It's FALL Y'all!

Stampendous makes the cutest stamps ever!  This one is called Leaf Girl Kiddo and she's obviously having a grand time playing in the leaves!  Like me, she loves Fall!

I started by stamping this little cutie with Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest and colored my image with Copic markers.  I trimmed my image down and set her aside.  Next I created my card base with Bazzill in a standard A2-sized card with a tent fold.  I added my patterned paper from Echo Park's Fall Fever collection.  I created a mat of Bazzill and patterned paper for my image stack and adhered it all together with Zip Dry.  Using Stampendous's Vintage Uppercase Perfectly Clear ™ Stamps, I stamped F-A-L-L and trimmed each letter down into a mini banner.  I decided to add some glitter to the top of each letter's piece but I couldn't decide which color of glitter to use. So, I decided that I would mix three colors of Stampendous Micro Glitter, I used Red, Orange and Sunflower and it turned into a very pretty fall color perfect for this card!  I added the lettered pieces on with some pop dots and my card was complete!

This was such a fast and easy card to create!  I hope you like it!  That's it for me today but I'll have more goodness to share with you really soon so be sure to check back!

Hugs,
Lea

The Smallest Things

Chilly mornings, leaves changing color, apples ripening, these are just a few of the small things that make me happy when fall arrives in a slow blaze of glory!   The sentiment on my card today has always been a favorite of mine!  I fell in love with Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh and all the other characters of the Hundred Acre Wood when I was very young and I've been in love with them ever since!

To create my card, I used two Dreamweaver Stencils, LL 3004, Falling Leaves and LS 78, Maple Leaf.  Using my stencil brushes, I inked both stencils with ClearSnap's ColorBox fluid chalk ink pads in Autumn Pastels and Primary Pastels.  I also used a small flat paint brush to add "veins" to the leaves.  I stamped my Quietfire Design sentiment Sometimes, Said Pooh with Memento's Rich Cocoa ink.  I  trimmed my inked images down to the sizes I wanted, inked them all over with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and set them aside.  Using Bazzill for my card base, I created my base with a basic tent fold.  My patterned paper is from Authentique's Thankful Collection and wrapped with a piece of May Arts Faux Burlap Wired Ribbon.  I added Art Glitter's Challis Ultrafine Opaque Hologram Glitter to each of my image pieces by edging them with Tsukineko's The Essential Glue Pad and then dipping each edge in the glitter. I hate that it didn't photograph better as it's really pretty in person!  As a finishing touch, I added a button just 'cause I wanted to!  I like buttons!  So, that's my card for today, I hope you like it!  Here's a list of the others posting today:

Dream It Up!
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan 
Pam Hornschu

Thanks for stopping by and I'll see you again soon.

Hugs, 
Lea

Fall Is Here,,,

,,,and Stampendous has some great fall stamps to help you celebrate the season!  My card today uses Leaf Boy Kiddo and Trees and Leaves.  He is such a cutie!  I love the Kiddos line of stamps, they're one of my favorites!

I stamped my Leaf Boy Kiddo image with Memento Tuxedo Black on Neenah Classic Crest and colored it with Copic markers.  I trimmed it down to the size I wanted and inked it all over with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen.  Next, I created my card base from Bazzill cardstock and my pattered paper is from Little Yellow Bicycle's Hello Fall Collection.  I cut two pieces of my patterned paper, one for the base and one to mat the image on.  I adhered all layers with Beacon Zip Dry.  I then stamped, colored and cut out three leaves from the Trees and Leaves Perfectly Clear™ Stamp Set and using pop dots, I adhered them to the card.  A really simple but cute fall card perfect for family, teachers or friends!

Thanks bunches for stopping by for a peak today!  I'll see you again real soon!

