Pear Doodle Card

Hello! I hope you're having a wonderful day. It's time for the start of another challenge at Tuesday Throwdown and this week the theme is Doodles. I thought this was a fun theme and one that I'm interested to see how you interpret. Our wonderful sponsor is CraftyGirl and I'm using her Pear Doodle digital stamp. For all the challenge details and design team inspiration click HERE. I hope you will play along!

My vision is not as good as it used to be, so I made this image larger than usual. Since the design is intricate I decided to open my art box from college and use my Prismacolor pencils (sadly they've had little use since college 20 years ago). Once all the pencils were sharpened I started coloring. The image was die cut with a cross stitched oval by My Favorite Things and then to give it a framed look it was matted to a brown scalloped oval cut from an Avery Elle die cut. All patterned paper is from my scrap pile, I'm determined to use it when I remember. The You're Amazing sentiment is from the Watercolor Wishes stamp set by Stampin' Up!. To accent the sentiment two punched banners were added along with two green sequins. The last detail was the addition of the bitty butterfly with pearls. That's it! Thanks for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your day.

This Pear Doodle Card is entered into the following challenges:

• Crafty Cardmakers: Add a Sentiment
• Simon Says Stamp: It's a Frame Up!
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends: Anything Goes

Perfectly Preserved Thanksgiving Card

Good evening! The wind blew in colder weather today. Yesterday here in Oklahoma it was 85 degrees and today the high was around 59. It definitely feels like fall now and it arrived in time for Halloween next week. I have plenty of Halloween cards made, but I realized I needed to make more handmade Thanksgiving cards. So, this afternoon that's what I did. This Perfectly Preserved Thanksgiving Card was made using this weeks Freshly Made Sketch. The patterned paper is from the Orchard Harvest collection by Stampin' Up! I really love all the colours in this paper collection. Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Perfectly Preserved Thanksgiving Card Supplies: Very vanilla, island indigo, lucky limeade, and early espresso card stock, Orchard Harvest designer series paper, Perfectly Preserved stamp set, Cannery Set Framelits, Big Shot, Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set, classic stampin' pads in early espresso, raspberry ripple, and lucky limeade, twine in island indigo, chevron embossing folder, word window and modern label punches, basic pearls, and stampin' dimensionals. All Supplies by Stampin' Up!

This card is linked to the following challenges:
1. Paper Crafting Journey: Ribbon or Twine
2. Simply Create: Anything Goes
3. Stamp-n-doodle: Ribbon or Twine

Pear Thank You Card

LOVE.... the warm colours that Autumn brings! The brown, oranges, and yellows, oh my! To celebrate the first day of Autumn I made a loaf of pumpkin bread last night. The smell in the house was better than any candle. Yum!

Okay, onto the card. This Pear Thank You Card was made for the following challenges:

• CAS-ual Fridays: Fall fun challenge
• Sentimental Sundays: Autumn with a sentiment challenge
• Crazy 4 Challenges: Thank you/Thanksgiving inspired challenge

Pear Thank You Card Supplies: Chocolate chip card stock, old olive card stock, apple cider patterned paper by Bo Bunny, orchard harvest die cut images by Creative Imaginations, thank you circle sentiment stamp by Stampabilities, classic stampin' pad in early espresso, and foam tape. 

Perfectly Preserved Card

Wow! What a week!!! It was busy at work and at home. I did manage to find some time to create this Perfectly Preserved Card with some of my new goodies from Stampin' Up! I used the sketch from week #51 from the Freshly Made Sketches blog for the design. I used it a couple of weeks ago (click here), but different papers and different embellishments completely change the look. Well, I hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by my blog.

This card is also linked to the fabulous Make It Monday blog.

Perfectly Preserved Card Supplies*:

• Paper: Orchard Harvest designer series paper (126895), very vanilla, early espresso, lucky limeade, and more mustard card stock.
• Stamps: Perfectly preserved stamp set (126690).
• Inks: Classic stampin' pads in early espresso, lucky limeade, and island indigo.
• Other Stuff: Stampin' Up! Big Shot (113439), fancy fan embossing folder (127751), finishing touches edgelits (127010), cannery set framelits (127822), bitty banners framelits (129267), lucky limeade twine (125572), and stampin' dimensionals.

*All supplies by Stampin' Up!