One Last Post Before I'm Off

      Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. Today I have a short post with a bit of art.

    I wanted to share this page for Sharon's Hello Autumn challenge over at Art Journal Journey since by the time I get home, it will be close to the end of the month. I was inspired by the fact that the days get cooler in autumn so instead of having some screen porch hammock time I tend to move inside. This is especially true after a day raking,  cleaning up the gardens or even going for a nice long walk. 

   My background is made with some watered down watercolor paint as well as a brown ink pad. I love the texture  I ended up with and even how there's white spaces.  All of the images are from either a couple of 49 and Market punch-out sets or from some Ciao Bella paper. I did draw in the yellow floor around the chair and the dog, and I stamped a quote from an old Hero Arts card sayings set. I also colored the lights yellow and added some color to the sunflowers at the bottom left.

   If you look carefully this page has many things I love on it. There's autumn leaves, pumpkins and flowers, books, dogs (even though I've never had a Golden Retriever) , cuddly blankets, a comfy chair and even a cup of hot cocoa or tea. It's a perfect autumn later afternoon scene to me. ❤

    I also have another  tag that I made for Lynn's Circles challenge at Tag Along (and ATC's too). It was such fun to play with some of those old circle stamps I haven't used for quite a while.

   This time I started with an oversized black tag. I had at one point cleaned off a stencil in the middle top, and you can see the white fuzzy background underneath my quote. I tried to cover it up as much as possible with my design, and although not perfectly covered, it did make a good place to put my quote.

   I used white pigment ink and a Darkroom Door circle background stamp. Then I took some leaves off a 12x12 chipboard sheet (by Mintay) and punched out the leaves. I inked them with orange, yellow and light green ink. Then I attached them to my tag, leaving room at the top for a cut apart quote (an oldie from Inkadinkadoo).   I added a few little confetti circles, and to cover up a messy edge at the bottom, I used a scrap of orange colored paper as well as a strip of scrap corrugated paper. 

  That's all for me today.  I'll "see" you when I get home from Canada so have a super next week and a half.