Fall is in the Air!!

I love fall!!! I love the colors, the smells, and most of all the cooler weather! We aren't officially into fall yet, but when we had been averaging 105 every day here in Western Oklahoma and then have days with mornings in the 50s and highs in the 80s, it makes me feel like fall is on the way! While in my scraproom this past weekend I felt inspired to make a fall themed card.

The card base is the white, premade 5x6 card. My first layer was dark burgandy cardstock from Hobby Lobby cut at 4 7/8" x 6 7/8". The next layer was New England Ivy from Close to My Heart cut at 4 1/2"x 6 1/2". I embossed this piece with my Cuttlebug using the Autumn Type Folder. I inked over the embossed area with a Copper Cat's Eye ink pad. I cut the scalloped oval from Lacy Labels at 4 inches. The shadow piece is Autumn Terracotta from CTMH. I inked all the edges with a chestnut Cat's Eye ink. The stamped image is from Stampendous and called Harvest Angel. I colored her with my prisma pencils using the Goo Gone technique. I accented her wings, halo and scrolls on her skirt with Copper Stickles to give her some bling. The gold ribbon is from Hobby Lobby, and the jeweled leaf accent is from a pack of buttons in the fabric section of Walmart. I tacked it to the ribbon with gold thread.

For the inside of the card I again layered the burgandy and New England Ivy cardstock. The leaf accent was cut from Stretch Your Imagination at 2 inches using Autumn Terracotta and gold from the Die Cuts With a View. I have to say that the leaves on Stretch Your Imagination are my favorite leaf cuts to use! The stamped sentiment is also from Stampendous and was stamped in Chocolate ink from CTMH.

I hope you have enjoyed this card as much as I enjoyed making it!

New Years Resolution!!

So one of my New Years resolutions (I like to call them goals) is to post on my blog at least once a week. Thanks to stomach flu and other things, this is the first post of what I hope will become an at least weekly event.

I made this card for last weeks challenge at the House Mouse Monday Challenge blog. The challenge was to do a beach theme card. That was kind of a nice thought with all the cold weather we've been having. I used the House Mouse stamp "Friendly Breeze" and colored the image with prismacolor pencils. My background was purple cardstock from The Paper Studio, and the striped paper was from DCWV Nana's Nursery Baby Boy stack. (My husband would never let me use that paper on one of my boy's layouts anyway!!) I cut a contrasting strip of sand colored paper that I embossed in my cuttlebug using the mesh texture folder and then inked. I pop dotted some sea shells that I cut on my cricut from the Stretch Your Imagination cart. I have become addicted to decorating the inside of my cards as well. The inside I matted with purple then sand colored cardstock. The sentiment was stamped in purple and says "You are a fan-tastic friend!" It is the sentiment stamp from House Mouse called "Fan-tastic Friend" and was released with the image stamp. As an accent inside I cut the beach cut from A Child's Year on my cricut in purple and shadowed in lilac.

Thanks for looking! I hope you enjoyed the card and I plan to post again soon!!