Autumn

This category includes autumn events – Halloween and Thanksgiving

Happy Autumn Season

Hello everyone!

Today I’m playing along in the Just Add Ink ‘choose two’ challenge.

The weather has definitely turned in my part of the word and leaves have started to turn. I love the time when the leaves are brightly coloured and the skies are blue… unlike today – it’s pouring at the moment!

Anyway, it should come as no surprise that I chose foliage… and I also decided on the masking option.

I used products kindly sent to me by Penny Black for my CAS take on the challenge. First of all, I cut some acetate with the Slimline Zig-Zag (51-733) die and used it as a mask for my three squares. Then I found an old inky background that I made MANY years ago and cut it with the Fall Foliage dies (51-655). I cut the stems from some mirror card and adhered everything to my card base. Finally I added a sentiment from the Always Thankful set (30-932)….. I actually messed up this stamping when I did it originally so I just adhered a strip of card on top to hide it!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Pumpkin Owl

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Today I’m playing along in the colour challenge at the Just Us Girls challenge using products sent to me by Penny Black. The colour palette is rather autumnal – orange, green and brown.

I decided to use one of the fun images from the Owlsome stamp set (30-718) – is he a pumpkin decorated as an owl or an owl dressed as a pumpkin?! I think the former but either way he is so much fun! I embossed the image and coloured it with my Twinkling H2O paints before I fussy cut it. I added some stickles and pearls plus a bit of a wink of Stella to his eyes… sadly you can’t see much of the shimmer in my photos, but his eyes sparkle in real life!

For the background, I used one of the new dies from the Fall 2022 release – Fall Fern (51-756) and coloured it with my Twinklings – I love how the leaves match the pumpkin owl’s wings!

After adding some paint splatters, I adhered everything to my card base and added the sentiment from the Pumpkin Stack mini stamp set (30-855).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Dancing Branchlets

Hello again everyone!

Next up today is my entry for the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and  Sketches.

Despite the ridiculous heatwave that we have right now, I decided to create another autumnal card with Penny Black products. I’ve had the beautiful Dancing Branchlets die (51-247) for a while and although I’ve played with it a few times, I’ve never used it on a card. Until now!

For my very CAS take on the sketch, I masked off a rectangle and blended four distress oxide inks (Dusty Concord, Fired Brick, Crackling Campfire and Wild Honey). Then I cut the branchlets from some brown glitter card and adhered it to the card base. Finally I added a sentiment from the Autumn is Calling stamp set (30-863)

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Repurposed Christmas in July Berry Card

Hello everyone!

One month ago, on the 10th Day of LucieG’s Christmas in July 2022, I shared this card. At the time, I felt it was more of a card for autumn rather than for Christmas because of the colour combo that I was working with. As time went on, I knew that there was no way that I would send it as a Christmas card so I knew I had to repurpose it at some point and today was the day! All products are by Penny Black.

I had made the slimline card using the Slimline Medley die set (51-718) cut from white cardstock. I removed the sentiment and the Berries die cut (51-712) from the centre circle and added a sentiment from the Autumn is Calling stamp set (30-863). I then cut up the berry branch and popped it around the sentiment.

I feel much happier about this card now! I guess I should make a replacement Christmas in July card… maybe with the same supplies, but using different colours of course!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

 

Golden pumpkins

Hello everyone!

First up today I’m playing along with this week’s Color Throwdown challenge which has a combo of brown, rust, gold and blue.

I’ve been wanting to ink up and colour the beautiful Autumn Vibes clings stamp by Penny Black (40-786) for a while now and I thought this week’s combo would be perfect for the stamp. I coloured the image with my Twinkling H2O paints, but didn’t like how my gold paint looked… So, I turned to some glitzy golden paper, stamped and cut out the pumpkins and did some paper piecing! the sentiment is from Penny Black’s Pumpkin Stack mini set (30-855).

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.

Autumn Happiness Wreath

Hi everyone!

Today I’m playing along with the challenge at the Four Seasons challenge using Penny Black products.

I absolutely love the new Golden cling stamp (40-782) and was so excited to ink it up. I haven’t been doing much stamping and colouring recently and I really enjoyed using my beloved Twinkling H2O paints again! Can you see the shimmer in the second photo? So difficult to photograph!

To complete my card, I added a sentiment from the Autumn is Calling set (30-863) and also softly sponged some distress ink to the background to create a layered effect without adding too many physical layers.

Thanks for stopping by!

LucieG.