LOVING THE LEAVES

For the Colorful Creations Favorite Things challenge this month you needed to do a layout about something you love about Fall or a Favorite Fall Activity.  I love to watch the changing colors of the leaves and to take rides to see how they have changed.  Being a few hours south of where I used to live, the leaves don't change quite as fast, in fact they are only getting started now.  I wasn't able to get photos of any of the actual leaves but I took a few more of the October photos of me and Michael and put them on a wonderful patterned paper of fall leaves and also accented them by putting some silk leaves on pop dots which I added some sheen to with Perfect Pearls. I distressed the edges of everything with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.  The instructions also were to use warm Fall colors of brown, red, yellow and orange. To create the layout I started with Creative Scrappers Sketch #252.

The Sketch:

I finished it off with some twine and lots of orange bling.  I am also entering this layout in Top Tip Tuesday challenge #113 about the Seasons, Pink Elephant challenge TPE223 for Distressing, Party Time Tuesday #144 Anything Goes, Divas by Design Use some Orange, and Word Art Wednesday #104 Anything Goes.

My Layout:

I am also going to link up at Link up #4 with The Memory Nest.

I have a real crazy day today - layouts to finish, challenges to prepare for November, errands, laundry and getting some odds and ends for my son for Halloween.  So I am off and running.  Have an awesome day and thanks for dropping by.

HAPPY NATIONAL HONEY MONTH

September is National Honey Month.  I created a layout of Thomas' first day of High School using hexagons as honey combs as his school mascot is the yellow jacket.  I used a Crafters Workshop Template with Dry Dex Spackling which I colored with Stickels and Liquid Pearls.  I did this for the Colorful Creations Say It With Words challenge - use the name of your school and I used a September Page Maps sketch from Scrapbook.com.

The Sketch:

My Layout:

For the Kraftie Krea8tions challenge I created some cards using Winnie the Pooh and his love of honey.  

For the first one I used sketch #277 from Sketch Saturday, and the color orange for Kaboodle Doodles  challenge #190, and inspired by the book Pooh's Five Little Honey Pots for Challenge #226 at The C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Blog.

The Sketch:

The Book:



My Card:

My next card uses sketch #193 from Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge and the color palette challenge from The Crazy Challenge. 

The Sketch:

The Color Palette Inspiration:

My Card:

My third card uses sketch #175 from Sunday Sketch & Stamp and Polka Dots and Stripes for challenge #TPE218 at The Pink Elephant and Going Dotty Challenge at Try It On Tuesday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

My Fourth Card uses fall colors for challenge #134 at Die-Cuttin Divas, and sketch #DS120 from Deconstructing Jen and Anything Goes at Party Time Tuesday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

My last card uses a button for Fab 'n Funky challenge #186, Autumn Colors for the challenge at Lili's Crafty Little Fairies, and sketch #277 from Sketch Saturday.

The Sketch:

My Card:

I hope you are having a happy honey of a month and that you have enjoyed my sweet creations!

A QUICK LITTLE POST

I am going to be busy working on a wedding present for the rest of the evening so I thought I would post my recent layout and the card for the wedding now.

The layout is for the Guest Designer Sketch over at Colorful Creations and the Button It Up challenge #137 on Party Time Tuesdays.  The buttons are the star flowers on the lower left.  I rotated the sketch 1/4 turn clockwise.  I used photos from my recent visit to Rockwood Mansion.

The Sketch:

My Layout:

Next up is my card for the wedding we are going to tomorrow.  I am entering it in the Anything Goes challenge #164 on Tuesday Throwdown, PPA171 Color Challenge on Pals Paper Arts, the New Beginnings challenge at Delightful Challenges, Challenge #286 Hip to be Square at Cute Card Thursday, the Weddings/Anniversaries challenge on Divas by Design and using sketch #69 from Feeling Sketchy.

The Color Palette:

The Sketch:

and finally my card:

and now I'm off to get busy working on a purse/accordian book for the present!

Thanks for stopping by!  Don't forget to come back and see the gift tomorrow!