Last Week of Summer

Can you believe it is the last week of summer?

Its been feeling like fall here in New Hampshire.

Cold night last night-coldest yet this late summer season.

I am so ready to start making Halloween projects. I have been telling myself to wait just a bit, but I have so much fun making Halloween things, that I couldn't wait.

Although the lighting is a bit too much on the right side, you can see this first card of the season that I made.

I started by rubbing a painted stencil on the card stock.

I originally used the stencil and paint to make this other card front

and then I wiped off the top painted side by rubbing it on my autumn card front.

Image is from Chocolate Baroque and is embossed in black.

I added the owl's eyes using a Sakura jelly roll glaze pen. I also colored the moon with the same Sakura pen.

The embossed silver moon and stars are from Inkadinkado. 

Ignore the craft sheet background but you can see the whole card better in this photo.

Will have a lot more to show you as it gets to be fall and closer to Halloween.

Thanks for visiting.

Come back soon.

A Last Taste of Fall

Christmas will rule supreme in just a few days, and I know I've showed you a few holiday cards already, but today I want to show you this fall-ish card I made. (Or part of this card- it is a square card) I used this Caribbean blue card stock  and some blue and white striped paper.  Copic colored images are from Tim Holtz/Stamper's Anonymous. Words are a saying from Dylusions/Stamper's Anonymous. And add to that a bit of Dylusions spray ink, and you have this card.

I like it.

So yawn, I'm tired after last night, but our Battle of the Classes went well school- but I ended up having a 15 hour day-YAWN!- and now it it is a wind down day. Got to  pick up Miss Katie at college tonight, and in several hours my long weekend begins.

Oh YES!

Have a super day.

Love a Lazy Monday

Love a non-working Monday.

Love being able to sleep in and putter around in the morning.

You know, have a cup or 2 of tea, go into the studio, do a chore or 2.

Take a walk on this warm-ish November day.

Very nice indeed.

And since I am having such a nice morning I will

Thank all the veterans which is why I am home today.

So I am back into the right season today with a another card I made for Katie at college.

This one isn't quite so silly as the 3 I showed you yesterday.

The image is a stamp from Cornish Heritage Farm that I particularly like. I colored it with Copics and used a Sizzix Frame-lit to cut it out. I mounted it on yellow paper and then onto the card itself. I outlined the image with another Copic just for a bit more depth. The diamond/harlequin pattern is some 7Gyspies Gaffer tape. Then I added some leaves which I cut from a Spellbinder's die and also colored.

I do need to get busy this morning and take a few photos of some recent journaling and some fancy- smancy holiday cards I made yesterday. 

I also need to finish my raking-which I started yesterday-before we get a foot of snow or  it gets brutally cold again-like last week.

I also need to bring Katie back to school today.       

So it won't be quite so a lazy a Monday as I had hoped...

but all that work I am saving for later.

Once I have had my spell of laziness.

There's always things to do and you have to make time to do nothing.

Don't you agree?

Anyhow-

have a superb Monday

and come back soon.          

Blogger's Challenge

Fall "love" cards. Mine is pretty playful.

Not too romantic of hearty.

Simple and sweet too.

All stamps are Kim Hughes from Cornish Heritage Farms.