Really Reasonable Ribbon September Blog Hop

Hello Friends!!

I am so excited to be participating in the

September Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop!!

Hopefully you are visiting me from Cherry's Blog.

If you are just joining the blog hop, then you will want to start at the 

Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog.
That way you can see what you can win, and not miss out on any of the Design Team's fabulous creations using this month's

Really Reasonable Ribbon Assortment!!
Here is a photo of the Ribbon Assortment below!! 

Autumn is one of my FAVORITE times of the year...and nothing says "Fall or Autumn" better than Bonnie's beautiful assortment!! 
When I saw this month's assortment, I was inspired to Design a Couple of Autumn Digital Collage sheets!!  

I love the Banner Piece I created with my collage sheet and Bonnie's Ribbons!!  It measures a little over 7 inches wide by about 9 1/2 inches long.

  I used GIMP to create the "Vintage Autumn Banner."  I found the music background and Little girl (which I altered quite a bit)  images at the Graphics Fairy.  You can find the collage sheet in my Etsy.
****If you would like a chance to win my collage sheet, then just leave a comment below.  I will do a random draw from the comments, and announce the winner on Friday Sept. 20th on my blog.****

Here are some close ups of the Banner with this month's fabulous Ribbon Assortment as well as some other fabby RRR goodies!  So many goodies here...I am not sure where to start...lol.
The gorgeous ties at the top were created with the Olive Wrinkled Ribbon.  Below the ties you will see where I used the Autumn Confetti Dots, Flowers and Leaves Grosgrains and the Diamond Tangerine Satin and Cappuccino Ribbon from this month's Autumn Assortment.  I also used the new Chloe lace and tied bows with the Diamond Sherry ribbon from the kit.

I also tucked in the Micro orange gingham ribbon, it too was inked with Walnut stain Distress ink by Ranger.  Juliet lace was tucked in between the little brown and Green banner pieces.  I cut part of the Brown Crochet lace away, to give the edge a scalloped look, and placed it across my brown banner piece.  Topped it with a darling little button from the Vintage Button Bonanza, tied with Brown Sugar Baker's Twine.  

 I did use the Art Glitter Designer dries clear Glue and the Ultra fine Metal Tip to add polka dots of glue around my banner pieces.  Below you can see where I added the dots and then added the #301 Amazon glitter to the green layer and #56 Pumpkin to the orange layer.  I used a brush to apply more glue to my cardboard base egdge and applied the #9 Brown Gala Glitz.  Autumn Confetti Dots, Flowers and Leaves  Grosgrains were used again as well as another button from the Vintage Button Bonanza, tied with Brown Sugar Baker's Twine.

Here is a close up of the focal image I designed.  I just love this little girl image I found at the Graphic Fairy.  I have her in School Clothes, Halloween Dress...and the Autumn Dress below.  Again, I used GIMP to create my collage sheet.  I used the Dream Weaver:  LJ 849 Bare Trees Stencil with Vintage Brown Photo distress ink to add a little variation to my brown music layer.  I also used more Pumpkin and Amazon glitters as well as  #324 Country Red and #226 Lily of the Valley on the little girl's dress.

My focal image, text boxes and orange layer were all elevated using the Really Reasonable Ribbon Foam Tabs.  I used the Scor Tape to adhere my Orange and green layers together, and to attach my tucked in ribbons at the top of the banner piece.

I used a piece of corrugated cardboard, which I painted Dark Orange and Shaded with Cinnamon.  I used my Perfect Layers Ruler to create a 1/2 inch border out of the cardboard.  It was soooo easy!!  I used my Orange banner piece, placed a small amount of glue using a glue stick to the center of it then placed it on my cardboard.  Then I used the 1/2 inch perfect layer ruler, and was able to draw lines and cut out the piece.  I finished decorating my layers, then added them to the cardboard piece last.

One last look at the whole piece.

I just love working with this month's ribbon assortment!! 
 I hope that you have been inspired to create some fabulous projects and do a little shopping and maybe get yourself some fabulous finds from Really Reasonable Ribbon.
**Next stop on the Hop**
Time to hop on over to Tammy's blog, see what she has created, and leave her a little love.

I will be sharing my post with
 Brag Monday at the Graphics Fairy
and
Make it Monday  

I will be playing along in these challenges
Aud Sentiments: Autumn (not Halloween)
Frilly & Funky Anything Goes
DreamWeaver: Autumn
 Thank you for visiting!
Hugs!!
Heather

Autumn is the Second Spring

********** Would you Like to win a $50 Gift Certificate??  Then send a photo of any card, layout, altered piece using one of Collage Sheets from my Etsy and send it to geckogalz@yahoo.com by  September 29th for a chance to win!!  ********** Hello Friends!!  Today I thought I would  share with you an Autumn themed card.  I just love this time of year!  The weather is perfect for me, not too hot...not to cold. I thought I would create a simple collage sheet with some pumpkins and acorns on it.

