Happy Hallow'en!!

 Wishing you all a wonderful Hallowe'en!!!!!   We have no snow and the temperatures are above zero - great conditions for a prairie Halloween!!!!!!!!  The little pie pumpkins are carved, the seeds are soaking and will be roasted with supper and our snack as we welcome Trick or Treaters!! Therese

All Occasion Card - double stamped vellum in a frame with a layered die cut floral embellishment

Here is another of my double stamped vellum cards.  This one features a dotted flower (SU) and I stamped the back of the vellum with three colours - yellow, orange and red.  I mounted it into a frame (SX) which I embossed with a script embossing folder (CB) and then added the piece of white bond.  I trimmed a red card and then some coordinating scrapbook paper which was a bit short on the width which left me with a gap after I tore it in two.  I dug through my flower punchie stash and found four flowers which were the perfect colours to make a layered die cut flower embellishment for my card.  I used a silver brad to hold them all together.  I adhered my frame with 3D foam tape and then added my little flower with 3D foam tape as well.  Therese
 

Birthday card - mushrooms with a fun greeting, a bit of brown raffia and some ribbon

 This is my card for my second card exchange partner!!  A very different look using another mushroom (digital - Pixabay) image which I colour printed and trimmed out of the large sheet.  I left a lot of room around this one so I could add the raffia and added a bit of watercolour to remove the starkness of the white cardstock.  The brown raffia was embellished with brown and red ink to coordinate better with the background.  I wrapped the raffia around my mushrooms after I had added some paper piercing with my pattern tracing wheel.  A bit more texture was added by applying 3 eyelets to the top right corner.  I layered this element to a kraft rectangle and distressed all the edges.  I trimmed the background, added a length of red ribbon and mounted it to my large dark brown card.  The mushroom focal element was added to my card using 3D foam tape.    It is off to my partner in today's mail!!  Therese 

Birthday card - a fun greeting on a card featuring mushrooms and collage background with eyelets and raffia

 I was playing with the fun greeting referring to a "fun- gi" combined with a mushroom for a card which will show up later because it is not quite finished yet. I made this card for one of my card exchange partners for October.  I am late getting these out but they will be in the mail today!!!  I started with a beautiful cluster of mushrooms (digital - Kisspng/Cleanpng) with a fun font greeting which I colour printed and then trimmed out of the large sheet.  I ran my pattern tracing wheel around all four edges and then layered it with green cardstock which I distressed all they way around.  I created a large dark brown card and then created a collage background using two different papers.  To add some texture I added six pewter eyelets and then ran some brown raffia through them creating a bit of a diagonal element on my background.  I adhered my background to my card and then added my mushrooms using 3D foam tape.