping day and food coma to visit! I made a quick card with the inspiring iris stamp set. I had fun coloring this with my stampin blends! I really was not sure what I wanted to do with the design of this card so I kept it pretty simple.  Maybe I ate to much yesterday that my creative juices were all run out.

I did add shimmery crystal effects to the iris's and don't you just love the shine that it gives? I love everything sparkly and shiny!  I think the rest of the card is pretty self explanatory and so if you do have any questions I would love to hear them in the comments below.  Have a great day and go gets some deals and steals! Speaking of deals spoil yourself for all your hard work from Thanksgiving with the fabulous paper pumpkin for next month! Let me know if you have any questions!

Country home flowers

Welcome!  So glad you are here! Sometimes I forget that I can just use the flowers from a stamp set and not use the container that they are intended to go in. So for this card I decided to just use the flowers.

I made this card for a stamp challenge but missed the deadline, sometimes life just gets to crazy! I water colored this flower bundle. After it dried I fussy cut it out and used this adorable hello label to anchor the flowers down.

I love the texture that the pinewood embossing folder give to a card and I thought this card needed just a little bit more of something, What do you think? Thank you for coming by! Have a wonderful day!

More gather together!

I just am having so much fun coloring these pumpkins. The other night I sat down and had a bunch of the images from the gather together stamped in the momento ink and started to color so I think you might be in for a few more ideas with this set. 

I have been challenging myself to think of different cards to make with all the images that I have colored. When you stamp do you like to make many of the same card or do you like them all to be different? Although I do not mind mass producing cards I think I really just like to make all different cards. I love to try and see if I can find a new way to use a stamp or stamp set.  For this card I liked the idea of using the wood plank embossing folder behind the nested stitched die cut out.

The greeting fit perfectly into the stitched label die! Don't you love it when that happens. I am always looking for a way to switch up my greeting. What is your go to for greetings? Have a beautiful day and enjoy the nice fall weather that is slowly approaching! Thank you for stopping by!

Only a few days left to this sale!

What color pumpkin do you like?

So what color pumpkins are your favorite? I love the soft colors of these ones that I made with my mint macaron and crumb cake stampin blends.  And can I say how much I LOVE this new stamp set, gather together from the new holiday catalog! I love that it has pumpkins and fall leaves. I have so many ideas running through my head of what to make, I can't make them fast enough. Do you ever get so overwhelmed with new things and then don't know where to start. 

Well, I am excited to share with you the ideas that I have been coming up with!

This card I kept pretty simple and I had to much fun creating. Let me know what element you like best? Of course I love the pumpkins but I am really enjoying the wood plank on the die from the stitched labels dies. It adds to much texture and I am all about texture especially for the fall.  If you do not have a copy of the new holiday catalog let me know and I would love to send one out to you. Thanks for visiting my site! I really appreciate the time you have taken to check out what I have created. Plus, I really would like to know what color pumpkins you like? Enjoy and have a blessed day!

Purple Power

This card is a whole lot of purple!  I had colored the iris image and wanted to use the purple in the background. To make the background I took a piece of water color paper and after taping it down completely covered it with water. I then added highland heather and gorgeous grape alternating the rows of color. I also tilted the paper a little to try and get the colors to run into each other. 

The color was a little strong for me and I wanted to add some extra texture and so I decided to use the pinewood planks embossing folder. 

The stamps I used are from the inspiring iris stamp set. I decided to color the outline stamps with stampin blends. I hope you get some new ideas from this card and create a purple masterpiece of your own. Enjoy!

Paper Pumpkin Alternative

Hi Everyone!  Today I want to share a card I made with this months paper pumpkin.  It is a lovely beach centered kit and I could wait to make a fun beach scene.  Keeping with my daily color challenge I did a quick watercolor beach wash.

I had envisioned a nice beach scene in a window type card and so that is what I set out to make.  This kit has so many extra little goodies even after making all the cards so I was really excited to play.  I used an extra palm tree to frame the scene and added the sentiment (stamp from the paper pumpkin kit) and a little linen thread to the back.  I did not want the background to be white and so I added a little texture by using the pinewood planks embossing folder.

I love how this card came out. I did decide that the sky needed a little something more so I added the birds from the hightide set, I just inked up 3 of the 5 birds. I think that added just the right amount of interest. What do you think? 

(sorry this photo came out so blurry)

This card was so simple and I love how sweet it turned out. If you are interested in paper pumpkin please let me know or if you would like give it a try for a month.  There is no obligation.

This kit looks like it will be another winner!  Let me know if you have any questions. Make sure to order before July 10th!  Have a great day! Enjoy summer!