Hugs,
Lea

True Harvest

Have you enjoyed the Dreamweaver Stencils and Quietfire Design Blog Collaboration? I have so enjoyed playing with the Quietfire Design team, and their amazing sentiments. In their beautiful calligraphic style, their quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. Follow along with us on our final hop today and leave your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

Here's what I've created for today's post:

I love fall and I love pumpkins!  I love anything pumpkin flavored, too!  So, it only seemed fitting to create a card using Stencil LJ 874, Fall Borders with my favorite fall fruit!  Using my stenciling brushes and a variety of Memento Dewdrops, I stenciled my design onto a piece of Neenah Classic Crest.  When I finished stenciling, I trimmed my image down and roughed the edges with my paper distressing tool.  Using Stampendous Boss Gloss, I inked my Quietfire Design The True Harvest of My Daily Life stamp and stamped it onto my image.  I added my Stampendous Detail Black Embossing Powder and heat embossed it.  I took my Zig Emboss Writer and added little dots around my sentiment and added more Stampendous Detail Black EP for some additional texture.  Next I brushed on Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen and then edged it lightly with Tea Dye Distress Ink.  I created my card base with some green card stock I had in my stash.  For my patterned papers I used Bo Bunny’s Apple Cider Collection 6x6 Paper Pad.  I created a mat for my image that I also distressed the edge of and added some Tea Dye Distress Ink around the edge.  I adhered it all together with Beacon Zip Dry and, using a glue dot, I added a piece of May Arts ribbon I thought looked similar to a vine that I tied in a knot.  All done!

Check out today's awesomeness which includes...

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheever
Holly Eastbrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Teresa Horner

Suzanne Cannon

and Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin
Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway
Lea Kimmel
Heidi Erickson
Laura Drahozal
Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu
Stacey Rumsby

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you like my card and be sure to leave a comment to be entered to win!  See you again real soon!

Hugs,

Lea

You Are Sunlight...

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are playing with the Quietfire Design team, and are so excited to play with their amazing images and sentiments. In their beautiful calligraphic style, their quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. Follow along with us, and leave your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

Cock-a-doodle-dooooo!  I love roosters!  I think they're comical to watch as they strut around the yard!  My great-grandmother had several and most of them were mean but there was one in particular that liked to follow my cousins and me around the yard.  He would even let us pet him but there was no way he would let us pick him up!  I miss those summer days of my youth when the world was still so big and something as simple as a rooster following me around a yard was the highlight of my day!  Boy those days are long gone but they are and always will be "sunlight to my heart."

This Dreamweaver Stencil, LG753, Crowing Rooster, brought back so many memories of days spent in the country that I wanted to give my card a country feel.  I had these great papers from Graphic 45's French Country Collection that are perfect for this card.  My card base is Bazzill.  I stamped my Quietfire Design sentiment, You are Sunlight, with Memento Tuxedo Black on Neenah Classic Crest and also used Neenah for my stencil inked with ClearSnap's ColorBox fluid chalk ink pads in Autumn Pastels and Primary Pastels.  The colors were perfect with my patterned papers!  I dabbed on some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Antique Linen on both my image and my sentiment.  I edged my sentiment with his Aged Mahogany Distress Ink. Once I had most of my pieces rounded on the corners, layered and adhered with Beacon Zip Dry, I added some glue to the sun and then added Art Glitter's Challis UltraFine Opaque Hologram Glitter over the glue for a little added sparkle!  Using pop dots I finished it off by adding my sentiment to the card and for the ultimate country feel, I added three buttons with glue dots.  Very simple, very country, kinda cute!

So here are the others playing along today with awesome inspiration for your viewing pleasure!  Be sure to leave some love to be entered to win one of our prize packs.

Quietfire Design Members...

Yogi Grunwald

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Wendy Jordan

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel (me!)

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you back here tomorrow for the big blog hop!  

Hugs,

Lea

Quietfire Design Sparkles!

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are playing with the Quietfire Design team, and are so excited to play with their amazing images and sentiments. In their beautiful calligraphic style, their quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. Follow along with us, and leave your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

My card today is very simple in design because, frankly, it didn't need to be anything else!  I learned a long time ago that simple cards can have just as much impact as those with lots of bells and whistles.  I tend to keep my cards somewhat simple anyway, kind of like my life!  Here's my card for today:

