Tilda Celebrates Friendship

Hello all! It seems I've finally got all gears up and running again,lol. I REALLY enjoyed making this card and I hope you like it. I actually started this a while back for a TOMIC challenge, but  I must have run out of time cause it didn't get finished. Well, I decided to take another look at it and I had to finish some coloring and I chose some new paper and it went from there. This...

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... is what I came up with. It probably doesn't look like much from the outside, but it does have one little suprise....

.... it opens to this beautiful image and I didn't want to take away from that, so...

...it opens again.

I'm also happy to report I was able to work it into another TOMIC challenge. It was so fun to work with all those pretty spring colors...I'm so over winter!  It really took forever to get everything sitting "just right" but I'm glad I took the time to make it work.

I'm not really sure the best way to tell you about everything now as I really haven't set this up the way I usually do. All the gold accents are from WOC as well as the flowers. The stamped images are Magnolia(Secretive Tilda and Bird Background) and are colored with copics...sorry most of this was colored when I started so I don't have all the colors. the sentiment is from Whimsy and the die cuts are from Magnolia.  The pretty papers are from a 12x12 stack by KandCompany called watercolor boquet.

That's all for me today. It will probably be a week before I'm back again as I'm going to make a dress for my daughter and that may take me a while...I'm not the best sewer, but I'm determined,lol. I'll post pics when it's finished.  Her Christmas skirt turned out pretty good as did the stockings I made so there's hope for me yet. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

TOMIC: Friendship & Doohickey

Simon Says: Use 3 Papers

Bunny Zoe's: Celebrate

Magnolia-Licious Highlites: Spring

Magnolia Love

Hello my blogging friends. So much for my being back, huh. It's been crazy around my house and to be honest I've had a bit of a time getting back into things after my time away plus I set out to make some gifts for some people in may family and I got stuck. I felt like if I started anything else I wouldn't get back to it and to be honest...maybe it would have helped. At any rate now they are still not completely finished because we got hit with some really cold weather and I can't clear coat them in the cold, grr. However, I figured at least they are otherwise finished and I can move on. 

So,  I've actually had this....

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finished for several days now, but I've been swamped. I followed the current sketch at CLP and this actually would have been done sooner were in not for those two pieces of ribbon on the side.  I looked and looked thru my stuff before I finally spotted that ribbon and then I wasn't sure if I could put it that far down, but i figure were usually allowed some leeway, so I went with it.

Here's a close up of the adorable pair...

Don't you just love them?? I just had to have them! funnily enough I colored them up to resemble skin and hair colors of my husband and myself, but I will never give it to him, that would just be a waste. He does not appreciate these things at all. Although, maybe he will start... Yesterday my daughter and myself took him some homemade chocolates, a ballon, and some other goodies and he came home and said he was the envy of the office.

Ok, I think I've done enough blabbering now, sorry about that. Clearly I don't get to talk to people enough,lol. Hope you like my card, I'll actually be back a bit later today with another. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!
xxAutumn

Challenges:

CLP: Sketch

TOMIC: Recipe-3papers, 2(or more) embellishments, 1 image)

Just Magnolia: Pink, Pearls, and Lace

TOMIC #27

Hello Everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine went by super fast...as did my whole week really. Anyway, last week I I got some exciting news which was this...

Yep, I couldn't believe it, they picked little Ole' me to be Guest Dt member, I was floored!! Still can't really believe it,lol. There are so many gorgeous creations out there and especially on that challenge site  it's such an honor.

 I was told we were supposed to use a shaker box in our creation and go along the theme of Christmas. This is what I came up with...

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I grew up in MN and even though I now live in the south I still think of snow when I think of Christmas. I realized upon completion of this it might not be exactly what they had in mind, but lucky for me they said it was ok, whew! If you frequent my blog you've seen this before and know it's actually and easel card. Here's what this one looks like in it's easel stance...

I decided this time around to put a few dots of stickles on the inside of circles so it didn't look so plain when opened this way...I think it did the trick as I was not completely happy with the last one I made. If you're new around here or didn't get it last time you will find a tutorial for this on my tutorials tab  underneath my blog header.

Well, that's all for today. I'll be back soon with some more Sassy inspiration for you. Thanks for stopping by and make sure you check out the TOMIC challenge and the amazing DT creations!

