anything goes with fall colors, part 2

here's another chance at an easy challenge for this time of year -- "anything goes with fall colors" at the cheerful stamp pad.  link up any new creation so long as fall colors are involved for a random chance at a nice shopping trip to the online digital outlet store at stitchy bear stamps, our challenge sponsor.

i made a tag featuring background fall leaves paper by stitchy bear designer coosty creations and a sweet digital girl image by stitchy bear designer "my heart pieces."  i printed the girl on some colorful paper and colored her with pencils.  i tore that sheet and added it to the fall leaves background paper. i added a number of fall leaves die cuts and a pumpkin die cut border.

i'm linking up to "anything goes" challenge #43 at scraps of color.

love to all.

anything goes, with fall colors

welcome to challenge #98 at the cheerful stamp pad.  you are invited to make a new creation on the theme of "anything goes" with one requirement -- use fall colors.  that's pretty easy, yes?  our sponsor is once again the great folks at stitchy bear stamps.  a randomly selected winner will get some shopping credit at stitchy bear digital outlet.

for my DT piece "sunflower garden" i used a sunflower digital image by "my heart pieces" and fall leaves background designer paper by "coosty creations" both designers at stitchy bear.

i printed the digi on some colored paper and colored the image with pencils.  after cutting it out i went around the edges with my red gold pro marker.  i added a few embellishments to finish it, keeping things simple.

have fun creating and i hope to see your entry at the cheerful stamp pad!
love to all.

thankful autumn leaves

in my hemisphere fall is truly here so the "fall leaves" challenge at the cheerful stamp pad is right on time.  our challenge sponsor is stitchy bear stamps and our DT was given some images from coosty creations for our samples.

this week i made a card.  i used 2 different digital background papers created by coosty creations and a digital stamp sentiment piece from gecko galz.  the coosty creations autumn basket digital image is here too although this time i printed it, colored it with pencils and then used only the bottom half for this card.  i added some shiny fall leaves stickers as well.

i hope you will link up a creation featuring fall leaves.  a randomly selected winner will get some shopping credit at the stitchy bear store!

i'm linking up to the "any digi goes" challenge DPDC51 at doodle pantry.
and to the harvest reader art quest at unruly paper arts.

love to all.

fall leaves at the cheerful stamp pad!

challenge #97 time at the cheerful stamp pad -- "fall leaves" is our new theme.  link up a creation featuring fall leaves for a chance to win a prize from our sponsor stitchy bear.  for this challenge our DT got some coosty creations digital items from our sponsor for our creations.  i used the "autumn basket" digital stamp along with some digital background paper from coosty.

for my tag i covered the tag base with the lovely autumn digital paper which i'd printed with the autumn basket image right on it.  i colored the basket with pencils and all i really did was add the sentiment which comes from the gecko galz thanksgiving digital stamp set.  i added a couple autumn leaves brads which i got from eyelet outlet.

this will also be my tag for the "autumn extravaganza" theme at tag tuesday this week.  i am also linking up to happy fall y'all at craft hoarders anonymous.  and finally to the "fall colors" challenge at scraps of color.

enjoy!  love to all.

more birds and more altered card deck fun!

at lunagirl moonbeams we are challenging you to "put a bird on it," that is, to use birds in your art and for the week 3 prompt at claudine's art corner altered card deck challenge the week 3 sample for "fall" also featured a bird. which means a chance for me to combine challenges!  here are my 2 altered cards for week 3, the first of which features a lovely owl from lunagirl's "owls" collage sheet.

in addition to the lunagirl owl on the first card, that same card also features leaves from the linagirl "autumn leaves" collage sheet.  i also have washi tape, a bit of a sun stamp from uptown rubber and stick on letters. (if you saw my monday post you can tell i was using some of the same supplies lol!).  the background of the card itself was done with distress inks (over a gessoed card base).

the second card also features an image from lunagirl -- the woman at top left, from the "steampunk girls" collage sheet.  the other steampunk images  were 3 images from dezinaworld that i combined to make one digital collage piece, then printed and cut out.  the stamped image (stamped on another sheet of designer paper) is from a tim holtz stamp set.  the background on this altered card was done with alcohol inks (over a gessoed card base).  also a fleur de lis brad!

here are claudine's pieces which we used for inspiration:

now back to that birds challenge -- you still have a week and a half to link up a creation featuring birds for a chance to win a shopping spree at lunagirl..  if you do not have any bird images to work with Karen has provided a freebie here.  and of course the altered card deck challenge is ongoing for a total of 26 weeks, give or take.

i'm linking my fall owl to the brand new and exciting october/fall harvest/hallowe'en challenge at the recycle, re-purpose and re-invent challenge blog at doodle pieces as i "recycled and re-purposed" a playing card for this piece.

love to all.

autumn at lunagirl

over here in this hemisphere we've just experienced the autumnal equinox, equal amounts of day and night onward to shorter days and then before we know it, winter.  in celebration of this change of seasons, karen at lunagirl moonbeams has selected the theme of "autumn" for our new two week challenge.

this lovely lady, a vintage image from lunagirl, is hurrying off for a walk in the cool autumn evening.  she is surrounded by fall colors and cascading leaves.

i hope you'll join our challenge!
i'm also linking this piece up to scraps of color week 38 blogger's choice challenge "fall colors."

happy week; love to all.