Pumpkin patch

Last week I visited Wisley RHS gardens in Surrey again and I was stunned to see how much the colours had evolved in just a matter of weeks. We have been watching the pumpkin patch there grow too. Over the summer months we have seen some superb pumpkins and squashes growing in the experimental fields. If you follow me on Instagram here you may have seen a few of these photos 

I never knew there could be so many varieties! 

The autumnal hues at Wisley were stunning.

A few weeks back we saw a small arrangement of some of the ripened pumpkins.

However at this visit they had made a huge display at the entrance. How cool is this!

So inspired by everything I saw at Wisley I made my October artist trading cards and came up with these.

All the products, stamps and dies are Tim Holtz. The background is one of my distress reinker shaving foam makes I made with Daisy in the summer. 

Here they are individually

and one last group shot.

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

As you like it 1/3 favourite non card project the reason why is that I can swap my coins and they are quick to make.

Stamping sensations 1/3 autumn glory

Chocolate baroque 1/3 anything goes

Try it on Tuesday 1/3 autumn colours

The library challenge 1/3 what to look for in autumn

Thanks so much for stopping by and for the kind comments you take to leave. I really appreciate and love reading them.  I am back on Monday with my fortnightly Visible Image design team post.

Take care and stay safe,

Bye for now,

Jane x

More festive ATC coins

Good morning this is a scheduled post for me as it is a very special small person's birthday today...yes my little granddaughter Daisy is 5!

It's also time for my 2nd Design team inspiration project for Country View Challenges.

Our theme for November is ATC coins. These have been taking the crafting world by storm since earlier this year. Just in case they have passed you by they are the same as Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) only coin shaped and should measure 2 1/2 inches diameter. They were designed to be made in small editions by artists to sign on the back and trades them. However I think they are a great way to add circular focals when designing cards (which is what I plan to do with mine).

I shared my first set here and if you remember I made this master board.

For this 2nd set of coins I used the deer from Tim Holtz Styled Woodlands stamper's anonymous set.

I added some Tim Holtz Christmas Remnant Rubs, Works festive words in red and Cheery Lynn snowflakes. These are the 3 ATC coins I made.

I used the last piece of the masterboard (us crafter's never waste a thing do we?) 

added some die cut stars and snow flakes in white and glitter card and made this card;

finished off with a festive red ribbon.

I have plans for my other festive coins...watch this space. I would like to enter my card into the following challenges.

Simon says stamp Monday make your own background

Dragonfly dreams 3/3 anything goes

Happy little stampers Christmas 3/3 anything goes

That's Crafty 2/3 winter wonderland
ABC Christmas challenge 2/3 W + X mine is W for wishes and X for Christmas
Creative Inspirations 2/3 November chill
Addicted to stamps and more 2/3 make your mark
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas challenge 1/3 #411 anything goes

We hope to inspire lots of you to join our November ATC coins challenge over at Country View, all the details can be found here.

So back to Daisy's 5th birthday, now how on earth did that happen? 5 years have gone by in the blink of an eye. I have made her a rainbow unicorn cake and card as this is her party theme....here is a tiny sneak peek of her card..

...I will reveal the rest in my blog post tomorrow morning.

Back in the morning, thanks for stopping by.

Bye for now,

Jane x