Have a wonderful day!
xxAutumn

TOMIC- use a paper bag

Hello everyone! I wanted to get in on TOMIC's challenge this week and it was to use a paper bag and this...

photo for inspiration. When I first saw this on Monday I had grand intentions for my paper bag...I was going to make an album, however, I got myself busy with too many projects and I didn't have time. It seems though that everyone entering the challenge was infact just dressing up a paper bag and I wanted to do something different. My first idea was a luminaria, but it seems a white bag would have been better and I didn't have one. So, this...

 ... is what I cam up with. I'm not sure what to call it, but I DID use a paper bag, I just cut it into 3pieces for my project. This is what it looks like on the inside...

 ... sort of like an accordion folder. You can put little gifts, maybe money or a gift card and a tag, whatever you want.  I gave it a velcro closure so it has room to grow,lol

Here are a  couple more views...

I've colored her up with copics, though I'm not entirely happy with how her pants turned out, sometimes you gotta just let it be. Hopefully this week, I'll be able to get some more distress ink coloring done, but it takes me ages and I've got tons of other projects I'm working  on right now. We will see. That's all for today, all be back here early in the week with my Sassy inspiration for you and hopefully I'll be able to show you some of the other things I've been working on as well.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

xxAutumn 

Challenges:

TOMIC: Paper bag and photo

A holiday basket with a suprise and a tutorial

Hello all and thank you for stopping by today. This weeks challenge over at TOMIC was to make a basket and the second I saw Angela's I knew I had to try and make one like hers!! She made a basket with an actual basket weave and it looked like a picnic basket, sooo cute, you can see it here.  Thank you Angela for the inspiration!! Now, I went to her blog to see if she gave any sort of directions, but no such luck! She did say she used one inch strips of paper so I started from there and this...

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... is how mine turned out. I thought some others of you might like to know how I made this, so I took some pics and notes along the way and have made a little tutorial on this which you can find here in my tutorials page.

This little Edwin is actually an ornament. He's attached using some twine(nicely hidden) so all the recepient needs to do is untie it and remove the twine and and then they have a cute little ornament for their tree.

Here's a close up of this Awesome Edwin!! This is distress inks attempt 2(if your're following me) and as you can tell I'm not grasping the whole really dark to really light concept. Perhaps I've been working with copics for too long. I wanted to get into these for that look, but when I'm coloring it just doesn't look right and I can't get myself to do it, grrr!  Just keep trying, just keep trying...eventually I will get it,lol. Hope you like him anyway.

Here are a couple more views of my basket...

Has a magnetic opening on one side to make it easier to put/take things in/out.

Here you can see the twin holding the ornament and the side view of the ornament...I will def be making more of these themselves!!


That's all for today. Remember if you want some instructions to check out my tutorials page.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
xxAutumn

Challenges:

TOMIC: Basket

Just Magnolia: Anything Goes

ATS: Anything Goes

Make It Colorful: Add Texture

Distress Inks- attempt one

I've decided to finally take the plunge and venture into the word of distress inks! I actually started buying up inks ages ago, but just never got around to working with them. I recently saw a gorgeous card on Dena's blog and decided that was it I was going to FINALLY give it a shot. I watched her videos and figured I'd use colors she had used as a starting point.  In the end i basically did my own thing,lol. So, here's my first attempt...

Obviously I have a lot to learn about these inks but I don't think she's too bad for round one. The hardest part I found was keeping a dry enough yet wet enough brush and I don't think this paper was quite smooth enough. Since I didn't have the colors Dena used for skin I opted for Tea Dye, which has a purplish hue once you've used a bit of it, but perhaps it wouldn't have gotten that far if I was better with this technique.

Here's the completed card...

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This took me forever to get together, but I was once again determined to get into TOMIC's current challenge and since I don't have some of the things on their bingo board I had to go a route which required metal and that too some digging. It ended up not being much, but there in the upper right corner is my bit of metal...an old part of an earring.

All of the beautiful MME papers have been distressed with my Tim Holtz distressor and then distress inks were also added...even the lace got some, guess I was a little distress crazy :)

That's all for today, but I'll be back soon! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

xxAutumn 

Challenges:

TOMIC: Bingo (metal, lace, doohickey die)

Simon Says: Anything Goes

Soccer Edwin and some freebies

Hello everyone!!  Hope you all are having a wonderful Sunday!! Turns out I had the time to post today, so I'm going to share with you a card I made for a birthday party my son went to yesterday. I have to apologize for the pics not being too wonderful, but I was in a hurry and didn't have time to take better ones. Anyway, here is soccer Edwin...

