A Million Blessings

Hey there,

It's been awhile since I've been here on my blog, but I'm finally back home with my stamps, ink and paper. I needed to take an unplanned trip to help my mom while she recouped from an illness in mid-August, and I was gone for almost six weeks. Because it was an unplanned trip and I needed to leave quickly, I wasn't able to pack any craft supplies. I'm happy to report mom is mostly is back to her ole' self and feeling well enough to be on her own again, so I was able to head back to my home on Saturday, arriving after a thirteen hour road trip driving the length of California.

Of course, Sunday morning, I checked out the new Paper Players Challenge which is always a good one to get my mojo flowing again. This week, Claire is our hostess with a fun fall theme of leaves or scarecrows. I decided to use a new Gina K Designs set called Doodled Autumn and made a couple of  clean and simple cards with ink blended backgrounds in typical fall/Autumn shades.

For this first card I used torn pieces of masking paper to mask off the sides of a mini-slimline panel and blended GKD Tomato Soup, Prickly Pear and Fresh Asparagus inks down the center. The leaf images and the greeting are stamped with Charcoal Brown ink. The panel is cut with the GKD Master Layouts 7 Stitched die and mounted on a mini-slimline card base.

On the second card, I used GKD Faded Brick, Tomato Soup and Prickly Pear ink pads, smooching the ink on an acrylic block and then spraying it with water before placing it down on a piece of Tim Holtz water color paper. After drying the panel with a heat tool, I cut it out with a Pink Fresh Studio rectangle die then placed it in my Misti and stamped the larger leaf image and the greeting. The card base is GKD Charcoal Brown card stock to match the stamped images.

After mom was feeling better, we took a trip to Portland, OR to visit my sister. My niece came with her 9 month old son as well. Mom enjoyed her first great grandchild and I enjoyed my first great nephew. He's a super happy baby and in four days, I didn't hear him cry or fuss. Lots of giggles though! Here's a picture of mom and Brady.

Thanks all,

Colleen

Supplies

Stamps: Doodled Autumn Set by Gina K Designs

Paper: Gina K Designs Ivory and Charcoal Brown card stock, Tim Holtz water color paper

Ink: Gina K Designs Charcoal Brown, Faded Brick, Tomato Soup, Prickly Pear and Fresh Asparagus

Other: GKD Masking Paper, Blending Brushes, Acrylic Block, Tim Holtz spray bottle, GKD Master Layouts 7, Pink Fresh Studio Folk Edge Rectangle dies, Misti, Big Shot Switch