Hi all! Its the 1st of the month which means the beginning of another challenge over at Creative with Stamps, and the theme this month is “Pumpkin”. So I look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations featuring pumpkins and you have a whole month to create them!
I love pumpkins, something about their full roundedness really appeals to me. They are also a sign that fall is here and I LOVE fall! Who cannot love all those gorgeous orange, gold and red hues. I think my favourite fall memory will always be the one where we were driving through Shirley on the old Route 66, after visiting the Funks Grove Pure maple sirup farm. The stretch of road lined with trees bursting with the colours of Autumn, was just breathtakingly gorgeous, and that scenery will forever be etched in my memory.
So I tried to recreate these colours in my Pumpkin card, which was cerated using 2 different pumpkin digi stamps from Pattie’s Creations and QKR Stampede. I also drew in afew pumpkins to fill in the gaps. Can you tell which ones they are? I used my Winsor and Newton watercolours to paint them and when they were dry, I cut the panel using My Favorite Things scallop rectangle die and matted it on a mauve card base. The beautiful sentiment comes from CASual Fridays.
Well I hope you liked my card and I would love to hear your thoughts on Autumn. Do pop over to the Creative with Stamps challenge blog and see what my team mates have created just to inspire you, and leave them some warm Autumn love too!
Thanks for stopping by, have a great creative month… and maybe make some pumpkin pie (π) too!
Hugs,
I’m sharing this with:
Paru’s cardmaking challenge – Anything Goes
Calling All Sistahs Encouragement challenge
Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge – Anything Goes without the butterfly option
Pattie’s Creations – Anything Goes
Your colouring is beautiful, Stephanie. That pumpkin border looks amazing! Thanks so much for joining us over at HLS Watercolour Challenge this month.
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Beautiful. Thanks for playing along with us at Patties Creations 🙂
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This card is absolutely gorgeous, Gwen. I love that gorgeous pumpkin border that is colored so beautifully, and what a perfect sentiment to go along with it. Sorry to see you leave CWS. I always enjoy your work. I hope to see your creations in blogland. Hugs, Stephanie.
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Oh dear
your watercolor of the pumpkin so so adorable
I love the way you do it
I am in love with this card sweety and sad you leave me and Lilian
hope we always meet on our blog and post or we meet again in Munich
come please at 15 Sept….I will send you per whats app okay…will you join Indonesian Ladies meeting at 15 Sept around 17 Uhr sweety?
PS:
I am sorry Gwen… I was in Indonesia from 22 July till 26 Augst
and just have time to open my computer again
and I miss to visit your lovely post
for today I visit some friends
and if I have enough time more I will do catch up
biig hugs and see you on my Blog again sweety
Monika
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This is so nice! It goes perfect with our current challenge “Anything Goes” at Patties Creations Design Challenge. I love how you used my image called “Pumpkin With Vines”. Thanks for joining us…
Pattie
Artist and Owner
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I agree with you about the colours of Autumn and what a lovely memory you used for the colours to inspire your card. I love the touches of blue and nope can’t tell which of the pumpkins you drew! Thanks for joining Calling All Sistahs
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