More Gently Falling

I needed a masculine birthday earlier this week and I still had Gently Falling out from my autumnal creations, so I set about creating a more 'earthy' kind of card.  Here's what I did:

I stamped leaves in Old Olive, Wild Wasabi and Pear Pizzaz on the Naturals card base, before stamping both the outline and the middle of the large leaf on a snippet.  The outline is in Always Artichoke and the middle is in Old Olive.  I wrapped a length of ribbon round the snippet and tied it with some linen thread, adding a greeting from the now retired Happiest Birthday Wishes stamp set.  This was mounted onto some woodgrain design paper from the Natural Composition Speciality range, before being secured to the card base.  Job done.

Supplies
Stamps: Gently Falling, Happiest Birthday Wishes (retired)
Inks: Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Pear Pizzaz, Always Artichoke
Card: Naturals White
Paper: Natural Composition Speciality
Other: Old Olive 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon, linen thread, stamp-a-ma-jig

I'll take this for a play in the Playground as it uses up a couple of snippets from the never-diminishing snippets collection!

Now you know what eats leaves?  CATerpillars!

Have a wonderful Friday!

Autumn Thanks

Thank you ever so much for your kind encouragement for my tag in my last post.  I realised it has been way too long since I inked up in my favourite colours, so quickly cracked on to make this autumnal thank you card:

I used this week's sketch from Mojo Monday because I liked the way I could include a number of layers while still maintaining a clean feel overall.  I cracked open my new Sweater Weather Designer Paper for this project too - oh dear, I think I have a new favourite paper collection!  The leaves were inked up with marker pens to make them multi-coloured.  I love how arty they look.  Here's a closer look:

Supplies
Stamps: Oh, Hello and Gently Falling
Ink: Soft Suede, marker pens in Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler
Card: Whisper White, Crumb Cake
Paper: Sweater Weather Designer Series Paper
Other: oval Framelits and BigShot, Natural trim ribbon, Old Olive taffeta ribbon, linen thread, stamp-a-ma-jig, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch

I'm having a personal battle at the moment between my freezing hands and my determination not to turn the heating on until October... corrrrr blimey, it has turned cold, hasn't it?  My husband has just installed something called Living Desktop onto his laptop, which is a programme where the desktop background picture is a video with sound.  I was quite amused to see his attempt to make me feel warmer yesterday as he had set up a picture of a log fire on his screen and positioned his laptop on the coffee table in front of me..... it's just not quite the same thing though, is it?!

I have a Harry Potter themed kitty for you today, who also happens to look very like Socks!

Pop back tomorrow for something completely different!  Thanks for visiting,

Gently Falling Tag

I adore all leaf and flower stamp sets - a girl can never have too many, right?!  So when I first set eyes on the beautiful two-step stamp set Gently Falling, it went on my 'must have' list.

Last month's challenge for the card swap group I'm in was to create a tag.  Eeek!  This is something I really struggle with.  I think I can get a bit intimidated by all those gorgeous tags I see on other blogs and on Pinterest and then can't seem to think of anything original to do.  To help, I decided on two stamp sets I wanted to use and a favourite colour combination to help get me started.  Here's what I came up with in the end:

The background of the card is from a lovely paper collection called Natural Composition, and really it is more like card than paper.  There are a whole host of lovely embossed designs and I went for the classic Fleur de Lys for this tag.  I stamped my leaves onto some Naturals White cardstock ('cos it's got speckly bits!), first in Soft Suede and then in Cherry Cobbler, Cajun Craze and Crushed Curry.  The thrush is from Papaya Collage and is stamped in Early Espresso.  All were carefully cut out with my paper snips and positioned above a length of Cherry Cobbler seam binding and some leftover flower trim from the last seasonal catalogue.  I finished the tag with a scrap of First Edition paper, a vintage brad, and some crochet lace tied with linen thread.

Supplies
Stamps: Papaya Collage, Gently Falling
Ink: Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Cherry Cobbler, Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze
Card: Naturals White
Paper: Natural Composition and First Edition Speciality Paper
Other: flower trim (retired), Cherry Cobbler seam binding, paper snips, Victoria crochet trim, vintage brad, linen thread, crop-a-dile

It's all go here at Furry Tale HQ as I'm preparing lots of materials for some children's work at church this weekend.  Lollipop sticks, hot glue gun and.... Socks... who is very interested in what I'm doing... now what could possibly go wrong?!  With that in mind...

Congratulations on making it to the weekend!  Thanks for stopping by,