Laughing, smiling, loving

I have blogged for over 7 years and I still really enjoy sharing my posts. For me blogging is a way of documenting my creative journey as well as the happy moments in my life. Blogging to me should be be a joyful and a positive experience. It does not for one moment mean that I lead the perfect carefree life, that I am never ill, that we don't have sadness and tragedies, but I choose not to focus on them. I believe that if one person who reads my blog leaves feeling just a little bit brighter then I have achieved my goal. This is my little place to smile. 

Today is my weekly dose of design team inspiration for Visible Image and I have been working with some of their awesome older quote stamps. Today I have used the laugh louder stamp.

My nearby ponds and parks make me do all 3 things every time I walk there. 

 I laugh (a little louder)... these runner ducks are hilarious as the move as one..they appeared a few weeks ago and have everyone in stitches! 

smile (a little bigger)

and love (a little deeper)

 when I see these gorgeous autumnal scenes

This is the lovely stamp 

 For my card I made an inky background using the wrinkle free technique and stamped and embossed the words.

I added some die cut leaves 

 which I also stamped with the words from the Create to escape set and I gave some a crunchy texture using crackle paint. 

I used the cosmic skies stencil with some bright multicolour inks too. They give a lovely random spotty pattern 

and add to the depth of my inky background

Here is my finished card

It's a lovely inspirational stamp I really love this typeface.

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

The Artistic Stamper 3/3 use a quote

Dies R Us 1/3 anything fall

The ribbon girl 2/3 November card challenge

Happy little stampers anything goes with dies
Fashionable Stamping 1/3 nature

Cupcake inspirations 1/3 #431
Allsorts 1/3 colours ofautumn
Card mania anything goes

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group can be found here ...it would be lovely to see you. You can add work to the "Show and Tell" album where one randomly chosen winner each month wins a £25 coupon to spend on the website.The November challenge is also up and running where the winner can win a £40 coupon! Our theme for the month is "tags"

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are weekly stamp giveaways...open world wide!

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I hope I might have brought you all a smile today and wish you a good week ahead. We had a wonderful Saturday celebrating our granddaughter's 4th birthday....I will be sharing some photos on Wednesday. Thanks so much for stopping by and for the lovely comments you take the time to leave me.

Bye for now,

Jane x