Halloween or Harvest? Jeepers Creepers Does Both!

Watch this video from Close To My Heart to see the versatility that the Jeepers Creepers paper collection has. There are also several projects included in this video using the beautiful Blessed Beyond Measure Stamp of the Month.

Blessed Beyond Measure

Today I am sharing a card created with this month's beautiful stamp set Blessed Beyond Measure. I used the sketch this week at Freshly Made Sketches. It was the perfect design to showcase that layered pumpkin front and center. The sentiment stands out nicely in the water color splashes and stamped leaves.

The Rustic Home and Swan Lake papers blend so nicely for this card. You can get all of these products now online or through me directly, however the stamp of the month will only be available until September 30th.

Grateful for ... you.

I pulled out some Sangria paper and decided to make a Fall/gratitude inspired card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week.

I love the pop of gold glitter paper and those delicately cut leaves from the Artistry cartridge!

Grateful for FMS

Ugh! What a busy week I had last week! I am glad, or should I say grateful, to finally get to relax and even make a little time for crafting. Freshly Made Sketches is always a great inspiration for jumping right back into my creativity. The sketch this week was simple with a block pattern allowing me to play with several colors and patterns of the Sangria paper collection. I love what an elegant, yet fun collection Sangria is. I also love how well it lends itself to some gold glitter, because Fall screams gold glitter!

A Fall and Halloween Card Exchange

I held my annual Fall card exchange yesterday. The participants had the option of creating a Fall themed card or a Halloween themed card. Last year when I held this event I was the only one that created a Halloween card. This year had a different outcome, which made it very interesting! As always I saw unique ideas and was inspired by all the talent of my wonderful friends & customers!

This is a picture of all the cards, except one. I'll post more about the table decor later!! ;)

First up is the card I made. As you may have seen in previous posts, I teased you a bit with cards that did not make the final cut. I hinted about images that carried forward to my final card. Do you see them now? I used the apothecary jar from the first card I showed with the candy in them. From my Halloween Characters card I stamped the skeleton dudes so they look like their floating in the jar. It was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest {Consultant Mischelle Smith} and I loved the unique and unpredictable blend of images!

I tried to show the shine of the fundamentals paper in this photo. I love Halloween so the purple hearts were just perfect. The added glitter in the shimmer trim and inside the jar just screams Halloween too!

Janet's card~

 Inside Janet's card~

Nikki's card~

Tommie's card~

Julie's card~

Nanette's card~

Pat's card~

{take a close look at this card, the entire front is a shaker card with pieces of straw inside!}

So as you can see there was a great mix of Fall and Halloween themes! Please leave a comment and let these ladies know how beautiful their artwork is!

We are not even half way through the month though!! I still have several Halloween projects to share with you, so visit again soon!

Inspired By Fall {my favorite!}

It has been some time since I played along with an Inspired By challenge! The picture was very inspiring and showcased my favorite season of all....Fall! I am also playing along with the "favorite things" challenge at Heart 2 Heart Blog. Yes, Fall is my favorite season, however my favorite scrapbooking product currently has to be the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

{inspiration photo}

 



Fall Mini Cards

I love making mini cards and tags to drop into my customers bags as a thanks for their order. These are going to be perfect for the Fall. I am entering them in the Heart 2 Heart mini card challenge as well as the Inspired By blog that has a lovely inspiration photo this week!

The cards measure 3x3 and uses CTMH stamps Captured Moments (C1423) and Harvest Happiness (C1463) in Goldrush, Twilight and Chocolate inks. (orange gems are not CTMH)

Photo at Inspired By



Happy Fall

Just a simple card for Fall. I'm trying to get into the spirit of the season, but the weather is not cooperating at all. It's been so warm here lately that I can't believe we'll be eating Turkey Dinner next week.

The pumpkin on this card is from the October Word Puzzle stamp and I embossed the background with the pumpkin vine cuttlebug embossing folder.

I will have more fun artwork to post very soon. I have been working hard, but unfortunately was not able to "reveal" the cool gift until the Birthday Girl receives it first!