Sweet Friend

We have a warm and somewhat cozy mood board for you at
Colorful Options this month, lots of inspiration to be found! 

Option 1 — Rusty Brown

Create a project featuring rusty brown as the primary color.

Think warm rust, copper, and cinnamon. Rich, cozy, weathered, or natural—any interpretation within this warm spectrum is welcome.

Option 2 — Warm Earth Tones

Prefer a variation? Work within a palette of warm earth tones: brown,khaki, coffee, caramel, amber, chestnut, or terracota. Blend tones, go monochromatic, or layer shades for depth—soft and subtle or bold and textured.

For my warm browns card I did a card I saw several months back, 
maybe even last fall where they used the Spellbinders Sunflower Serenade
to cover a card base with the layered flowers then trimming along the edge
to make an A2 card.  I die cut 24 flowers which were then layered with a
pop up in-between.  I used all scraps from my 'brown' bag of scraps.  
I did learn a few things after I finished my card.  One was to use a card base
similar to the colors of your flowers as my white card base does show through
here and there, a brown base would of been the better choice!

It looked like a lot of work to me but was actually quite quick and easy.
So easy, I might make a few more in other colors.
My camera makes it look a bit uneven on the sides, but it is not,
it is trimmed even as it should be.
The sentiment is a Spellbinders Betterpress.

Here are a few of the scraps (snippets) I used:

I'd love to hear what you think and have to admit it
was a bit intimidating cutting those flower petals
along the edge!!

If you are feeling 'cozy' then come on over to
Colorful Options and have some fun with us!!

Happy Anniversary

 Once again time for a new challenge at Stencil Fun and our
OPTIONAL theme is YELLOWS.
I created a 'yellow' card using a My Favorite Things
Friendly Flowers stencil.  The inks I stenciled with were
Altenew Mango Smoothie, Sunray, and Chamomile.
I also used Dew drop inks Pear Tart and Dandelion.
The sentiment is a Betterpress and the die Cottage Cutz Bird Trio.

For my Anything Goes card I used a Scrapbookdotcom
Winter Cottage stencil for the first time stenciled with Distress inks
Rustic Wilderness, Lost Shadow, Mustard Seed and Festive Berries.
The sentiment is die cut using a Creative Expressions Festive Mini die.

If you like to stencil, then come on over to Stencil Fun!!

So Grateful

It is our first FALL Season this year at The Four Seasons and we have
a pretty and fun FALL mood board for inspiration! 

I did let the mood board inspire me with it's colors, sunflowers and pumpkins.
I have had this card front panel cut and waiting to be used for well over a

year now and it matched this board so much I decided it was time.

The panel (paper) is from The Four Seasons Autumn P13 paper pad,
you should see the back side, it is just as gorgeous!
Sometimes you just have to feature your pretty papers
as they make wonderful cards, too!

I stamped my sentiment from Sparkle N Sprinkle's Basket of Hope stamp set.

Even though it is pretty CAS, I decided to add a wax cord at the top.
The card base is a last piece of card stock in that color from Stampin' Up.

Come and have some 'fall fun' with us at The Four Seasons!