Pumpkin Season - The Card Concept Challenge #210

Now that we're into October the weather here has finally realised it's Spring and is giving us fresh green grass and buds on trees, but up in the northern hemisphere they're celebrating Fall/Autumn, and that means pumpkins...

The pumpkins were my main inspiration but I also used the orange, black and steel grey/blue (from the buckets) as my colour palette and added touches of gold. 

I stamped and gold embossed the pumpkins, then watercoloured using oxide inks. Once dry I splattered liberally with brown, gold and white. The sentiment is also gold embossed and mounted on black then gold glitter.

Materials used:

• stamps - Pumpkin to Talk About (Simon Says Stamp)
• distress oxide inks - carved pumpkin, iced spruce, black soot, frayed burlap
• dies - stitched rectangle
• other - paint brush, MISTI, Big Shot, craft foam, gold embossing powder, heat tool, gold glitter card, white gesso, tarnished brass distress stain, fan brush

There's plenty more inspiration for you from my team mates over on The Card Concept blog, so do check those out, and of course we'd love you to create and share with us.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Kerry

Stamp It! STAMPtember - Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

Welcome! It's my second week being in the Designer Spotlight with the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, and this week it's all about celebrating STAMPtember, a month-long fete of stamping, crafting and cardmaking that hopes to inspire and educate as well as celebrate the fun of stamping and creating. Our theme is STAMP IT!

The lovely people at Simon Says Stamp sent me a brand new stamp set to play with and I had sooooooo much fun! 

Regular visitors will know I do love me a punny sentiment and the idea for this card tickled my funny bone on so many levels. When I showed it to my friend, she nearly wet herself laughing - I guess that's why she's my bestie, she just "gets me". Hope you enjoy it even if you don't share my wacky sense of humour, lol.

I used Simon Says Stamp Pumpkin to Talk About clear stamp set and googly eyes. 

Do head over to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog to see what the design team have come up with to inspire you featuring stamps.

The nice folks over at Simon Says Stamp are generously giving away a fabulous $25 voucher to shop at the Simon Says Stamp Store - all you have to do is take out your crafting supplies, make something following this week's prompt, and link up at the bottom of the Challenge Blog post. You can join up to 5 times, giving you 5 chances to win! All winners are chosen randomly, so everyone has an equal chance.

Feel free to leave me some comment love and thanks for stopping by!

Cheers

Kerry