autumn feathers & happy fall

Papertrey Ink's September Blog Hop & Time Out

Inspired by this gorgeous art, I focused on the bird's tail feathers,
colors, and black background for my first card

PTI Stamps: Feather Finery & Tiny Tags
PTI Dies: Feather Finery, Mix & Mat: Postal & Tiny Tags
Misc.: background Hero Arts Envelope Pattern stamp, twine


With my resident bird-watching hubby, I couldn't ignore the bird!
The second card focused on the bird and red flowers on black.
Jim is off to Peru this weekend for a two week trip with his bird-
watching pals. His hobby makes it easy to purchase certain stamp
sets. ;-)

PTI Stamps: Autumn Pumpkins & Spring Woods
PTI Die: Spring Woods, SSS stitched rectangle die


Take a moment to check out the gallery of the blog hop at capture the moment

Linking this also to the Time Out Challenge: Paint The Flying Spirit 
Of The Birds Rather than its Feathers

Happy birthday

My card was inspired by Dawn McVey's card & video for this week's 

Make It Monday challenge on the capture the moment blog. 

She encouraged us to mix different floral sets on our projects and design with 

small, medium and large sized blossoms to create our cards. I used PTI stamps 

& dies: Bitty Bouquets, Leave It Be, Rosie Posie, Rosie Posie Step 2 and Ruby 

Rose plus the Stitched Die cover plate. 

I finally purchased Rosie Posie during the spring anniversary sale but had not inked it up yet. Oh, my, now I know why so many have said it was one of their favorite floral sets. I inked up each flower in the set but chose the cabbage rose to anchor this card. A sentiment from Stylish Sentiments: Birthday was centered on the Stitched Cover Plate panel first before arranging the flowers in the bottom corners. I mounted the roses and one blossom of the Bitty Bouquets on foam and tucked the rest under the roses. A long process but it resulted in one of my favorite cards this year. Stamping the die cuts in different ink combinations was the most fun and left me with more flowers to create another card or two. A bit of clear Wink of Stella adds some sparkle. 

Merry & Bright

Dawn McVey's tag on release day 2 with the color 

combo of rich red and pink inspired me this month.

Dawn's tag

I pretty much cased her design with my current supplies.

PTI Stamps: Autumn Pumpkins & 'Tis the Season Sentiments

PTI Dies: Noted Scalloped: Square & Tag Sale #4

Candy Cane Stickles, Hero Arts Royal Red ink

Linked to: Create Along with Us 9/17

JOY

 Merry Monday Christmas Challenge: #255

It's always a "joy" to add to the Christmas cards finished pile!

The alphabet "joy" letters are from Altenew, the rest of the dies are Papertrey Ink.
No stamping on these cards.

#1

#2

#3

#4

These cards were inspired by the challenge at Merry Monday
I'm also linking to Happy Little Stampers - Glitter 
Cards 2 & 4 have a bit of glitter in the joy letters and Card 2 has a glitter tape line across the middle.

Repetitive Small Images - stamped and/or die cut

Several crafting gurus that I follow enjoy stamping backgrounds with the small images that are included in many clear stamp sets. This week Lexi shared her CAS method of using these smaller stamps in a repetitive format to create a quick, graphic card on the Capture the Moment blog.

Lexi's card

This was so much fun! 

Because I wanted to use several neglected stamp sets, I made three 

different cards. If I had been thinking like some crafters on PTI's Make

It Monday challenge, I would have made card sets for future gifts. 

Next week...

Card #1 -  4 bar size (3.5 x 5)

PTI stamps: Sketched Shapes, Stylish Sentiments: Birthday

PTI Tipped Tops dies and Linen Impression plate

Card #2 

PTI stamps: Autumn Pumpkins, Mighty Oak

Dies: PTI Mix & Mat: Herringbone, SSS stitched rectangles

Card #3 

 PTI stamps: Choose Joy, Flower Favorites (bee), Simple Sunflower

PTI dies: Cover Plate-Stitched Die, Simple Sunflower

Thanks for stopping by. 

Autumn Blessings Z-Fold Card

Card makers often get into a rut with the dimensions of the cards they make with 4.25 x 5.5" being the default size. It was exciting to see Ashley's card  and video for this week's Make It Monday challenge. Her directions for creating the basic shape and adding embellishments to personalize it were clear and precise. It was so much fun and would be a good format for birthdays. My card uses PTI's Quilted: Autumn and Stylized Autumn stamp & die sets. The middle outer fold has a panel of PTI gingham pattern paper and the last fold a Tim Holtz stencil adds texture and color. All the die cuts extend over the top edge and are backed with a matching kraft card stock die cut for neatness.

Linked to: Make It Monday #295

                    Time Out Challenge #90 (no speed- took me a couple, hours)

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Together & Love

Nichole Heady's card on the August Release Day 1 hooked me immediately. I love wreaths!

I made two anniversary cards, mine and a dear friends, using Nichole's card for

inspiration. The lines were scored around the wreath and sentiment but two different

 dies created the wreaths. The first card uses the smallest feather from Feather Finery 

and the second card a sprig die from Spruce & Sprigs. 

Card #1 for Roger & Karen

PTI stamps: Feather Finery, Quilted: Spring

PTI die: Feather Finery, Memory Box Classic Numbers

Card #2 for my honey, Jim who birds all over the globe

PTI stamp: Quilted: Spring 

PTI dies: Feather Finery, Spruce & Sprigs

Linking this to: August Create Along with Us

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