Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the Autumn tree. ( Emily Bronte)

Well, Autumn seems to have well and truly arrived. My tumble dryer is working overtime and it won't be long before we have to fire up the central heating!!   I love it!!    It's my favourite time of year, and if I'm very lucky we will have a nice thunderstorm before too long!

Here's my latest card, using some lovely Autumn colours.

I followed Dawny's great challenge sketch over at Just Magnolia - which sent me scrabbling around in the kitchen cupboards looking for something to draw around for the large circle. I eventually found a glass sundae dish that was the perfect size!!
The tag was cut with my slice machine and I added some DP to the centre. Then I cut out my Tilda, coloured her with copics and stuck her on with foam pads. I used a punch for the small flowers, nipped the petals together to give them a little shape and added an adhesive pearl to the centre. I used card candy on the tag and the corners and finished off with some stickles glitter and the birthday sentiment.

I would also like to enter this card for Craft Yours Days Away - 'Girly 'n' Glitter'. ( Is it girly enough?? )
                                                  and  Allsorts - 'Colours of Autumn'

Stamp - Magnolia 'Flower Power Tilda'
Design Paper - Memory Box 'Blackbird'
Tag cut with Slice Machine - Basic Elements
Blooms - XCut punch
Card candy and sentiment from Craftwork Cards
'Diamond' Stickles glitter.

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Stop and smell the flowers

I do love easel cards,

but I have the devil of a job trying to get a good photo of one.

I was asked to make a card for a 90th birthday
and didn't have a clue what to do.

I ended up using this cute Penny Black stamp -
what do you think?

I still might add the numbers 90 somewhere!

 I guess, by now, you all know how to make easel cards,

but if you haven't tried them yet,
Beate at splitcoaststampers has a great tut to follow.

I made my card and decorated it with Papermania, Blueberry Hill DP.
To the base I added some blue lace and ribbon and a pink brad
to hold the top up.

The Penny Black 'Bountiful' stamp was coloured with Copics
and some stickles glitter
and I 3D'd the hedgie and the butterflies.
The blooms are from Wild Orchid Crafts
and the leaves are punched with a XCut embossing punch.

The finishing touch was my sentiment ( Craftwork Cards )
and buttefly (XCut punch).

I would like to enter this for the following challenges -

Create4fun   *Birthdays*

Craft Your Days Away   *Wings*

Papertake    *3-2-1*  ( 3 Butterflies, 2 Pearls, 1 Brad )

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My Favourite Things and a New Challenge Blog

 

Calling all you challenge-a-holics,
have you seen the new blog

Craft Your Days Away.

They opened the doors on Saturday,
and because they are a fortnightly challenge,
you still have plenty of time to get your entry in.

The first challenge, set by Joanne, is

'Favourite Things'

 

As you can see from my card, my favourite things are

mice cakes !!!

 

I have followed Claire's great sketch over at Sketch & Stamp
and I thought my Penny Black stamp was perfect for the
photo inspiration challenge at Stamp Something,

I 3D'd the little hedgies (and their feet) and coloured with Copics.

I added glitter to the icing, and the flowers
and think I might go back and add some
around the candles too.

Stamp - Penny Black Party Pooped.
DP - My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary (magazine freebies)
Sentiment - Craftwork Cards

New challenge blog and candy

After the closure of Magical Crafts,
some of the DT have got together and
will be opening a new challenge blog
Craft Your Days Away,
on Saturday August 7th.
It's a multi-craft challenge, so I'm sure there will
be lots of fab ideas to take inspiration from.

Spread the word and you could be one of 3 lucky winners
of some super blog candy.

Good luck with the blog ladies..
looking forward to the first challenge.
xxx