Dropping By

Mornin' y'all and happy Friday!  And guess what...today's card is NOT a pumpkin, haha!  But it's still fall-related.

I was inspired to ink up Acorny Thank You by the new Inspired By... challenge:

And I revisited this week's Freshly Made Sketch too:

This time I kept the sketch in its original orientation.  And I couldn't resist the pie-licious color challenge from Hand Stamped Sentiments!

I almost forgot about that one, that's what I get for having my challenge notes on my desk upstairs.  Anyway, I added some Early Espresso to the challenge colors because I thought they needed a darker neutral to anchor them together.

Anyway, it's about time to get Ryan ready for school and then I have a bunch of errands to run.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Acorny Thank You, Wonderfall
Ink:  Pecan Pie, Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, VersaMark
Paper:  Thick Basic White, Early Espresso, Peach Pie DSP
Accessories:  Acorn punch, white EP, Dimensionals, In Color Shimmer Gems

Pumpkin Season

Okay, so I just realized that this is my third pumpkin card in a row and you know what?  I'm okay with that.  I got to play around with More Than Autumn a bit yesterday to make this:

I turned this week's Freshly Made Sketch on its side to accommodate my sentiment.

And since I got to do my Color Throwdown card early : ) this time around I'm pairing FMS with the colors from Cupcake Inspirations:

I used Pumpkin Pie, Early Espresso (and Pecan Pie, for that matter), and Tahitian Tide.

That's it for me today, peeps.  Have a great day!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  More Than Autumn
Ink:  Early Espresso, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Tahitian Tide, Pecan Pie, neutrals
Paper:  Early Espresso, Pumpkin Pie, Thick Basic White, Pumpkin Pie & Tahitian Tide DSP
Accessories:  More Than Autumn dies, Layering Circles dies, Shiny Sequins, Dimensionals

Sweet Pumpkin Ghost

Mornin’ y’all! Bear with me, the hubs has been bogarting the computer so I am typing this on my phone, which is a first for me. Anyway guess what? I was picked as the Featured Artist on the Color Throwdown recently!

And that means that I get to be a guest designer on this week’s challenge! Squee!! Here it is:

I read those colors as Lemon Lolly, Pretty in Pink, and Peach Pie, a pretty sweet pastel trio. But given that it’s October, I really wanted to go spooky with this palette. Here’s where I landed:

It seems like Michaels has a lot of pastel Halloween stuff right now so I went in that direction with this pumpkin ghostie from Playful Ghosts. Happily for me, the Unbounded Beauty DSP has Peach Pie and Pretty in Pink, so I chose two patterns from that and added a layer of Lemon Lolly that I stamped with Sketched Plaid.  I CASEd the layout from this card by Mary Fish.

Okay typing a blog post on my phone is tedious so I’ll add more info later. Thanks to the Color Throwdown team for inviting me to join in as a guest designer, I had so much fun!

(ETA links and card recipe)
Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Playful Ghosts
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Blends in Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Pretty in Pink, neutrals
Paper:  Peach Pie, Lemon Lolly, Thick Basic White, Unbounded Beauty DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Rectangles dies, Stitched Shapes dies, Dimensionals, black sequins from a Paper Pumpkin kit, white 3/8" taffeta ribbon

Hey Pumpkin

Second post of the day and I feel better now that I've made something orange for the start of October : )  And also I've had two cups of tea and it's not even lunchtime yet.  Here's my quick little card:

The pumpkins are from Playful Ghosts, which I tried really hard not to get but here it is, and Warms My Heart, which I have had fun playing with a couple of times already.  I used the color challenge just posted to CAS Colours & Sketches:

In general, I am *Not A Fan* of Wild Wheat, so I figured my best bet was to use it as little as possible, ha!  So I used the dark Wild Wheat Blend for the pumpkin stems and the light one for the ground under the pumpkins, plus a single Wild Wheat Faux Glass Dot for an accent.

This card also works for the Paper Players challenge:

This time I went right down the center with patterned paper (just a scrap of Countryside Inn), die cuts, and fall.  The fun part of tic-tac-toe challenges is how many different directions you can spin the same board.

Okay, I really do need to do some actual work now getting some things ready to sell.  And later today I am hoping to start a new Halloween cross stitch project, so I'd better get that work done.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Playful Ghosts, Warms My Heart
Ink:  Night of Navy, Stampin' Blends in Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wheat, Old Olive
Paper:  Pumpkin Pie, Thick Very Vanilla, Countryside Inn DSP
Accessories:  Stylish Shapes dies, Nested Essentials dies, Dimensionals, Faux Glass Dot

Going Tropical

It is October first, the official start of my favorite month of the entire year, with all things fall and pumpkin spice and Halloween which are all the best things ever, and I'm posting a tropical card?  WHAT AM I EVEN DOING.  I think I need to head up to my craft room and make a fall/pumpkin/Halloween/something October card immediately.  I am at least wearing a Halloween shirt.  But first, the tropics:

I have been trying so hard to manifest fall and it just wasn't working, so I gave up and made a tropical card on Sunday and then today the high temperature is 69 degrees, which is 12 degrees cooler than yesterday.  So I should have been making tropical things because the weather is into reverse psychology?

Let's start with the Retro Rubber sketch:

Artfully Layered is two years old and it was my faaaaaavorite when it came out in 2022, so I was delighted to play with it again for this card.  The DSP is even older, it's the Tropical Escape stack that was made to go with the Tropical Chic stamp set and dies in 2019.  I had several scraps that were already trimmed to 3/4" strips, so I trimmed a few more and built my pattern on a piece of Whisper White, and cut off the edges as I went.  It was fun to piece together which pattern should go where so I had a variety of green shades.

Check out the Paper Players challenge:

I was aiming for the diagonal of leaves - die cut - enamel dots, but I also ended up doing the top row of leaves - patterned paper - embossing.

The As You See It color challenge is what made me go tropical today:

I'm glad I remembered the Tropical Escape DSP stack when I saw this challenge, it has Shaded Spruce and Granny Apple Green in it so that made my background super easy.  This card actually went out in the mail yesterday : )  Now I need to go make something orange.  Cheers, y'all!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Artfully Layered
Ink:  Granny Apple Green, Versamark
Paper:  Azure Afternoon, Shaded Spruce, Thick Basic White, Tropical Escape DSP Stack
Accessories:  Tropical Layers dies, Stylish Shapes dies, white EP, white enamel dots, Dimensionals