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Happy Fall Card

Hello crafty friends,

Today I am sharing a card I created for the Pazzles Design Team and the Pazzles Craft Room.

I think fall is one of the prettiest times of the year. I love the colors and the crisp cool air. I sure do miss living up north during this time of year. Well anyway, here is my card for today. I am a self proclaimed DCWV StackAHolic! DCWV Autumn Melody Stack was the perfect choice for the pretty paper on this card!

When deciding what to create, I knew I wanted to work with the new Pazzles Pen tool. I used several files from the craft room library to create this work of heART.

Here is a closer look at the pen work. I simply added a "fill" into my fonts. The pen tool and my Pazzles did all the coloring in for me. The pretty flourish pen work is a craft room file as well. I then created an outline and had the pen do the dashed "stitched" line. I used an American Crafts Red Glitter Gel pen for the lettering and a Sakura Micron Brown Pen for the flourishes and the stitching work.

The card base is made of kraft cardstock and then I layered it with a cream and orange mat. As I mentioned above, the pretty patterned papers I used for the mat, the acorn outline and the leaves and border strip are all from the DCWV Autumn Melody Stack. Another fabulous stack of papers from the creative minds of DCWV!

Here's a closer look at all the yummy layers and papers.

I inked most of the edges with my Close To My Heart Saddle Ink Pad

In this view, you can also see where I took three strands of my burlap cord from May Arts and braided it to create a little extra visual interest. I layered it onto the May Arts Olive Satin ribbon for some great texture contrast.

Here's a closer look at the pretty little leaves and the burlap cord bow with button. I cut all the leaves out of the piece of Autumn Melody paper and then inked them with the various inks in my CTMH Enchantment Ink pad set. It gave them enough of a subtle difference without making them all completely different.

Supplies Used



DCWV Autumn Melody Stack	CTMH Enchantment Ink Set	May Arts Burlap String SM10
May Arts Satin Olive Ribbon CTMH Saddle Ink Pad	Sakura Micron Brown Pen	AC Red Glitter Gel Pen

* Bazzill Brown, Orange, Cream and Kraft cardstock

* Misc. Button

Well, I think that about covers it for today. Be sure to visit the Pazzles craft room and check out all of the wonderful things. Thank you so much for sharing your crafty time with me!

Have a wonderfully crafty day!

IFTL Thanksgiving Cards

Stand up in the presence of a person with gray hair, show respect for the old;

you are to fear your God; I am Adonai.

Leviticus 19:32

Hello crafty friends,

Today I wanted to share a few cards I have made for this month’s IFTL project. This month, Cindy and Madison have challenged us to create cards to share with a senior resident facility.

My cards are not super fancy, but I wanted them to be clean, easy to read and subtle.

I used some beautiful patterned paper from the DCWV Autumn Melody Stack. I stamped some acorn images from the CTMH Fall Harvest Stamp set and then colored them in with my CTMH colored pencils. I inked the edges with my Saddle Ink Pad and then added pretty strips of some May Arts Olive Satin Ribbon and Burlap Cord.

Here is a picture of two of them. I made a total of four and on one I added a cute die cut that was also from the DCWV Autumn Melody Stack.

I hope you will take a little time to participate in this month’s IFTL project and share with the lovely residents of this community.

I used the following products to create these cards.

CTMH Fall Harvest Stamp Set	DCWV Autumn Melody	May Arts Olive Satin Ribbon
May Arts Burlap Cord	Water Colored Pencils	Enchantment Ink Pad

I also used: Cream, Kraft and Brown Cardstock and adhesives.

Please be sure to head over to IFTL and share your crafty heart and talents this month!

Thank you for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me!

Pumpkin Patch Cutie Layout

Hello crafty friends,

Hope your weekend was a fun one in which you got to spend a little time crafting! I was able to create this layout for today. Today is also a bit special because I get to announce that I was recently added to the Fab Four Design team for Scrapyland.com. Scrapyland.com is an online retailer with a huge selection of dies, copics, papers, adhesives and all the other fun stuff that makes our paper crafting so much fun! So let’s get to my simple and fun project.

Here is a view of my layout. I used the Classic Doodlecharms cartridge with my Cricut Expression. The bear, pumpkins and brown charms were created with the cartridge. The patterned paper I used is from the DCWV Sweet Stack. I think this has to be one of my top 5 favorite stacks. I added a pretty strip of American Crafts Ribbon to the photo with a sweet little bow at the bottom.

