Pumpkin Spice

Pumpkin Spice season is slowly coming to end.    I can't believe we are on our way to December and snowflakes!   I am not ready for the weather to change.    We have had such a mild fall season.    I love this sentiment that comes with my favorite Unity stamp set.   Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice.

Here is one of first attempts at a mixed media card.   Not sure if it was a true mixed media card or close to it, but I did attempt it and I was happy with the end result.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets from Unity
Ink:   Soft Sky, Basic Black, Copic Markers and Blendabilites
Paper:   Early Espresso and Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Burlap Ribbon and Enamel Dots from a local craft store
Tools:   Stencil from a local craft store

Happy Thanksgiving

I would like to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving!    Hope everyone takes a minute to be grateful for all the people and things that are happening in your life.    Sometimes it is so easy to just concentrate on the negative and all our problems and we forget we all have amazing blessings happening in our lives.

So here is my thankful for you card along with the ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Set from Unity
Ink:   Basic Black, Copic and Blendabilites Markers
Paper:   Whisper White, Cajun Craze, Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread and Button and Wood Dots from a local craft store
Tools:   Corner Rounder and Sizzex Heart from a local craft store

Anniversary Coffee Card

I was completely drawn to the monthly Sugar Pea challenge.    I love the sketch and I love the coffee inspiration.  Heidi's coffee and tea challenge is perfect along side this challenge.  I decided to use the rich and beautiful Petal & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper for the challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Timeless Love and Unity Stamp Set
Ink:   Basic Black, Versamark, Sweet Sugarplum
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black, Petal & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Basic Black Baker's Twine, Buttons and Enamel Dots, White Embossing Powder
Tools:  Oval Framelits, Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy

Hello My Friend

Paper Craft Crew's sketch of the week has so many fun elements.   I was completely drawn to Tenia Nelson's card and the fact that the sketch was made in portrait layout.    

I saw the gathering of circles and thought immediately of leaves and from their the card started to take form.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Cookie Cutter Halloween, Six Sided Sampler
Ink:   Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Copic Markers and Blendabilites
Paper:   Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Cajun Craze, Delightful Dijon, Petals and Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Linen Thread, Regal Candy Dots, Button from an online vendor
Tools:   Project Life Corner Rounder and Leaf Punches, Greeting Thinlits, Cookie Cutter Builder Punch

Thinking of You

So I love the simplicity of this week's Freshly Made Sketch.   For some reason I can't keep anything simple.   The Time of Year hostess stamp set was perfect for this week's challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Time of Year
Ink:   Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Early Espresso
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Chocolate Chip Brads, Burlap Ribbon
Tools:  Trio Curvy Punch

Boo Tags

Happy Halloween Everyone!   Hope everyone enjoys the day, dressing up and enjoying Halloween treats.    Here is Halloween tags that I made to put on my nieces and nephews treat bags.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets from  Recollections and Martha Stewart
Ink:   Versamark, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:   Spiderweb Doilies, Basic Black Embossing Powder,  Sequins and Rhinestones from a local craft store
Tools:   Sponge Daubers and Spiderweb Border Punch, Heat Gun and Embossing Buddy

Stampin Royalty Color Challenge

This week at Stampin' Royalty we have a color challenge.    The colors are:   Early Espresso, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon.      So I was completely inspired by this week's Sugar Pea Design Sketch and one of the projects made by the design team.   I decided to incorporate the design elements from Tracey McNeely and make it my own.

So I ended up adding another color to the design and went the neutral Crumb Cake.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Foxy Friends, Cottage Greetings
Ink:   Early Espresso, Garden Green, Delightful Dijon, Crumb Cake
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake
Accessories:  Neutral Candy Dots and Buttons, Linen Thread
Tools:  Woodgrain Textured Embossing Powder

Freshly Made Sketch

Love this week's Freshly Made Sketch so simple so versatile.   I decided to tie in with this week's Paper Craft Crew Fall Challenge!

