Musical Sketch to Start the Week

Happy October!  Fall is just rolling right along; it is hard to believe that Halloween is this month and that means that Thanksgiving is right round the corner!   I had "fall on the brain" when I sat down to stamp today; earthy colors came to mind.  This card is for 2 challenges this week, ODBD's challenge to use a musical element on the card.  The sketch is from Retro Sketches.

                                                                     Soulful Chickadee

I just love this little chickadee from ODBD and he has just become a whole lot easier for me to cut out as I finally got the matching die; while I actually like fussy cutting, it is really nice and QUICK to use the die. To make this card I used:

Paper-Creamy Caramel, Cajun Craze, Black, Crumb Cake, Naturals White and Naturals Ivory

Ink-Stazon Black, Cajun Craze, SU reinkers

Stamps-ODBD's You will Find Refuge, SU Music Notes wheel

Other-twill, ODBD chickadee die, aquapainter, dimensionals, wood grain ef, pearls

Thanks so much for visiting my blog and have a blessed week and month of October!

Lee Ann
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It's a good day when you are  crafting enough to have to tack on an edit to your blog post!  This card is for the Featured Stamper challenge at SCS and for the Colour Q challenge this week.  What a gorgeous palette of colors!

My finished card below-

Contemporary Mums

While this card did not come together too easily, I do like the end product.  I started by spritzing Rich Razzleberry onto my Whisper White cardstock.  This panel is layered onto Cajun Craze (I do not have Dusty Durango) which is layered onto a Soft Suede card base.  The stamped flowers are the centers from the Mixed Bunch set.  The butterflies are in Cajun Craze and Pumpkin Pie and are cut from the Beautiful Wings embossit.  The large Pumpkin Pie flower is punched from the Blossom punch and embossed with the polka dot ef.  The next layer of the flower is a Really Rust scallop circle followed by a 1" circle punched from Razzleberry dsp.  The leaves are stamped in Soft Suede on Soft Suede with a Verve stamp (Bloom and Grow) and die cut with its matching die. The sentiment is stamped in Soft Suede. 

Thanks for visiting my blog and have a blessed week!

Lee Ann

Sunrise Chickadee

Our Daily Bread Designs challenge this week is to make a "scene" on our card.  I do enjoy doing this and have been practicing with the brayer.  I am far from having it perfect-can't seem to get those pesky roller lines out of the scene- but I do like the colors for this week's ODBDSLC97 card. I am also entering this in the Word Art Wednesday challenge, which is to use scripture or encouraging words on the card. 

Certainly Celery and Old Olive ink are brayered for the grass and some So Saffron is sponged at the horizon.  Pretty in Pink, So Saffron and Vintage Violet make up the sky.  The sun was masked.
One of my all time favorite stamps is the sweet chickadee from ODBD (You are My Refuge).  I stamped him with Memento Tuxedo black and colored him in with Copics, then hand cut the image out and adhered it to the background on dimensionals. 
I hope you like the finished product.  Thanks for visiting my blog.  Comments are greatly appreciated!

Edit 2/25/12- This card was a winner for the ODBDSLC on 2/18/12.

Crop of Believers!

Fun, fun weekend!!!  Enjoying my weekend with a great group of ladies at what we affectionately call "The Crop of Believers".  We are doing everything from scrapbooking, to cross stitching, jewelry making to card creating.  Always a fun  Friday night and Saturday.  

Crafty lady, Amy, once again is sharing her knowledge and crafty talent teaching ladies how to make bird's nest necklaces.  Nothing like a little food, a little fellowship, and alot of paper to brighten up the day!

I used this sweet little chickadee, from the "You will find Refuge" stamp set from Our Daily Bread Designs.  The cardbase is SU's Ruby Red cardstock.  the bird is stamped in black Memento ink and colored with Copics.  The white frame was cut with an oval Spellbinder, then embossed with a Sizzix e.f. and popped up with SU dimensionals.  An organza bow, embellished with pearls finishes this card off.
Thanks for stopping by!