Happy Thanksgiving!

 It's a new month with a new release from Unity Stamp Co. and this fall scene had me immediately thinking a shaker card with this beautiful leaf confetti I have!

 I tried out a new technique today, called 'double vision' with the beautiful Acorn Almanac just released over at Unity Stamp Co.! I got some amazing tips from Sandi MacIver.

 Here is a card I made up for a friend's birthday (who happens to love anything pumpkin spice). I am linking up with the Lawnfawnatics Awesome Autumn challenge!

 After checking out some sneak peeks from Pigment Craft Co., I just HAD to get out my new inks! I loved the background using alternating rows of hearts with Fir + Jade ink. After creating my background using part of the Latte Heart Stencil, I ink blended a card base around the edges with Fir ink to provide an outline for my background. 

The cooler rainy weather has me looking towards fall so I put together this fall words card the other day. Using a stamp from an older Close To My Heart set (thanks, Auntie Karen!) I kept it simple so that I could play around with some more texture paste and stencils in the background. I also attached a couple of leaves and pumpkins at the bottom to add a little more interest and a pop of colour! I found some cotton sprigs at our local florist and I am in love with them - they may be in all of my next photos :)!

A fall birthday card for an upcoming family birthday. I know it's not exactly fall yet; however, as I painted these leaves and pumpkins at the lake a few days ago several little ones curled up close by to watch intently what I was doing (scroll down to the bottom of the post to see a lake picture). One of them has a birthday next week so I am interested to see if she recognizes the images on the card. I wanted to use the awesome simple sketch from Mojo Monday this week and set to work to create a textured background using one of the Knit Wits stencils from The Greetery. This is my first time playing around with textured paste so I look forward to trying it out some more. I wanted to create some scattered leaves with the tall rectangle feature of the sketch and then placed my pumpkins and sentiment on top.