Autumn sunflowers

Hello, crafting friends!

 

Welcome to another fun challenge at Tic Tac Toe! Betty has come up with a board that will cover any halloween cards you may be making but that may also inspire you for autumn birthdays, thank you cards and note cards.

 

I've chosen the middle row for my note card, Orange/Free/Fall Leaves, choosing an older favourite stamp from Clearly Besotted called Sending Sunshine.

 

Using diluted ink, I painted a pale orange background on watercolour paper. When it was dry, the flowers and leaves were stamped in a neutral ink and coloured with oil based pencils. I smeared the edges of a card base with orange ink before attaching the panel to it. I could've added an orange card mount but this technique gives the same effect without any bulk.

 

I stamped a sentiment directly on the panel using a stamping platform but, can you believe, it went wonky! I think I may need to book myself in for an eye test as this seems to be a recurring event for me!! Anyway, I rescued it with a strip of black card and a block sentiment from Uniko glued ever the top.

Okay, it's over to you! Which column or row will you choose? Or will you opt for one of the diagonals? Do hop over to the Tic Tac Toe challenge blog and check out all the wonderful inspiration from my teamies. You'll find the Linky Tool at the bottom of the post and you can use it to share your own creation when you're ready. We can't wait to see what you make!

CHALLENGES

It's always lovely to celebrate a challenge's birthday and this month marks the 6th birthday of The Flower Challenge - congratulations to Viv and her team! The theme this month is Use A Sentiment; I'm also linking up with Allsorts where Lynn has chosen Gardeners' Delight as her theme; I'm also playing along with the Octoberfest challenge at Double D where I think my sunflowers qualify as an October motif; and there's an Any Occasion challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More so I'm joining in there too.

 

AND IN OTHER NEWS

The Golden Girls have been having fun together again! Here they are at a kissing gate - you know, the kind that you hold open halfway so that the dogs can wind their way through.

 

Well, Lulu was adamant that she was not going through that Bad Gate at first! "No," she said. "If I go in there, the gate will close on me and I will probably DIE!!!" We solved the problem by having Eva model the through-the-gate action to get Lulu wanting to follow, and then I coaxed her through, getting her nose to follow my fingers that were holding a morsel of cheese. "Absolutely NO!" she said. "Not even if you ARE holding cheese... mmmmm, oh all right then!" and she whisked through :)

Sending hugs,