Grateful

There's a new Inspired By Words challenge up at Time Out Challenges with a theme of gratitude. 

Challenge #97 runs from Thursday, November 23rd to Wednesday, December 6th. The challenge is sponsored by STAMPlorations. Winner will receive a gift voucher to the STAMPloraions Store. Check the Time Out Blog for all the details.

Our awesome Guest Designer is Izzy of Izzy Scrap. She is a wonderfully talented designer, and you are sure to be inspired by her works.

Please head over to the Time Out Challenges Blog to see what the Design Team has created for your inspiration. Create something based on our inspiration and play along with us. I can't wait to see how you are inspired by these words...

I'm also playing at:

Stamp Ink Paper #126 - Grateful, Thankful, Blessed

Cards In Envy - It's Only Paper Card Challenge

CAS-UAL Fridays - CFC187

The Sisterhood Of Crafters - Give Thanks

Peace On Earth

I am so excited to say that I was invited to be Guest Designer for Muse: Christmas Visions MCV85! Today is the day! The Challenge is now open on the Muse: Christmas Visions Blog. Woot!! Thank you Cornelia and Ardyth!

As I was pondering my creation, I put my hand on this wonderful Hero Arts wood mounted stamp that I love so much. Thinking about the state of affairs in this crazy world in which we live, I decided to go with a theme of peace.

For the background panel, I pounced my Versa Mark pad on the SSS Falling Stars stencil and heat embossed with Ranger Liquid Platinum EP.

I embossed the earth image on watercolor paper with the same EP, and watercolored it with Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers. The sentiment is done with Winnie & Walter's The Big, The Bold and The Merry Cutaways and stamps. I mounted the earth and the word "peace" with foam tape, and finished it off using a paperclip for the ornament hanger.

As of this posting, there are 96 days until Christmas. Wouldn't it be lovely to have a stash of handmade cards to send? Please join me and the Muse: Christmas Visions Designers and get your Christmas Card making groove on! You can find all the details on how to play HERE. I am so looking forward to seeing how my card inspires. Have fun!!

I'm aslo playing at:

SSS Wednesday Challenge - Pop It Up

Stamp Ink Paper #117 - Watercolor

SSS Monday Challenge - Shimmer and Shine

Hope Endures

Challenge #65

The current Time Out Challenge is "Inspired By Words". I really love this type of challenge as it leaves so much to the imagination. Here is the quote:

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” 

You can be inspired of the whole sentiment or just choose one or two words as a starting point for your project.

Here is my take:

I love Autumn. I love the change in weather. Where I live, there are four very distinct seasons. I love the change in foods, clothes, decor... When the leaves die off so much in nature goes to sleep, there is always the promise of spring and rebirth. So there's hope, and that was my thought process in pondering the quote and putting this card together.

Everything on this card is new except the Kraft card base. I used Brushos to make a water color background from which I cut the solid wreath. I sprayed it with Ranger Buttercup Mica Spray to give it a golden sheen. It's gorgeous IRL. All stamps, dies and the sentiment are from Winnie and Walter. The white panel is Tim Holtz Distress Woodgrain Cardstock. It is luscious.

I am also linking this CAS card up to the Stamp Ink Paper Challenge where the current challenge is Clean & Simple.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit! Have a wonderful day!!

Beautiful Birthday

Stamp ink Paper #54

I came across this new-to-me challenge yesterday, and I was immediately inspired to play. The colors screamed summer flowers to me, so I pulled out a Memory Box Stencil that has been sitting in my stash for a while and inked it. I love the way it came out. But then I decided to tape the stencil down on a fresh piece of watercolor paper, spritz it with lots of water, then blot it with a paper towel. When I lifted the stencil from the paper, this gorgeous panel appeared. The contrast to the first panel is really amazing. The softness of this one is so beautiful. I love it when this kind of wonderful surprise

happens. I used Concord &

 9th's Beautiful Words stamps and Beautiful die for the sentiment. Happy Birthday (from same set) is stamped inside.

I sm also linking my card to :

SOS258 - How Does Your Garden Grow?

Anything garden related - flower, fruits, vegetables, trees, garden tools...

Anything Goes

Thank so much for coming by today.

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