Autumn

This category includes autumn events – Halloween and Thanksgiving

Grateful leaves

Happy World Card Making Day Everyone!

What a fun day it’s been – so many companies have blog hops, sales and so much inspiration. I’m so grateful for this community!

Here is one of the cards I made today – an autumn card using stamps and dies from Concord & 9th. I stamped the large leaf on vellum and the embossed it with the wonderful Altenew golden peach embossing powder which I may have used on a number of today’s cards!

Anyway, I mixed some distress ink into texture paste before applying it through a grid stencil. Not traditional autumn colours but I like how it turned out!

I’m entering this card (via Instagram) into Concord & 9th’s World Card Making Day challenge and also the Casology challenge (‘grid’).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Pumpkin greetings

Happy Friyay people!

I love autumn! Especially when the sun is shining! And it’s been one of those days today, beautiful autumnal weather. Anyway, I also love that the challenges at this time of year give me a perfect opportunity to dig into my HUGE pile of pumpkin stamps and use them!

Today’s card is for the Color Throwdown challenge where the colour combo is orange, kraft and white! Perfect for autumn cards!

I stamped a Penny Black image lightly on to kraft paper and then coloured it in using Prismacolor pencils. I’m really enjoying these pencils – still lots to learn, but I find myself reaching for them more often. Anyway, I went over the entire image with my white pencil first so that the orange would be a bit more vibrant. I didn’t have too many shades of orange in my set, but I am so happy that I was able to make them work for this card!

Once I’d finished colouring, I stamped over it again so that the black ink would be nice and crisp. Thank goodness for the MISTI!

Finally, I added a greeting from Memory Box and a few Nuvo drops to finish the card!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Happy Meow-lloween!

Hello everyone!

The themes for this week’s Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge are Halloween/use dark colours! Perfect opportunity for me to get inky and play a bit more with a fabulous Halloween stamp set from Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous!

I created the coloured strips using regular and oxide distress inks and also used some distress oxide ink to colour my moon. I stamped the cat trio using versafine and then added a layer of Delicata black shimmer ink. As I then heat embossed the image, it’s quite difficult to see the shimmer, but it is there! Honest!

Anyway, I cut out the cats and then very carefully added some glow in the dark Nuvo drops. When I made this last night, I turned off all the lights and this stuff really does glow! So difficult to photograph though!

To finish off the card, I added a sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

I’m also entering this into the current Case This Sketch challenge.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Autumn colour

Hi everyone!

The Color Throwdown challenge has another fabulous colour combination this week – rust, green, orange and aqua! They were such fun to play with and I ended up creating two cards!

I used Impression Obsession’s background fancy leaf stamp with distress inks for both cards. For the first card, I trimmed down the background to fit a card base and simply added a rectangle of vellum and a Memory Box sentiment die. I added a few sequins to finish it off.

For the second card, I embossed a piece of cardstock using a Spellbinders embossing folder. I cut my stamped panel with an Essentials by Ellen die and then added a Concord and 9th sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Rainbow Leaves

Happy Sunday everyone!

It’s time for a new challenge over at AAA Cards. We have a sketch for you to play with this fortnight and Happy Little Stampers is our sponsor.

For my card, I rotated the sketch as I wanted to use a longer Studio Carabelle stamp that I bought a few weeks ago at the Big Stamping and Scrapbooking Show at Alexandra Palace. Studio Carabelle was selling some of their stamps individually rather than in sets – it was great as you could pick and choose the actual stamps you wanted – rather than buy a whole set just for one stamp…. which I have been known to do. Please tell me I’m not alone!

Anyway, back to my card… I stamped each leaf in different distress oxide inks. I then added a Hero Arts sentiment and a few sequins to finish it off.

My teammates have shared some gorgeous CAS cards on the AAA Cards blog and we are also joined by Guest Designer Sue from Sue’s Card Craft. She has some amazing creations on her blog, so please drop by her site!

Thanks for stopping by – I do hope you play along with us!

LucieG.

 

Autumn smile

Hi everyone!

I love the autumn colours for this week’s Color Throwdown challenge – purple, orange, yellow and green and used the same distress inks as the challenge host, the talented Amy Rysavy. I wanted to created a sponge blended background, with limited brown – always a challenge with this palette! I sponged really lightly to maintain the colours – it looks like I used completely different inks to Amy, doesn’t it?!

I wanted to add some shimmer to my coloured panel so I added just one spritz of distress mica spray. I love the effect you get from just one spray. So difficult to stop at just one though!!

Anyway, I used the fabulous striped leaf die from Altenew and some kraft cardstock to create the inlaid die-cut background and added the embossed Altenew sentiment. But I didn’t feel the card was completely finished. Then I saw the theme for Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge – add metal. So I dusted down my neglected box of brads, added a few and called the card done!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG