Easy as 1, 2, 3 Card Challenge ~ Falling

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Now for the card I made for the Cards In Envy Challenge (easy as 1, 2, 3)   I thought how appropriate I  would use 3 leaves, and then place  them facing down in a "falling" sort of way which tied into the sentiment.  The stamp set is from Close to my heart>Many Thanks.  I've used this one quite a bit recently.  I like the whimsical leaves.  I think they stamp well and look delightful.  If you take a look around my blog you will see a few different ways I've used them, and also see my other projects and pictures.  I'd really appreciate it if you would click that blue button in the left hand column to follow my blog.

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HSS Inspiration Challenge #272 & PP362

 Here is the card I made this morning for the challenges at:

 The Paper Players

Hand Stamped Sentiments

I thought they worked well together.  As did all three stamp sets that I used.   First up I used the Perk Up from a.muse studio.  I'm not a coffee drinker so I pretend it's hot chocolate.  I've been trying hot tea, but all I do is frown when I drink it, so I'm thinking that is not good for the wrinkles on my forehead.  Perhaps I just don't like warm drinks. haha.. oh my silly life.. next stamp set is from, close to my heart, Many thanks and that was the leaves and the sentiment.  For the sweet steam I used my favorite Scentsational Season from stampin up.  Love this cute little retired set.  Any ways I had to do some fussy cutting as usual, so my eyes are a bit blurry for Bible study time now, but I'm hoping they clear up.   

I've also included a picture of a blue jay that was visiting my yard.  I think they are spectacular in color and the way this one is perched on the fence it looks like he is wearing earmuffs.  😊

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Addicted to CAS Challenge #120 - Florals

Hi Folks.  Card number 3 today goes to Addicted To CAS challenge Blog

 

I am really enjoying the practice of leaving white space on the card.  Today we are challenged to use flowers and I thought I'd take a chance with it in "fall fashion"  being I chose festive fall colors, oranges, yellows, and a soft green.  And once again, for such a simple card I went through many trial and errors.  My gosh I must be an unusually messy stamper, every time I was almost done, a smudge, an ink spot, a wrinkled side or perhaps my cutter blade needs replacement.  Goodness gracious! So about round 8 I finally got a nice clean take on it.

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CCC #21~Scentsational Season Christmas

Card number 2 today I made for the Christmas Card Challenge Blog

The closest stamp set I could find in my stash that somewhat resembled cookies was my stampin up Scentsational Season.  I thought the images looked like lovely little cut outs. Which is exactly what I did using the matching dies.. I actually cut a couple of each one to add some extra demension to the card.  I then found the ric rack ribbon to "tie" it all together.  I think it matches the gingerbread man's icing lovely.  

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CAS Game #99 - Autumn Colours & SCS

Well today I will be posting a few times.    So please come back to check out my other cards too.  Up first is the card I made this morning for the challenge at: AAA Cards

 

We are suppose to use autumn colors, so I stuck with brown and gold.  It was actually yellow and orange but after a bit of water coloring it turned into gold.. so I just went with it.  

I thought the verse worked lovely for a sentiment, plus it doubles as my SCS (Scripture Card Sunday) post which I like to try and stick to.  

Goodness the designers are so talented at keeping that white space while making their cards look spectacular.. You must check it out.

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CTS #239 & #tgifc125~ Trains

I made this card for my son.  On Sept. 19th he will be 24 years old.  My gosh I can't believe that.    He has loved trains since he was a young boy.  He use to love to watch Thomas the train.  We lived right next to the tracks when he was small, and I do mean right next maybe about 15 feet away from the house.  Now we live next to a train yard, so he's always had trains in his life.   Now my 24 year old rides BMX while working full time.  I'll include one of my all time favorite pictures of him.  It was just taken this past August.  After a long spring/summer not being able to ride, because of a smashed hand, he got the pins out of his hand and got out of his cast. So this picture was the perfect reminder of God's faithful promise to him to bike again. Just  spectacular! Proud Mama.  

Now onto my card.  I combined two challenges:

TGIF Challenges

 Case This Sketch

I used the train from my Jim Holtz  Here and There stamp set. I thought it tied in perfectly with the challenges today.  I took a few different pictures of the card so you could see some of the details, like the embossed background and twine.  The sentiment is a lovely die from Lawn Fawn.  I layered it with black underneath so it looked like a shadow peaking through.

Next up is my little rascal squirrel, at least today he is not eating my sunflowers. 

Lastly my sweet daughter picked up this treat for me today, and she searched for one with the "sweet" sentiment on it.  How cute is that? "Life is tough, but so are you"  Makes my heart happy that she thinks I'm tough 💗

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FMS305~Fall

Gosh, how can one (myself) wrestle so much with such a simple sketch design.  I mean HOLY SMOKES.. I tried and tried, and this is finally what I came up with for the challenge at: Freshly Made Sketches

I love playing along here, they always have unique designs.   This one just had me stumped.  Then after I stamped the orange and yellow decorative strips I cut them out short, put them too low on the card, and at this point I went into my "whatever, roll with it" attitude.  so just stamped a bigger leaf to take up the slack on top, and a smaller leaf for the bottom.  

I also included a few pictures of my yard, since a few of the trees are starting to change colors already. 

Thank you so much for stopping by.  Hope I can get you interested in my blog and you will want to follow me.  You might want to take a look around, Not all my cards are this unappealing. 

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