Mini Autumn wreath

Good Morning everyone

Half way through October so time for some more inspiration over at We Love Stamping where the optional theme is Autumn but you can always enter with anything goes as long as some stamping involved. 

I decided to make a little autumn wreath with this fab fun stamp set i got for my birthday called 'squeaky friends' from aall&create.  Ive coloured them as our native red squirrels  but i think the shape isn't quite right for them but gone with a bit artistic license! 

I used a 10cm metal hoop and wrapped with natural garden twine and adhered a dried twig from the garden to the bottom.

I stamped the squirrels and acorns and watercoloured with inktense pencils and cut out and got arranging.   I covered the squirrels and leaves with mod podge to seal and protect them, this also makes them a bit stiffer and more robust for a home decor display piece.  The acorns i covered with glossy accents to give them a more realistic finish.

Trying to get a decent photo was impossible, in real life they do stand out more from the background😁

This is the back, as well as adding leaves to the front and added them to the back of the hoop to give a feeling of depth but also hide all the glue and give a neater finish.

I took a 10cm metal ring and covered with garden twine and added a hanging loop with the twine too. I then took a twig and adhered to the bottom with glue gel before i started adding the characters and leaves. 

I have die cut all these leaves over the years from left over scraps which are ideal when i just want a few.  I also have a bag of green leaves for spring/summer projects.  

These are the lovely prizes to be won so do hop over to join in at We Love Stamping

Items Used:

aall&create stamp set #290 'squeaky friends'

Spellbinders little leaves die set

Sizzix & Tim holtz leaf dies

Derwent inktense pencils

Brusho powders

Cosmic shimmer pixie powders

10cm metal hoop

Thank you all for stopping by, I hope you have a good weekend. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/challenge-479.html

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https://craftingacutabove.blogspot.com/2024/10/double-triple-die-cut-fun.html - all my leaves are die cut

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https://stampsfun-creativity.blogspot.com/2024/10/462.html

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https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/inspiration-station-october-2024.html - inspired by the colours, leaves & nuts

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/10/october-2024-anything-goes-fall.html

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Thistlehogs among the toadstools

Good Morning everyone

Its like buses, i rarely have the honour of being a guest design and now 2 days in a row😂

Today Im honoured to be a guest designer at The fairy & the Unicorn challenge

  with an anything magical goes.   I decided to dig out my lovely thistlehog stamps and teamed them up with lots of toadstools and autumnal leaves so very seasonable.

I first made my cardbase from white cardstock and nesting dies and then cut a frame for the front and added with foam tape.  From the panel that came inside the frame i stencilled a soft background with oxide inks.  I then stencilled along the bottom with glossy glaze through a mushroom stencil, once dry i adhered the panel into the frame.

I stamped the little thistlehogs and watercoloured with distress inks and cut them out, i added shape to their bodies and adhered with glue gel.  I built up a little scene around them with transparency toadstools and die cut leaves. The little mushroom people came from another pink ink stamp set.  

Tim Holtz chat stickers that read

'those that don't believe in magic will never find it'

'dream' 'imagine' 'believe' 

Stickles glitter glue added to their little wings to finish with a touch of sparkle

Now these little thistlehogs are super tiny and super fast so we don't seem them so much but they are busy every night going about their magical work

I used distress inks - evergreen bough, tumbled glass, peacock feathers, wild honey, dried marigold and ripe persimmon to colour the them and for stencilling in the background

Im loving these PET/transparency/acetate toadstools, they are lovely to use and look so realistic.  All my leaves were cut using various scraps of ink coloured cardstock

I adhered the transparency mushrooms both flat and with glue gel so that that light can shine through some of them.  

Those who follow me know I have a garden full of full size hedgehogs & lots that visit nightly.  Just last week we've had 3 late babies out feeding in the day time so we will hopefully get them fattened up nicely for hibernation.  My old cat is very protective of them when they come out in the daytime.  

Items Used:

Pink Ink designs stamps 'thistlehogs'& 'shitake happens'

Lavinia stencil 'pods'

Paperartsy stencil 'PS179'

Distress inks & oxides

Toadstool transparancy/acetate

Cosmic shimmer glossy glaze 'daydream yellow'

Stitched nesting dies 

leaf dies

Thank you all for stopping by, please do hop over to thefairyandtheunicorn to join in the fun.  I hope you have a good week. Hugs Emmaxx

Id also love to enter this card in the following:

https://bastel-traum.blogspot.com/2023/09/126-herbststimmung-autumn-mood.html

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https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/11/miucb-68-anything-goes-optional.html

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https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/11/cut-it-challenge-290-layer-it-up.html

 

The pumpkin patch

Good Morning everyone

So this year ive been in a real halloween vibe, I think as i did alot of crafting with my nieces in the summer holidays and for a few sessions they were making halloween items with air dry clay which also got my mum & myself joining in.  Its just good to make something a bit different.  So anyway i made a batch of 10 pumpkin shaped halloween cards

After looking on etsy for a digital halloween stamp i came across these amazing images which were just the thing.....of course it might have been the cats that convinced me 😺

PrntHive - Etsy

So that i could fit 2 on an A4 sheet of card i die cut 2 sizes of ovals, so one set is slightly smaller.  Approx sizes are 7x5.5"  &  6.5x5"  I also used 2 different cardstocks, one is a bright orange pearl card and the other a more muted peach.  On the peach ones i used a soft sage green for the stalks and leaves. 

