Cajun Double Back Sunflower

Happy Halloween all, somewhat late!! Hope you had a great night! I miss the days of trick or treating and handing out candy, yet it's nice just to be home and do what I need to do! Living in the country now, Trick or Treaters at the door have never happened. And, my boys are too old to go out! and, I'm OK with that :)

I played in the stamp room tonight-motivated to get a few cards done by ideas that have been running around in my head. That sounds like a bad thing-but trust me-it's all good!! :) LOVE being back in creative mode!! Gotta get "the" Christmas card on the to do list!!

Here is one that I did tonight! Inspired by Dawn Olchefske over at DO Stamping. She did a post recently on using Double Backgrounds. Of course she used the Sunflower so I HAD to give it a try!!

This is very similar to her card, but I did change a few things! My card base is Cajun Craze with an Early Espresso accent layer behind the Crumb Cake background. On the background, I stamped the saying from Pursuit of Happiness in Cajun on the lower right corner. Then, I inked the En Francais background in Crumb Cake and stamped on the left side of the card. Over that I stamped the Sunflower inked with Cajun Craze. I attached the Crumb cake layer to the Early Espresso. I then knotted a Crumb cake ribbon at the edge of the background stamps, and added 3 Metallic brads to the top right corner. Attach that layer to the background and done!

Pretty simple, yet VERY wow!!

Thanks for stopping by today! Back soon with more creations :)

HSS Artist Pick!

Woohoo-I was an Artist pick over at HSS with my Textured Folaige card!

Here is my card again

and a link to my original post HERE.

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Here is the second card I made last night. I tweaked it just a bit this morning and I guess it will do! I played along with the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. They always have great ones!! Here is my card

based on this sketch

I really didn't stamp much on this one! I let the Be of Good Cheer Designer Paper do all the work!! The card base is Cherry Cobber with a Gumball Green accent layer behind the Gumball Green print background. At the top right are 3 Very Vanilla brads per the sketch. The other DSP print is matted on Cherry Cobbler and attached to the background. My snowflake element is two of the medium snowflakes from the Snow Flurry die in Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla. In the center, the smallest cut from the Champagne Glimmer paper. The flakes are all attached together with a Very Vanilla brad and then set on a 1-3/4" Gumball Green circle. It needed something behind it and I tried all the colors in the card without really liking any of them!! The Merry Christmas from Teeny Tiny Wishes was stamped on a Very Vanilla banner that I cut with the Bitty Banners Framelits. I cut a second from Cherry Cobbler, split in the middle, and attached at the ends of the Very Vanilla.

Thanks for stopping by again today!! I'm off and running with son #2 to shop for winter clothes!!

Triple Foliage Inspiration

I needed to be creative tonight, so I found a few challenges to play along with! First, the Inspiration challenge over at Hand Stamped Sentiments. Fall HSSIC141. I always think leaves when I think fall, and ever since I saw the Triple Time Technique I've wanted to try texturing it. Love textured leaves, so here we go!!

I of course reached for French Foliage. I did consider Wonderfall, but French Foliage won out. Just love how well these leaves go together! The yellow in the inspiration photo really stood out to me, so I looked through my Color Coach until I found something fall-ish involving a yellow. The colors I chose: More Mustard, Old Olive and Bravo Burgundy. I ended up with more green than yellow, but I like the end result!!

Remember, the layers sizes are as follows:

Old Olive

4-1/4 x 5-1/2 (8-1/2 x 5-1/2 folded)

3-1/4 x 4-1/2

2-1/4 x 3-1/2

Very Vanilla

4 x 5-1/4

3 x 4-1/4

2 x 3-1/4

As per the technique, I attached (gently) my Very Vanilla layers together and then stamped them. I did the verse first in Burgundy, then leaves in More Mustard, Old Olive and Bravo Burgundy. I added a few splatters too (can't resist those!!) in Crumb Cake. While still attached together, I ran all the Very Vanilla layers through the Square Lattice embossing folder. Then I took them apart and layered onto their respective Old Olive Layer. Around the smallest, I knotted a More Mustard 1/2" Scallop Dots ribbon. 

Thanks for stopping by! I have another card made, but I'm going to "sleep on it" before posting. Want to make sure I like it first :) See you tomorrow!!

Clean & Simple Eggplant Flowers

I created this card last night. My starting point was the Clean & Simple sketch this week, FTL214. I'm not sure my end result is clean and simple, but their sketch was a GREAT starting point!! Here is my card.

Purple is my favorite color and I was in the mood for some last night so I grabbed Elegant Eggplant as my starting point. The card base is Eggplant with a Lucky Limeade layer behind the background River Rock. I textured the River Rock with the Argyle Embossing Folder. An accent of Daffodil Delight 1/8" Taffeta ribbon was knotted around the background before attaching to the card base. The center panel is Elegant Eggplant again with Very Vanilla. Thinking of You from Sassy Salutations was stamped in the bottom corner. The flowers were made by punching Scallop Circles of Elegant Eggplant and then cutting "petals" and texturing them in the Perfect Polka Dot Embossing Folder. Under the flowers are two sets of leaves cut from Lucky Limeade with the Little Leaves Sizzlit. The center of the flowers are circles of River Rock, Lucky Limeade and Daffodil Delight. Sizes 1", 3/4" and 1/2". I attached those all together then ran through the Square Lattice Embossing Folder.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Open House Triple Betsy

Finally-card four from Open Houses last weekend!! I decided to show everyone the Triple Time technique that is so fun yet easy!! I started playing with colors, looking for a Fall feel, and ended up with this!

Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight and Lucky Limeade. The stamp set used is Betsy's Blossom and the saying is from Curly Cute. Remember the trick to this?? Start by layering all your Whisper White pieces together. Attach them with just a little bit of Snail adhesive. Stamp as desired with all the layers together. We started by doing the saying first at the bottom of the center layer. And, we made sure to leave an Indigo flower in the center of that layer for a brad accent. I like to stamp the larger images first, then work my way to the smaller. I did the large Daffodil flowers, then the Limeade leaves and Indigo flowers, and finally filled in with the small Daffodil flowers.

When you take them apart and layer on their Island Indigo layer you get a WOW!!! effect! One thing to note: while stamping, you will get some spots at the edges that don't look wonderful. But, remember you are adding an Indigo layer to the back of each Whisper White. Those "spots" won't show!! This sizes of the layers are

Whisper White          Island Indigo

2 x 3-1/4                   2-1/4 x 3-1/2

3 x 4-1/4                   3-1/4 x 4-1/2

4 x 5-1/4                   4-1/4 x 11 (base, folded to 4-1/4 x 5)

The final accent is a Daffodil Delight 1/4" Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon that we tied into a bow and attached with a Glue Dot. 

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a GREAT weekend on tap! Looks to be a football day here! Our Kansas State Wildcats have a big game this afternoon, and Hubby's office has a Husker tailgate before their game this evening.