I pulled out two of my favorite products for the card, my owl from Unity and the amazing fall paper from Lawn Fawn.  

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Unity stamp set
Ink:   Basic Black, Copic Markers
Paper:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Lawn Fawn Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Bright Candy Dots
Tools:   Project Life Corner Rounder, Circle Framelits

Hello My Friend

 I love the Fall.     What's not to love!  Leaves, pumpkins, beautiful weather and the color orange.   So much fun.    Here is a fun fall card for the Paper Players leaf challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Six Sided Sampler
Ink:   Basic Black
Paper:  Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie
Accessories:   Fox and Leaf stickers from a local craft store, Rhinestones
Tools:   Heart Framelit and Word Framelit from a local craft store

Pumpkin Spice

How could I pass up this Sugar Pea challenge.   Who doesn't love pumpkins.     I have this great sentiment and I decided to make it a focal point for the card.

The background of the card first was an aqua painter with pumpkin pie ink.   Then I sponged on ink to fill in the color.    Next came the gorgeous grunge splatter inked on and some fall leaves stamped on.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Gorgeous Grunge,  Among the Branches, Unity sentiment
Ink:   Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Basic Black
Paper:  Whisper White, Basic Black, Halloween Night Designer Series Paper
Accessories:    Basic Baker's Twine, Black Enamel Dots
Tools:   Sponge Daubers, My Favorite Things Coffee Die

Trick or Treat

We are back this week at Stampin' Royalty with a picture inspiration.   I ended up with a few current and retired products to make this week's project.    The background of the trick or treat piece was ink sponged on.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Happy Scenes, Spooky Fun
Ink:   Basic Black and Copic Markers, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:   Whisper White,  Basic Black, Witches' Brew Designer Series Paper, Halloween Night Designer Series Paper
Accessories:   Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored with Sharpies
Tools:   Circle Framelits, Sponge Daubers

Fall Birthday

I love this week's Paper Craft Crew's sketch challenge.     So many fun elements. I just couldn't wait to create a card.    

The fun background was created with a little ink and aqua painter and a little splatter of Gorgeous Grunge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:   Lighthearted Leaves, Feather Together, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink:   Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Copic Markers
Paper:  Whisper White, Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with Sharpies
Tools:  Aqua Painter

Nice shoes

So how fun is this sentiment from The Haunt It stamp set from The Project Bin.

I just love I'd drop a house on someone for some nice shoe, too.    It makes me think of my little niece who is four years old and when we went looking for shoes, she told me specifically that she wanted pretty shoes.   Such the little girly, girl.

Here is my Halloween card for this week's Paper Players Halloween theme challenge.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:     Haunt It by The Project Bin
Ink:   Versamark
Paper:   Basic Black, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Enamel Dots and Baker's Twine from a local craft store, Stickers, White Embossing Powder
Tools:   Heat Gun, Embossing Buddy and Project Life Corner Rounder

Lollipop Treats

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging everyone to a Anything Goes challenge.    So just start stamping and submit your creations.    We can't wait to see what you are working on!     Here is my lollipop treats I made for my niece's and nephew's classes.

I was trying to find something that would not take long to make and be minimal in embellishments.    This was what I came up with.

The black piece of card stock has two holes I made with my Crop-a-dile.    The allow the lollipop stick to be thread it through and keeps the lollipop tag/decoration in place without any twine, ribbon or adhesive!

The white piece is I first cut paper strips that were height of the the confetti star punch.     I then punched the starts so that way I had something to hold onto when punching.   Once the stars were punched, then I cut the width.   Then I sponged on some ink.    Stamped the Halloween Cookie Cutter friends, punched and then I cut the sentiment and punched.      Everything was adhered.    The top layer was attached to the black with Stampin' Dimensionals.

