Inky Impressions Challenge #16

Happy Fall! You wouldn't know it was fall here though -- it's so humid and sticky. Phew it's hot and I'm having a bad hair day! :o( Anyways, to get me in the spirit of autumn, I made this fall card and imagining that it's a dry and cool day. I am entering this card at the Inky Impressions challenge blog. The challenge there is to create a card with 4 embellishments. Now I wasn't sure if I was supposed to use 4 embellishments in total or 4 different kinds of embellishments, so I went with 4 embellishments total. My 4 embellishments are the 3 buttons and 1 brad, here is my card:



What do you think? This is an image of Angelica. Isn't she a sweetie!? This image is so versatile and I have so many card ideas to use her for. Over at the Inky Impressions store they have many adorable images of Angelica and another little girl named Lili. Go check it out! For my card, I used the tree and log from the Magnolia-licious store and Angelica from Inky Impressions. My paper is from Stampin Up, DCWV, and Provo Craft. I used copics to color my image. I hope you like it and I would appreciate any comments you might have. Thanks for looking!

Happy Saturday

Happy Saturday! Today is a beautiful day here in New England and before I go outside to enjoy the weather, I thought I'd post a few pictures. First, I wanted to share a picture of my girls. They started school this week. YEAH! Look at those happy faces, I hope they're still smiling in a month, LOL!!



They are great kids. My older daughter, Elena, has also started paper crafting and using my beloved stamps to make her own cards. Here are a few of the cards she made.



And this next card she made using my cricket machine.



She has her own blog also. It's called www.elenascraftycorner.blogspot.com. It would be great if you all had the time to stop by and give her a quick comment of encouragement and if you know of any other card making kid blogs out there, I'm sure she would appreciate looking at their blogs. Thanks!!

Here is a card I made for the September mingle at the Magnolia-licious yahoo group. I will be sending it to my mingle partner, Cabio, real soon. Cabio, if you see this post, no peeking!! :o)



Here's a little closer view.



This is my first stair-step card and I love how easy it is to create a scene using this card fold. The tree, fence, cats, ghosts, and haunted house I cut out with my cricket. And I had the Tilda with the broom and Edwin stamps that I stamped out and colored with my copics. The other Tilda was an image that my friend, Cabio, sent to me along with some super stickers that I also used on this card. The awesome paper I used is from K&Co.

Thanks for looking! Enjoy your weekend. Peace, Angela