Paper Players # 313

I love fall!

I love the changing of the leaves.

I love the cooler temperatures.

And I love making fall cards!

Today I am playing along with the Paper Players they are asking for a 

Clean And Simple taste of fall on our card!

What I used:

Autumn Abundance background paper (PTI)

PTI Friendship Jar Fall fillers

zig clear water markers

PPP sequins 

Thanks for stopping by friends,have a great week!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

CAS Mix Up September Challenge

Hi Friends!

I had a free day to play along with the CAS Mix Up September Challenge!  My house guest was at the beach and I had my shaving cream sitting on my desk waiting for me to use it!

I made about 6 pages of marbling using fallish colors of yellows, oranges, greens, even dropping in some purples and some reds.  My thought was to use leaves and pumpkins...I just love fall!!  And I love how these colors turned out, perfect for each of the things I wanted to die cut!!

Stamps & dies:  PTI Autumn Pumpkins

 Lil' Inkers Stitched leaves

 MFT Fall Foliage (sentiment)

 

 I used shaving cream and reinkers for the marbling, die cuts and stamping.

I think you have until the 24th to enter your card!

this was a very fun technique and I have lots left over to use for other cards!

 

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

Freshly Made Sketches

This Freshly Made Sketch is by Jennifer Blum, go see what the design team has made to inspire you to play along with this sketch!

I am definitely in the 'fall' mode; right now our weather is perfect...cooler evenings but sunny and pleasant days...perfect for working outside!

Here is the sketch:

 

CB EF:  leaves

Autumn Pumpkins (pumpkins)

Paper clippings: Thankful for you (wheat stalks)

Spooky Smiles ( sentiment)

copics 

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look!  Hope you all have a terrific Friday and a great weekend!  I have a house guest coming today and will be here for almost three weeks...a good friend and a cousin of my husbands from Norway!  She was here for the first time 50 years ago as a private exchange student living with my husbands family.  We became good friends and she has come back here many times to visit and to reconnect with friends.  I am looking forward to spending time with her and taking her around to all our old stomping grounds!

 

Heart Hugs, friends!

PTI September Blog Hop

I can't believe how quickly times passes, it is already time for the September

 PTI Blog Hop.

 

This was our inspiration piece and an extra video from a past MIM from Betsy showing how she does a "chalkboard" technique. 

paper:  PTI Ocean Tides, gold from Recollections: vintage Glam

Stamps:  Embellished elegance, Twig Leaf, Lovely Laurels, Vintage linens

ink:  HA unicorn white, and all the PTI colors for the leaves

EP:  WOW opaque bright white

YEAH!  It's Friday!!  Happy Weekend Friends!

CAS(E) this Sketch

Happy Harvest is a fun little set from Lawn Fawn, it has so many cute images perfect for autumn and perfect for the CAS(E) this Sketch.

I sponged on some distress inks:  scattered straw, crushed olive and tumbled glass for the background, then inked up the corn with PTI fine linen ink.

Everything was colored with copics.

The background was made with an MFT linen background stamp that belongs to my BFF.

 

We are back to very nice fall weather...in the 70's today!

Have a great weekend friends!

Heart Hugs!

Autumn Cards

 Today I am playing at AAA where the challenge is using Autumn colors.

I had sponged a lot of distress inks onto a piece of paper and die cut all the leaves from Lawn Fawn Stitched Leaves and Small Stitched leaves.  These were leftover from another card I made.  OMG, I noticed my dashed white line did not go all the way up the side...I fixed it, so the card is alright, the picture is NOT, sorry about that!

I do love Fall when the world is just full of all those awesome colors, the yellows, golds, oranges, reds and greens, I LOVE IT!  And I must admit to loving the shorter days and even cooler or rainy ones because then I don't feel so guilty playing in the studio all day!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

NBUS Challenge & Addicted to CAS

Thank you Darnell for encouraging us to use our NBUS!!

                         

         This is a NEW We R Memory keepers embossing folder...and the NEW Little Stitched leaves from Lawn Fawn!  I took a piece of paper and using various distress inks, I sponged all over the paper, then laid out all the leaves (original and little) and cut them out. The stitched border is also NEW from Lawn Fawn called Stitched Borders.

I added a strip of glitter paper to the top and bottom of the rustic cream paper.

My sentiment is from an old PTI set called Falling Leaves.
Oh and this is a CAS from Nicole from the Lawn Fawn blog

           

                           

And if you want to play along with this challenge you can go HERE to Darnell's Blog and join in the fun!!  She has many sponsors and lots of goodies to give away!!

                 I am also entering this card in the Addicted to CAS Challenge     

thanks for stopping by!!    

Paper Players ~ It's FALL!

 

Happy Fall Y'all  is the challenge over at the

Paper Players!

 

I love the fall...not to say I don't love the sun and the warmth and right now, we are getting lots of both, although it is technically NOT fall yet!  98 degrees yesterday here in Oregon!!

stamps:  Lawn Fawn: so thankful, PTI: Fall elegance and 2009 Autumn Tags

Paper:  PTI White and Fine linen

copics

 

Thanks for taking a look!  Have a great week!

Heart Hugs!

CAS*ology # 69 "Brown"

The cue word this week is "Brown"...

You can go HERE  to access this challenge at the CASology Blog.

Stamps:  Hero Arts 'Tall Wheat', PTI 'Falling Leaves', PTI Autumn Abundance

inks:  distress vintage photo, versamark

misc:  white embossing powder, bling, golden wink of Stella

paper:  PTI white, dark chocolate

dies:  Lil' Inkers Stitched Mats rectangle

and the inside of the card...

 

Thanks for stopping by...

Heart hugs,

Colleen