Totally Papercrafts #38 Autumn

 Is it Friday again already??   Then it's time for another challenge at Totally Papercrafts.

This week the fabulous Sue is hosting our challenge and she has picked the theme of 'Autumn'.

I don't know what it's like in your part of the world, but Autumn has well and truly arrived here in Yorkshire.

The temperature has dropped and the leaves are falling from the trees. I love this time of year and  I can't wait to see all your 'Autumn' projects.

We have some wonderful new DT members too - so please pop by their blogs and say hello to

Tammy - Kizzy Designs, Sarah - Stressed Stamper and Heidi - Crafty Goat Girl.

I decided to go with Autumn colours and try my hand at a 'shaker' card.

I knew I had a couple of plastic, coaster kits, left over from my cross-stitching days. It took a lot of rummaging and a little swearing, before I finally found them. I put a good amount of 'autumn' coloured seed beads into the coaster, then my coloured image and then snapped the back into place. I used Glossy Accents to stick the coaster to a piece of scalloped card.

I like the way that Heidi and Madison look as though are knee deep in beads... kind of like standing in a heap of leaves!

The DP is Basic Grey, Max and Whiskers. Stamp - High Hopes, Heidi and Madison, coloured with Copics.
The corners were cut with my Slice - Parties Card and the banner with the Slice 'Pink' Card.
Banner text is a Personal Impressions stamp.   Beads and Ribbon from my stash.

Hope that you will find time to join in our challenge and have some fun.    xxx

Is it really summer?

Due to the vagaries of the great British summer,
I had to have ALL the lights on in my kitchen this morning!
So, I thought I would drag the camera outdoors...
and try and find some natural light.
I'm pretty pleased with the result,
the colours actually look like they do in 'real life'.
Maybe I will be an outdoors girl from now on!!

I would like to enter my card for a couple of challenges -
Sketch Saturday, where I have followed their great sketch
and Cupcake Craft, where the theme is
'Cats & Dogs'.

Congrats to
Faye of Stampin Fluffnstuff
who will be the new owner of Cupcake Crafts
from the beginning of August.

Stamp - High Hopes Heidi & Madison, coloured with Copics.
Design Paper - Basic Grey, Max & Whiskers.
Text - Craftwork Cards
Sizzix corner die, covered with glitter glue.
Buttons from my stash.

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I've got a friend in you.

Am I finally starting to get the hang of Copics???
I really tried hard with the colouring on this stamp
and I am so pleased with how it turned out.
I know it's not perfect, but look -
it's got highlights and shading and stuff!!! lol**
Ok - I did cheat a bit and Heidi's dungarees are paper-pieced.
:-)

I followed the great sketch, by Nicole, over at
Truly Scrumptious.
Pop on over there and see what the DT did with it.

Recipe:
Stamp - High Hopes, Heidi and Madison,
coloured with copics, dungarees paper-pieced.
Design Paper - Paper Cellar, Wedding
Card candy and sentiment from Craftwork Cards
Ribbon and buttons from my stash.
xxx