After die-cutting my ovals i embossed them with a swirl embossing folder, then Inked the edges with vintage photo distress ink and adhered them together with the middle oval on the top.  I then drew around this shape with pencil onto more orange cardstock, cut out, scored a flap on the top edge and glued to the back of my pumpkins, this made my cardblank.  

Die cut leaves from green, stamped the greeting and added a hand cut stalk to the top. The smaller pumpkins i gave 2 leaves and 3 for the bigger ones.

I then had fun arranging the images for my little scenes.

This is a rather majestic kitty with her witches outfit, candle stick, skull on books & pumpkin.  I added touches of stickles 'diamond' glitter glue so that each one has just a little sparkle

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I die cut the tombstone into an oval added to the middle of the pumpkin with the ghosts

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Sticker reads' An eccentric, but estimable gentleman'

This crow image is magnificent - such intelligent birds and the gentleman reminded me of a vampire, hence the coffin image i placed in the background

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Now this one is a bit creepier, the stickers i chose read

'the young girl became possessed'    'Horrible sight'  'The Jack O'Lantern'

I added some green star gems to this background

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Heres another creepy little girl - reminds me of one of my nieces with those eyes😁

Stickers read 'something wicked this way comes'

'her luminous eyes'

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'In the shadow of the trees' 

'in the darkness'

'the witches dance and then vanish'

I added some fab bats and green star gems

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'Elmira is a curious women'

'wonders of a witch'

'smouldering rubbish with an old broomstick'

I added some gold gems to this one

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Now a bit less dark and more autumnal.  I added some die cut leaves with this kitty, pumpkins and a clearly besotted sentiment stamp 'autumn leaves & pumpkins please'

One of my cats loves chasing leaves so this is quite apt

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Kitty in leaves version 2 - i had printed the images out in 2 sizes so this was the bigger version of this image which i cut around.  Added some more die cut leaves and a lovely pumpkin

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and last but not least.  Heres a lovely little wood goblin out collecting leaves and pumpkins

 

My dads pumpkins have done well this year in the garden so we are planning a pumpkin carving session with my nieces at half term - that will be a new one for me having never done one before

Thank you for stopping by once again.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/544.html- pumpkins

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https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2023/10/sos507-franken-card.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-monday.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-2nd-monday-greetings-with.html - Fall/halloween & add a pumpkin

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https://inspirationstationchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/inspiration-station-october-2023.html - inspired by the pumpkins

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https://daranddiane.blogspot.com/2023/10/pumpkins.html

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https://thesisterhoodofcrafters.blogspot.com/2023/10/pumpkins.html

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Autumn toadstool

Good Morning everyone

Today is a Autumnal birthday card, using the fab pink ink toadstool stamp.  I teamed him up with some PET acetate toadstools and die cut leaves. 

   I used an Ombre ink pad and stamped the fungi onto ivory cardstock and cut them out, i added  little shading but mostly left them uncoloured.  I took a piece of the same ivory cardstock and stencilled lavinia pods with oxide inks and then over stamped with various leaf stamps.  In grey i used aall&create stamps to stamp the recipients birthday '11thOct' & the word 'autumn'   I used 2 of the nesting dies to die cut this and attached to a kraft base card, using foam tape behind the frame, this then gave me somewhere to tuck my leaves and toadstools into.

I then got arranging the stamped fungi with the acetate ones and added some die cut leaves  - these were cut from card inked with brusho's & Pixie powders so have some shimmer to them.  Clearly besotted sentiment stamp stamped onto the ivory, cut into a strip, matted onto kraft card and added to the top left corner to finish. 

By tucking some of the fungi and leaved both behind the frame and in front it gives a nice feeling of depth.  I can't help but smile each time i look at this chap, he is such fun.  

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps 'Shitake happens'

aall&create stamps 'seasons'

Clearly besotted 'seasonal sentiment' stamps

Lavinia stencil 'pods'

Various leaf dies

Distress Oxide Inks ; fossilised amber, spiced marmalade, cracked pistachio, evergreen bough, 

Kaleidacolor Ombre ink pad 'desert heat'

Thank you for stopping by once again and all your amazing comments on my previous uploads.  I hope you all have a good week. Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-108-autumn-andor-halloween.html

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https://tuesdaytaggers.blogspot.com/2023/10/autumn.html

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https://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/challenge-92-autumn-andor-halloween.html

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https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2023/10/82-blatter-leaves.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-2023-anything-goes-fall.html

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