Bountiful Blessings

Happy Tuesday!

It's a cold rainy day in central NC, perfect to be nice and cozy in my craft room with a hot drink and listening to podcasts.  The only day this week that's quiet with no agenda.  Calm before the storm of a busy rest of week. I've had a lot of unfinished projects on my table and today finished some of them up.

I love this pumpkin stamp by Impression Obsession.  I've had it a couple years and have had it stamped but never got around to coloring it until now. I chose the color combo from Color Hues and think it worked out quite well. The background I created by just smooshing some purple dye inks with water onto watercolor paper. I swirled it around and mopped up excess to get a more smooth and full coverage. 

For Following Challenges:

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Succulent Pumpkin(Impression Obsession); Sentiment - Hats Off To You (House Mouse). 

Paper: Neenah Solar White; Watercolor paper (Strathmore); Spectrum Smooth paper for alcohol markers.

Ink: Crushed Violet, Serenade (CP Designs); Versamark; Copics.

Extras: White Emboss Powder (WOW); Classy Frames (Penny Black); Foam tape.

Thank you for stopping by for a visit.  Hope you come again soon!

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  

Henry Ward Beecher

Nance

 

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

Hello there on this crisp sunny Wednesday!

To me this truly is the most wonderful time of the year - Fall/Halloween.  I like the leaves changing colors. I like when the temps are in the 60/70s. I loooove Halloween - the decorations, costumes, candy, apple cider, corn mazes, hay rides, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, horror movies! So how is it not wonderful?

Thinking of Fall also always brings back memories in my teen years, our youth group at church made apple cider. We picked the apples at a church member's apple orchard, brought them to the church parking lot where we had an old manual apple press and spent a weekend afternoon pressing apples into cider.  If you wound up with a bee in your cider, you got EXTRA blessed! lol Fun times!

So I pulled out this lovely pumpkin mug by Ellen Hutson for the main character of my card.  I stenciled a background, paired it with an embossed panel and an ink blended scalloped border.

For Following Challenges:

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Sentiment- Boos Inside (Ellen Hutson-EH) 

Paper: Neenah Natural White; 

Ink: Pebble, Cotton Candy, & Buttercream (Catherine Pooler)

Extras: Mug and steam dies-Pumpkin Mug (EH); Stencil - Floral Mosaic (Honey Bee Stamps); Scallop die (MFT?); EF - (Spellbinders)

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  

Henry Ward Beecher

Nance

Boo Ya'll Group Chat

Boo Ya'll!

When I finished this card, it made me think of a Zoom chat. 🤣

I had a lot of fun a couple months ago playing with Bonnie's Betterpress plates, can't you tell?  This one I made my own little pattern.  This is one Jack O' Lantern plate.  I did it four times in four different colors.  And the stitched cover plate from Lawn Fawn was a perfect fit.  Sentiment is also from Spellbinders. 

For Following Challenges:

Double D Challenges - Use a Pumpkin

Krafy Chicks Challenge #740 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and come back soon!

Have a sweet day!

💖

Nance

 

Paper Sweeties Challenge - November 2017 Anything Goes!

It's November 1st 

and

Hump Day!

The beginning of the month means

a new challenge

at 

Paper Sweeties!

We have a new inspirational photo 

for our 

November Anything Goes Challenge 

Thankful - Paper Sweeties

Stand Add-On: Scarecrow - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

See the projects by all the Design Team below:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Julie Tucker-Wolek
Karen Letchworth

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lilian Forsyth  
Lisa Bzibziak
Lori Turner

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michele Henderson
Michelle Bala
Nancy Salkeld (You are HERE)

Be sure and come back on November 13th for the beginning of Release Week to see what's new at Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties Blessings!

Paper Sweeties Challenge - October 2017 Anything Goes!

Hello Sunday!

Happy October 1st!

Time for cool days, changing leaves, football and warm beverages!

It's also time for a new monthly challenge at Paper Sweeties!

Paper Sweeties Challenge-

October Anything Goes!

Thankful - Paper Sweeties

Thankful Sweet Cuts - Paper Sweeties

Showering You With Love - Stamp Set - Paper Sweeties

Showering You With Love Sweet Cuts Dies - Paper Sweeties

Love You To Pieces

Hop through the Design Team and our special Guest Designer here and see all of their inspirational projects:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties
Jinny Newlin  * October Guest Designer *

Julie Tucker-Wolek
Karen Letchworth

Kathy Schweinfurth

Larissa Heskett
Lilian Forsyth  
Lisa Bzibziak
Lori Turner

Mackie Robertson

Maria Patrick

Michele Henderson
Michelle Bala
Nancy Salkeld

Be sure to link up your project inspired by our inspirational photo and play along with us!  You have ALL month --- 31 Days to play along, more than once (just with a new project each time)!  Come back on October 13th for the beginning of our Release Week and see what's new in the Paper Sweeties Shop for October!

Pink Faith-Crafty TBT #2

Crafty TBT #2

I missed last week's TBT, and a little late this week.  Too much going on.  I go back to my home in NC in five days so have been busy helping my mom do some cleaning out before I go.  I've been with her for almost 7 weeks, I came a week before her surgery.  Hard to believe, it's gone by pretty fast and doesn't seem like I've been gone from home that long. Course with FaceTime and texting I've talked to the Hubs and my youngest pretty much daily.  

Anyway, I digress.  Here is one of my first cards I made and posted on my first blog (see post here).  It was posted on Oct. 8, 2009, six years ago.  Wow now THAT seems like a lifetime ago! 

Pink Faith & Blessings!

Give Thanks

I'm baaaack!  Yes, it's late and I'm still blogging!  Trying to get all of my cards posted and DT duties completed before I go to bed.  Tomorrow or I guess now TODAY, I take my mom to get her stitches out.  So it will be a very busy and tiring day for both of us.  

I wanted to play with some of my new stamps from Reverse Confetti and so I am playing along with their September sketch challenge with some of their new release stamps!

SUPPLIES: STAMPS:  Pumpkin Patch (Reverse Confetti); PAPER: White cardbase (Core-dinations 110lb); Candy Corn (Bazzill); DP-Hip Hip Hooray (American Crafts); INK: Tangelo Twist, Island Indigo, Crushed Curry (SU); Cantaloupe (Memento). EXTRAS: Wood grain emboss folder (Darice); Pumpkin, leaves and accessories dies (Reverse Confetti); Banner die (Reverse Confetti); Stitched circle die (Lil' Inker Designs); Twine; Enamel dots.

FOR FOLLOWING CHALLENGES:

Reverse Confetti #28

Thanks & Blessings!