SMC #16 - Father's Day, not using blue

TGIF, right! My goodness, I've had a crazy week this week! It's that time again...another challenge at Sew Many Challenges! This weeks challenge is a Father's Day theme w/o using blue. I thought, "piece of cake", when I saw that, but much to my dismay I have like no paper w/o blue...found that out too little too late, uuuggghh! Anyway, this weeks sponsor is The Stamping Boutique and the winner will receive 5 free digis. If you're not familiar with their digis I'll have a sample for you in a couple of days, but you can also stop by their site to check them out.

Without further delay, here is my challenge card:

'Kathi Dressed in Dad's Clothes'
Available here

I kept this pretty simple since it's for a man and I don't have any manly embellies. This would've gone so much better for me if I would just made the shoes black, but I wasn't thinking I guess. Strange, but if I were to wear the colors on the tie, I would wear black shoes. Anyway, I left her shirt white to make it look like she's in a T-shirt and shorts like her father probably would be B4 getting dressed. The sentiment is hand-written, which would explain why it's crooked...don't know why I write that way, lol. Buttons are from my stash and this is a 4&1/4 x 5&1/2 card. Well, that's it, be sure to check out the rest of the DT...Have a great weekend!

xxAutumn

Sew Many Cards- Frog

Finally something new! That cake I made for my DD really set me behind. Better late than never though, right! Today, I have 'Frog' from Sew Many Cards.

I have to say I had a whole lot of fun coloring this! I came across a few challenges that wanted you to use bright colors and I thought, hey, I could go for some bright colors! I was hoping to use a sketch for this as well, but I just couldn't make it work.

I posted this and was about to enter my first contest when I thought of something I could do for this card, so, I added the rhinestones and stickles to the flower and glimmered the image area(glimmer shown above). It looks better now, I think, but there still seems to be a lot of empty space. O'well, such is life I guess.

I colored this with copics(above) and actually used MME scraps to put this together...yay, for using scraps, I have way too many! The sun is cut with my cricut and the Create a Critter cartridge...love that one!

Well, that's it for now, hope you've all been having a great week!

xxAutumn

Challenges:
TPE: Bright Fun Colors
Whimsical Wednesdays-Photo Inspiration
Cupcake Craft Challenges- Summer Delights
Daisy Doodles-Anything Goes

DD's Birthday Party...FINALLY

It's a week late, but we finally had her party. We would've had it on time, but she was still real sick so I decided to hold off. Tillie is much, much better now and thought she didn't get into opening the gifts she really enjoyed her cake!

Here's my little Monkey b4 cake and presents!

Here she is with her pile of presents.

The cake! Can you believe this took me like 8 hours. OMGoodness you'd think it would've turned out a little better, lol. This is my first fondant cake and I had a lot of oopsie's and couldn't quite do everything that was supposed to be done cause I didn't get a couple of key ingredients...that's what happens when you take four kids with you...but I will try another one of these sometime as I think they have real potential to look good.

Let's eat cake! This was sooo cute. This first thing she did was pick off all the flowers and eat them, then she tried to get pieces off the cake...the fondant gets kind of hard...So, she decided screw it and just leaned in to take a bite out of the cake! Kids are so funny aren't they!

She discovered biting it wasn't gonna work too well either and dug in!

That's it for me today, hope you all had a great day!

xxAutumn

Lexi's Creations #15-Buttons and Bows

Hello everyone! It's Monday, Memorial Day, here in the US and it's time for a new challenge at Lexi's. This weeks challenge is buttons and bows with a Lexi image only. The sponsor this week is Letraset, the maker of Pro Markers and the winner will receive the Summer set of 5 markers and a black fine liner.

This week I used Lexi's 'Butterflies" digi. I colored with copics to match the MME paper best I could.

I took this close-up so you can see the stickles I added. I covered the wings of the butterflies completely and for the flower I started at the tips and the pushed the stickles in. Guess that's about it. The buttons are from my stash and the punch is MS. Be sure to stop by the rest of the DT to see what they've made. Thanks for stopping by!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

PaperPlay: Up in the Air

Crafty Ann's: Lots of Color

Easy Craft Projects: Buttons

Tayla Eating Watermelon

Happy Friday everyone! Sorry this is coming so late, but I've had the worst migraine today. It seems to have gone now, so I figured I'd better get to it. First off let me tell you there is a blog hop going on now through next Thursday, June 3rd at Sew Many Challenges and there are prizes to be won so be sure to to go over there and check it out! So, here is Tayla Eating Watermelon from Sew Many Cards.

I followed the sketch below from Sketch Girl.

I added a ribbon and the handwritten sentiment.

Here is a close-up of Tayla

I think this will be a great card to invite someone to a cook-out. Don't forget it's also Freebie Friday so you'll want to go to Sew Many Challenges to pick that up and check out this weeks challenge and awesome prize! Hope to see you there!

Have a great weekend!
xxAutumn

Challenges:
The Pink Elephant: Make orange the central point of your card
Sketch Girl: Sketch

Duncan with Boy from SMC

Here is Duncan with Boy from SMC. I think the coloring is a little to be desired, but my blender ran out and it was too late to go get one and of course my colors just weren't working for me. I also should note that I added those freckles...I just think these kids look so cute with freckles...maybe it's because I have them, but thus far none of my kids do. I always hated mine, but they are so cute on kids! Anyway, I based this card off the sketch below from Taylored expressions.

I had to move my embellies because of the image I used, but otherwise I think it follows pretty well. I also made this monochromatic to go with the challenge at The Wild Flower Patch...all my colors are from the E color family. The folded paper you see is some packaging material I saved thinking I could use it...yay, I did!

Recipe:

E 000, 11, 13, 29, 33, 37, 49, 50, 51, 53

Striped paper is from Imaginesce, the other I've had for forever

Flowers are from The Paper Studio and MME

button from my stash...really need to get me some twine

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you're having a great day!

xxAutumn

Other Challenges:

Kaboodle Doodles: Monochromatic

Copic Creations: Monochromatic

Candles

I told you folks I would post the rest of what I 'made' for my neighbor, so here it is...candles.

I've made a couple of these before, but they turned out much better. I got different candles than the last time, and I think the wax on these just started melting too fast....They got pretty warped around the image. These were expensive candles, so I had to find a way to go with it. I decided, sans wax paper cover, to heat the entire candle to even it out, then made the drippings on the top to make it look more like a used candle...These are battery operated candles so this would not have happened over time.

When they were all done I set them on a rectangular glass plate and added some glass stones and that was it. My neighbor loved it and has already set them up in her house.

I also gave her a little friendship plaque and put it all in a craft bag that I had spiced up.

The stamps I used for this were from Autumn Leaves, MS, and Fancy Pants...there's also stickles around the outer edge of the big heart. I'll be making some more soon with different candles and I have a better idea in mind for those, so stay tuned if you like these.

Thanks for stopping by,
Autumn