TGIF Challenge #546 - Sketch Challenge

Kinda fall but kinda not. This week’s sketch challenge is sooo good! And YAY … vellum is BACK!!! I enjoyed this sketch a lot!

Check out the blog challenge here - TGIF Challenge Blog if you’d like to play along.

Of course I roughed up the edges of the base Basic Beige layer after I embossed it with the Birch 3D Embossing Folder.

The two crossed Perennial Postage Layers were cut from some Crumb Cake cardstock and stamped with a Crumb Cake image from Weekend Adventures.

The Vellum layer was versamark stamped and then heat embossed with White Embossing Powder.

The sentiment was stamped in Pecan Pie on Basic Beige and fussy cut out.

Lastly, I cut some leaves from the Perfectly Pairs Dies in both Basic Beige and Very Vanilla.

I used a couple of Drus Adhesive-Backed Embellishments to finish it all off, and we were done!

Stamps: Weekend Adventures, Blooming Phrases

Paper: Basic Beige, Crumb Cake, Basic White, Vellum, Very Vanilla

Ink: Versamark, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Birch 3D Embossing Folder, Perennial Postage Dies, Perfectly Pairs Dies, Drusy Adhesive-Backed Embellishments, Basic White Embossing Powder

More rain, our annual Weixler Family Apple Pressing Day and hopefully a nap will fill our Saturday (we’ve done it in rain and snow and sunshine … we’ve got this!)

We’d love to have you play along!! You can check us out our blog HERE and Instagram … lots of great inspiration from the rest of the TGIF Crew!

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Monday Montage - Festive (Fall) Friends

Here we are … Monday again! Which can ONLY mean that the Monday Montage friends are at it again! 

I have finally fully embraced fall (wearing a sweater and jeans, as a matter of fact!). We even have SNOW up at the ski resorts as of this past weekend … wait, WHAT??!??

I took the little elf from Festive Friends and turned him into a little fall garden gnome. Isn’t he ADORBS?!?

I colored him using my Stampin’ Blends - Lt. and Dark Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive, Pecan Pie and Cajun Craze. I would have colored his skin using the Ivory Blend, but, alas, it was comPLETELY dried out when I opened the cap. Dang! So I used some Petal Pink Blends instead (because I will never EVER throw away a perfectly great marker, even if the color is retired!). 

Of course I did ALL of the distressing type of things … roughed up the edges of the DSP and flicked me some ink on the Very Vanilla strip behind the little gnome-y.

PLUS, I used. six strands of Old Olive Baker’s Twine to braid a little piece of trim. This is fast becoming one of my favorite things to do. All the YEARS I spent braiding and curling my daughter’s hair for The Nutcracker have really paid off! (hahaha!).

I also drew a little crosshatch pattern on his shorts with a white gel pen … cute, right??

Of course, I HAD to use some more of my most favorite Timeless Plaid DSP. I love it!

Stamps: Festive Friends

Paper: Basic White, Very Vanilla. Timeless Plaid DSP

Ink: Black Memento, Cajun Craze; Stampin’ Blends - Lt. and Dk. Pumpkin Pie, Lt. and Dk. Pecan Pie, Lt. and Dk. Old Olive, Lt. and Dk. Cajun Craze, Lt. and Dk. Petal Pink, White Gel Pen

Accessories: Festive Friends Dies, Old Olive Baker’s Twine, Streaked Dots

Did the LONGEST and TOUGHEST hike I have EVER done on last Friday … down into the Grand Canyon and back out again (it got up to 100 degrees F at the bottom!)!. I can’t believe I didn’t DIE! Hahaha! It was beautiful! Can’t wait to go back!

Our Monday Montage Hop has gone exclusively to Instagram! You can check it out by finding me @tinkermom85. From there you will be able to find all of my Monday Montage Friends, too!

TGIF Challenge #545 - Color Challenge

How can it be Spooky Season ALREADY???!!? (I mean … not like I didn’t put up all of my Halloween decor last weekend or anything!)

You KNOW that the colors for this challenge are just screaming HALLOWEEN, right??? So I just had to go there!

Check out the blog challenge here - TGIF Challenge Blog if you’d like to play along.

This card came together soooo easily. As I was looking through my stash of things I came across these great witchy brooms. They are from a sheet of adorable precut images included in the Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP. 

I distressed the edges of the piece of Basic Black cardstock because … well … it looks spooky! 

The spider’s web was made using some pieces of White Baker’s Twine. I put some adhesive on the back of the black layer and just tied and wrapped the pieces around the edges of the cardstock until I got the look I was going for.

I used a sponge dauber to dab at the web and around the moon with some White Craft Ink. I also did the same thing to the moon, but with Black Memento Ink instead.

The sentiment was stamped in Versamark and heat embossed with White Embossing Powder. I literally tore the sentiment out of the piece of cardstock it was stamped on! I then tore a little coordinating piece of Gorgeous Grape to mount behind it.

Added a few of the fun little Shimmer Star Foam Stickers and called it good! I love Halloween!

Stamps: Spooky Halloween

Paper: Basic Black, Gorgeous Grape, Daffodil Delight, Spooky Sweet Specialty DSP

Ink: Versamark, Black Memento, White Craft

Accessories: White Baker’s Twine, White Embossing Powder, Shimmer Star Foam Stickers, 1 1/4” Circle Punch (retired … but you could use any circle diecut to do this as well!)

I am hiking IN the Grand Canyon tomorrow … about 22 miles! My biggest hope is to NOT die (hahaha! It will be challenging for sure, but fun! I am excited!)!

We’d love to have you play along!! You can check us out our blog HERE and Instagram … lots of great inspiration from the rest of the TGIF Crew!

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