A FALL Journey in a card and Envelope

A Vintage Journey

 

I am not the least bit surprised to see a challenge at this time of year with the theme of

 

FALL

 

Fall is a wonderful time of year with all the beautiful colors, one trying to out do the next one...  almost every color in the rainbow is glistening with dew, brightly shining and magnificently displaying its final round of beauty... 

 

So to capture this.. I felt that I needed to really get my colors nice and clear so I had to think thru this one clearly to get

CLEAR COLORS... 

BRIGHT COLORS...

and a little hint of DEW on the leaves... 

 

So this is what I came up with...

 

I have to apologize that I forgot to take pictures from the very beginning...  but you will get the idea anyway... 

 

 

This is what my final piece looks like.. it is a card and the envelope... which will have to be sent in another envelope... as this one will NOT make it thru the postal systems... LOL..  anyway... you will see all the components as I go along... 

 

I am going to start off with the card... I had started to make the card and envelope and then remember the camera... so I spread out the card so you can see the paper...  I used a technique using clear embossing powder, with layers and layers of stamping and inking in between... I hope to do this with a tutorial some day... I love doing this for each and every season...  just a really unique technique and you always get fun and pretty results... 

 

For this, I used Tim's leaf set of stamps...  and also Distress inks and round blending tools... you can get into areas that you normally would not get into with the little round ones...  and with this technique you will need to do that... 

 

When the card is folded, this is the front, with the paper beads I made from some paper that I also colored with

RIPE PERSIMMON... 

and cleaned up the worksheet with my ribbon... and added some mustard seed and also a little tiny bit of vintage photo...  

 

I attached a few leaves... which I made from Tim's Tattered Leaf Die Template...  love it... quick and easy and tons of leaves.. then I just have to have fun coloring them... a little spritz here and there.. and you have instant pretty leaves... 

 

I did edge them all with some browns... and also some greens...  

 

  

 

Down in the lower left corner I stamped this stamp which is from Just Rite...  love their stamps too... 

 

AUTUMN

the year's last,

loveliest smile... 

 

I love the purple... which shows up better in the camera than it does in real life... LOVE IT all...  The leaves on this look almost transparent....  and the colors are vivid... just like I wanted them... 

 

The front of the card... I also attached a leaf which is shown on the front and goes into the inside of the card... 

 

 

The inside of the card...  with a few leaves... that sort of got blown into the center... 

 

My favorite fall saying... 

 

EVERYONE MUST TAKE TIME TO

SIT AND WATCH

THE LEAVES TURN...

 

Have you ever done that... it is amazing... it takes a long long time...  LOL... 

 

The envelope...

I had already glued the envelope together... I should also tell you that I made the piece of paper 8.5 x 11 with these leaves while it was an entire sheet...  I then folded it in half and tore it... not cut it... tore it...  thus the ragged edge... also I couldn't find my scissors... and wanted to see the papers... oh yes... I love it...  Added some words to the envelope.. 

 

and also some Pickled raspberry... and I was HAPPY... 

 

Here is a close up of the leaves... you can see the embossed areas... 

 

I have told you that I love to make papers... so this on my inking area table... and so I stamped a pumpkin from Tim's set... and then started to color with the Distress markers...  but I didn't have the RIPE PERSIMMON

that I wanted... so I used a brush and distress stain on my worksheet and finished coloring the pumpkin.. 

 

All finished... 

 

 

I cut it out... a little too much as you can see here...

but on the envelope no one will ever see it... except YOU.. 

 

I added a few more leaves, and also the word AUTUMN from some of Tim's stickers... and a piece of raffia...  all done...

When I went to glue this all down... and piece of cheese cloth got stuck to my fingers... (Too much glue on my fingers...) and it wanted to go into the arrangement... so I let it...  and that is it... 

 

When the card is in the envelope... the top leaves stick out... I love that... so does the ribbon with the beads... 

 

The envelope alone.. 

 

The card and envelope... 

as you can see the leaves are out...  just adding to the

fall arrangement... 

 

On A Vintage Journey the design team has really done a fantastic display of wonderfully FALL items... you have to go take a look see...  lots of eye candy... and so many pretties... go to each site... as you will get 100's of ideas for your fall cards, books and fun...  it is exciting... and really hope to see your piece in the LINK... 

 

Thanks for stopping by here for a visit...  as I really appreciate you coming by...  and also love all the sweet loving comments you leave too...  I cherish them all..

 

Have a fun fall season... and see you later with more goodies..

