Pattie's Creations - Fall Colors

Boy times are getting busy....but not to busy to share a little challenge inspiration for our current challenge over at Pattie's Creations

Theme:  Autumn Colors

And they sure are popping up everywhere. For my inspiration this challenge, I am using a fun little image called Spooky Scarecrow.

This is a great image for any Halloween project. As you can see, I decided to make a little gift bag. Perfect for lots of little treats...or one large treat. 

Here is a closer look.

I made a cute little matching tag as well.

So do you like? I sure hope so. It was a lot of fun to make. So take some time out of your busy schedule and have some fun crafting. We would love to see what you come up with.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

• A Day for Daisies - No.107 - Anything Halloween
• Fairy Tale - No. 102 -  Happy Halloween
• Fussy and Fancy No.125 -  Orange and Black
• Kitty Bee Designs  No.34 - Dies and/or punches
• Simply Create Too - No.72 - (W2 of 2) - Halloween or Use Lots of Orange
• Freshly Brewed - Pumpkins

Where do you get your inspiration?

I think what I love about card making are the endless possibilities. When I am putting together a design or layout, it takes me several tries to get it exactly how I want it.

Work Space

I typically will have all my cut outs, embellishments and bling that I want to use and just keep layering and rearranging as I go along. I will leave my project on my table and just walk by and rearrange something on it without sitting down. It is kind of like a puzzle that you put together a piece here and there until it is finished. I do get inspiration from the web. Color combinations, ideas, layouts, but ultimately I try to make it my own. I watch You Tube videos for new techniques and of course I join card challenges. I was excited when one of my cards made top 3. I have to remember to go back and look once the challenge is over. I just enter them for fun and for the challenge of creating something new. I have moved into making collages. I have been told that some of my cards are too pretty to throw out, so they frame them. So I thought to myself, why not make a "Card Wall Hanging"? Well, why not. It is bigger, so I have a bigger space to work on, and it is ready to hang. I have made two Fall ones, but plan to make a few Christmas ones as well. I can use them as gift exchanges...and they will be fun to create!

Life the Life You've Imagined

I would like to enter my collage into the following challenges:

Artistic Stamper - Autumn
Card a Day blog - Autumn
Country Views Craft Challenge - Layers
Crafting Musketeers - Vintage 
Just for fun - Colors of Autumn

Craftionary - Link Party
Serenity Now - Link Party
Trendy Treehouse - Create and Share

Good bye Summer...Hello Fall

Today is the first day of Fall. We know this because this is when the Norther Hemisphere moves into Autumn. It is a celestial event called "equinox". The Equinox is a specific moment in time, not an entire day and it happens at 4:44 p.m. E.D.T. Many people love this transition from Summer to Fall and it is their favorite season.  I am indeed one of them. Fall means cooler weather, well for most part of the country. Here in Arizona we will not feel the cooler weather until late October, if we are lucky. With the cooler weather comes the changing colors of the leaves and we start to think about what needs to be done to prepare for the upcoming winter months.

Daylight savings time will end on November 3rd. That means our days will be shorter. For me, this means more crock pot dinners, stews and soups. I tend to bake more in the cooler months, stepping away from the Bar B Que and using my oven more. With the upcoming holidays, people become more crafty. There are wreathes that need to be put together, pumpkins that need to be carved and we begin to see many porches decorated for the upcoming holiday. Many people will begin making preserves or canning pickles and relishes to use in the coming months or to give away as gifts during the holidays.

But whatever the upcoming months mean to you, take some time to slow down and enjoy this season. The hustle and bustle of the holidays are just around the corner, so take a moment for yourself and enjoy this magic moment.

You never know where your creative path will take you

It has been a lazy Sunday afternoon. Raining all morning so it was a perfect time to be creative. I wanted to put together a "Fall" card kit using some Floral Embellishments by Recollections. I am creative once I get the juices flowing, but I usually will go out to the Web or Pinterest to give myself some inspiration. I thought It might be cute to use one of my Framelits from Stampin up as a base for the card. I love cards with unique card folds and even have a pinterest page to prove it. Well, as I got to working on the card, I didn't really like where it was taking me. While the shape was cute, it wasn't really what I had envisioned. I started looking through my scrap paper and found a template of a card fold I had started. Hmmm...this got me thinking. I wanted to use a Chianti color to match some of the colors in the leaves and had some raffia I found at goodwill if you can believe it. I will have to share with you some of the places I find my stuff..but that is another day and another blog. So this is what I came up with:

I love this fold because it allows you to see your inside message when your card is closed.

Supplies I used:

• Paper from Cloud 9 Design and DCWV (the Cafe Mediterranean)
• Framelit from Stampin up Labels Collection
• Button, Raffia and leaves from Recollections
• Stamp is from Stampendous

Now that I have the design down, I can put my kits together. Hopefully you will have as much fun putting this card together as I did.