Autumn

This category includes autumn events – Halloween and Thanksgiving

Lest we forget 2024

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

Ode of Remembrance, Laurence Binyon.

Hey mustard pumpkin

Hi again!

Next up today is my entry in this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of mustard, kraft and terracotta.

For my take, I used new-to-me dies by Memory Box – who says you can’t have butterflies and pumpkins? Although I suppose it could also be a moth, there’s a lot of them around this time of year! I coloured the die cuts with distress inks and distress mica spray.

The sentiment is by Spellbinders.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 5

Hi there and Happy Halloween!

It’s Day 5 of Ghost Week and I’m playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge (I have NEVER entered this challenge so early!!) and this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.

For today’s card, I used the Cookie Jar die that was part of the Pinkfresh Holiday Event earlier in the month. I think I would have preferred to use a bigger card base to more add more white space around the focal point but I also wanted to use my Simon Says Stamp ghosts embossing folder one last time this year and guess what won that design struggle?!

I cut ghosts from Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts which I’m proud to say that I have used on three cards this year! The fabulous houses are from Poppystamps’ Twisted Houses set – they worked so well with the jar!.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 4

Hi there!

It’s Day 4 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this month’s Memory Box challenge where the theme is ‘happy haunting’.

Who said ghosts had to be white? I created some colourful felt ghosts with two new-to-me die sets by Memory Box – the brand new Haunting Ghosts set and the Ghosts in the Forest set.

The sentiment is by Creative Expressions.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 3

Hi there!

Welcome to Day 3 of Ghost Week!

I had such fun creating this card… and a LOT less fun to photograph it!

The card base is this gorgeous patterned ombre mirror card that I picked up in a sale! I was so excited to use it and very pleased with how it turned out… until I came to photograph it. The lights in my photobox reflected badly and none of my cameras would take a true likening. So I had no choice but to wait for natural light. We have typical British grey autumn weather right now so even this was difficult and I did have to brighten the images I took but I got there in the end.

I used dies by many of my favourites – Penny Black, Tim Holtz/Sizzix, Poppystamps and Memory Box.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Ghost Week – Day 2

Hi there!

It’s Day 2 of Ghost Week and today I’m also playing along with this week’s Freshly Made Sketches challenge.

It’s such a versatile sketch this week and I was all ready to create a Christmas or autumn card before I thought of ghost week!

Today I’ve used two brand new die sets – the Poppystamps Ghostly Cats which I first used on this card and Memory Box’s fun set of Haunting Ghosts (I just used the smallest die).