Hiding from The Dust

 We have had workmen in the house for the past 5 weeks.
Those of you who have had plasterboard and plastering done
will know exactly why I am 'chewing' dust and finding 'dust' everywhere!
I have escaped to my craft room and I have so enjoyed it......

Two challenges concentrated my mind to create Todays' Card......
Inspired By.... 'Friends' Fall together and that adorable Acorn
Color Throwdown and the wonderful colour combination

Here is my card.......

I relaxed and enjoyed water colouring with shades of Browns and Orange,
after stamping and heat embossing in gold.
I masked the leaves to do the heat embossed circles.

Even after heat embossing in gold I still manged to go outside the lines!

Finishing of with brown and orange heat embossing around the edges,
matting onto a layer of Kraft and die cutting the sentiment.

I so needed to 'craft' and I am so grateful for our hobby.
Thank you so much for popping in, I so appreciate it.

Challenges I would love to enter........
Inspired By.... 'Friends' Fall together - The super cute 'Acorn' was my starting point and so was a dear blog 'Friend' on the design team.
Color Throwdown - Concentrated my mind with the colour selection - Thank you
Just Us Girls - Leaves - Thank you so much for the shout out
Country View Challenge - Autumnal Colours
Thrilled with my shout out - Thank you

Autumn Wreath

 Lot's of fun with Autumn colours, water colouring, dies, stamps
and an embossing folder.....

Meet today's card......

I Started with die cutting the Hanging Florals from Pink Fresh
in gold metallic, dry embossed the centre and layered up from there

I used the wonderful Lindy Magical powders, activated with water
and cuts lots of leaves and a few acorns .....

I used several different die cuts including, Sizzix, Poppystamps

and a pretty Pink Fresh stamp and die set.
I also stamped and heat embossed in gold the flower wreath.
Finishing off with a tiny sentiment and gloss over those acorns ....

Thanks for finding time to stop by, I really appreciate it.

Wonderful Autumnal Challenges that inspired this card......
CAS Mix Up -  Watercolour Challenge - Autumn Colours
Thank you very much for my Top Three Shout Out x.
Country View - The Leaves begin to Fall
Thrilled with my Top Three shout out - Thank you x.
Uniko - Anything goes with the optional twist of Autumn colours
Double D Challenge - Leaves - What a beautiful mood board
Thank you so much for my Win x.
Dies R Us - #177 Anything goes using any brand of die that they sell
Mine are Poppystamps and Sizzix - Thank you for the Top Three Shout Out x.

Birthday Boy

Today's card was inspired by the colour challenge over at Color Throwdown.

Although the photo inspiration had flowers on it I thought the colours

would lend themselves to a masculine 16th Birthday card.......
The colours are RED, PURPLE and ORANGE......

You can see a little more of the detailing, crackle and bling on this photo.

I used a mix of gold and purple embossing powders,
which played nicely together on the die cut photo film frame,
the stamping/embossing on the left and the die cut number 1.

I so enjoyed making the mixed media card, using stencilling, stamping, die cutting
and heat embossing and loved the colour combination from the challenge.

Challenges I would love to enter......
The Color Throwdown Challenge - Red, Purple and Orange
Seize The Birthday - Without the option
Watercooler Wednesday-Kath's All about occasions-Thank You for the Shout Out x
Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Fun with stencils