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

So What

Hey all! Hope you are well this week. I'm running a bit behind posting this, but I've had a million things going on this week. Anyway, here is my Simply Sassy inspiration post for this week...

'So What' is her name and she seems pretty spunky to me, so I wanted to leaver her CAS this time around. I found these awesome MME papers in my stash and thought they were perfect! The mesh is really old ...can't even remember when I got it, but I thought it went well with her. I also found a fab sketch at CLP and knew it would be perfect!

A closer view. I don't know about you all, but I spend a great deal of time coloring my images...the main reason it takes me so long to make a card, so you can imagine I may be a little upset if someone, Ie. DD, decided that she just wasn't good enough and scribbled all over her!! That being said I am now even happier I went CAS since this card has now been destroyed!! 2yr olds, what are you gonna do with them!!

Well, that's all for me today, I hope you like it even though it had a short life :)

Thanks for stopping by and 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

Simply Angellic

Hello my lovely followers! Hope you all had a fabulous weekend and your Monday is off to a good start!

Today I've got a wonderful Sassy to share with you! Here is...

 ...'Tiffany' as an angel. I got the wonderful wings idea from my teammate Paula who added butterfly wings and I just loved it! I found these angel like wings in some really old stamps from Fancy Pants and thought they would go wonderfully! I also thought a card like this needs to stand up, so it's also an...

 ...easel card. This isn't the best of views, but I'm terrible at taking pic's of these, sorry. It is very pretty IRL.

These gorgeous papers are from Kaiser Kraft and since I originally had purple in mind these were perfect! I wasn't thinking flowers for this one and happily I came across this prima butterfly I got ages ago and then I found this leftover prima swirl and though perfect! Lastly, I added some stickles for and even more fairytaleish effect.

I really went outside my comfort zone when coloring her, but I'm really glad I did. I'm loving the white hair and grayish eyes and I can't wait to experiment with more fun options!

Here are my copics. There's a lot there, but I had actually first colored her skirt a lighter purple, but then decided it didn't contrast enough with the background so I colored over it with the darker BV's I again did some extra shading with some gray pencils too.

Well, that's all for today. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

Flutterby Wednesday: Open
Simon Says Stamp: dies or punches
Raise the bar: things with wings
Come and get it challenges: Easel cards
The corrosive challenge: punches or dies
Paper Sundaes: Anything Goes 

Southern Girls Challenge #28

Hello all! It's time again for another challenge over at Southern Girls. This week our theme is pretty east as it's Anything Goes! Our wonderful sponsors this week are Robyn's Fetish and  Paper Pretties. I got the pleasure of working with a cute image from Robyn's Fetish and here's what I made...

 ... a nice CAS card for me this week.  I've left the sentiment blank so it can be used for whatever when I need it. I actually colored this to match some other papers, but after putting the blue in there I didn't like it and luckily these(DCWV) worked ok.

Here's  closer view of puppy over the wall. I gotta say I'm pretty happy with how it turned out color wise as I really wasn't sure about the bricks to begin with.

Well, that's all for me today, be sure to stop by the Southern Girls blog to see what the rest of the girls have come up with!

Have a great day!

xxAutumn

Simply Sweet Sundae!

Hello everyone, I hope your Monday is going well. DD is still sleeping, so I gotta say I'm happy...I really function better with a little time to myself in the morning. Anyway, today I've made a fun card...

 ... using the fabulous new Sassy image called Sundae Service. Oh' I just adore her and I think she's going to make a lot of great cards. I was so excited to have these fabulous papers from BoBunny( Sweet Tooth collection ) to go with her. I love the colors in this paper and really enjoyed coloring her and making this card. I did follow the current monthly sketch at CLP, tho I had to change it a bit because of the design on my bottom paper, so I hope it's still ok.

Here's a closer view of Sundae...

I used some prismacolor pencils on her to darken the shadows and actually change the color of her skirt...it wasn't quite right with the copics. I am totally hooked on this technique, it adds wonderful depth and it was tons easier to do the shading under her...I"m sure I'm not the first one to mess that up and it's so nice to be able to erase if you have to :)

Here's the copics. Yep, I used all of them in some way or another...kind of crazy considering it's such a small image.

These are the pencils I used.

930(magenta), 994(process red), 995(mulberry)

 To change the color of her skirt to what you now see

1074(French grey), 1083(putty beige)

for shading around and under her

947(dark umber)-hair, 905(aquamarine)-leg warmers

That's all for today. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

xxAutumn

Challenges:

CLP: Sketch
PaperPlay : Punches and Dies
Fab'n'Funky: Bingo(Stamped image, 3papers/layers, die cuts)
CREATIVE INSPIRATIONS: Anything goes