Rustic Autumn Wheel

There's a fabulous blog candy challenge going on at www.atjoansgardens.com

Details are on Joan's blog. The challenge is to use a Heartfelt Creations stamp and upload it to your blog or SCS gallery, then link it to the link provided on Joan's blog to be entered. My card is a CAS card (no layers!) using Hearfelt Creations Rustic Autumn Wheel set. I colored it with Kohi-Nor colored pencils and baby oil. The only embellishment is that I sprayed the card front with vanilla smooch to give it a beautiful shimmer.

Framed Flowers

I love creating handmade flowers and what better way to showcase them than in a frame! This is a project I came up with for our demo get together yesterday. The brown flower in the right corner was created using the packing paper that is shipped with orders! Other materials used felt and cardstock, punches, sizzix dies, and freehand spiral cutting! Letters in the center of the frame are painted chipboard them sprayed with shimmer. The mat was stamped with versamark and the flourish from the Elements of Style stamp set. Leaves were made using a circle punch and then sticking the punched circle about 1/3 way back into the punch and punching again..gives a perfect leave shape to crinkle and sponge!

Additional IC Blog Hop card ornaments

See post below for the other 3 table top ornament cards. TFL

IC Blog Hop Card Ornaments Up Close

Three of the table top ornaments created for the Inspired Crafters Blog Hop (see November 14 post for details).

Inspired Crafters Blog Hop

It is so much fun to participate in this blog hop hosted by Inspired Crafters. Inspired Crafters is a blog that was started by a bunch of PTI junkies, and today the feature is Christmas or Winter themed cards using PTI stamps.

You should have arrived from the very talented Michele’s Enchanted Stamper blog!

I used the Holiday Sparkle PTI stamp set to create my "table top ornament decorations." Each decoration was created using the springing card directions found on SCS.

Be sure to visit LauraJean's creative blog next, Bucky Girl.

Hope You Can Cling To Challenge Cards

These are the only 3 cards I found time to create for the Hope You Can Cling To Challenge on SCS. I will mail these cards and a few more from my stash to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas.

What I've Been Up To Lately...

September...hey, where did September go anyway?! Can't believe it's October already and fall is in the air!

Here are pics of two cards I've made for swaps the past few weeks! I really enjoy participating in card swaps, but WOWZERS, I can also overwhelm myself with deadlines!

These are two of the cards created for a holiday card swap; I also created a halloween card, Thanksgiving card, and an Easter card. Will post those another day.

Greeting Card Kids is one of my favorite stamp sets. It takes me back to my carefree childhood days!