Now I know this isn't anything too spectacular, but it was for a boy and what I'm most proud of is the fact that I designed those papers and tags myself. I've been dabbling a little in this from time to time and I'm finally getting to know PSE a little bit and was suprised at how quickly I managed to get these done. My son's team colors are orage and black, but I made them with black backgrounds to and will post them all below if you'd like to have them, just please give credit where it is due and send people to my site if someone would like them.

Here are the papers in black and orange and the tags are at the bottom. Click to enlarge and save at normal size. They are all 6x6 @ 300dpi and copyright  autumnscreativeside @ http://www.autumn0725-mycreativeside.blogspot.com

  

 Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

xxAutumn 

Halloween Tilda

Well, I don't know how close to halloween you'd consider this, but it's not a holiday I usually "Do."  Growing up we were allowed to dress up and go trick-or-treating, but that was the extent of it. I know why it originated and have taken the same stance with my children. However it doesn't seem to be about fun anymore and the costumes are getting scarier and scarier and now we participate in Church events. That being said, TOMIC are having extra special challenge and the theme is halloween. I really wanted to participate and this...

 Is what I came up with. This stamp is really all I have for anything that could be considered halloweenish, so I went with it. I've made this bag out of a large mailing envelope...really easy, think I need some white ones! Anyway I've colored her up in orange and black and used some awesome fall papers from Glitz design. I made the lace flower and cut the swirls on my cricut. The large brad in the flower was colored with copics to match.

Here's a closer view of Tilda and she does look awfully cute in orange and black if I do say so myself. The kiddos should get some candy at the church event, so I will give it to DD to collect hers. 

That's all for today, I've got one more thing, but I will save it for tommorrow or later this week depending on my time. Thanks for stopping by!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Forever Friend

Hello all! I"m going to do a quick post as I've been working on this card off and on all week and was about to head to bed when I realized I was going to have to post this first. Oh' the joys of different time zones! Anyway, over at TOMIC this past week they've had a photo inspiration and a sketch and this...

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 ... is what I came up with to go along. The photo they had up was basically a room with all white antique furnishings and a lady and her cat. To me that translated into vintage/ shabby chic...hope I pulled it off :) and then of course the sketch which I turned sideways but is otherwise the same.

I chose this image because I know cat people tend to have them for life and this Tilda reminds me of little-bo-peep and her lamb who were also "forever friends" as I like to call them. The grass is colored with copics and sadly took quite a long time,lol and the clouds are copics as well. Also, you can't tell all that well in the photo but I put some yelloish chalk on the clouds afterward to give it a more vintage feel.

Alright, I need to get to bed and I have a few more photos of this, but I will post them tomorrow after church. Hope you all are having a wonderful day!

Thanks for stopping by!

xxAutumn

Super Edwin!

Hello my blogging friends! Today I bring you a rare treat...something I've done just because,lol. This summer has been soo busy for me and there are so many things I wanted to do and didn't get done I'm now anxious for school to start so I can have some free time during the day to work on them. At any rate my son's birthday is next weekend  and I'm getting ready to leave town for a bit, so I thought I better get a head start on it.  I noticed a masking challenge going on over at TOMIC and decided I wanted to join in. Here's what I came up with...

I just got these two in the mail and my boys(all three of them) are all about super hero's so I new I HAD to have this Edwin.  The rocket ship was just too cool too and now I'm wishing I would've also gotten the moon...doesn't it just figure, but as you can see I made due w/o it.

So obviously since it's for a boy I couldn't girly it all out...although truth be told he probably wouldn't mind a few jems on there,lol. I figured though that glitter is still pretty universal and that would jazz it up a bit. I liked the idea of stars and then remembered I'd gotten some with some Christmas buttons I'd purchased and they matched and added some much needed dimension.

Here's a closer view of how I've colored him. I'm a huge Superman fan and wanted this to be a little more original, so I decided on mostly blue and yellow with some red accents and I love how it turned out. Sorry I don't have the colors as I was keeping them but then I got totally sidetracked with something I HAD to try today and my colors got all mixed up. 

I will show you this...

