Thankful...

Hello and welcome to my Saturday post for

Just Us Girls

Here's my take on our Photo Challenge below
chosen by our Host Bobby.

There are always gorgeous photos of sunflowers
and pumpkins and this one is a 'beauty'
My stash is light on with pumpkins but lucky for me
I have a few good ones - and the one I used is the
STAMPlorations Oh-So-Grateful-Stamps-and-Coordinating-Die
I heat embossed my pumpkin with Ranger Potting Soil
then coloured with a variety of Lindy's Magicals.
Also added a bit of Art Alchemy Wax.
This was then die cut.
My background stencil is a new one called
Barley-ARTplorations-Stencil-Sanna-Lippert-Designs
and sponged with those amazing blending brushes.
The Thankful is heat embossed and from
Thankful-Blessed-Dees-Artsy-Impressions
My pumpkin was popped.
Added a brown backing and adhered to
my white card base.

Pop over and see what out Super Guest Chris
Simply fabulous having her back with us this month.
and the Team have created and come join us.
You could be our Chic of the Week
and a future Guest like Chris.

Sending my card over to Addicted to Stamps for their
Challenge #178 to add a Pumpkin and
Dies R Us Challenge  using the Theme of
Pumpkins and/or Apples



Thanks for dropping in

Mixed Media Magical's Make

Hello and Welcome. Today's post is to show you

my finished Mixed Media project I played with recently.

Over at Random Arts they have this divine Mood Board

and being a 'purple person' had to use this as my inspiration.

I am building my supply of Lindy's Sprays and 

I got them out to use some for the first time

to experiment. As I had nothing special in mind

besides using the colours of the mood board

I just went with what came to mind.

I gesso'd my 5x7 canvas and started building layers with

Dry Wall Tape, Punchinella, Little Birdie Stenciling 

using Dreamweaver Crackle Paste

 and a few things from my stash.

Then the fun began with the colours.

Adhered some cheesecloth to the back of my

Little Birdie Flowers that I have waxed  for effect.

Some Art Stones and Distress glitter made for more layers.

Randomly added some stamping from Art Alchemy

and finished with a few cabachons and some white splatters.

I am linking this up to the current challenges at

Random Arts October Mood Board Challenge

using from the store Here

Lindy's Sprays

Dreamweaver Crackle Paste Distress Paste

Distress Glitter Art Stones

Little Birdie Flowers and Stencil

Art Alchemy Waxes

and Bleeding Art for their

October Anything Goes Challenge

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your thoughts.

Spotlighting my Thistle Silhouette

Hello and Welcome.

Today I am showcasing a favourite Stamp

using a Silhouette image for Double D Challenges

and what else would it be for me but 

The Flower of my Homeland - A Thistle.

Something a little different from me here.

I had not planned to highlight my thistle

but the dark background just didn't show

the flower properly so thought I would

ink it up in white and colour it in it's true colours.

The background is a combination of 

various distress inks swiped from side to side

onto photo paper and then heat embossing 

my Lavinia Thistle in black.

I inked the edges with black archival ink

and  randomly swiping also from side to side.

Added some Art Alchemy in Rich Copper

and Stampendous Aged Copper embossing enamel

to ground my flower.

Die cut sentiment twice - black on white

and is from CUTplorations.

Popped my die cut thistle, sponging with a light lavender

to soften the whiteness,

 added a white mat and adhered to black card stock. 

This really was a fun card to make. 

Thanks for a great challenge DD.

Your 'Special'

It's the start of a new week and I have been busy

making another card for the October Challenge at

CAS Stencil Challenge 

using Patterned Paper with our stencil.

I did have another one made but decided to

make the card above as well.

Lots of white space here and highlighting 

my stencil on a pretty peachy coloured 

patterned paper. 

I used Cadence Champagne Paste

on my stencil and framed it with a 

Spellbinder die and popped.

Adhered the same paper for added colour

and onto white card base. 

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations

and die cut ARTplorations 

Thanks for dropping by 

Till next time Cherrio from