Autumnal inky play

The lovely mild autumnal days have continued to inspire me. This afternoon the temperature got up to 20c again.

I enjoy regular walks through my local park and watching the leaves slowly change colour. All the wildlife babies from the spring have now grown up.

I have continued to find more conker treasures too ;0)

And in my own garden the colour palette is changing too, 

All these golds and browns inspired me to try something very different for me this year. I decided to try an autumnal palette for some crafting. Normally yellows, browns and orange rarely feature in my crafting world. If I am honest I am not a huge fan of dark brown or orange for making cards and I rarely tend to use it as a prime colour.  However there are so many great card challenges this month which are asking for autumnal colours I took the plunge. As I do not own any autumnal themed papers at all I decided that I would make my own backing paper with some TH distress inks. The only distress ink pad colours I have which are vaguely autumnal are vintage photo, black soot and walnut stain. I also decided to add a little yellow with my squeezed lemonade distress ink. I went down to my studio and got messy and here are the papers I produced as well as a tag.

I then realised that I had no real autumnal rubber stamps, until I remembered that Halloween is associated with the autumn. In an ancient box of stamps I remembered I owned a spiders' web wood backed rubber stamp which must be 10+ years old. I also wanted to make a new Guest DT card for Ignacio of Nicecrane designs using his fun Halloween digi images. I love being part of his team and he has produced some fabulous Halloween Images . I chose 3 images and printed them off.  He also has a great sheet of Grunge Halloween sentiments  The beauty of them being digital is that you can make them any size you wish.

I used my spiders web stamp and gold embossing powder to put some detail onto to my inked card.

For my first card I used the top image as that really makes me smile.

Here it is; now don't be spooked...........................................................;0)........................

BOO!
Isn't this a fun image, I just love it. Here is a close up

I had a fab afternoon in my studio this afternoon and managed to make 2 tags and another card using my hand made inky paper. I will be sharing those with you during October.

This means I can now join in the fun of several card challenges this month.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Bearly Mine Halloween
Feeling Crafty autumnal
My Mum's Craft shop halloween
Heck of a Challenge Autumn
The Cupboard Trilogy Halloween/fall
Ali Craft autumn
Country View Crafts Halloween
A little bit Crafty shabby/inky
Whimsy Shabby/vintage
Stampin for the weekend fairies or fantasy
Rhedd and Rosie male card
Make it Monday Linky Party #160
Loves Rubberstamps anything goes
A gem of a challenge use black on your card
Pile it on Challenge leaves
4 Crafty Chicks autumn
2 Sisters anything goes
Pan Pastel anything goes (So sorry I entered this into the wrong week initially..this is now the correct link!!)


I hope I didn't spook you too much;0) It's nearly another weekend again. We have finally got some welcome rain here this evening which my garden is enjoying. The weather again at the weekend is looking very mild and we hope to get out to enjoy some more fresh air and the beautiful autumnal countryside.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x