 ...almost finished inside. I have some sentiments around here that will be perfect for this, I just gotta find them.  They are actually something I got for my kids to use and I'm pretty sure I've remembered where they are at, but it's gonna take some digging so this is it for now.

Well, that's all for today, I hope you have enjoyed my Edwin. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

xxAutumn

Creative Inspirations #59

Happy Mother's Day!!! I don't know about you all but I have every intention of taking it easy today! Maybe, if I'm lucky, that will even involve some coloring so I can actually get a head start on some work that needs to be done.  DD has another cold, so we will see about that! Anyway I do need to tell you it's challenge time again over at Creative Inspirations and this week Bea has chosen our theme of Glitz and Bling! Our Sponsors are: 

and Joanna Sheen with a 10 voucher to her store. 

So, here is my card...

Yep, this ones for my Mommy! I've got all kinds of different glitz and bling on there too. Stickles all around the card and the flowers have been glimmer misted as well as the teal cardstock. The white paper behind miss Tilda is pearlesent cardstock from DCWV and the rhinestones are from Imaginsce and attached with my I-Rock. 

Purple again for Tilda...that's two in a row! You can really see the glimmer on that paper here and I believe this image is called 'Tilda with banner'. I think she was a perfect choice for my mom's card cause she has freckles just like me!

Ok, well, this did not post in the direction it was supposed to, lol. However, here is a closer view of the flowers and now I'm almost out of purple...Oh' please WOC get the ones I need in stock soon!!

Well, that's all for me! I hope you all are having a lovely weekend and getting some beautiful weather...supposed to be 102 degrees here, yuck! Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out what the rest of the DT have come up with!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn 

A Maggie Thank You

Hello my blogging friends! Hope you all are doing well today. I've got a busy day ahead of me, but I really need to to something up on this blog! I've been a bad blogger lately, sorry about that, life just seems to get crazy at the end of the school year. Soon school will be out and I should(hopefully if my kids cooperate) have a little more craft time. At least I won't be running them around to soccer practices and games and such and to top it off DH is starting a new job soon and he'll be home at a decent hour so my life will be getting much better. Anyway, you didn't stop by to hear about all that, so on to the card.

 

Meet 'Tilda and Her Bunny' isn't she the cutest, and I've paired her with 'Daffodil Dell' from Make it crafty! Together I think they make a great little scene. I've colored both the images with copics and the rest of the background has been done with chalks.

Here she is on the finished card. This photo did not turn out the best, but I took several and believe it or not this was the best of them. Sorry about the awkwardness of it too, I never know what to do when the bows going off the card like that lol. It looks bad if I chop it and it looks bad if I don't so I guess it's lose, lose. 

 

Here's a close up of those flowers. My stash is getting really small now. WOC really needs to get in the flowers that I want, arrgghhh, I am no good at making my own! It seems all of us in the craft world want the same colors and buy from the same place lol, but I've been waiting for months now and when they finally get in one thing I want they are sold out of another and I really don't wanna make a bunch of orders, oh what a dilemma!

Ok, one more thing, yesterday I  forgot to mention  that a new challenge started over at Southern Girls and it is....One for the Girls!! We have some fantastic sponsors for this challenge they are Tiddly Inks, Sassy Studio Designs, and Joanna Sheen so be sure to check out the challenge blog for further deets and to see all the DT creations! Thanks for stopping by hope you have a great day!

xxAutumn 

Creative Inspirations #57

Hello everyone! It's time again for another challenge over at Creative Inspirations! This week the theme is Easter and our sponsors are:

with a $10 voucher to their store!

and: 

with stamp #N263 I Serenade You

So, here is what I have come up with.... 

 

This is a reconditioned(for lack of a better word) tootsie roll bank. A little modge podge and some paper to cover, a few trims and a cute little mini. I was thinking I would make these for all my kids but seeing as I have mostly boys and only girl maggie minis this little cutie has gone off to a friends daughter. 

Here's a different view. so you can see those flowers a bit better. While I was trying to get a close up my program froze up and I couldn't get it to close up so I'm afraid this is all I've got for you.

I think that wraps it up. I have these papers for ages and the lace is from my local craft store. The flowers are WOC and the stamp is Hello Tilda mini from Magnolia-Licious. Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have enjoyed my little project. Be sure to stop by and see what the rest of the DT have made!

Havea great day!

xxAutumn 

Challenges:

Simon Says: Easter/Spring