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

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

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