Fortunes of Fall Thank You Card

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Happy Labor Day!  I hope you’re enjoying a relaxing holiday Monday and had a nice long weekend, as well.  So it’s officially Fall, right?  In my book, YES!  I’m slowly transitioning to my fall decor, which I actually like even more than Christmas decorating.  So, it’s no surprise that I’m ready to craft all things Fall, too.  I pulled out all my autumn/halloween stamps and papers.  I haven’t purchased many new products for the season, so I’ll mostly be relying on favorites from my stash.  

Speaking of favorites, today’s card features a set that I’ve had for several (probably a lot) of years and never get tired of using this time of year.  The set is called, Fortunes of Fall by Power Poppy Stamps.  Power Poppy was and still is one of my favorite stamp companies.  Although, I haven’t seen any new sets in quite a while.  I know there are more digital images available, though.  I’m not sure why I haven’t looked into using digital stamps. Perhaps I’ll have to explore this.  I’d love to hear if you use them and if so, what you like about them.  

The pretty pumpkin image is colored with Copic markers and cropped with SU Laying Ovals and Stitched Shapes.  The image is heat embossed in copper and cut with a die from SU Pretty Pillow dies.  The patterned paper is from DCWV Falling Leaves 6 x 6 pad.

I’m playing along with the Tic Tac Toe #177 Challenge HERE

I chose the third column down:  Pumpkin, Stitching, Metallic

As always, thanks very much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoy the rest of your Labor Day holiday!

Take care,

Rosanne

Rings of Love Friendship Card

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Can you believe it’s September already.  While I do love summer, I am more than ready for Fall and all the “things” that go with it, including Fall crafting.  I’m starting off the month with a fresh looking friendship card.  I recently made a Stampin’ Up purchase and took advantage of Sale-a-bration to get this awesome Designer Series Paper, Rings of Love.  I really like this pattern and color scheme.  The sentiment is Gina K’s, So Many Sentiments and is stamped in Soft Suede ink.

My layout inspiration came from The Sunday Stamps sketch challenge HERE

Thanks for stopping by today.

Take care,

Rosanne

It’s Back to School Week!

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It’s back to school week here and for the first time in years, I’m home!  While I’m having some mixed emotions about not returning to school, I’m also looking forward to more crafting time.  Nevertheless, I love everything about going back to school, especially buying school supplies.  I may have purchased a few this year, too…just because!

Using mostly (maybe all) retired SU products, I created today’s card for a former colleague of mine who is returning to school.  One of my favorite SU bundles is the Harvest Hellos.  I started with a black card base followed by an embossed panel using the Tasteful Textile 3D embossing folder.  I punched the apples with the Apple Builder punch in Real Red card stock and inked it very subtly around the edges, then gave it a little detail with a white gel pen.  The sentiment is also from Harvest Hellos and the DSP is Crushed Curry.  The alphabet paper is from Echo Park.

I took my layout inspiration from Ann Marie’s  sketch challenge at The Paper Players HERE…

…and more inspiration came from the Tic Tac Toe #176 challenge HERE…

I covered a few different ways on the board.  The 3rd column down: Alphabets or Letters, Embossing, Yellow and the 3rd row across: Checks/Gingham, Back to School Theme, Yellow and diagonally: Alphabets or Letters, Red, Checks/Gingham.  This was a fun board…thanks LeAnne!

…And Just Us Girls Photo Week #647 Challenge HERE…

While I’ll miss seeing all my reading buddies in the school library this year, I’m looking forward to spending much more time with this little Pre-K guy…my grandson Jack!

Thanks for popping in today and I hope your week is going well.

Take care,

Rosanne

Time for Tea and CASEing Coast to Coast

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Good Wednesday Morning!  It’s time to take another cross country CASEing adventure with Karen Hallam in CA and myself here in PA.  It was my turn this month to choose our direction.  I decided it would be fun to CASE (copy and selectively edit) a sketch since we haven’t done that in a while.

Here’s what I came up with…

If you’ve been to my blog before, you may know that I love anything tea related.  So when I saw Lawn Fawn’s Stitched Teacup dies, I knew they would be added to my collection.  I also purchased the Stitched Teapot and look forward to playing a lot more with both sets.  The leafy embossing folder was purchased at JoAnn’s.  The patterned paper is from Papertrey Ink and is appropriately named: Tea Leaves.

Now that you’ve seen my take on this sketch, please head west to Karen’s blog HERE to see her creative spin on the same sketch.  I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s wonderful.

I’m adding this card to the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies Challenge HERE

Thanks for joining our CASEing adventure this month!

Take care,

Rosanne