There's so much sparkle on this card, I wish you could see it in real life!  To begin, I used the Dreamweaver Stencils DX7020 Leafless Tree Die and cut out my tree using a medium brown card stock.  Next I used my Copic airbrush system and added some warm grays (W4, W5 & W7) to the tree.  Using the super brush end of W7, I added some squiggly lines on the tree to add a smidge of visual texture even though you have to enlarge it to tell here!  Once I had my tree just right, I adhered it to a sheet of Double-Sided Mounting Paper (aka Sticky Paper) trimmed to fit my tree.  I created a stencil of sorts using the backing of the sticky paper so I could add the Chesapeake (blue) Art Glitter and then add the Crystal Art Glitter by placing the "stencil" on the bottom of the paper to create my snowy ground.  Once my glitter was on, I burnished it into the sticky paper by rubbing it with my finger.  I then added some Ranger Stickles in Stardust to the branches and nooks of the tree.  I chose to use Stickles so it would have a little more dimension than regular glitter.  I then added my sticky paper piece to my navy blue Bazzill card stock trimmed and folded as my card base.  Next I stamped my sentiment, Trees Are the Endless Effort, from Quietfire Design onto Neenah Classic Crest  with Memento Tuxedo Black.  I matted my sentiment on a piece of Bazzill and pop dotted it to the card.  All done!!  Very simple but with so much sparkle, you really don't want it to be too fussy!  I love it!

Thanks for stopping by to take a look.  I'll have another project for you tomorrow so come back by for a visit! Here are the others playing along today so be sure to stop by and leave them some love!

Quietfire Design Members...

Teresa Horner

Terre Fry

and

Dream Team members...

Cherylynn Moser

Louise Healy

Lyn Bernatovich
Lea Kimmel (me!)
Laura Drahozal

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

Be sure to leave comments if you want the chance to win a prize!  Thanks again and I'll you tomorrow!

Hugs,
Lea

Traveling Down Maya Road

Hopping along Maya Road is more like it!  Welcome to our Friday Blog Hop as Stampendous finishes up a week long blog collaboration with Maya Road.  It has been a LOT of fun!  We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I have a chipboard binder, a coaster book, and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elements and SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address.  That's all the necessities, now here's the fun stuff!  For my project, I decided to make Christmas ornaments! 

 

        

These are fronts and backs of two different ornaments.  These were originally pages from a chipboard album but I figured everybody does albums so I wanted to create something different.    The more I looked at the chipboard elements the more I realized a few of them would make perfect hooks for ornaments and so the idea just popped into my noggin!  Here's what I was sent:

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I received a package of chipboard elements and a chipboard album.  I stamped my images, Snowball Fight and Sweet Snowgirl from Stampendous!® Stamps using Memento Tuxedo Black ink on Neenah Classic Crest.  I trimmed 2 pieces of patterned paper, 'Tis the Season from My Mind's Eye, rounded the corners and adhered them to the album pages.  I made sure to punch a hold in the patterned paper to match the hole in the album corner.  I adhered my trimmed images to the center and added some Stampendous Chunky White Embossing Enamel to both and some Crystal Embossing Powder to the Sweet Snowgirl piece to make her a little more girly!  Using Beacon Zip Dry, I adhered some Stampendous Shaved Ice to the bottom of each ornament front.  Using two pieces of the chipboard elements, I used some Stampendous Boss Gloss to both sides and covered them with Silver Tinsel Embossing Powder, punched a hole and attached them to the ornaments with a brad.  For the backside, I decided to cover each back with DecoArt® Black Chalkboard Paint so the kids can write a personal message on their ornament.  This was a fun twist for me and I hope you like it, too!  

Here's the whole Stampendous team that's hopping along today, be sure to leave some love along the way if you wish to be entered to win one of our awesome prizes!

Asia King 
Cyndi Bundy 
Jamie Martin
Janelle Stollfus
Jennifer Dove
Krissy Fossmeyer
Kristine Reynolds 
Lea Kimmel 
Stephanie Lee
Suzanne Czosek 
Tenia Nelson
Tobi Crawford 

Here's the link for the Maya Road team, be sure to leave them some love, too!

The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you again soon with more Stampendous and Dreamweaver goodness to share!  Have a great day and a wonderful weekend!

Hugs,
Lea

Does Your Autumn Sparkle?

Ready to be sparkly? This month is the annual collaboration between Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter, and it promises to have double the glitter and double the fun! Follow the trail of bling all of this month on the Art Glitter blog, and the Dream It Up! blog. Play along with the monthly challenge of  "Awesome in Autumn" and link your creations to the linkytool on the "Dream It Up!" Thursday posts for a chance to win some stupendous stencils and glamorous glitter! As if that wasn't cool enough, Art Glitter is offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code DW20 and...

