It's pumpkin season!!

Hi everyone, since it's pumpkin everything season I thought I'd join the band wagon, lol! But honestly, I don't like pumpkin anything...well, unless there's stamping involved ;)

How can I not like pumpkins when they're this darling?? I started out with a slightly larger than a standard A2 card base in chocolate cardstock and layered on the mustardish/orangish panel. Using a Pretty Pink Posh stitched border die I cut a piece of lime green and layered that on. I cut 3 tags (from Mama Elephant) and temporary adhered them to my work surface. I stamped polka dot background then stamped the pumpkin patch border in the center making sure it extended across all three tags then filled in the rest of the tag with a sentiment and images from the autumn and leaf accents petite four sets. After adding a little ribbon treatment to the tags, I popped them up on the card using foam tape/pop dots. I thought it still needed a little something more so I added some tiny 4mm clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I'll see ya later!! :)

Pumpkin Everything!

Hi everyone!! Well, it's that time of year where pumpkins have started taking over our lives in lattes, muffins, side dishes and jack o' lanterns! So, being the follower that I am I thought that I'd bring you some pumpkin love here too. ;)  

I started off by cutting a cream colored panel and randomly stamping little leaves from the Autumn Stamp set all over. I set that aside and cut a smaller panel and using the other leaf and little acorn from the stamp set made a border around the outside edge. I stamped the Pumpkin Patch Border stamp in the middle towards the top and colored it in with TomBow markers then stamped my sentiment under it. I layered this panel onto a piece of kraft then layered that panel using foam tape/pop dots onto the panel I had stamped with the leaves. I was going to layer all of this onto an A2 sized kraft card base but changed it up and used a piece of chocolate cardstock instead. I finished it all up with a cute little bow/button treatment. 

Don't forget, we are still having a challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room. They start on the 1st & 3rd Mondays of the month. There's still time to join in our current challenge :)

 Our current challenge is called 'Autumn Bliss'!  Please create a card/project INSPIRED BY THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE A PUMPKIN!

TSTR - Autumn Winds

Hi everyone, if you're here looking for my DeNami blog hop post, it's just one down...Thanks!! :)

 

Today I have a little card I made using a pretty little digital image from our sponsor this week here at The Shabby Tea Room.

 

I must admit, before this DT position, I'd NEVER used digi stamps or images...but a gal could get used to this! Honestly, the digi images are making me a little lazy, not only are the images already perfectly colored for me, they're so inexpensive and you can use them a limitless amount of times because it's a file right on your computer! She also has some of the most gorgeous back ground papers...sigh, yup, I'm getting spoiled!!

 

My name is Janet, I'm Polish, live in the south of Italy and the mother of two children!!  I am a printing technician by profession, but an artist by passion.
I really like to draw and photograph everything with my camera. I am in love with old graphics and illustrations, and I always have my colored markers and pencils around me to sketch with.  I'm so happy to be sponsoring this week's Tea Room challenge!

Janet

Digital Papers by Janet on Etsy:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/bydigitalpaper?ref=seller_info 

 

Here's the inspiration picture for this weeks challenge...

 

Challenge requirements: use a fall theme, pumpkins and a stamped sentiment

 

With all of the beautiful fall images our sponsor carries I had no problem at all coming up with this cutie...

 

Isn't she darling? The image's name is Autumn Winds. Can you believe she started out as a bookmark? I re-sized it and turned it into a card panel...easy peasy! The only thing I colored on her were the tan leaves, turning them orange so that I could pull in the orange from my darling little DeNami Pumpkin Patch Border and my Paper Sweeties ribbon. My little tag is a mix of Paper Sweeties (borders) and DeNami (Autumn & Thoughtful Greetings stamp sets)  too, lol!

 

That's it for me today...hope to see you over at The Shabby Tea Room!!

 

 

Thanksgiving is almost here...

Thanksgiving is almost here and I'm not even close to being ready! There are cards to be sent out and I just checked my stash...I'm in trouble! I had to get busy...

A little closer look...

 One down and many many more to go....sigh, why do Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas have to come so close together???



Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

monochromatic pumpkin trio

So I started out wanting to make a monochromatic (now that's a $12 word...whew!) with just the little bow bringing in the pop of color...

But as usual I was a little undecided because I thought my bow wasn't enough color...it kinda blended with the color. I was gonna change the bow to a solid orange one but I listened to hubby and colored in the pumpkins instead. I just hate when he's right....

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Me and Wendy are truly what she calls "Twinkies"

*insert Twilight Zone music* They say that everyone has a twin somewhere in the world. Yup, Wendy & I have found ours! We're like a pair of twins that were separated at birth but still like and do the same things...just makes ya wonder don't it?

I mean, heck, we even have the SAME kitty!! Check out her Squeaker and my Tabby...

  Tabby (on the right) came to us as a stray kitten about 13 years ago and Squeaker is just a young'in that showed up one day looking for a kind heart.

This isn't the first time we've caught ourselves being on the same wave length...our love for all things DeNami & there's that little flamingo issue and just a couple of weeks ago we figured out that we are using the exact same personalized sticky note design....Hmmm, that could be bad on her part, thinking like me and all ;)

So anyway, I was writing a couple of posts and decided to take a sneeky peek at what my buddy had been up to....I saw a little card that she just did a post on that was way similar to this one that was drying on my desk...

Hers turned out much cuter, but wow, still coming up with such similar cards at the same time...SPOOKY!

Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think....good or bad....or even better - what would you have done differently??...crafty minds wanna know!

Let's do the Blog Hop Again.....

Its just a click to the left.....and then a scroll to the riiiight. You take a look at the cards.....and then squeal with deliiight. You hop right alooong, until you get to the eeeeennnnd. Let's do the blog hop again.....Let's do the blog hop again! (Yes, I admit to being in the Halloween spirit and watching a little Rocky Horror Picture Show - just be glad you can't hear me sing - HA!)

So if you made it through that little intro then that means you are here from Jennifer's Blog. She has some of the cutest cards doncha think?

Ok enough fodder - get to the cards already you say? Well then, here you go (insert drumroll sound here - use your imagination....come on you can do it.....)







Once I found my mojo (he's been hiding lately), I took Tina's advice and handcuffed that little sucker to my desk in the Woman Cave....and came up with this....







Isn't that cute? Its a little Post It note holder. This could be recreated for any season. Fun right?

Now, don't forget.....leave some blog love for your chance to win a fantabulous (yes, its a word) prize from Denami! If you get lost along the way, you can always go back to the Denami Blog and start from the beginning or you can hop right over to Lisa's Blog for some more fabulousness! Let's do the blog hop again.....Let's do the blog hop again.....