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**How about a chance to win this collage sheet?  Simple, just Hop on over to the Really Reasonable Ribbon blog....leave a comment on my blog post there.. telling me what is your FAVORITE Really Reasonable Ribbon Item by Saturday Sept 14th Midnight Eastern Time...and I will do a Random Draw and update this post with the winner on Sunday Sept 15th.**  **********
Next I found a wonderful sentiment online.  "Autumn is a Second Spring, where all the leaves are Flowers."  I LOVED it.  So I incorporated it into my collage sheet. Here is my card below.

 I used an ivory A2 size card stock base.  Added a layer of Kraft paper 4 by 5 inches in size.  I then cut out my collage pieces, and found a punched scrap piece of paper, which I decided to include in my design.  I inked everything with Ranger's Vintage Photo.

I used my Favorite Brown Sugar Baker's Twine wrapped three times around my post card piece.  I then wrapped more of the Baker's Twine around my fingers a couple of times, took another piece, and tied it in a knot around my loops to create a multiple bow.  I glued it in place above my pumpkin.  Here is a close up below.

I glued the punched piece to the back of my post card, and once the Brown sugar Baker's twine was in place, I glued this piece to my kraft paper layer.  To the left of my pumpkin, I added a piece of the Brown Crochet Lace. I topped it with the Autumn Leaves Grosgrain, one of the ribbons from this month's   Autumn Ribbon Assortment.   I used the Scor Tape to adhere the edges of both the lace and the ribbon to the back of my kraft paper piece.   I also used the Scor Tape to adhere my Kraft Paper piece to my card stock base.  I topped off the Autumn themed Really Reasonable Ribbon Goodies with some adorable buttons from both the Latte and Vintage Button Bonanza Collections.  I used the Designer Dries Clear clue to adhere the buttons to the ribbon.

My sweet little Acorn and Pumpkin pieces were adhered to the card with 3D Foam Tabs. 

One last look at the finished card.

 I Decided to add a few Glitters to my card.  I used Brown Gala Glitz on the edges, Rose Gold for my polka dots on the post card, Pumpkin to outline the pumpkin, Country red on the acorn top, Amazon Green for my acorn base and pumpkin leaf...and finally camel for the pumpkin stem.

I hope you have enjoyed my card today...and that it inspires you to create some fabulous fall projects! Thank you for visiting  Hugs Heather

SpOokTacULar Halloween Cards

Hello Friends!!

I have two cards to share with you today.  First up is One that I created using some fabby new goodies from

DreamWeaver & Art Glitters.

So Please pop on over to the 

Art Glitter Blog

To see my Tutorial and see the Art Glitter Sale.

Here is a sneak peek.

Next up

Gecko Galz is Celebrating National Card Day for the Month of September.  All the Designers will create a Greeting Card and it will be featured on the Gecko Galz Website.

My card will be featured today Sept 2, and tomorrow Sept 3rd.

Here it is below.

I used the following sets of Ephemera, Digital Papers and Digi Stamps from Gecko Galz:  

Carfax abby (striped paper) & Fangtasia (red paper) 

from the Vampire's Ball digi pack

SBO6 (raven digi stamp, I used the red paper behind it) from the 

Spellbound stamps set

The Owl image is from the 

"Owling for you" Ephemera set

the Bat and Octopus images are from the

Hocus Pocus Bottle Labels ephemera set.

Postcard and Hallowen/Greeting...I just made up :0)

Here is how I got started.  I designed the layout in GIMP.  I created a collage sheet with my pieces, and printed it out.

Next I cut out all of my pieces (I put extra on the sheet, because I hate leaving white paper...who knows...maybe I will use the other images on another project).  I distressed them with my Kraft Knife, and then inked the edges with Ranger's Walnut Stain.

Next I used a glue stick to apply glue to my black cardstock.  It was cut just a tiny bit smaller than my 5 by 7 ivory card base.  The card base was inked with Ranger's Barn Door and then Walnut Stain.

I placed my post card on my striped digi paper, and my Owl stamp on my postcard using a glue stick.  I used pop dots behind my Raven image.  Placed it on top of my post card image.

Next I used my fav Juliet Lace from Really Reasonable Ribbon and tucked it under my Raven Piece.  It would of been easier to do it before I applied it to the base layer...but I didn't know I wanted it there till after the fact :0)  You will see that later...I decided to add some more...lol.  That is just how I roll :0)  I also used some fabby black seam binding from Really Reasonable Ribbon too.

Below you will see that I used glue to glue the edges of seam binding and burgandy twine (notice how I just snuck that in there, and I inked it with vintage photo).

I added some Art Glitter Sticky tape to the back of my piece.

I removed the red backing from the tape and applied my striped piece to the card base.  Here is where I sneaked in more of the Juliet Lace.  I also used a Button from RRR's Vintage Button Bonanza and tied a little bow out of the red twine.  I also added my Halloween & Greetings Text boxes.  To the left I added to of the Halloween labels.  Next I used my Art Glitter Designer dries clear Glue with the Ultra fine Metal Tip to make a line around the edges of my card.

I decided to add a few dots of glue too...and then added 

 #188 Black Vinyl Art Glitter.

Here is another look at the finished piece.

How about a close up?

One more close up!

Thank you for visiting me today!!

Hugs!!

Heather