SF Blog Hop - Everything Fall

Hello and welcome to Stampin Friends Everything Fall Blog Hop!  I'm so excited to be a part of this hop and I know that you'll have a blast checking out all of the talent here!  If you've already been hopping along you should have landed here from Elizabeth's blog.  If you missed it you will definitely want to go back and check it out so just click the Previous button at the top of the page.
This month we have three fabulous Guest Hoppers:  Barbara Welch, Kim Smith, and Maria Willis! These are three super talented ladies and you'll definitely want to check them out along the way!

Here's my Everything Fall Card

I chose the Happy Scenes stamp set and the coordinating Hearth & Home Framelit Dies for my card.  From the first time I laid eyes on this Window Framelit, I knew I wanted to make a shaker card.  I started with a Tangelo Twist A2 card base.  I added a layer of 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" piece of Soft Suede Cardstock.  My top layer is Very Vanilla with the bottom portion Happy Haunting DSP.  I cut the window out twice in Soft Suede cardstock so that I could cut some of it off to use as a chair rail to seperate the Vanilla top and the plaid/wallpaper bottom.  The scene was created on Very Vanilla cardstock and was colored in with Stampin' Markers and blender pens.  The sky portion was sponged in with Soft Sky and Daffodil Delight in the upper right corner. I adhered the Window Sheet to the back of the window die cut and added two layers of Foam tape so that I had plenty of room for some Pretty Pink Posh yellow, orange, and gold sequins. 

 The sentiment also from Happy Scenes was curved on the acrylic block before stamping in Tangelo Twist onto the Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I cut the two lines apart and banner cut the ends to layer in the upper left corner of the window.  The pumpkin at the bottom of the wall was punched from three small ovals with the edges sponged with Soft Suede Ink.  I hand cut a little stem from Soft Suede cardstock to glue to the back of the pumpkin and then adhered it to my card with dimensionals.   

For my project I had a dilema.  I knew I wanted to make a scarecrow treat box for my Granddaughters.  I made two different kinds and I'll let you decide which you prefer.  First I had a Curvy Keepsake Scarecrow Box and then a Fry Box Scarecrow.  What would be your pick?

Since I didn't have any raffia on hand, I can tell you that the Fringe Scissors were awesome for making the scarecrow's hair.  For the fry box I even put a little gift tissue paper in the box and used the fringe scissors on it!  

Thanks so very much for stopping by!  The next stop on our Everything Fall Hop is my good friend, the very talented Andrea Tracy-Tucker's blog.  Just click the next button and you'll be there!

Here is a list of all of the Hoppers in case you get lost along the way:

 1. Elizabeth
 2. Tina --  You are here!
 3. Andrea T.
 4. Deana
 5.Raquelle
 6. Maria Willis
 7. Kim Smith
 8. Mandy Reedyk
 9. Barbara Welch
10.  Siara Acdal
11. Andrea P
12.  Cheryl
13. Kirsteen
14. Lisa Altman

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Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:  Pretty Pink Posh Sequins, Googly Eyes, 3M Foam Tape

SIP #14 Sketch Challenge

Good morning!  I've had such a great weekend and am ready for a great week!  Since it's Tuesday, that means another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge!  This week we have an awesome sketch!  I know you can take this one and run with it! There are endless possibilies with this sketch for sure!

This time I surprised myself!  lol  Yep, I actually made a Halloween card!  I don't make a lot of Halloween cards but I usually do make one for each of my granddaugthers so I thought this sketch would be a great chance to get one of them done.  Yep, one down, four more to go!  :)

I bought some Halloween doilies and paper in a group share (Thanks Regina!) since I don't use a ton of Halloween stuff.  This was just the perfect amount of goodies to get the cards made that I wanted to make.  For my card today I started with an A2 Basic Black card base.  I added a 5 3/8" x 4 1/8" piece of Very Vanilla cardstock that has been embossed in the Woodland Textured Impressions Embossing Folder and then sponged with some Smoky Slate Ink.  The larger rectangle on the left side of the card had a mat of 5 1/8" x 2 1/2" Basic Black cardstock and a layer of Typeset DSP that measured 4 7/8" x 2 1/4".  The smaller rectange had a mat of 3 x 2 1/2" Basic Black DSP and a layer of 2 3/4" x 2 1/4" Happy Haunting DSP.  I added a section of the new Black Spider Web Doilie.  Using the Owl Builder Punch I punched out a Owl in Basic Black.  I used more of the Happy Haunting DSP for his middle.  His eyes were Very Vanilla, Tangelo Twist, and Black.  I punched out two wings with the Bird Builder Punch and gave them a little bit of a jagged trim before adhering them to my owl.  My Sentiment is from the Happy Scenes Stamp set and was stamped on Very Vanila with a Tangelo Twist mat and I cut banner ends in both with the Banner Punch. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you'll head over to Stamp, Ink, Paper and link 

up your own Sketch Challenge Card this week!   

Here's a list of the Stampin' Up! Products I used:

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Blessings,
Tina