 

Also... please check back here on Thursday the 25th of Septmeber  ... as I will be the guest designer on FRILLY AND FUNKIE...

 

oh my goodness what will it be this time... 

I am excited to share it with you... so please check it out here...  and on Frilly and Funkie...

 

 

Thanks again for all your love and support... 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie     

 

 

 

Our Farm

From time to time I have to go find myself... where I am... do I like what I am creating, can I do better, what direction do I need to take now...  etc.   I guess we all go thru that thought process one time or another... I do it pretty frequently these days...  not really sure where I really belong... 


So I decided to take a little break and regroup with myself and I pulled out a canvas  (12 x 16 inches)   and started to work.. 

I started to play with the Texture paste and some stencils that I had just received as a prize... they were all so inviting.. .but used the leaves... 

 

I started to add some textures.. .the brown shaded areas are ground Mica that I added to the Gesso...  what fun I was having...  just doing my thing... and nothing else.. 

 

I colored the canvas with Distress paints and also some Adirondack paints... as I only had a few of the distress ones at the time...

 

I added a few butterflies and also some 'stone' work... NC where I live has so very much stone work all around the place... love it all.. so I wanted to capture some of that...  but I was at a stopping point now... and didn't really know where I wanted to go next... 

 

BACK TO MY GOOD OLD PAPER .... 

 

I hope you can see this ...

(please click on pictures to get the fullest size of any pictures.....  )

 

I took a piece of white cardstock... and started to play with some more stencils...  one was of a gingko leaf... I love Gingko leaves...  they are so very wonderfully different to me... so I wanted to play with that one.. and the hexagon one I had made from one of Tim's Dies... LOL.. Love those dies... and then to get a stencil too.. .great guns... how fantastic is that...  Okay...  so then I started to lay on the textured paint... I did happen to dye it... that was something I wanted to try again.. I had done it once... but this time I went to town... embossing, and then texture paste off and on all over the paper...  what fun...

 

NOW WHAT??? 

 

Well one thing I have to confess now, is that I got so wrapped up in what I was doing... that I forgot to take pictures... LOL... so very sorry...  but when that happens, my husband even knows not to bother me... I am deep in fun, messiness and sheer play time...  music is off the walls, at times... and the room is bouncing with good energy... loving it all.. 

 

I decided to rip the paper up into small pieces and put it onto the canvas... could I really do that???  Well I did... 

 

At this stage I hope you can sort of see where I used each and every little bit of that 8.5 x 11 piece of paper... I loved it... and was amazed that I could tear it up... 

 

I also added some misc leaves I had made.. .using texture paste that was left over... I just made a bunch of leaves... sheets of them... 

 

As you can see I added tissue tape, and real live branches from the yard... and I also drew and cut out some garlic.. 

 

I added a piece of Mica that is in the lower left hand corner of this picture above... it was found on the farm...  lovely layered mica... clear and beautiful...   I still have about a 1/2 inch of it left...  love it... 

 

I used a crackle stamp and made it look old... and more tape... and painted the butterflies... 

I added a few leaves... as fall is coming... sooner than we expect it this year...  and these leaves are from kraft glassine paper from Tim's collection of goodies and stuff...  love it.. special occasions it is used.. this was one of them.. 

 

 

 

I also used a crow stamp and colored it with black and DEEP VIOLET... not sure if you can see it as well as I can...  it is perched on the real branch...  loving the whole thing... 

 

There are areas where I have tucked textured assorted papers under other pieces of textured papers... just because I felt like it... no other reason... just having that deep rooted feeling of fun and creativity.. 

 

Another crow... but this time he is made from textured paste and also a die cut that was turned into a stencil...  love him... in fact I made about 15 of them... 

(too much mixed paste... LOL.. but they will be used... no fear... have fun... make things... enjoy what you are doing...  ) 

 

A little heart...  a little sweet memory

 

 

I had bought these really neat letters from Tim's stash of stuff...  and had to use them... they were really special and so this was going to be their premier...  LOVE THEM... I didn't do anything to them other than to glue them onto the canvas... wow... LOVE IT... 

 

I dropped the A  as there is little glass corked bottle over it... not sure you can see it...

 

I had a very difficult time photographing this picture...  but I hope you can see it all..

 

 

 

A crow hiding it's face under the gingko leaf... LOL... 

 

 

Hope you have enjoyed this LONG posting... but I did want to share this with you all... I was waiting for the right moment... and I think that entering it into the Frilly and Funkie Challenge is the right moment... 

