Best Friends

Do you remember the book Charlotte's Web?
If you had children you probably know about it.
Released October 15th 1952, was a best seller, cute book about
the friendship between a spider and a pig,
it's also a little sad.

Well, I came across a new to me challenge where the themes are based on books,
children's books, how fun is that?
This is their 2nd challenge, geez how did I miss the first one!! 

Once Upson A Time

I based my card of the friendship of the spider (Charlotte) and the pig (Wilbur).
Using a Tutti Designs spider web corner, a Cheapo dies pig and a 
Cherry Lynn Designs spider I built my card.  The background was created by using
The Greetery Shiplap Builder die.

If you haven't seen this challenge, go and check it out,
it's nice to see a fun new challenge with so many of the
challenge blogs closing.

Speaking of NEW challenges my crazy friend (Dar) and I have a new challenge
debuting October 4th and it's all about stencils,
make sure to check it out!

Stencil Fun

Moo~Quack~Oink

Time for another new challenge theme  at Double D and it is
Baa-Cluck-Moo-Neigh-Oink-Quack
We want to see any or all and have this fun mood board
to inspire you!!

I purchased a stamp I was going to use just for this challenge
but while looking thru my dies I spotted this farm animal one

and just had to use it!!  It was cut 3 times, one from a craft foam,

one from green and one from white card stock.
I layered the green on the foam, then colored each animal,
snipped them off and paper pieced on!

I used Lawn Fawn stencils for the sky and grass
with some Distress inks, added a sun and a few gems!

The sentiment is from Pink Fresh Studio Simply Sentiments.
I now have a moo~quack~baa~cluck~oink~ and neigh!!

Make sure to check out the Double D challenge blog for more 
fun inspirations, the DT has once again outdone themselves!!

Every Snowflake

Peace on Earth has a new challenge starting today as as always it's
an Anything Goes as long as it's Christmas themed.
We have a fun mood board for inspiration! 

My first thought was to let the holly inspire me as I have a big

card size holly die that I haven't ever used,
then while going for the die in my Christmas die book I spotted two
never been used before mice dies, and then this large snowflake die
which won out in the end as I was on a time crunch since we would be leaving again
for two weeks and I needed to get my design team all done for the month!

The red pillow spoke to me with the white snowflakes,
so much so that I did two cards but one in reverse colors!
The sentiment is from Sparkle N Sprinkle Crystal Snowflake set.

I turned the panel the opposite way for the second card
and added the sentiment to the other side.! 

I hope you will join us at Peace On Earth for our challenge
after all Christmas isn't that far off!

Make sure to visit our sister challenges as well:

Two Old Bats Year Round Halloween Challenge
Four Seasons Challenge 
Double D Challenge
Can You Handle The Pressure Challenge

Entering the Following Challenges:
Little Red Wagon .... Hot Colors

Brown Color Challenge

Time for a new monthly color challenge at Colorful Options and
this month's color is BEAUTIFUL BROWN!

I let Pinterest inspire my design for my brown card as I saw a lovely card HERE
and used that for my brown card, this gal has a lovely style, you should check it out!

My card was created with a Life Style Woven embossing folder for 
the background, Tutti Designs Nesting Dotted squares for my 'snippets'
of papers and a Poppystamps Garden Bouquet die, and it's the first time I have used it.
I added some half pearls to the flower centers!

Make sure to visit the Colorful Options challenge blog,
lots of fun inspiration and if you don't like our brown theme
there is always a choice to use rainbow colors, plus a fun prize to be had!!

Two Old Bats September Halloween Challenge

Happy Llama-ween!! 
It's already that time again for our new monthly ~year round~ challenge at
TWO OLD BATS!!
We have this fun inspiration board for you
but you can created anything as long as it is HALLOWEEN themed!!

I normally try to go with something off the mood board
as they are so fun (plus I made the boards lol)!!

I think without me even telling you it is obvious what I let inspire me!
I bought this cute Darcie stamp set last year maybe and have never used it
until today!!  There is another super cute image with the set which will appear
on a later TOB challenge. The set is Llama Halloween.

The background paper is from a very OLD BasicGrey 2009 paper pad called eerie,

the sliver of striped paper is from my Halloween scrap paper bag!
I heat embossed the sentiment, which is part of
the stamp set, but it has been so long since I embossed
with embossing powder I forgot to use my 
embossing buddy, but luckily not too much powder
didn't stick too bad where it doesn't belong,
guess I had better emboss more!!

If you want to see some really fun and spook-tacular Halloween creations
then head on over to our Two Old Bats Halloween challenge.

Entering the Following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge .... ATG

Pumpkin Patch

 Today is a rather sad day for the Dies R Us team
as this will be our last card for the DRU challenge
as it is being closed permanently and I have been
part of it for a long long time as well as on 
the DRU  Inspiration team.

For my last card I used a favorite die/stencil from PoppyStamps that
I have used before but thought it was time to bring it out again
'Autumn Leaves Sidekick Frame and Stencil'.

After die cutting, I placed the stencil over the top and used all
Tim Holtz Distress inks for my leaves
spiced marmalade, fired brick, mustard seed and peeled paint.
I adhered the finished piece to a piece of paper from Echo Park
and used another print piece from the same pad for within my frame.

 I hope to see you at the Dies R Us challenge blog and
join in for our very last challenge...thanks for visiting!!

Entering the following challenges:

PoppyStamps .... ATG

Fall Is In The Air

We have entered into the FALL SEASON at our Four Seasons challenge
and have this pretty mood board for inspiration
but it can be anything as long as it's fallish!!

I normally really try to use something off the board but this time I went 
with all the pretty colors of the board which really speaks FALL to me!

I had an image already colored that has just been waiting to make it's debut
and today is the day!
I can't tell you who the image is by as I haven't a clue where I put it!
The sentiment is from Sparkle N Sprinkle Autumn Girlfriends
and the papers are from P13 Hello Autumn.
The die cut is from a friend that gave me all her stuff when she 
got out of paper crafting!
I also added some gold metallic half pearls from PinkFresh Studios.

Make sure to pop on over to the Four Seasons challenge blog
and see all the pretty fall creations from my teamies!!

One last thing before you go is there is a NEW challenge
starting on October 4th and it is all about STENCILS!!
You Can read all about it HERE so be sure to mark
your calendar to join in all the fun!!

Entering the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday .... ATG
Word Art Wednesday .... ATG