September 2013 PTI Blog Hop: Wreaths

Happy Fall!  I'm back to share a card I made for this month's PTI blog hop, which was to create a card with a wreath.  I'm not quite ready for Christmas yet, and since Fall just arrived last weekend, it was the perfect time to celebrate my favorite season.

I kept things pretty simple on this card and made good use out of some fall patterned paper scraps in my scrap bin.

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SAF 2013: All 10 Projects

Well, I made it.  I got all 10 projects done.  My friend Kristie and I got a late start yesterday working on our projects as we made a few stops at some local crafting stores and did some retail therapy first.  We started on our projects after dinner, working into the wee hours of the morning.  We got a few hours of sleep, then got up and crafted the rest of the morning into early afternoon in our jammies.  Here are all 10 of my cards:

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SAF 2013: Sugar Coated

This card just might be my most favorite of the SAF bunch I made, and I'm not even a glitter person.  I like how it looks, but I hate the mess it makes!  I hadn't used the baby word die since I first ordered it and wanted to use it,  so I was trying to think what would be a good image to stamp on it and the pattern I associate most with babies is polka dots, so that was starting point for my card.  The baby in the sling image is from the Bundle of Joy set.

SAF 2013: Limited Ingredients

The hardest part of this limited ingredients challenge was figuring out how to line up the dahlia blooms as I hadn't inked up this set before.  Once I figured that out, the rest pretty much fell into place.  I opted to leave the 1 3/4 " circle punch off.

SAF 2013: Whipping Up Scent-sational Cards

I remember how much I liked scratch and sniff stickers when I was kid.  I have a vivid memory of hoarding a certain sheet of chocolate-scented images that my mom let me pick out at Hallmark to add to my sticker collection.  It was fun creating my own scented embossing powder for this crafting challenge.  I look forward to mixing more scents to go with the images in the Scent-imentals set.  In anticipation of fall, I wanted to create a card to celebrate the arrival of my favorite season, so chose to work with the pumpkin image and emboss it with pumpkin pie spice.

SAF 2013: Custom Accents From the Oven

Although I had some trouble with my spider web die cut at first, I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to get my shrink plastic to work on the first try.  After the web shrank, I colored it with Black Soot alcohol ink and a silver alcohol ink mixative.  I was happy with how this card turned out.

SAF 2013: Gallon/Quart/Pint

The gallon/quart/pint challenge was a fun one to try and using this design principle will help me with future projects.  For my card, I chose Dark Chocolate (gallon), Berry Sorbet (quart) and Melon Berry (pint) as my colors to work with.