Fall Wall Hanging

Hello, dear Friends!

We're half-way through the week already. What an exciting one it's been for us. Yesterday we met our daughter-in-law at the hospital and I got to be with her when she found out her coming baby is a boy. This will be our eleventh grandchild and fifth boy... pretty well balanced, I think.

And speaking of grandkids, when our granddaughter, Dixie, saw the wool pumpkin project I was making, she asked if I would do a picture for her with a row of pumpkins. I was happy to oblige, and created this one for her.

It's on a base of cardboard. The papers are some from my stash... last years... and some stickers.

I popped things up for more dimension and edged it all with with orange cotton twill tape.

I love making projects for the grandkids... kind of hope they'll get the bug themselves.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hearty Thanksgiving Greeting Wall Hanging

This fall wall hanging is loaded with a variety of elements. I love using natural material on my projects, so I included real acorns, a piece of vine from our woods, and a boughten twig heart.

The base and first layer are chipboard and stained (Vintage Photo Distress) unbleached muslin.

The dies used are Alterations File Tabs, Weathered Clock, Thinlits Mixed Media, and Sizzix Vintage Doily.

The papers are Echo Park Fall Is In The Air, Authentique Harvest, and a piece of the free sheet that came in one of my Stampington magazines. The Harvest chipboard sticker is by Echo Park and the fussy cut pumpkin is from a sheet of Graphic 45's An Eerie Tale.

My other soft goods are wrinkled seam binding ribbon, lace scraps, cheesecloth...

burlap leaves by Prima, and flowers from Petaloo.

We will be heading to Arkansas for our son's latest movie premier (number three), so I have a few posts scheduled. I hope they all go live as planned.

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Feeling Blessed Fall Wall Hanging

After a week of 50th anniversary celebrations... I'm feeling blessed myself! This Feeling Blessed wall hanging, however, was a birthday gift I made for daughter number two. Both of our girls had birthdays last month, and since they are big home decor fans, I thought they would like something new for fall to hang. 

I did a lot of dimensional layering with these papers and fabric. The material is one from Tim Holtz I've had in my stash for some time. I ready need to break this stuff out a lot sooner than what I'm doing... such a hoarder! Shame on me!

The papers are by Carta Bella, Bo Bunny and Echo Park. The coke bottle is a Carta Bella Autumn sticker as is the Feeling Blessed tab. The multi stripe border is another.

The wood leaves are from my Tennessee wood shop. I got the dragonfly from there, too. I'm hoping my stash will hold out until we can make another venture down there to restock. 

The flowers are a mix of Petaloo Botanicas and I Am Roses mulberry flowers with some natural May Arts burlap string loops added in for additional texture.

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Autumn Wall Hanging

 

Hi friends. I hope you're enjoying a wonderful day. Our's has been busy with an early morning trip to the orchard for fresh fruit and veggies, a stop a Rural King for birdseed, and a drive thru at Starbucks for a pound of Caffe Verona (our favorite). I can tell you, the car smelled amazing all the way home.

With August nearing the halfway point, I'm starting to create some fall wall hangings for gifts and some to sell in my shop. This one is lots of machine stitching on fabric and paper with a base of chipboard.

For fall projects I like to use natural elements like jute, burlap, burlap string, wood, along with corrugate and paper.

Plenty of mulberry flowers...

pumpkin stickers and outdoorsy images.

I love autumn and nothing makes me happier than to work with the colors of fall.... even when it's in the 90's outside!

Thanks for stopping by!

Some Fall Inspiration

Some people are born to inspire. Audrey Pettit is one of those with that ability. Our styles are quite different, but she can create a fabulous card, and it screams "okay, Linda, make one like me!" Numerous times, she was been my starting point, my muse, my inspirer. My fall wall hanging is my take on this one Audrey created for Sizzix (my favorite die company ever). 

We were in Tennessee, when I read her post and saw her project. My mind wandered back to those Alteration's pumpkin and banner dies I saw at Your Scrapbook Superstore that morning.

Thankfully, when I got there the next day they had one Pumpkin Jack left, and I eagerly grabbed it up along with the Tattered Banners. Now I couldn't wait to get back to Ohio and create my own.

I started with a piece of Canvas Corp Flute (fancy for cardboard) and added a mat of BoBunny DoubleDot Gingerbread Vintage paper. At this point I went ahead and added two wide eyelets in the top corners to tie in my seam binding ribbon and bows. The next mat layer of Tim Coffey's K & Company fall paper is popped up with foam 3-D adhesive.

I cut my Pumpkin Jack from the orange and green papers in the Core'dinations Kraft-Core Nostalgic collection. I embossed it with my Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls folder, then sponged on Archival Coffee ink on the raised areas.

It looked a little plain not having eyes, nose and mouth like Audrey's, so I cut out a design using Alterations Mini Acorn die. Under it a put a scrap of that same DoubleDot, first heat setting it with two coats of Utee (ultra thick embossing enamel.) Then on went the banner... it's DoubleDot Chiffon Journal, stamped and sponged with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I added two I Am Roses leaves sponged with Gathered Twigs D I and a Petaloo flower to the base of the pumpkin stem.

Then I glued on a bit of Spanish moss at the bottom, more Petaloo flowers, and two metal leaves that I shaped with my needle nosed pliers.

I think that covers it all.

Thank you, Audrey, for inspiring me. I loved your little smiling guys so much, I just had to have my own... and now I have two new dies to play with, too!

Thanks for stopping by... I so appreciate it!

Linda