Coffee Soon?

 

Try Stampin' On Tuesday has a new sketch challenge and the optional twist is Warm Drinks.

My inspiration card for you uses several stencils: Coffee Cup by Picket Fence and Fizzy by Gina K Designs.  I used Cotton Candy and Chocolate inks and a piece of gingham.  There was some masking and I did the double stencil technique.  The card base is a recycled natural cream with flecks.  I put a few highlights on with a white gel pen. 

Please check out the marvelous work of the rest of the design team at TSOT

Halloween Birthday II

 

Monday means a great new sketch at

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

The design team inspiration posts on Wednesday along with last week's Top 3

My card used some papers and embellishments from my stash.  I love those little spiders!  This card will go to my other friend with a Halloween birthday. You're never too old to ask for candy :-)

Autumn Z fold

 Wish the texture paste and the shimmer would show up in the photos. I tinted the texture paste for this Simon Says Stamp stencil, splattered with  the same ink colors, and gave the whole panel a spray of gold shimmer.  The sentiment is from Gina K Designs stamped in Terracotta and Chocolate inks.  The little metal leaves are from my bead embellishment stash.

Linking to

Just Us Girls #702                                Creative Creases - Oct.        & Dragonfly Dreams -Autumn

Sketch Saturday

 

My design team inspiration for today's new challenge at

                          Sketch Saturday

There is an optional twist to rotate the sketch.

I have used papers, stamps, and sentiment from Simon Says Stamp for my card.

Autumn Colors

 New at Allsorts today - Challenge #451 with option to use Autumn Colors.

Prizes from: Stamp Addicts, Oakwood, Highlight Crafts, Ruth Hamilton Design, AALL and Create and Craft Stash

Autumn colors are a favorite of mine!  I had a lot of fun putting together all the sweet little bits in this Spellbinders Small die of the month kit.  A dear friend loves hiking at all times of the year and has an October birthday, so these hiking boots seemed like a perfect fit :-)

Everything used to die cut came from my scraps box.  For a background I stenciled with Gina K Designs Cobblestone stencil and her Soft Stone ink.

Hope you will join this challenge!

Boo!

 There is a problem, and I know I'm not alone. When I try to reorganize and clean out the craft room, I just find things that I had forgotten about and now want to play with.  Very little ever leaves this place :-)  

So I made this card with a sweet black and white piece of Pebbles paper from the Halloween bag, and a stencil from Carta Bella. I ink blended with several oranges from Altenew's Warm & Cozy set of inks and cut the panel down. I inked the cat and sentiment from two Close to My Heart sets from decades ago, and fussy cut them. My grandson will love this goofy cat expression!

Inspired by and linking to:

Shopping Our Stash -#507 Halloween    and   Crazy is Our Fame - stencil/orange

Texture

                         Challenge #750 at Allsorts is to use Texture or the Anything Goes option.  

Prizes from: Stamp Addicts, Oakwood, Highlight Crafts, Ruth Hamilton Dedsign, AALL and Create and Craft Stash

The texture on my card is an embossed back panel and a focal panel of leaves that were impressed into the card stock using dies. Rather than cutting through the card, I placed a rubber embossing mat behind. I did some light ink blending over the leaves and splatter with gold paint and inked with a stoneware texture stamp.  A bit of twine also adds texture.