Ida 1.0

 Welcome!

I'm sure you weren't expecting another post from me BUT...

I had a meet-up with Ida on September 4th.  She graciously gifted me with a few images she'd stamped and so I'm here to share them with you ~

First up is a fall bouquet, sweet as can be, but I tried to follow Ida's lead and use pencils and gamsol... with limited success.  While I did okay with the larger images, I found it difficult (even with a smaller stub) to blend in small areas thus I went outside the lines quite a bit - oy!  I was able to clean it up a bit with a white pen, but I'm only mildly happy with my end result...

Oops!  Somewhere I lost this image's information!

Next up, we have a very sweet image with a handsome pumpkin and a sweet bird singing with all his might!  I colored the front image with Copics, and attempted to place it on my fall, pencil-colored background but knew I'd have to put a little solid color between.  So I cut a small label and popped up the pumpkin image overtop, keeping the label to minimum so I didn't cover up too much.  A sentiment was stamped and cut into an angled label and mounted with foam tape.  Hmmm, the more I look at this photo, the more I see how washed out it looks!  The bg is much more colorful and a wider variety of tones than you see here.  I might have to fire the PS artist!

Unity:  Kit of Month (Sept); BG of Month (Aug)

MFT - Elegant Stax label

MCS (oob) - sentiment

Last but not least, I colored the sweet girl image, cut her wonky, and mounted it over a piece of paper I received as a sweet gift (in a very large box) from Carol Hintermeier -- thanks again!  The sentiment, a pre-printed label was added.

Unity:  Kit of Month (Aug)

HB:  Sweet On You dp

SSS:  Sentiment Strip

Three's a crowd, right?  I had one more image, but you'll have to wait on that one!

Thanks for the visit; and thanks, Ida, for the afternoon of fun with you and your granddaughter!

Hugs,

TK

Masculine Fall Birthday 2.0

Greetings, Friends!

I hope your week if off to a fabulous start and the remainder is a blessing yet to come.

Today's card is another masculine fall Birthday card ~

While I really wrestled with doing a bit of inking on the leaves, I decided that I really just liked the leaves and their texture with the blue and kraft colors.  While additional colors would've been beautiful, sometimes keeping it simple is just as good!  This card's pretty self-explanatory so I'll save you the ya-da ya-da!

Supplies:

   LF - Stitched Leaves

   Splb - Labels 4 (I think.... lost my recipe note -- doh!)

Today is Halloween and while Hubbs and I don't celebrate it, I do hope you celebrate to your heart's content and consume all the goodies you desire!

Hugs,

TK

Masculine Fall Birthday

Hello!

I have returned from afar and can now catch up on a few posts.  Are you ready? 

A quick card, but definitely a fall Birthday card ~

A foil plate, foiled in copper, die cut and placed over a color panel and sentiment added.  EZ PZ, lemon Squeezee!  This card went to a co-worker while I was away on vacation.  The other gals had a bit of a party, and I'm so happy they carried on without me -- my card's presence was enough for me...

I think I'll send this over to The Four Seasons - Anything Goes Fall, although I didn't use the inspiration photo board.

Supplies:

   Splb - Autumn Leaf border glimmer plate & copper foil

   PFS - Folk Edge Rectangle dies

Thanks for the visit -- see you soon!

Hugs,

TK