Stencil with Style is also offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code SWS20!


This is one of the glitters I received to create with and I have to say, I'm a big fan of crystal glitter.  I love it because you can change the color and still be just as sparkly as if you had used color glitter.  Here's what I did to create my card.  Using a piece of Double-Sided Mounting Paper (aka Sticky Paper!) trimmed to fit my stencil, LL3036.  I covered the entire side with Crystal Art Glitter, taped my stencil on and airbrushed the stencil with my Copics.  I created my card base using Bazzill and my patterned papers are from the Bo Bunny Apple Cider Collection 6x6 paper pad.  I trimmed a second piece of Bazzill and adhered my sticky stenciled piece to the Bazzill.  I layered all my pieces on the card base adhering them with Beacon Zip Dry.  Using Tiny Alphabet Perfectly Clear™ Stamps and Happy Messages Perfectly Clear™ Stamps from Stampendous! Stamps®, I stamped my sentiment with Memento® Tuxedo Black, layered it, trimmed it and pop-dotted it on!  Very easy to create and so very sparkly!

Check out the rest of this week's awesomeness which includes our super sparkly guest designer and previous Dream Team member...

Kristi Parker

Dream It Up!
Art Glitter 

Terrece Siddoway

Louise Healy

Lea Kimmel
Pam Hornschu

Stacey Rumsby

Wendy Jordan

Cherylynn Moser

I hope you've enjoyed my card today and that it has given you at least a little inspiration.  Don't forget about the two sales mentioned above!  Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll have a new post tomorrow as we wrap up the week with Maya Road and Stampendous!

Hugs,
Lea

The Road's Calling My Name!

Maya Road, that is!  I am just in love with this company and their products!  Maya Road will have one grand prize, you can earn entries by commenting on their blog, liking them on Facebook, and commenting on their Facebook page.

We’ll have three prizes for the week comprised of a Maya Road alterable book (I havea chipboard binder, a coaster book, and one canvas), Some MR chipboard or other embellies, and Stampendous EJK08 White Encrusted Jewel Kit – perfect for covering chipboard with blingy goodness and Stampendous CRW092 Cling Artist Elementsand SSC1122 Elegant Borders Perfectly Clear Stamp™ Set. Readers will have until Sunday night September 15th to comment on as many of our team blog posts as they can. Monday we’ll choose three bloggers at random from the week and each blogger will choose one winner from her comments. Winners must have a United States mailing address.  That's all the nitty gritty, now here's my first project for this week.

This is one of the awesome products I received to create with.  I love flowers so this was definitely a good choice for me!  These flowers are beige so I knew they would be easy to alter the color of them and, if you know me, you know my choice of mediums is Copic markers!  I got out my trusty air compressor and set about air brushing three flowers for my project.  I used R27 and R59 to color them but I made a point of giving them a bit of a shabby look by not getting every little nook and cranny!  Of course the rhinestone in the middle was also covered with color!

This was one of those cards that started out as something totally different, however I took a different turn and I love the simplicity of the final project. For starters, I airbrushed my flowers, then I stamped my sentiment on vellum using Stampendous Boss Gloss and heat embossed it with Detail Black Embossing Powder from Stampendous.  I created my card base from Bazzill Bling CS.  I had this scrap of patterned paper in my stash and trimmed it to fit and adhered it to the base.  (Truth is, this paper was my inspiration for the card!)  Next I used some glue dots to attach the vellum piece to the patterned paper.  I determined where my flowers were going to be adhered and trimmed three pieces of May Arts Leaves Ribbon in Parrot Green the perfect length.  I trimmed the bottom leaves off each piece and tied them together with some May Arts Baker's Twine in Red.  I adhered the flowers and "stems" to the card, added a couple of leaves in the corner of my vellum piece and, voila!, it was done!  Here's a side view to give you a better feel for how fluffy these flowers are.  

A couple of my teammates are playing along today so be sure to stop by their blogs and leave them some love!

Janelle Stollfus

Krissy Fossmeyer
The Maya Road Design Team Blog

Thanks for stopping by today.  I'll have a Dreamweaver post tomorrow and another Stampendous and Maya Road post on Friday.  Hope to see you back soon!

Hugs,

Lea