Autumn is Second spring

 Autumn is Second spring

I do like the Autumn.  The weather is cool, and you can get away with wearing a sweatshirt, or just a sweater.

I had a good time making these cards.  Do you know why? I'll tell you, because I carved the pumpkins!  If you look close you can see they go in different directions.  Instead of coloring the pumpkins I stamped them on pattern papers.  

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Halloween

 Halloween

It's been awhile since I have blogged ... did you miss me?

It's October so that means Halloween time.  If you are on my mailing list, and want to be surprized ..... than close your eyes.  😁

I used a lot of dies for my Halloween cards this year.  Also have cut down my mailing list. I will be mailing these cards out soon.

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Midnight magic again

Midnight magic again

The #altenewchallengelive with Jen Rzasa with Altenew stamp co. theme is Midnight Magic.  I am still having fun with this theme: Midnight Magic!  This time I did the technique called Reverse embossing blackout or Blackout embossing.  

Of course, if you know me, I had to do a couple of tags.  I also made a card.  I think this is my last entry for this Midnight magic theme.  I reason I did so many cards, and tags for this theme is because we had three weeks to enter this challenge.

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Midnight magic

 Midnight magic

The #altenewchallengelive by Jen Rzsa with Altenew stamp co. theme is Midnight Magic.  I am having a lot of fun with this theme, because I'm taking it in different directions.  Go here to see my first entry for this Midnight Magic theme.

First I couldn't resist doing tags for this theme with the technique called Northern lights.  

Here is one of my first posts back in 2013 doing the technique Northern lights.  If you type Northern lights in the search bar you will see more I did with this technique.

Of course, I had to also make several cards for this challenge. Believe it or not my favorite card is the one with the cheshire cat!

 I do like the bright colored jelly fish floating in the dark waters.  I saw different colored jelly fish at Mystic aquarium in Mystic, CT.  

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Black magic

 Black Magic

Black magic is a technique back is a technique I learned back in 2017, I think. It could have been earlier than that I don't remember. I did a blog post here with a video.  I'm bringing it back for Jen Rzasa midnight magic  #altenewchallengelive.  I used Altenew stamps for all of these tags, and bookmark.

 Basic instructions:

1.  stamp solid style images onto black cardstock with white pigment ink.  Let it dry.
2.  add color over pigment ink with color pencils.

My first entry are two tags.  

My second entry is a bookmark I did on dark blue cardstock.

It was fun doing this technique again.

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Soft Focus

 Soft Focus

This week Jen Rzasa  Altenew #altenewchallengelive theme is Soft Focus.  She explained Soft Focus as pastel colors ... that's not usually my style but sometimes you just need to get out of your comfort zone.

As I mentioned it was a little out of my comfort zone, but it was nice to play with pastel colors for a change.  My pastel colors were mostly a light pink.  I did stay in my comfort zone by making a couple of cards, and a bookmark.

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Scrap busters

Scrap busters

This week with Jen Rzasa from Altenew Tuesday #altenewchallengelive  I made tags.  Of course, if you know me if I'm not making cards I'm making tags.

I had fun making these tags with all my scraps ... but if you know me I have lots of scraps.  Basically what I did was put sticky sheet onto the tags, then lay different shaped scraps on the tag.  When I have enough scraps stuck to tag I then sprinkled on embossing powder to the sticky parts left on tag.  Heat set the embossing powder.  The embossing powder is supposed to represent grout in between the scrap pieces.  

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Duoprinting Chlorophyll cards

 Duoprinting chlorophyll cards

Here are pictures of my latest cards from my duoprinting chlorophyll fun. 

All the sayings are from Altenew stamp company.

To get instructions look back here for video, too.  If you type duoprinting chlorophyll in search bar you will see lots of posts.

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Pop of color

 Pop of Color

 This week for Jen Rzasa #altenewchallengelive theme is Pop of Color.  

I had a bit of fun with this challenge because besides the pop of Color I did a spotlight technique.  Haven't done this technique in years!  Used Altenew 3D embossing folder named Daisy bed for these two cards.  The inks are Catherine Pooler ink pads, they are still my favorite right now.  These inks are so bright and beautiful.

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Duoprinting chlorophyll again!

 Duoprinting chlorophyll again!

I did this Duoprinting chlorophyll technique for the first time back in July 15, 2017  but if you search my blog you will see several posts including ones with video.

Here are several pictures of panels and tags I did this week.

Basic instructions:

1.  fold a piece of copy paper in half - open it up.

2.  cut two pieces of cardstock (I did 4 1/4" x 5 1/2") - place one of them inside the copy paper.

3.  place your leaves or herbs or any combination on cardstock.

4.  place another piece of cardstock on top of leaves/herbs.

5.  fold the copy paper over the two pieces of cardstock with the leaves/herbs sandwiched inside them.

6.  run them through Big Kick (whatever machine you own).

7.  peel the two pieces of cardstock apart and VIOLA!  beautiful nature cards.

Just know that different leaves/herbs react different to the pressing so you never know what it will look like till you peel them apart.  You get a positive and negative ... two for the price of one.

go make art with nature!

Leave me a comment and let me know if you have done this technique.

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Geometric genius

 Geometric genius

This week Jen Rzasa from Altenew  Tuesday #Altenewchallengelive is Geometric genius.

I used Altenew Modern circles circles for my geometrics.  I made an easy set of four cards. 

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Pattern clash

 Pattern clash

This week for Jen Rzasa Tuesday #altenewchallengelive with the theme pattern clash.  Create a project using two or more patterns that would not normally go together, and make them work beautifully. Play with color, scale, and placement to bring harmony to the mix. 

For my card I used cardstock, fabric tape, pattern paper, stamping, and pitcher cut out with metallic cardstock. The kraft carstock was embossed with an embossing folder. 

I also had to make a tag, because that's me.  I do like my tags.  I punched out different size circles with several pattern papers, and glued them to the top of this oversized tag.  I added a scallop black circle.  The bottom of the tag was embossed with an embossing folder.  I also glued on a strip of washi tape, and ribbon below all the paper circles.  I made what I call a funky house.  That just means it is created with different papers, and cardstocks.