Welcome Autumn Door with Concord & 9th

 

A festive Hi!  I just love a creative products that can go beyond one season!  When I saw this new door set from Concord & 9th, with dies that can be used for multiple occasions and seasons, I knew it would be a great one.  Its called Door Decor Dies, and it’s fabulous!  

First off I played with a colour palette that would work for a cheerful autumn scene that also had a bit of unique colour, and came up with this one with Stardust, Spiced Cider, Creamsickle, Briar Rose, Eucalyptus and Juniper.  Then I cut out all the little pieces to form the door, leave bough, wreath and accents.  I did a litte ink blending on all the elements to give them a bit of depth too.  

Then its just putting the tiny pieces together!  I love Concord & 9th for their attention to details....things like the little door pulls and the tops to the pumpkins.  All done with such care.  

A really fun set to create with, and I look forward to lots of other versions in the future!  

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Welcome Autumn Door with Concord & 9th

Fall Forest Whimsy with The Cat’s Pajamas

 

Well Hi!  Today I’m bringing you the most charming whimsical little Autumn scene!  It’s created with The Cat’s Pajamas stamps and digital images, and lots of Copic colouring.  I started with creating a Fall themed background with TCP’s Fall Foliage digital stamp set, arranging the leaves, acorns and toadstools in a fun layout.  

Next I also took some of those same leaves and shrunk them down really tiny so that I could add them to this retired stamp set scene, giving it the feel of a windy Autumn day where the leaves are swirling (its very west-coast with gigantic leaves!).  These little leaves are trimmed out after colouring and added to the Copic coloured scene.  Aren’t these little woodland animals darling dressed in their cozy sweaters and scarves?  

The main image is popped up and I’ve added texture to the background with a plaid style die, as well as a few enamel dots to accent.  It’s the perfect all occasion card for Fall!  

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Fall Forest Whimsy with The Cat’s Pajamas

Autumn Mums with The Greetery

 

We’ve just come home from an evening walk that was glorious.  I love Autumn walks.  The leaves have just started to turn colour, the air is still warm but not humid, the sunsets are truly beautiful.  It’s lovely to move into Fall.  Today I have a cozy arrangement of Mums from The Greetery called Mum’s the Word. It is a fun combination of stamp and stencil, where you begin by stencilling in background colour and finish with stamping the details.  

I used a rich palette of deep rosey shades and deep greens, cutting the framed flowers out with the Coordinating Die. I also added in a few extra stencilled and stamped blooms to fill out the framing and give a greater sense of dimension.  

The sentiment is stacked up in a few layers, and I’ve added in a few enamel dots for a perfect Autumn Birthday card!  

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Autumn Mums with The Greetery

Summer Seaside Scene with Concord & 9th

 

For a last little nod to Summer this week I thought I’d pop in with one more scene which uses the Seaside Post Bundle from Concord & 9th.  Today I’ve used the stencil to create a Sunset view from the cliffs.  I ink blended with stencil for all the layers, and then added in some white gel pen and coloured pencil accents into the sea and sun rays. 

I added in some dies from the set to accent the sentiment (from the Parcel of Petals Stamp set), die cut the image with the large postage die in the set, and then stamped the background with postmarks in the stamp set.  I think this combination of Harbor Blue, Cranberry, Pebble and Cobblestone plus Creamsicle is a perfect Summer colour combo. 

This totally gives me the Northern California vibes!  Thanks for joining me!  

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Summer Seaside Scene with Concord & 9th

Covered in Blossoms with Pinkfresh Studios

 

Hi!  I’m back with a another Summer card for this week.  Even though the weather today was decidely Fall-like, I’m bringing the blossoms with this lovely set from Pinkfresh Studios called Handpicked Flowers.   I was totally inspired by one of the sample pictures on the Pinkfresh site that I both had to have the set, and then did my own version of one of the cards.  

I started by using the coordinating stencil for the set on various parts of the cardstock in warm summery shades to cover most of the layer.  

Then I embossed the stamp set over the stencilling in white to give some definition to the petals.  I cut a tiny strip of white for the smaller sentiment, and added in a leafy vellum branch beneath this layer for a bit of whimsy.

And finally, I added the larger sentiment from the set cut with the coordinating die for this stamp set.  No extra embellishments needed with the romantic pattern of the flowers!   Thanks for stopping by! 

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Covered in Blossoms with Pinkfresh Studios

Hummingbird Harmony with Crafty Meraki

Hi There!  I have a project that I haven’t shown yet which I created for the latest Crafty Meraki Release.   It uses two new stamp sets called Hummingbird Harmony and its coordinating die, and Flower Fest Stamps with its coordinating dies.  I took a selection of beautiful tropical flowers from the set, and a little bitty hummingbird and coloured them up with Copics using lots of saturated colour.  

After adding some shimmery pen to the hummingbird, I arranged the flowers on an ink blended cardbase and frame, popping up some elements for lots of dimension. 

All that was left was some iridescent sequins to add to that sense of shimmer.  It’s a burst of tropical colour for the last days of Summer.  

Thanks for joining me!

 

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Hummingbird Harmony with Crafty Meraki