In the Pines and Pine Woods dies bundle. It's a monochromatic kind of day. Unfortunately I couldn't capture a photo showing the wink of Stella on the trees, adding a slight beautiful glimmer. The Winter Snow EF is so elegant looking. The sentiment and trees were stamped in Smoky Slate.

GATHER TOGETHER and COLORFUL SEASONS sets. Perfect for the fall season.  

I used the leaf, pumpkin and wheat images from the GATHER TOGETHER set. The pumpkin and leaf were stamped in Delightful Dijon and cut with matching GATHERED LEAVES dies. The wheat was stamped in Soft Suede. Also stamped the leaf image from COLORFUL SEASONS in versamark and used Gold Stampin' Up! emboss powder, then cut leaf in white from coodinating SEASONAL LAYERS  dies and adhered on top. The oval was cut using STITCHED SHAPES framelits. 

 

The thankful sentiment was die cut on foil paper using a die from RECOLLECTIONS sentiment dies. The netting image was from a retired SU set TIMELESS TEXTURES. 

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Bird Crazy and Gelli Plates

 More Gelli plate fun and the bird crazy stamps from Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous. I love, love, love these funny little birds. Their facial expressions are darling.

I used the Gelli plate, lightweight watercolor paper, acrylics, distress inks, stencils, brayer, sponges, distress paste and washi tape to create the backgrounds. I love the funky bold colors, great patterns and textures, and of course the crazy birds! The sentiments are from Tim Holtz Stamper's Anonymous Tiny Text set. 

SHINE LIKE THE STARS / light the way

BE YOUR BEAUTIFUL SELF / use your wings

DON'T FORGET TO FLY / choose to shine

the world needs who you were made to be / JUST ONE LIFE

Praying Gelli Plate Circles

Praying Gelli Plate Circles

I made three sympathy/praying for you cards last week. For all three cards I used the sentiment from SU set Flourishing Phrases. I love this sentiment because when one is going through a difficult time, or time of loss, it is so powerful to know that people are thinking of them and praying! For this one I used a gelli plate and stencil to create the background. I smooshed the distress oxide inks in picked raspberry, ripe persimmon, worn lipstick directly onto the gelli plate and then used a brayer to roll over them. I then placed the circle stencil on the gelli plate and sponged the hickory smoke distress oxide ink over the stencil, removed the stencil, and then pressed the paper down on the gelli plate. (I removed two images from the gelli plate, this may have been the second removal) For the flower from Stampers Anonymous Flower Garden, I diecut the flower, then used distress crayons to color the flower, and followed with stamping the image on top.

 

 

Sympathy Gelli Plate

Sympathy Gelli Plate 

I made three sympathy/praying for you cards last week. For all three cards I used the sentiment from SU set Flourishing Phrases. I love this sentiment because when one is going through a difficult time, or time of loss, it is so powerful to know that people are thinking of them and praying! For this one I used a gelli plate and stencil to create the background. I placed the stencil on the gelli plate and sponged the distress oxide ink over the stencil, removed the stencil, and then pressed the paper down on the gelli plate. For the flower from Stampers Anonymous Flower Garden, I diecut the flower, then used distress crayons to color the flower, and followed with stamping the image on top.