I haven't had the time lately to join in with any challenges but this one over at Less is More caught my eye this morning.
I was having one of those Monday's when I had no mojo and couldn't settle to anything.
I took the dogs out for a walk in the country. It is still beautiful weather here in the UK - one of the warmest October's I can remember - reminds me of warm Houston weather. So we did a bit of Conker gathering and blew the cobwebs off and I came back and did a bit of crafting.
Some of these conkers and the leaf are actually bronze mixed in with real - can you tell which is which?
Tegan (Welsh Springer red and white) and Bracken (English Springer) enjoying their walk
My card for the Challenge uses two stamp sets and a thinlet. The mistletoe comes from Banners For Christmas - this isn't a set I've seen used an awful lot yet but I love this mistletoe stamp. Here I've turned it right way up to represent a bunch of flowers and stamped it with Versamark and our Gold Embossing Powder. I've used the Celebrate stamp from Here's To Cheers. I used one of the bauble thinlets from Merry Tags to cut out the bauble shape and then stamped inside it with Versamark and embossed with our Gold Embossing Powder.
A touch of gold Baker's Twine and some Basic Rhinestones finishes off this card - which has a lot of 'white space' - okay red!
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Happy Crafting
Do You Remember? The 21st Night of September? I hope you are now humming the famous Earth Wind and Fire song. I certainly remember the 21st of September because its my Wedding Anniversary. 31 years today - can't believe the time has gone so quickly. I know everyone says that but its true!
A nice fun image of myself and my ushers back in 1985! Sadly so many of them are no longer with us.
So hubby and I have taken ourselves off to a lovely place in Dorset, England called Lulworth Cove - just us and the dogs for a few days together.
Its a beautiful part of the county and we used to go a lot when the children were little. My card today is a Celebratory card. Also from the Winter Catalogue but maybe more New Year than Christmas but, as shown here, could also be used for Anniversaries or any Celebration.
The colours have been inspired by Sam Hammond's Colour Challenge this week which is to use Flirty Flamingo and Mint Macaron and Tip Top Taupe. You'll find the challenge here
I've used one of the framelits from the Merry Tags set to cut out the bauble and the sentiment fits exactly. Marvellous!! The Decorative Label punch was used for the cute image of the wine and the glasses. Might be some of that being drunk tomorrow!!!
I finished the bauble off with a touch of Flirty Flamingo Ruched Ribbon - I love this ribbon - it's so pretty and nice to work with.
