Thursday, October 6, 2011

Harvest Blessings

Good morning .  This is my first post since I returned from visiting my Italian, Yankee relatives in Wisconsin.   I am so glad to be home but I miss all of my Wisconsin family terribly.    My little Bonnie and Snickers are so glad their Mommy and Daddy are home.  I'll share a picture of the goodies I found at some Wisconsin Scrapbooks stores in a later post.  But right now I want to make a big announcement.

I have been selected to join the Digi Doodles Design Team.  I discovered how much fun working with these delightful digis could be a few months ago when  I won some digis by leaving a comment during a Blog Hop.  They even offer a wonderful array of sentiments that are freebies!!!!!!!  I will be working with such a nice talented group of ladies.  I hope you will enjoy not only my creations but checking out theirs as well.  I even get to work with my bloggy buddy, Tammy Hair which I know many of you already follow.

The challenge this week is distressing.  When I went to the Digi Doodle's store to select a digi for the challenge, I found this precious Scarecrow on the first page.  It is called "Day Off" and I didn't even look further for another image.  I instantly envisioned him sitting there in a distressed setting.  Maybe I should call it a dE-stressed setting.  Fall, to me, is a time of rest nestled in between the hectic summer of living in a resort town and the hustle, bustle Christmas season.

I colored him with my Copics and sponged in a blue sky and sun.  I used my TH distressing tool around the edges of the digi and the background paper.  I made the background paper myself.  I started with 8 1/2 x 11"white card stock and started playing with a sponge and gold, silver, copper and TH Black Soot inks.  I covered the entire sheet and then misted it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Tattered Leather.  After that dried, I selected a 5" area I liked and cut  for  background paper. I used a MS fence punch and a Friskar's scalloped leaf border punch.  The leaves are from the same border punch.  The sentiment is a stamp from Artful Legacy.  All other papers are Stampin' Up.

Hope you enjoy and will pop over to join in the Digi Doodles distressing challenge.  The other talented DT ladies have provided loads of inspiration for you.  Come on, check it out.  You just might win a prize!

Have a great day and I will get around to everyone's blog shortly to see all your goodies I have missed. 

Hugs, Linda

21 comments:

  1. This is just gorgeous Linda,love your scene.xxx

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  2. fantastic card linda,love your colouring and great papers
    tracey x

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  3. I'm so glad you are home safe and sound, I've missed you! You are the sweetest person, thanks for the kind shout out. Your card is absolutely wonderful! Love the little fence and the leaves flowing over it!

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  4. Beautiful card Linda! Fall is my favorite time of year! The handmade paper is very creative.
    Pam.

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  5. Love this Linda, and the punched fence works great with the image.
    xx

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  6. Beautiful card Linda. Love the way you've put up the fence and coloured the leaves in rich colours. Hugs Bettina

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  7. I'm glad you had a great trip! Wisconsin is beautiful this time of year. Plus all the sports teams are rocking!

    Congrats on your new DT position. Your card is gorgeous. It perfectly captures the feeling of the season.

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  8. Linda, you did a fantastic job with this stamp. I love the little fence, and leaves. Super job hun!
    xx

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  9. Congrats on the DT spot, Linda! Your card looks beautiful. Nice to see you back. :)

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  10. Love what you have done with this image and that fence is great.
    Hugs
    Denise xx

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  11. love your card, and I love your driving dog too LOL, hugs, Martina

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  12. Absolutely love it! The coloring is gorgeous and I love that fence. It's going on my wish list for sure.
    Diane

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  13. First of all - welcome to our team, hope you'll feel great with us all.

    Second - I know your blog for some time and really want to say - I'm hilarious about the dog-driving picture...Well - mine don't drive, since I don't have a dog, but yours is really cute.

    And last, but not least - your card is really great with the fence and all those leaves - it smells like autumn!

    Hugs,
    Zlatina

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  14. Loving the card hun - love the fence and love the new blog look - perfect...
    Have a great weekend what ever you do
    Hugs
    Sarah xx

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  15. Wonderful card, I love the way you have incorporated a fnce into the card and image, hope you enjoy your time with DDSC
    Ruth x

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  16. I love this card big time Linda, what gorgeous colours and design a super card.
    Hugs
    Lorraine x

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  17. oh wow Linda I love this image its brilliant for autumn or even halloween...fabulously coloured...huge massive congrats on your new DT spot Linda, so well deserved, Im so pleased you had such a fantastic time away
    Mina xxx

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  18. That scare crow looks soooo laid back. He doesn't look like he is interested in much bird scaring - more like he is dreaming of pumpkin pie. Fabulous image for autumn, love your batty fence too! Congrats on your DT!!!
    Hugs, Lesley
    ps n-ot sure why the last comment I left gave my private e-mail address instead of my blog address.

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  19. Congrats Linda! About time someone snatched you up!!! Beautiful Fall card. Love the border punches and all those leaves you've given him to sit on. Don't want to hurt his bum. ~jeni :)

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  20. Super card.Love your own background piece and the punched elements work well with him.
    Lisa x

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  21. Great card! Love that fence
    Hugs,
    Julie

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Happy Crafting, Linda