Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge #502 - Autumn Colors

Hello crafty followers and friends.

Pardon my excitement but... IT'S THE WEEKEND!!!

We are going to watch some college football

and will get to see both my kiddos.  

Today is the start of Challenge #502 at 

KRAFTIN' KIMMIE CHALLENGES

and the theme this week is "AUTUMN COLORS".

Here in Montana we seem to have skipped right by

the beautiful season of Autumn.  The leaves had

barely started to change colors and two nasty snow

storms plunked upon us.  I don't mind winter but 

I LOVE Autumn and am really sad to have missed
all the beautiful colors and cool mornings with
warmer days and sunshine - especially the colors. 

My DT card for this challenge features a gorgeous
gourd  that symbolizes autumn for me
(I LOVE pumpkins) - take a peek

The background is created with the Beautiful Burlap stencil

and Yummy Yellow, Totally Taupe and Pumpkin Patch inks.

Then I added some stems, leaves and a pumpkin from 

Grateful Pumpkins (on SALE this weekend) and a 

sentiment from Pumpkin Kisses right over the top of

the stenciled background.  Hope you like it!

Thanks so much for visiting me today. Hugs!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Happy Fall/Thanksgiving

Hello friends!  Thanksgiving is just around the corner

are you ready?  I have my stretchy pants in the closet just

waiting to jump into them on Thursday morning.

Ohhhh I literally can hardly wait for my favorite dish

PUMPKIN PIE - yum!! I could be happy with just 

that and sweet potatoes and scalloped oysters. 

What's your favorite?

I only made two Fall/Thanksgiving cards this year. 

I thought it would be fun to share them with you

and join a couple challenges too. Hope you like them.

Here's the first:

Details: Stamp set "Grateful Pumpkins" (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)

Inks: "Mossy Meadow", "Pumpkin Patch" and "Marvellous Mocha"

(all from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps). Cardstock (Stampin UP!)

Designer paper and twine from stash.

I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:

 Crafty Cardmakers Challenge #222 Lots of Layers

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Challenge #457 Fall Colors

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #84 Pumpkins

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #318 Holiday

Crafting by Designs - Give Thanks or Autumn Colors

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Mood Board

and here's the second

 Details: Image and sentiment stamped with Marvellous Mocha

hybrid ink (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps) and colored with copic markers.

Stamp set: "Happy Fall Y'All"  (Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps)

Designer papers from my stash. Cardstock from Stampin UP!

I'd like to enter this card in these challenges

Through the Purple Haze Challenges #150 Everything Fall

Crafting with an Attitude -Challenge #45 Anything Goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenges - November Anything Goes

Thanks so much for letting me share with you. 

I hope that your Thanksgiving holiday is full of love,

blessings and good food (including my favorite pumpkin pie)!

Guest Designing for the Card Concept #100 challenge celebration

Well hello crafty friends!  So nice of you to visit me today.

After many months of a crafting break, I was thrilled when

 the lovely Kim asked if I'd like to be a guest designer 

for the Card Concept #100 challenge.

And when I saw the beautiful inspiration photo 

for this challenge I was even more excited. 

Oh my gosh! Seriously sooo many things

you can take for inspiration from this.  

I was drawn to the pink and gold colors

and the pumpkins (I LOVE pumpkins!)

I pulled out a bold sentiment stamp called 

called Be Full from Neat and Tangled and

made this Clean and Graphic card. 

I swished pink distress ink around on my

base panel and then heat embossed the 

gorgeous sentiment in gold.  

Here's a close up so you can see the embossing a little better

There's a special celebration for this 100th challenge going on

over at the blog so be sure to check it out as well

as the amazing inspiration from the DT there!

Hope my card inspired you in some way. 

Hugs and happy crafting! D

Oldie but Goodie at Catch the Bug Challenges {Bugaboo Stamps}

Happy Thursday crafty peeps!

Today I have a card to share with you along with the 

fabulous news that I am now an official member of

the Bugaboo Stamps design team!  I was soooooo

thrilled to be asked to stay on this team after my 

recent guest designer term ended.  Looking forward

to sharing lots of the darling and fun Bugaboo digital 

images with you each month!  

Thursday's are Oldie but Goodie days at 

Catch the Bug Challenges 

where the DT gets to show you a creation using 

an older stamp from the amazing collection.

I chose to use the adorable BUMPKIN TRIO today

Aren't they just the cutest?  It just makes me smile to look at them!

I used the sketch from The Challenge #45 for this card

(but I flipped the orientation)

I'd also like to enter these challenges as well

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #165 Photo Inspiration

(halloween and pumpkins)

Crafty Creations #299 - Falling For You

If You Give a Crafter a Cookie Challenge #29

Thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today

I'm sure glad that you did.  

Oh BTW...Did you know that halloween and fall images

 (such as the one I used ) are on SALE?  

It's a great time to snatch up a few images that you

don't already have - or have been on your wish list for awhile. 

 Til next time...hugs and happy crafting! D