The Autumn Tree

Welcome back!!!

It's the first Tuesday of November and its time for my Craft-Dee BowZ post.

This month the designers were asked to use burlap with some Festive Fall Foliage. Burlap, hmmmm it just reminds me of fall don't you agree??  

Of course burlap really can go with so many things besides fall.

Well let me show you what I came up with.

This card is a very simple card with burlap and some silk leaves in the glorious fall colors. But the bow, well it kind of took center stage. This ribbon is so beautiful with the vibrant fall colors, and since the ribbon is wired, this bow really maintains its shape.

Let me show you a closer view of the bow.

OK I admit I could not make this bow, without my trusty Craft-Dee BowZ tool. This tool lets me make lush bows with ease. 

This little tool lets me make bows like the one above. 

Easy peasy!! REALLY!!

And you can use it for your gift packages too. 

It isn't just for cards. 

Click here to order yours!! 

Don't forget Craft-Dee BowZ has a challenge every month and you have plenty of time to make a project and enter it before the month of November is over. 

The theme is always, Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow.

I am going to be looking for your entry.

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

613 Avenue Create -  #147 Anything Goes or Thank You (#79)

Dragonfly +Dreams - Ribbons & Bows (#1)

Scrappy Hands -  #51 Autumn/Fall (#4)

The Corrosive Challenges - #235 Autumn Splendor (#34)

The Ribbon Girls - must use ribbon – Anything Goes (#47)

Thanks for stopping by today. I will be back soon with a new project, just for you.

Every Artist

Hi everyone and welcome back!!!And welcome to my new followers, too.

Recently I mentioned how orange is not one of my fav colors. LOL Well I guess I might have to eat my words.You'll see in a minute!! Now I guess that means I can wear those orange pants, but I am going to limit my wearing to Halloween. Otherwise I might be mistaken as an orange Popsicle. LOL

OK let me share a quick little project I made. And it has shades of ORANGE!!!, OH MY!!! imagine that. Well after all it's fall now!! LOL

I made a tag and it started out as white CS.  Next I stamped the verse and the image and then I sponged on all of the fall colors (.See, orange is in that tag.)  Next I cut a few leaves using vellum. I sponged inks made my bow and put it all together. I photographed it and was writing this post and I looked at those leaves and decided they needed something. Well you know what that means, time to add something to finish those leaves off. I got out some glitter and defined the veins and it was just what was needed. You be the judge.

Here is the same tag and the only thing I did was to glitter the veins on the leaves.

Those leaves look like leaves, now. 

Here are the items I used:

inks: Memento- Cantaloupe, Desert Sand, New Sprout, Morocco, Olive Grove, Peanut Brittle, - Distressed Inks - Fired Brick

CS: White, Vellum

Spellbinders Dies: S4-158 Sunflower Set Two & S4-157 Sunflowers Set One (leaf from each set)

Stamps: Unity - Imagine It ( DD-706)

Sponge Dauber

Glue pen

Glitter - Sparkle N Sprinkle  Parisian Mist glitter - G1037

Ribbon ( from my stash)

Bow Making tool - Craft-Dee BowZ

Well thanks a lot for stopping in today.Have a great week!!

CHF07 - Animals

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for stopping in today because it's time for the next Cornish Heritage Farms challenge.The theme is animals and I decided to use a digital bird image I have in my digital stash. I really love birds. I also really like trees and where do you see birds, but in trees.

As I looked at the bird I envisioned it sitting in a nest on a tree limb, so I drew the tree with an overhanging limb.

To make the tree I penciled in the sketch of the tree on the cardstock. Next, I cut the cardstock and embossed it and added a cream colored ink to bring out the embossed wood design. Next I used a die to cut the leaves. The nest, I made from a small branch punch and used about 25 pieces.

This beautiful bird is a great digital image of a robin.  Check out all the digital images, there are so many to choose from and you don't have to wait for the postman.The sentiment is in the Ornamental Beauty set

Want to play along????

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.) 

Once you have created your card/project come back here and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF06. We can't wait to see what you create! 

Don't forget to check out the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team's card on their blogs. 

*  Anne  *  Barb  *  Barbara (You are HERE) *  Cindy  *

*  Dawn  *  Debbie  *  Deneen *  Dianne  * Frances  *  

* Holly* *  Jacqueline  *  Kris  *  Kristine  *  Lisa  *  

* Michele  *  Petra  *  Steph  *  

Thanks so much for stopping by today. See you soon!!