Happy Fall!

We have been having beautiful weather here in Tennessee.  I love it when you can feel and smell Fall in the air and soon the colors will change.  So today I an posting an Autumn Blessings card.  It was made using Spellbinder's Parcel & Post dies.  The mailbox was quite easy to make and that did not take much time.  I spent more time sponging the edges!  All the little pieces coming out of the mailbox were a different story.  The sentiment is from a combination of Sunny Studio Stamps sentiments which were stamped in Versamark and embossed using gold embossing powder.  I actually purchased this set and the Christmas add-ons, but changed my mind when I started die cutting all the little pieces! I will save it for an occasion that doesn't call for making at least 50 cards~~lol!  

Have a great day!

Sunflowers

 I recently received new stamp and die sets from My Favorite Things.  Needless to say, I have been creating with the sets.  Today's card were made using Their Die-namics Sunflower Wreath and Farmhouse Foundations sets.  The sentiments on all of these cards were stamped using Thoughtful Greetings.  For the watering can card I created the shelf using a piece of wood patterned paper.  The twig wreath on the Happy Thoughts card is from Stampin' Up.  The jar of water was created by die-cutting the jar and adding a piece of vellum (colored with alcohol markers) behind the die space on the layer.  I added the stems behind that vellum before adhering the white layer to the card base.  I also used Stampin' Up's Deckled Edges dies on two of the cards.  

Making all of the flowers, leaves and stems took some time!  That was when I was thinking that I should have purchased the Stampin' Up Mini Cut & Emboss machine.  So out came the SU catalog.  I was all set to order it when I found out that the magnetic plate was no longer available.   I know I could just tape down the dies, but I have the magnetic plate for the Big Shot and it is something I use all of the time.  So, I am just sticking with the Big Shot I have now.  

Have a great day and weekend!