 

As the challenge this week is Summer Garden... and this is all about our farm... our gardens and our memories of this summer time here on our farm... 

 

I do hope that YOU have a wonderful day and that you enjoy everything about it...  Thanks so very much for stopping by for a visit and commenting on this part of my life, that I have shared with you... 

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie 

A few challenges all combined...

July 11th I went to SIMON SAYS MONDAY CHALLENGE and low and behold... I had won the $50.oo shopping coupon...  oh wow...  it took me a long long time to pick out what I REALLY needed... LOL..  and after making many orders, I finally pushed the button that said Order complete???  YES... OMG... I had just picked out all kinds of really NEAT STENCILS...  love these things... can't have enough of them in my mind... been playing with these things in journals and on cards for over 4 years now...  and now with this TEXTURED PASTE... over the moon ALICE!!!!  (Do you remember that show... Jackie Gleason???)  Oh well guess you had to be there kind of thing.. 

So... the stencils arrived in a really short period of time... like in about 4 days...  and I could hardly wait to get into the studio to play...  oh what fun...

Well in a few minutes I ran out of space to lay down the wet papers... LOL.. so I took a break and studied them all... what fun stencils I had gotten...

I love them all... all having to do with nature... and so that is just me... I will use these for a very long time... that is for sure...

so here is some of my first 'off the press' examples of my night of playing with my new STENCILS... THANK YOU Simon Says Monday Challenge...  I really love shopping there ... and will be back again soon... I even got a $5.00 off coupon to use... so I will be back real soon... wow... what fun is this...

So here is what I created...

 

This is a little book...  3x4 inches... and made from one coffee filter...  put together with a piece of raffia... how simple can that be...

 

This project is for a few challenges.. so there were some 'rules' that I had to follow... 

Like

Use what is on your work table... 

Scratched up and Grungy

Recycle something.. 

Use something NATURAL

 

So I have used all these things... and what was on my work table was pictures I had printed of my Mother In law's maternal family... and a large coffee filter (recycled)  and raffia, and assorted other stuff...  that I used only one of...

 

And that was a piece of paper that I had made the other day...  using one of my stencils... Gingko leaf... and I had embossed it about 10-15 times... different color embossing powders, and then laid it down to play with later... well later arrived... I cut it up into 6 pieces... and also used a piece of small burlap which was also on my work table... left over from my And the BEAT GOES ON book...  (check the posting prior to this one... ) 

 

And this is how it all came together...

 

 

If you remember I had fun making all kinds of leaves the other night... well I cut some out and used a FEW of them in here...  love these gingko leaves...  used the stencil to make the paper and then used it with the Textured paste to make the textured leaves... what a great thing... 

 

This is a picture taken of My Mother in laws, Grandmother, Mother and Uncle..  I think about in the late 1800's...  yikes... a long time ago.. 

 

The center of the book...  on the left my Mother in Laws Father picture... and she is on the right...

 

 

Her Dad, who passed away when she was only 10 years old...  she hardly knew him, but loved him dearly... He brought her home a doll you will see in a little while... 

 

This picture was taken with a buddy of his on the pier at Atlantic City NJ... that is why the picture is so weird... I was going to have him sit on something and I actually forgot...  (time is running short and I need to fix dinner... wow!!!) 

 

 

 

And here is my Mother in Law... with her little doll and what a HAT!!! 

And check out those shoes... wow... 

 

 

 

Another and last section of this little book...

 

 

 

Her name was Virginia, but we  called her Virge... 

 

She lived to be over 85 years old...  (always sort of said she was 29 and wouldn't say anything different...LOL) 

 

 

 

I really love this little book... it is soft and small and will fit into a very small little box of some of her special things... and her family was very special to her... 

 

I used some of Tim's Remnant rubs.. .I love those things...  so handy and they really make a nice accent... 

 

Hope you enjoyed your day... and have a very pleasant one tomorrow too...  thanks for stopping by for a visit...

 

Here are the Challenges that this little book is for...

 

Sunday Stamper... Week #320  A Natural Woman 

 

Simon Says Monday Challenge ...  Scratched up and Grungy 

 

Craft Hoarders Anonymous...  #13  Let's Cycle   

 

The Kraft Journal  #184  What's on your work Table..  

 

Which again... I need to take a few more minutes and say thank you to this group of wonderful gals on this design team for picking MY GIRL as a winner... thank you so very much.. .I am honored and am now displaying my badge proudly..  THANK YOU  Gloria and the Kraft Journal Team 

 

Create something special and love the day.  

 

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie