Forever Grateful ~ Control Freaks Blog Hop

Welcome to an all new Control Freaks Blog Hop!  This month we are showing and sharing our gratitude with all of you.

You may just be joining the hop or you may have gotten here from Swimming With Stamps by Tami Hewlett.  She is such an inspiration and her project was beautiful!

I have made several cards with the beautiful Gilded Autumn Suite and I am sure I will make several more before the season is over.  I absolutely LOVE the warm fall colors in the nature inspired Gilded Autumn Specialty DSP.  The bits of copper and gold foil are beautiful and the coordinating Autumn Punch Pack make it even better!

I stamped the gold and copper leaves in acorns in shades of Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Cajun Craze and Mint Macaron before punching them out.  These cute little fall pieces were the perfect addition to the beautiful sentiment and tiny falling leaves.

I wrapped this card up with some of the Mint Macaron Basket Weave Ribbon, Linen Thread and a cute little Acorn Trinket.  This heartfelt creation will be sent off soon to a dear friend!

Next up is a card I created for my upcoming card class next month.  I paired up the Autumn Greetings Bundle with the Plaid Tidings DSP for a card full of thanks and gratefulness!

I stamped the large floral image from Autumn Greeting tone on tone in Crumb Cake, then added some festive die-cut pumpkins and wheat ears to coordinate with pretty colors in the Plaid Tidings DSP.  A little bit of texture was added to the cardbase with the Tasteful Textile 3D Embossing Folder and just a little bling from the Gilded Gems.  The sentiment was stamped in Pretty Peacock on Whisper White...I love how the sentiment stands out!

The hop doesn't stop here!  Next up is the marvelously talented Melissa Davies of Rubber FUNatics.  You don't want to  miss what she has to share this month!  Thanks for hopping with us! We are forever grateful for all of you!

Happy Stamping!

 

Autumn Birthday ~ Monday Montage

Welcome to an all new Monday Montage Blog Hop!  You won't want to miss a single creation from this amazing group of stampers!

My momma celebrated her birthday on Friday, so I can finally share her card!  I always make her a fall themed card every year and the Gilded Autumn Specialty DPS was perfect for this years fancy fold card.  I found a beautiful tutorial for this fancy fold on the amazing Stamp Your Art Out blog.  Thank you Rachel for sharing this with everyone!

The outside of the card was wrapped with a pretty belly band, which I added a few Gathered Leaves Dies and finished off with some of the beautiful Basket Weave & Metallic Ribbon.

I selected a few of my favorite DSP patterns to fill in each panel of the card, which opened up to a Tin Tile embossed inside with a beautiful birthday sentiment.  I love, love, LOVE the colors in this DSP!  

Supplies Used:

Paper ~ Very Vanilla, Mint Macaron, Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Gilded Autumn Speciality DSP

Ink ~ Cajun Craze

Stamp Set ~ Peaceful Moments

Other Supplies ~ Tin Tile Embossing Folder, Gathered Leaves Dies, Sunflowers Dies, Basket Weave & Metallic Ribbon Combo Pack

We always seem to get our Indian Summer right around my momma's birthday and it looks like we will again this year.  After a cooler and rainy week last week, we are heading into a warm and sunny week this week.  I am planning on soaking up as much of the sun as I can!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Now, on to the next stop on the hop!

Happy Stamping!

We've added a list of everyone's home pages so you can hop along in any order you wish!  Just make sure you don't miss any!

Amy O'Neill - Amy's Paper Crafts

Breelin Renwick - Craft-somnia Momma <-- You are HERE

Cathy Casey - Sugar Shack Designs

Charlet Mallett - Painted Orange

Cheryl Curtis - Pomp and Sustenance

Dani Dziama - Dani's Thoughtful Corner

Elizabeth Price - Seeinginkspots

Julie Warnick - Creating on the Run

Melissa Stout - The Stamp Doc

Wendy Weixler - Wickedly Wonderful Creations

Falling for Fall ~ Control Freaks Blog Hop

Welcome to the September edition of the Control Freaks Blog Hop!  This month we are falling for FALL!  You may just be starting or you may have just hopped over from the marvelous Melissa Stout.  No matter where you started, don't stop until you've made it all the way through!

If you have been following along with me for a while, you probably know that I am a summer girl and live for the warm, sunny days.  BUT...fall is the next best thing!  I love early fall when the mornings and evenings are cool, but the days are still warm and sunny.  Todays cards were so much fun to make, especially since it really felt like a fall day here.

Nothing says fall more than the beautiful changing colors of the leaves on the trees.  Colors are just beginning to change, which was the inspiration behind my first card.

Rooted in Nature is one of my favorite fall-friendly stamp sets and it was so much fun inking up leaves in shades of Pretty Peacock, Bumble Bee and Terracotta Tile.  

The leaves were cut out with the coordinating Natures Roots dies and placed on top of the wood round stamped on Soft Suede.  The Thinking of You sentiment was also stamped in Terracotta Tile, fussy cut and popped up with a few Stampin' Dimensionals.  I added a few Bumblebee Enamel Dots...because every card needs a little bling, right?  I layered the Soft Suede on top of Bumblebee and added those layers to a Pretty Peacock card base, but not before roughing up the corner of the Soft Suede and adding a few staples.  I love the added texture this gives a card!

What's another sign that fall has arrived?!?!  Pumpkin Spice EVERYTHING comes out!  I love me some pumpkin!  While I am not a huge fan of pumpkin spice coffee, I do love a pumpkin spice Chai from one of our local coffee shops.  It's like a desert in a cup.  My next card was designed with that tasty treat in mind.

I love the stripes in the Gilded Autumn Specialty DSP.  The colors are so warm and cozy...perfect for a couple cups from Press On.  I stamped a Mint Macaron and Cajun Craze heart, then colored the coffee cozy in Crumb Cake.  The cute little Happy Fall Y'All sentiment is from Banner Year, stamped in Cajun Craze on Mint Macron.  If you don't have that set yet, you need it!  This set is the best for any seasonal holiday!  I wrapped it all up with some cute little leaves and acorn punched from the Gilded Autumn DSP and a simple Linen Thread Bow.  This was all laid out on a piece of Very Vanilla, embossed with the Subtle Embossing folder, then layered on a piece of Mint Macron with a Cajun Craze card base.  These are my favorite fall colors this year!

Next up on the hop is the beautifully creative Cindy Elam.  Doesn't her creation make you fall for fall even more?!?!

Thanks for hoping along with us!  I hope you have found some inspiration in our creations!

Happy Stamping!