Autumn Owl

Hello crafters, hope this finds you safe and well. I am a bit late for posting today, but better late than never as they say! As I am typing this it is pouring down with rain and quite windy, hopefully it will calm down soon, my male cat is not happy as he likes to be outdoors lol! Thankfully I mowed both lawns this morning before it rained!

Now todays post is a card I made a while back but never posted as I was not sure whether I liked the finished look or not, the problem being I think I should have added a solid base under the Owl to make him stand out more, I just did not want to cover up the beautiful papers lol! Anyway I have decided to post it so I can enter the Allsorts Autumn challenge!!!

I started with my basic White card and matted it up with Brown & Green card.

I cut down the sheet of Autumn paper from Bearly-mine and matted this on top of the Green card, these are gorgeous papers, so pretty I don't want to use them lol!

I die cut my Owl using a light Brown card, adding his hat & scarf cut out of Green & Orange card.  For the background I die cut the Vienna die and Flourish two die out of Dark Brown card and attached these altogether as seen and placed on the top of my card just slightly off center. I die cut another flourish two die and cut into it to add the sides as accents in the top corners of the card.

There you have the finished card, I love this little Owl and intend on making a Christmas card with him on soon, watch this space lol!

Items Used:

Basic White card stock 6"X6"

Lidls card-all sorted colours

Bearly-mine Papers Fall Fancy

Spellbinders Winter Owl

Justrite Heirloom Flourish Two

Sue Wilson Austrian Collection Vienna

I would like to enter this into http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/week-279-autumn.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx

Autumn Fall

Hi my crafting friends, bit of a late post today but never mind. I have had quite a boring day at work today, a lot of what we have to listen to is irrelevant to us LSA's and more towards the Teachers but we have to stay and listen before we have our meeting in the afternoon. Children are back on Friday so that should be fun!!!

Anyhow, I thought I would give you a break from Winter/Christmas cards and do an Autumn one instead lol!

I recently purchased some beautiful papers from Bearly-Mine and I used one in the background here, the papers are called Fall Fancy, all lovely Autumn design in different colours, this one is one of my favourites.

I found a sheet of brown card in my stash so I used that for the base card, I took the paper and matted it onto Gold Miri card then attached it to my base card. I found an 'Autumn' strip of card in my stash so I matted this along the bottom. In my box of Hunkydory cards I found this lovely image of a Field mouse so attached this onto the card just off center.

Also in my box were these flowers so I put them together and cut some leaves out of Brown & Green card and placed them to the left of the image. 

My sentiment was from a CD Rom which I die cut using Exquisite circles and inked whilst in the die with Dried Marmalade and Fired Brick.I placed this on the card just above the flowers. There you have the finished card. Dimensions 7"X5".

Items used:

Brown Card ( Own stash)

Hunkydory Autumn card set (Last years)

Bearly-Mine Papers Fall Fancy

Tim Holtz Distress Inks Dried marmalade & Fired Brick

Creative Expressions Sue Wilson Finishing Touches Petite Vinery & Faux Quilled Leaves

Create and C raft Gold Miri Card

I would like to enter this card into these challenges:

http://bearlymine-challenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-2014-challenge-autumnal.html

http://houseofcardschallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-challenge-photocolor.html

Thank you for looking, Jacquie xxx