Happy Wednesday. I have a quick card for you today. I made this for the Creative Belli Blog challenge. The challenge was to create something with a fall or Thanksgiving theme, but it must include a leaf. Here is what I came up with.
I used the SU set "Season of Friendship". I used various fall colored inks to add the leaves. I ink distressed the edges, and layered it onto brown CS. Along the bottom I hand wrote "Give Thanks!". The little leaf in the corner I stamped and embossed in gold. Well that is it for today. Thanks for stopping by!
Jessica
A little dino puzzle! I used a giant dinosaur stamp I purchase at my LSS, and stamped him onto the pre-cut puzzle pieces. The puzzle I purchase many many moons ago when I was teenager. I used to do some stamping back then and took a break from it while in college and early on in my marriage. I am so happy I have taken the hobby back up. It is so relaxing to stamp! I colored in the dino with markers, and used a sponge to create the background. Not my best coloring job, but it was still fun to make. I wrote my little one's name on the bottom, since I made the puzzle for her. She was so excited when I showed her. She sat right down to do it. Here is a couple shots of my happy little girl doing her puzzle.
For this card I used the doodlebug set from TAC. I stamped the butterfly and paper pieced it with the colored papers. The colored papers are actually papers I made using the shaving cream technique. What a fun, messy thing to play with...and really who knew you could use shaving cream to decorate paper! I added some liquid pearl (pink) to the body and crystal stickles to the antenna. The background paper is from TAC set A little whimsy. I layered the butterfly using dimensionals, and added the dew drop butterflies. 
I used the owls from the TAC set be square. I colored them in using watercolor crayons, and added some stickles to the eyes after coloring them yellow. I punched them out with a scalloped square and layered onto the TAC Winchester DSP squares. For the base, I started with cream CS, and layered the dark purple rectangle on top of it. I used a stipple brush to add some "details" to the background. I used 2 shades of brown and orange with the stipple brushes. Then I used the TAC set kinderbet (retired) to add the word "LOOK". The "whoooooooo's" is from the TAC set whoooo (it was a special set a few months back). The ribbon is also from TAC. On the inside I hand wrote "having a birthday!" with a brown marker. 
First I stamped the Snoopy stamp (which I have had FOREVER!) onto white CS. I colored him in, and added some white fun flock to him. I punched him out using a circle punch, and layered him onto a bigger circle punched from some candy corn paper that I have had for a couple years. I got that paper from Target...I am so glad to finally being using some of this Target Dollar spot paper. I just had to have it when I saw it, and never used it. Anyway, I added a piece of the same PP to the bottom of the orange CS base, then attached Snoopy too. The separate candy corns are another stamp that has been around for years. I stamped it with orange ink, and added some crystal stickles for some bling. I also added some crystal stickles to the PP along the bottom. Last I stamped the sentiment which is from a Hannah Stamps set. Here is a couple close ups of the fun flock, and the 3-D candy corn.
My second card today is for 2 different challenges. The first challenge is the 
The ladybug image is from High Hopes. Not sure of the name, since I stamped the image at my friend's house a while back. I colored the image in, and added some red stickles to the dress, and diamond stickles to the antennas. I added some red eyelets to the center of the wheels also. I layered the image onto some red bases black magic paper. I torn the edges, and sanded a little to bring out some red on the front of the CS. I layered that onto some red CS which I also tore. I stamped some ladybugs from the TAC set doodlebugs on the base too. 
