Thursday, October 10, 2019

Colors of Fall

I’ve always loved the floral images offered by Power Poppy, so appreciated their blogs World Cardmaking Day Challenge that encouraged us to create a card with fall in mind, uses a sentiment of gratitude AND uses a Power Poppy stamp! I knew just which of their stamps I would use- Autumns Opulence!
I used a digital stamp, printing it on vellum, coloring from the backside with shades of fall using my Spectrum Noir markers. I then added highlights on the top of the vellum with a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. The sentiments are both freebies from Decosses Dynamite Doodles (I cut the vellum that is below the front sentiment and used it to add some color to the middle of the card. Didn’t want to cover up all that opulence!)
Entered into:  
Power Poppy- World Cardmaking Day
Outlawz Challenges- Songs and Rhymes- Nothing Gold Can Stay
Incy Wincy Designs-Autumn (Fall) Colours                                          
Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #408-409 Anything Goes                   
Let’s Craft and Create- Anything Goes (October option- Colors of Fall)

The current challenge at Di’s Digital Stamps is to “Include a Pumpkin.” I looked through my Di’s Digi collection and pulled out an adorable image named “Doodle House 1” and set out to make it festive for Halloween. I colored it with my Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen, fussy-cut and attached it to a starry sky background. To meet the challenge requirements I added a few hand-drawn and colored pumpkins and set them beside two of the doors. I drew spiderwebs with a white gel pen on a few of the door frames and added torn vellum clouds over the moon to provide a bit of a spooky mood! (The  close-up pic shows the pumpkins and spider web details.) The moon is from a Di’s Digi image named Love You To The Moon and Back (Which is now on sale for just $2!) I also lightly sponged white craft ink around the moon to add a bit more of a hazy feeling to the scene. 
The pumpkins on the inside of the card are from a Cute As A Button Digi named "Thankful." 
 
 
Entered into:  
Di’s Digi Stamps- Include a Pumpkin                                                    
Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #603 Halloween
Outlawz Challenge- Twisted Thursday
Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       
A2zscrapbooking Monthly Challenge- October- Final challenge Holidays                            
Cute As A Button-#49 Anything Goes   

Since I have two sisters, and we loved to dress up when we were little, I love this sweet digi from All Dressed Up named “Three Little Party Girls.”  For this card I just used one of the little cuties, creating a "shades of orange" card that I could enter into a few other challenges (Double D’s Orange and White Challenge and Outlawz Tuesday Monochromatic Color Challenge) The sentiment on the front of the card is computer generated. I cannot locate the inside sentiment in my digi files right now. (I currently have nearly 500 folders that contain nearly 7000 digis… so sometimes the individual sentiments aren’t easy to locate. I try to print the source next to them when I print them off… but forgot to do that this time. Sorry!)
Entered into:  
Double D’s Challenge- Orange & White                   
Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge (Monochrome)
All Dressed Up- Anything Goes- #97 Anything Goes                             
Bugaboo Stamps- Oct Anything Goes      
Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- Oct   

14 comments:

  1. Hi Kathy your cards are gorgeous. Take care. Hugs Jackie

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  2. beautiful coloring on all these, but I love that Power Poppy one especially!

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  3. Your little party girl is super cute and adorable...thank you for joining our challenge at Double D!
    Diane DD DST {Nellies Nest}

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  4. Gorgeous, cute and spooky and just adorable, fabulous cards, hugs, Lori m

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  5. Such a cutie and love her dress! LOL Great cards Kathy!! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at our Double D ‘Orange & White ONLY’ challenge! Good Luck and we hope you’ll come back often.

    Darlene
    DOUBLE D Challenge Blog
    DAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS Please stop in for a visit!

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  6. All great cards in this post. Very feminine sweet card for our challenge at Catch the Bug, thanks for joining!

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  7. Your Party Girl card is Tu Tu Cute, isn't that sentiment just fabulous! Beautiful coloring I and absolutely adore that piece of fluffy ribbon for her outfit! Well done! And OMWord....so many digis, you use them perfectly....I'm quite and old fashioned girl, hardly use them at all and grab for my stamps all the time....perhaps I will recheck the ones I do have, thanks for the inspiration!!! Thanks so much for playing along with us at The Double D, Orange And White Challenge, Donna, DT Member.

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  8. What a beautiful card you made. Nicely done too, the little pieces for the full moon. It's great that you are taking part in the Challenge of Di's digis.
    Your other cards are also beautifully made.

    Hugs, Astrid.

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  9. Cute card, great design. Thanks for joining us at CHNC Patterned Paper Challenge this month.

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  10. Beautiful cards!! Love the vellum clouds on the Halloween card. Thanks for linking up to our October challenge gallery at a2z Scrapbooking.

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  11. Oh this is beautiful, what a lovely card. Such a wonderful creation with great attention to detail…..I love cute ribbon dress. Thanks for joining us at All Dressed Up Stamps Challenge. Hugs Neva

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  12. WOW, wonderful cards, beautiful Power Poppy card and I love the houses, so cute. That little girl on the third card is adorable. So glad you joined us at A2Z Scrapbooking. for our final challenge.

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  13. This is a beautiful floral card Kathy! Great design. Thank you for sharing with us over at Cute As A Button. We hope to see you again.
    ~ DT Gale



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  14. Such nice cards! That haunted house card is really a great scene! What great touches adding the webs and pumpkins. Thanks for joining in over at a2z Scrapbooking.

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