Autumn Creatures

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For today I will be playing along with The Paper Players and CAS Colours & Sketches. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The 'flaming' leaves are from a background I created using a combination of 'the baby wipe technique' and sponging using autumnal colors. I then die-cut the tree and leaves and placed it on top of the autumnal paper. I die-cut the tree bark and laid it into the void.

The forest animals are from an old SU set. I thought its whimsical character was a perfect fit for this card. The proportions were kind of a problem but the critters seemed to be in good proportion to the tree.

The sentiment is simple and sweet.
I can see the owl hiding in the tree surprising its friends.

Challenges Entered:

The Paper Players: Fall Critters- PP511

CAS Colours & Sketches: Challenge #391 - Colours

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Autumn Scene

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For today I will be playing along with Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge, CAS(E) this Sketch, Creative Knockouts, and Just Us Girls. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The card started out with a kraft paper base. I stamped the plaid background while masking off the area for the trees. I took off the plaid mask, heat set, and masked off the plaid to stamp the trees. I took off the plaid mask, heat set, and masked off the plaid to stamp the trees.

The leaves were created using a combination of 'the baby wipe technique' and sponging using autumnal colors. I then die-cut the leaves and added them to the card.

This is one of the layered leaves I created using the same paper as the other leaves. I cut out the base of the leaf and then added two layers of white and the color layer for texture and dimension.

Challenges Entered:

Just Us Girls: #556: Word Week- Plaid

Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge: #tttc084- Plaid/Leaf/Tree
CAS(E) this Sketch: CTS #392

Creative Knockouts: #370-Fall

  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Color Dare Challenge

Hello CMHCD Friends!

Welcome to another challenge at Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

The colorful panel is part of a larger sheet that was made by sponging Oxide Inks on cardstock. I then used an oldie (but goodie) grunge stamp from SU to 'splatter' the background.

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Now for our challenge!

Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #414

Shawna Standish

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What I enjoyed most about the inspiration photo were the colors. Surprising right? Seriously, the photo to me showed no color had a defining edge but it was chuck full of muddled colors creating it own varients. So lovely!

The acorn was die cut three times. I applied gold cream and three jewels to the top of the acorn. I thought it added some texture that is known for Autumn.

Well, thank you again for taking the time out of your busy day to visit my corner of the internet. I do hope you will join us at Color My Heart Color Dare and play along.

Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and stay healthy. Until then take care and we will see you soon!

Blue Ridge Mountains

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Today I will be playing along with The Male Room, Stamping Sensations, and a new challenge, Color Hues. These challenges combine two of my favorite things- Color and Outdoors! Here is my card for today, enjoy!

My sister-in-law was traveling back from her daughter's soccer tournament when she just happened upon this view! Incredible! I used it as inspiration for this card. Who wouldn't?

What I really liked about the picture was its panoramic nature. I used roughly one-third of the panel to give it the panoramic look. The sentiment is meaningful because my husband always says something to this extent when we hike. Good mantra! 

The colors of that shot really inspired me to create this card. The mountains were done by masking, sponging, and colored pencil for smoothness. I wanted to give it some extra sense of dimension so I scored the outline of the mountains with an Exact-O blade. I also stamped the clouds using both an Altenew and Hero Arts cloud stamps.

Challenges Entered:

Color Hues: TCH#2- Navy/Turquoise

The Male Room: TMR142- Travel

Stamping Sensations: September Challenge- The Great Outdoors

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Hangin' Sloth

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Today I will be playing along with Freshly Made Sketches and Cupcake Inspirations. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

I had the tropics in mind designing this card. I started to realize I have no idea where sloths live. After finishing this card I was a bit panicked. And I soon found out sloths live in tropical environments. PHEW!! If not I would have to declare 'artistic license'.

The sloth is from Sunny Studio. Some of you may realize the sloth is bigger than the actual stamp. I stamped the sloth and enlarged the little guy 150%. I then colored him using polychromo pencils. The flower with the original sloth didn't look in scale. Enlarging the sloth put the entire card to 'scale'. 

Hang in there seemed to the most appropriate sentiment. However, I don't know about you but I don't exactly think I would be smiling if I was hanging on a branch by my hands. Just sayin'!

Challenges Entered:

Freshly Made Sketches: FMS454

Cupcake Inspirations: CIC502

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Chameleon

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For today I will be playing along with The Paper Players and Just Us Girls. I picked quite an unusual creature for a pet, the chameleon! Here is my card for today, enjoy!

One layer card showing the chameleon in all its wonderful colors! This card uses color blocking to illustrate the color change of a chameleon.

The use of masking paper was essential for the card to work.  The colors were added using Hero Arts, Memento, and Your Next Stamp inks. I gently added the color using an ink applicator.

These little critters were stamped after the color blocking. I wanted to use the color as a wash for the crayons and chameleon. I then colored them using polychromos.

Challenges Entered:

Just Us Girls: Challenge #554- Color Week

The Paper Players: CAS Challenge- Pets (PP509)

 

A few of my friends in college had chameleons for pets. They were the coolest creatures! However, their life expectancy is very short. They live around 2-3 years in the wild and 3-10 years in captivity. I would love to hear from you if you had a chameleon as a pet. 

I wasn't sure if I was going to post this but there is a video series called True Facts. Each video is about a certain animal and the one I am going to share is about the chameleon. Just a warning, it is not for little eyes!! If you are of age watch this here!! It is absolutely hilarious!  

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy. 

Watercolor with Flowers

  Hello Everyone, 

For today I will be playing along with CAS(E) this Sketch and The Flower Challenge. Here is my card for today, enjoy!

A simple one layer card using watercolor paper, water, DI's,
 and the long forgotten, Gelli Plate.

I put Worn Lipstick directly onto the Gelli Plate and some Squeezed Lemonade on my work surface. Simply sprayed water on the Gelli Plate and gently mixed it with the Squeezed Lemonade and added it to the paper.

I stamped the wildflowers in brown ink a couple of times. Watercolor paper has a ton of texture by stamping mulitple times I could get a clear image.

Challenges Entered:

CAS(E) this Sketch: CTS #390

The Flower Challenge: #48- Brown and Pink

Thank you so much for stopping by and I do appreciate you taking time out of your busy day to spend time with me. Lots of good crafting vibes headed your way. I hope you all have a fantastic day and please stay safe and healthy.