Ingredients to make the lollipop treat:
Stamp Sets:   Cookie Cutter Halloween, Cheer All Year
Ink:   Basic Black, Cucumber Crush, Pumpkin Pie
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black
Tools:   1" Circle Punch, Cookie Cutter Punch, Confetti Star Punch

Happy birthday

How super easy and simple is this week's Pals Paper Arts sketch of the week.   If you haven't noticed I always take the easy and make it a little more complicated!

I decided to change it up a little bit, but the best part of the card was being able to use the Hello You Thinlits.   They are a little on the large side, so it is always a challenge to use them in a project.   In the end I am happy with the end result a fall birthday card,

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Set from Unity
Ink:  Early Espresso
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Delightful Dijon, Soft Sky, Cajun Craze, Petals & Paisleys Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories:  Burlap Ribbon, Linen Thread, Button and Wood Dots from a local craft store
Tools:  Hello You Thinlits, Fiskars and Martha Stewart Leaf Punches, Richard Garay Embossing Folder

Thankful for You

This week we are taking a little break at Stampin' Royalty.   So that doesn't mean take a break.   Just because we are giving you a challenge to work on doesn't mean no crafting.    Pull out your supplies and just start creating.    We all have things we are always saying we are meaning to play with something.    No reason to wait, just start playing.  

I decided to pull out my favorite little owl and start creating.   I just love this little guy.    I used the Taylored Expression sketch of the week.    Love the fall inspirational photo and the sketch is just so fun.  

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Unity
Ink:   Basic Black and Copic Markers
Paper:   Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:  Burlap Ribbon, Linen Thread, Button and Wood Dots from a local craft store
Tools:   Circle Framelit

Grateful Heart

I am so in love with this super cute Owl from the latest Unity release.   He is cuteness overload.   I am going to have so much fun coloring and creating card with him.   I think I may even send out Thanksgiving cards this year!

This super cute guy was inspired by this week's Retro Sketch and design team creations as well as The Paper Players fall theme!

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Set from Unity
Ink:   Basic Black and Copic Markers
Paper:  Crumb Cake, Tangerine Tango, Designer Series Paper from a local craft store
Accessories:   Bright Candy Dots
Tools:   Border Punch from a local craft store

Have a Wicked Halloween

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are bringing a monochromatic challenge.   I decided to change it up and go with an ombre instead with a touch of black.    I really need to start using our ombre pads more and what better than a monochromatic challenge.

Sugar Pea Designs give me the inspiration for today's card.  

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Cheer All Year, Seasonal Snapshot 2015, Holly Jolly Greetings, Spooky Fun
Ink:  Basic Black, Calypso Coral Ombre Stamp Pad
Paper:   Whisper White
Accessories:   White Perfect Accents colored in with Sharpies, Basic Black Baker's Twine
Tools:   Project Life Corner Rounder, Circle Framelits

Wicked Halloween

This week at Stampin' Royalty we are challenging everyone to a Fall theme.   What says fall more than Halloween fun!     I just love the Cookie Cutter Halloween stamp set.  The cute little guys in the stamp set just make me smile.

I used Create with Connie & Mary sketch of the week for inspiration.    The Peekaboo Peach was sponged on.   I used post its to mask off the white on the bottom and top.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Seasonal Snapshot 2015, Holly Jolly Greetings, Spooky Fun, Cookie Cutter Halloween
Ink:  Peekaboo Peach, Basic Black
Paper:   Whisper White, Basic Black
Accessories:  Basic Black Baker's Twine, White Perfect Accents colored in with a Sharpie
Tools:  Cookie Cutter Punch, Sponge Daubers

Thank You

Taylored Expressions give us the best sketch ever and I was totally inspired by Jen Schults's card.    Love the banners.   I decided to pull out the Cookie Cutter Halloween stamp set for the card.

Ingredients to make the card:
Stamp Sets:  Cookie Cutter Halloween, Thoughtful Banners, Crazy for You
Ink:  Early Espresso, Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler, Copic Markers
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Halloween Night Specialty Designer Series Paper
Accessories;  Regal Candy Dots, Linen Thread
Tools:  Cookie Cutter Punch, Banner Punch