Hello, Pumpkin

Whew, it has been darn near impossible for me to find any crafting time! Work has been kicking my butt and I spend my spare time either painting my house or sleeping. Thankfully Mother Nature finally gave us a weekend full of sun and no rain so hubby and I spent this entire weekend getting the rest of the exterior of the house painted. Other than scraping paint off the windows we are done, wooohooo! I love seeing my house with a new trim color and a fresh coat of paint for the body, it just makes such a nice difference!

Sunday night is always family night for me, my husband and our oldest son so tonight we played horseshoes after dinner since the mosquitoes have disappeared. Hubby won the first game and our son won the second one. After saying goodbye to our son I came into the craft room and grabbed this pumpkin image from Power Poppy that I recently colored (currently on sale for 2.99!!). I had set aside some patterned paper that I thought would go good with this stamp and I just started playing along with the paper and card stock to see if I could get a layout I liked. I finally decided on this layout, there is some of the patterned paper showing but yet room to stamp a sentiment in the bottom corner. I popped the image panel up for more dimension.

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Painted Pumpkins

I'm sneaking in with a card made for the current Creative Confetti Challenge over at the Power Poppy blog. This time Julie kept it easy and all we had to do was create a project using any Power Poppy image! I've had this image of pumpkins sitting on my desk for a few weeks now so it was the perfect motivation to get it colored up!

I colored the image with copics and then used some paper from a paper pad in my stash. I kept it simple as usual by not adding any embellishments or anything like that. Those who have been by my blog before know that I'm not much of an embellishments person.

I'm glad I was able to get this card done before the next Creative Confetti challenge goes live tomorrow, whew!

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Stamps: Painting Pumpkins (Power Poppy Digital Stamp)

Paper: Pumpkin Pie (SU), Neenah Solar White, Woodland Forest Paper Pad by Pebbles

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: YG03, YG63, YG67

R01, R02, R05

YR04, YR07, YR09

YR21, YR23, YR24

BG000, BG01

E34, E37

T0, T1, T2, T3

C1, C3, C5

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 15 and 23, MFT Inside and Out Stitched Circles

Hey, Pumpkin for LMMS

It's Inspiration Week at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and this week I'm highlighting a brand new stamp, Polka Dot Pals Jack. Isn't he just darling? I've got 2 boys plus my nephew so I love having super cute boy stamps to use and PDP Jack does not disappoint!

I decided to use bright colors for my card so I pulled out some retired SU DSP that I have in my stash. I pulled some of the colors from the paper and used them for coloring in my image. The card is perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, an autumn birthday or just to say hi to your favorite young boy. I love images that can be used several different ways!

Don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog is still open so make sure you head on over there and play along! Go over to the NEW section at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps store and pick out an image to use for your next project!

So Grateful for Power Poppy

This week over at the Power Poppy blog the Creative Confetti Challenge is all about pumpkin spice...we're to create a project with a spicy color scheme or use one of Power Poppy's "spicy" stamp sets.

I know that pumpkin spice is super popular, my FB feed is constantly filled with mention of it, but I am not into anything related to that at all. I love decorating with pumpkins and that's as far as my love goes LOL My BFF was visiting me from FL for 2 weeks and she grabbed some pumpkin spice oatmeal packets for breakfast. I looked at her and said "can you get any more basic white girl?" LOL

I decided to use the clear set So Grateful, as I love the pumpkin on the chair and the other flowers in and around the pumpkin. For my patterned papers I tried to use colors that conveyed "pumpkin spice".

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Fall Haul for Paper Players

When I saw the current Paper Players challenge get posted I knew I wanted to play along but then the week started and I totally spaced it. Thankfully I saw the reminder on my blog list last night and I printed out the digital image from Power Poppy that I wanted to use so I could color it up at work and have it ready to go today.

I'm using the image Fall Haul from Power Poppy, I just love this digital stamp and it's perfect for the fruit and vegetables theme! Did you know that moose love to eat pumpkin? It's true! A few years ago I got a picture of a young moose down on it's front knees eating the Halloween pumpkins my neighbors had discarded in their backyard. In Oct social media in Alaska is usually full of photos of moose eating pumpkins off porches LOL

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Many Thanks Pumpkins

For today's card I played along with the new Freshly Made Sketch and also with the The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the new Lawn Fawn set Happy Harvest. I was originally going to use the scarecrow but he wouldn't fit the way I wanted him too so I used the favorite image in the set, the wagon of pumpkins. I did some masking and added some more pumpkins and also a bird on top. The paper is from Lawn Fawns Sweater Weather stack. I really need to buy the whole collection, I only have a few papers from it and today I realized it's just not enough!

Stamps: Happy Harvest (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Sweater Weather Paper Stack (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Chocolate Chip (SU), Old Olive (SU)

Copics: R27, R29, R39

C1, C3, C5

R05, YRO0, R17

B21, B32 B34

YG13, YG61

E13

Pumpkin Frames for Friday Mashup

It's my turn to host at The Friday Mashup and this week I'm all about fall and pumpkins! We all know I'm a winter girl but I do love fall, as fleeting as the season is here in Alaska. Our leaves have already changed and are quickly falling off the trees, it wont be long before the branches are all bare. 

