Mornin' y'all. Apparently our house was the chosen spot for a bird of prey to eat a late-night snack last night; we kept hearing noises from the chimney (we have a fireplace in our bedroom) and there's a lot of feathers in the yard this morning. Between that and Daphne getting me up twice last night to go outside, I didn't sleep too much...but Ryan has STEM club after school today so maybe I have time for a nap!
It is supposed to get up to 81 degrees today which is just unsatisfactory for September and I am manifesting fall as hard as my little autumnal goblin heart will go. And I finally busted out my Rustic Centerpieces stamp set, take a look:
The three images in Rustic Centerpieces are LORGE so I hope this still counts as a CAS card to enter at CAS on Fridays. I thought it would lean more towards CAS if I stamped the outline image and didn't color it in at all, and I just added a simple greeting. Plus that made it super fast to make two cards.
I was inspired by the Four Seasons Challenge which is new to me but LOOK HOW GORGEOUS:
I saw someone else link to this challenge but thanks to sleep deprivation I don't remember who it was and none of the cards in the gallery is jogging my memory either. I must need more tea.
Anyway, I wasn't ready to be done with that beautiful inspiration challenge yet so I made a third card:
I finally cut into my Autumn Toile DSP and I love those foxes! The stripes on the edge are the reverse of the fox pattern. I slightly edited the Sunday Stamps Challenge sketch:
I didn't want to cover up the foxes so I switched the directions for the greenery behind my sentiment circle. I used last year's Autumn Expressions because I love it and it has several extra-large greeting stamps that would be perfect for a sketch like this.
Daphne is pestering me to take her for a walk and who am I to tell her no? Cheers, y'all!
Supplies, top two cards:
Stamps: Rustic Centerpieces, Gathering Moments
Ink: Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Paper: Cajun Craze, Crushed Curry, Very Vanilla
Accessories: Textured Notes dies
Supplies, bottom card:
Stamps: Autumn Expressions
Ink: Cajun Craze
Paper: Early Espresso, Very Vanilla, Crushed Curry, Autumn Toile DSP
Accessories: Autumn Expressions dies, Stylish Shapes dies, Dimensionals, Cajun Craze & Gold Dots
Absolutely lovely cards, Christy. Thanks so much for sharing your art and creativity with us at The Four Seasons Challenge and please join us again soon.
ReplyDeleteAll three cards are full of fall goodness and so pretty!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining our challenge at The Four Seasons!
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What a fab trio of cards Christy - I am surprised at the size of those rustic stamps (FYI would be perfect for this week's 'container' challenge over at Just Us Girls too!) but they are great in outline for a CAS card. I love the final one too - very autumnal!
ReplyDeleteWonderful autumn cards. Thanks for sharing over at Sunday Stamps.
ReplyDeleteStylish autumn card! Thank you for joining us at CAS on Friday!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful...love that scripty sentiment!! Thanks for playing along with our "whispers of greenery" challenge over at Sunday Stamps. Deb Horst, DT #SSC368
ReplyDeleteThose first two cards are so pretty just simply stamped!! Thanks for playing along with our clean and simple "fall" challenge over at CAS on Friday!! You rocked it with that milk jug bouquet!! Deb Horst, DT #317
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