A fall themed "Thinking of You"

Today's card was inspired by Papertrey Ink and all their new fall themed goodies this month.  For this card I die cut a leaf from some paper that I watercolored with some yellows, reds and oranges and then topped with some sparkles. I mounted the whole card on a patterned paper from the new Project Stamp-A-Faire kit, Mood Mix. The sentiment is embossed in gold and is from the Mini Blooms set.  I added some black hand "stitching" and some sequins to complete the card.

Embellished Notepads

Good Morning!  I'm sharing an idea inspired by Papertrey Inc. Monday challenge.  In the challenge, Melissa made mini notebooks.  I wanted to make something for the challenge, but I also wanted it to be something I would use.  SO...I decided to embellish some note pads that I have and use.  You probably have several of these lying around your house and you can also make them prettier and more fun to use as I did.

So here are the two notepads that I decided to embellish.

Then I just added some scrap paper that I had to the top front section.

Then I die cut some "flowers" from the button dies from Papertrey Inc and some leaves and hot glued them on the top.  And I used some stickles in the middle of the flowers.  I stamped a sentiment at the bottom as well as some flowers and leaves and Voila! The notepads were complete!

Sending Hedgehogs

This card was made from the Lawn Fawn stamp and dies Hedgehogs.  I stamped the hedgehogs in Archival Ink, then colored them with Tim Holtz distress ink markers.

For the background I cut out a circle from masking paper and then used distress inks to blend the background. Then I removed the mask and die cut another scalloped circle to go over the background. The sentiment was heat embossed on vellum, and the heart was covered with glossy accents to add a pretty sheen.  To assemble the card, the hedgehogs were mounted with foam tape,

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Welcome Little One

For this card I made a watercolored background from gelatos.  Then I added some Sparkly paint splotches (the sparkle is hard to photograph, but it sparkles in real life with gold flecks).  Then I colored the stamped image using distress ink markers, die cut the images out and the placed them on the card using foam tape to add dimension. I'm entering this card in the Avery Elle Challenge for July.

To complete the card I added the sentiment. I was heat embossed on vellum. The stamped images are from Avery Elle Storybook collection.

Gram and I

For this layout I was inspired by this one by Paige Evans. I loved the flower die by Maggie Holmes and I knew I had to have it!  I used 6X6 patterned papers by American Crafts Dear Lizzy Neopolitan collection (an old but goodie) for the die cut flowers.  I mounted them on some beautiful paper by Studio Calico that is black with gold flecks in it.  In the center of each flower is an enamel dot.  Around the photo I used some embellishments from Maggie Holmes Confetti collection.

Hello April

This layout is from a class on Craftsy taught by Paige Evans called Patterned Paper Play.  I used 2 heart sizes for this layout.  The smaller heart was a punch and the larger heart is a die from Sizzix loves story.

In this close up you can see that some embellishments were added that match the area of the hearts.  Some journaling was also added below the photo.

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