Love when challenges help me to create my seasonal cards. The challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters is Golden Day of Fall challenging us to use gold on your project. It definitely has been a fall day at our home today with the wind blowing leaves all over and at times almost blowing me around too which is no small feat! So of course I am behind with my Thanksgiving/Fall cards and have wanted to play with the Impression Obsession Fall Leaf Background die that I purchased awhile ago and this was the perfect challenge for that to happen. I cut the background out of some cherished GKD gold cardstock and layered it on a background I created and put aside. The card looked too blah so after locating another Impression Obsession frame die added that to the front. The little bump on the upper left corner was me trying to slip some twine underneath the frame for my hanging leaf embellishment. No stamping required on this card today.

Thanks for stopping by on this windy fall day.

My project of valentine cards for the Making Cards for Troops group is completed. Normally I design, prep the cards and my girlfriends gather at my home to color, sponge and assemble but that didn’t happen. Coronavirus numbers are increasing in our county. We all have our bubble that we are comfortable in but some friends’ bubbles are a little bigger than others. Will is scheduled for knee replacement surgery the middle of this month and I didn’t feel comfortable having 6 friends although masked and six feet apart at tables in our home. Finished 92 cards and can I tell you that I really love every one of them. Five of each design with the exception of one group that has four and three individual designs. My Halloween cards suffered but am on track to start some Thanksgiving cards before beginning Christmas.

Thanks to our Stamp Buddy Gerry for making an awesome card using the Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix Thinlits die that I just had to have it. This is my monster boo group card that I created. The background was sponged using some Distress Oxide Inks and die cut the group and bats in various GKD cardstock.

This card will be entered into the Dies R Us Challenge: DRU Challenge #155 — Boo to create a Halloween card and a metal die’s company sold in the DRU Store. The Dies R Us store does carry Sizzix dies.

Thanks for looking. It’s been a Boo-tifully fall day in Pennsylvania today.

The challenge at AAA Cards is a CAS One Corner with an optional twist of cozy. Well I guess there’s a warm cozy feeling around marshmallows. Marshmallows in hot chocolate! Marshmallows roasted over a fire! Marshmallows in smores! I will readily admit that I love marshmallows!!

My marshmallow stamp is one that I have had forever and a day and probably never saw ink until today. This is a DRS. Designs stamp. The sentiment I made up and printed then die cut with a Momenta die set. I colored my marshmallow with some distress inks and a water brush. The focal image is mounted on kraft cardstock.

The last few days the weather has been warm but I do believe marshmallow weather is not far off.

A Halloween card created using Tim Holtz Sizzix Framelits w/Stamps & Texture Fades set, sentiment was heat set with black embossing powder is from Hampton Art’s Zombies & Stencil set. The background was sponged with a variety of Distress Oxide inks including the new Crackling Campfire. To highlight the drippy bloooood I used wink of stella glitter gold and then smoothed it out with my fingers. Zombie hand was colored with some Arteza real brush markers.

This card will be entered into Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge “Halloween Jump Start” anything goes challenge and into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Spooky! A first time for a Simon Says challenge.

Enjoy your day! It’s beautiful in Pennsylvania today and we are off to Chase’s socially distancing soccer game.