Here is a closer look at the cute little bear. I “paper pieced” her together all from cuts in the cartridge.

I added a cute little button and some twine to the center of the little flower on her head. I inked her edges with Cocoa Cat’s Eye Pigment Ink.

If you would like to see some of my other
"Cricut Paper Piecings" you can find them HERE

Here is a view of the entire title. I used small doodlebug brads to fasten the

charms to some burlap cord.

Here’s a closer look at the lettered charms. I created the title charms in Adobe Photoshop

and sized them so they cut out with a 1” circle punch.

I layered the lettering on a green, 1 1/8” circle punch and a white 1 1/4” scalloped punch.

Here’s a closer look at the pumpkins. I inked the outer edges in some Mango Tango Colorbox pigment ink and then used some Pebbles Basic Brights 10 pc. Chalk Ink to add some color to the leaves and the pumpkins. I also used my Copic E23 Hazelnut marker to add a little brown to the stems.

I used the following products to complete this project

Cricut Doodle charms Cartridge.	DCWV Sweet Stack	Pebbles Basic 10 Chalks
Copic E23 Hazelnut Sketch Marker	Cocoa Cat’s Eye Pigment ink	Mango Tango Cat’s Eye Pigment Ink
AC Glue Runner	AC Foam Squares

Additional Products

Brown, Kraft, Orange, White, Green and Dark Brown Cardstock

Bo Bunny Button

Twine

EK Success 1 1/8" Circle Punch

EK Success 1 1/4 " Scallop Punch

**ENABLER ALERT***
Scrapyland.com has a storewide clearance sale going on. Just head over and click the clearance button and you will see all kinds of goodies at great prices!

Now in honor of my new DT appointment, I wanted to give everyone a little something….
so How about the letters I made for this layout?!!!

I have them in individual jpg and png files as well as pre-formatted on a pdf file to perfectly fit a 1” circle punch. All you have to do is print and punch them out. To grab this limited time freebie, you will need to head over to my ScrapyLand’s blog post and get the link there.

Head Over To ScrapyLand's Blog Post For Freebie Link

Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your crafty time with me!

DCWV Primrose Stack-BC Awareness Card

Hello crafty friends,

Thank you so much for stopping by. I have a card to share with you today. I made it in honor of breast cancer awareness month, this month.

Here’s my card. I used some more of that yummy paper from the DCWV Primrose Stack collection. Just love it! I tried to follow along a sketch from the Shabby Tea Room Challenge Blog. See below. I used the BC Ribbon Roses digi from PCW.

I colored the image with my Copics (listed below) and then Inked the edges. I used my distressing tool from CTMH. Something I haven’t done in quite some time. But really enjoyed it. Once I was done. I distressing my edges, I inked them to give them that vintage look.

Here is a closer look at the image. Believe it or not, it was printed on plain white paper. I just gently inked into the image to make it look more vintage. Once I was done coloring (copic colors listed below) I used some stickles to outline the flowers. I used some more olive satin ribbon for the bow. You can get some of that yummy ribbon from May Arts. They have such a wide selection of pretty ribbons and trims…love it!

Here is a closer look at the pretty butterflies. I layered the card with a lace doily that I inked as well. I didn’t like the stark white of the doily so I had to distress it to make it blend better with the look of the card. I cut the butterflies out of two different MS punches and then inked the edges. I adhered them in the centers only so that the wings would be free. I bent them up slightly to give them a little “movement”. I finished them off by adding some Bisque liquid Pearls to their centers.

Here’s a closer look at the vellum quote from the Quick Quotes Inspiration Itty Bitty Box. I just trimmed it and added it to a layer of the primrose paper. The paper is decorative enough that you can’t even see my adhesive behind the quote.

I used the following Products to complete this card.

DCWV Primrose Stack	PCW BC Rose n Ribbon Digi Stamp	QQ Inspiration Quotes
CTMH Saddle Ink Pad	Chestnut Roan Cat’s Eye Chalk Ink	CTMH Edge Distresser
Crystal Stickles	Bisque Liquid Pearls	May Arts Olive Satin Ribbon
MS Butterfly Punch	MS Monarch Butterfly Punch