My family loves Halloween and every year we buy a bunch of pumpkins to carve and line our front porch with. This is where the inspiration came from for the pumpkin part of the challenge! I don't like to eat anything made with pumpkin or pumpkin flavor but I do love pumpkin decorations!

I used one of the sentiments from the Thankful Forest Friends set and then used some retired framelits to create my frame. I created 2 pumpkins from punches and added those to the bottom of the frame. I paper pierced the frame as well as all the corners of the card.

Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then I hope you'll play along with us!

Here's your Mashup Challenge:

• Create a project with Pumpkins.
• Create a project using Die Cuts to create a Frame. 
• or Mash it Up! and create a project with Pumpkins and a Die cut Frame. 

Stamps: Thankful Forest Friends

Paper: Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White, Hello Honey DSP

Ink: Mossy Meadow, Hello Honey, Tangelo Twist, Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: Big Shot, Labels Collection Framelits (retired), Circle Punches, Paper Piercing Tool, sponge

Many Thanks for Sunday Stamps

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a fun sketch challenge for you to try out.

I used a brand new set from Lawn Fawn called Happy Harvest. It has so many great fall images in it, I just love it! For this card I used the wagon carrying 3 pumpkins and then using the masking technique I added 3 more pumpkins with a bird sitting on top of the last one. The image was colored with copics and popped up with dimensionals on a  card base that I created with Neenah Solar White paper and paper from the Lawn Fawn Sweater Weather pack. The sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.

Head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then play along with us!

Stamps: Happy Harvest (Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Lawn Fawn Sweater Weather

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Early Espresso (SU)

Copics: B00, BG01, B02, B04

Y18, YG13

E13, E17

N4

R24, R27, R29, R46

R08, YR07, YR09

Accessories: Sequins (PPP), dimensionals

A Simple Fall Scene

I didn't have to drive into town today so I had some time to craft. I saw the current challenge for CAS(E) this Sketch come across my feed and decided to play along.

When I originally set out to make a card for this challenge I had Christmas in mind. However, when I executed the vision I had in my head it just didn't appeal to me and I started all over. I glanced out the window and decided to go with a fall theme. Here in Alaska signs of autumn are appearing everywhere...fireweed has gone to seed, the air has a certain crispness to it and leaves are starting to change.

I used a new set from SU called Happy Scenes that I recently got in my preorder. I stamped the image twice across the front and then colored it with copics. The sentiment is also from a new set coming out, that one is called Sparkly Seasons. 

I really love how it came out, it's a nice and simple card that can easily be reproduced if need be.

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Stamps: Happy Scenes, Sparkly Seasons

Paper: Whisper White CS(Thick)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tangelo Twist

Copics:YG03, YG25, G07, E13, Y13, Y18, R05, R08, R46, YR09, YR07

Getting Punchy with the State Fair

Happy Friday! It's my last Friday on day shift, I head back to overnights on Monday. I can't believe how quick the summer went. I am more than ready for the fall and winter to arrive!

One way to tell that fall is on the way here is the arrival of the Alaska State Fair at the end of August. It's held in Palmer, which is across the valley from me, and people from all over the state come to it. My family loves going to the state fair so since it's my week to host the challenge at The Friday Mashup I decided to use that as my inspiration.....make a project that's inspired by your state fair. Maybe the food is your favorite, or perhaps you like the rides and carnival portion? Maybe it's the farm animals that you can't wait to see...whatever it is, create a project based on it and while you are at it use punches on your project!

The Alaska State Fair is known for it's record breaking pumpkins. I always make a beeline for the hall that has all the livestock and fruits and vegetables because I just get a huge kick at looking at the monster pumpkins, cabbage, rhubarb, etc. The record for the largest pumpkin is 1,287lbs and that record has not been broken since 2011. A pumpkin came close in 2014 though, it was only 3 lbs away from beating the record! My love for these giant pumpkins is what inspired my card (even though my kids wanted me to do a card about fair food).

I created my pumpkin using 3 oval framelits. I used a circle punch to make the stem. The background was embossed with the Woodgrain TIEF. I thought the sentiment with the curly ends went perfectly with the pumpkin theme so I stamped that in Mossy Meadow and created a banner.

Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then I hope you'll play along with us!

Here's your Mashup Challenge this week:

• Create a project " Inspired by your State Fair".
• Create a  project using "Punches".
• or Mash it Up and created  a "Project inspired by your State Fair that uses Punches".

Here are some photos I took at the Alaska State Fair in 2013:

And my card:

Stamps: A Dozen Thoughts

Paper: Mossy Meadow, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White, Mossy Meadow DSP, Hello Honey DSP

Ink: Tangelo Twist, Mossy Meadow

Accessories: Big Shot, Oval Framelits, Woodgrain TIEF, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, sponge, dimensionals