Autumn Bouquet

 Yes I still have Autumn birthday cards to share.  I decided to try my hand at making my own bouquet wrapper, is that what they are called, I have looked at dies many times but just never bought one.  I used some of the papers that came inside an Amazon packaging, the paper is very thin and I thought it might be easier to form, I did a little bit of inking of the paper too. For this one I used a 3 inch piece.  The flowers I used is still more stamps from the magazine I bought at Barnes and Nobles this past fall, they call them summer florals but I have been using them on my fall cards too :)

• Creative Stamping Magazine - Summer Florals stamps, colored w/markers
• Crafter's Companion - Advent calendar paper
• 3" piece of Amazon packaging for the Bouquet wrapper w/inking
• Diamond Press - Advent Calendar 2024 Banner die and sentiment stamp
• Spectrum Noir- Clear Sparkle pen on butterfly stamp
• White Gel pen for center of flowers
• Diamond dots

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by in this busy season,

Connie

Pocket and tag

 I shared a bag and a tag before now I am sharing an envelope and I added a tag, these are really nice for journaling but I have found I like doing them instead of cards too, my hubby's sister really liked it. The maker of the envelope just came out in a new release a month or so ago with an insert for the envelope, I may just have to get that one too :) Although as I found a tag that fit well you can use anything to fill the envelope. I made a bunch of the envelopes a long time ago and so I can't remember the paper I used for them. I also have a whole bin of the Tim Holtz labels I made ahead of time and can't remember where the stamp I used inside is from.

• Spellbinders - Essential Envelope and Delicate Asters die cut from Color Burst Background
• Tim Holtz - Vintage Label die w/stamp
• Daisy Mae Designs - Tag die
• Cardmaking magic - Birthday verses sentiment stamp
• PPD - Mini Stitched square die
• Ieebee- Fluttering Blooms washi
• Ribbon and twine
• Stickles

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Sunflowers

 I didn't manage to get all my Fall birthday cards posted before December so I will be still sharing those through the next week.  It seems weird because we have just received our first snowfall of the year and I think just looking it must be at least 4-5 inches, I have not gone out and checked.

• Stampin up - Painted Harvest stamp set, layered stamping
• Elizabeth craft designs - Bees die, using vellum for the wings
• Fiskars - Essenteal sayings sentiment stamp
• PPD - A2 stitched banner die set
• Paper from scrap bin

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.  I had shared all my cards I had made this year for family, so I thought today I would share a Diamond Dots project I bought last year for the Autumn Season and never got around to doing, so this year I was determined to get it done.  After I finished and I was trying to decide what to do with it, hubby surprised me and stopped at Michaels after work one day and brought home this frame, I wasn't sure it would work but it was called a floating frame and it worked perfectly for this.  I tried to get a picture of it without the reflection of the glass. The image is 12x15 inches.

• Diamond dots kit from Walmart Fall of 2024
• Floating Frame from Michaels

For those that came to see a card I will share one of those too :)

For awhile I was pretty good at going through my scraps and not used items that I had cut out and ended up not using for other cards but I had gotten away from that and my bin is getting full so hopefully I will start to use up goodies from that bin.  For this card for my friend I ended up using a very delicate but I made on my silhouette machine, I have not used that machine in years so you know how long that has been unused. Some die cut flowers and a background that I made with our stamp group in one of our online meetings.

• Silhouette - Corner cut
• Background I made
• Spellbinders - Scalloped Classic Ovals die
• Crafter's Square - Sentiment stamp
• Altenew - Nature's wonders enamel dots
• Tim Holtz - Flower dies

So thankful for you friends who stop by and give such great encouragement of my cards, wishing you much to be Thankful for too!

Connie

Fall Fence

 These are my last two Thanksgiving cards, this first one that I stamped seemed a little bare so I added a die cut pumpkin to the scene :) I sponged on some ink for grass and then stamped a few little touches of grass. Some light inking of blue just so that it isn't so white.

• Penny Black - Fall Fence Stamp, colored w/markers and Pumpkin Parade die
• Distress inks - Mowed Lawn and Tumbled glass
• CRS Tapestry - Grass blades peg stamp
• 49 and Market - in the leaves rub-on sentiment

I would like to share this card with the Penny Black Saturday challenge 

Next up is another of the images my hubby made for me on the computer.

• Image my hubby made on computer
• Spellbinders - Classic Scalloped Square small die
• Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle layers die
• 49 and Market - in the leaves rub on sentiment

Well we have a wintery mix of rain and snow coming early Saturday morning, so winter is making it's arrival, I can say I am not ready.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie