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Thursday, August 16, 2012

August Blog Hop with Sean and Regina


WELCOME TO THE AUGUST BLOG HOP!

Hi everyone!  Thanks for playing along in our August blog hop!  The Blog Hop with Sean & Regina is featuring cards and sentiments celebrating the fall season this month! After a very hot and humid July, most of us are looking forward to a cool and colorful fall! When we think of fall, our minds swirl like we are surrounded by falling leaves and a crisp cool breeze in the air. Each host/hostess will have a card creation posted that is his/her representation of what fall means to them.



Scrapbook Stamp Society is our blog hop sponsor!  The overall winner will receive digi’s from our sponsor.  Please visit them at http://scrapbookstampsociety.com/index.php?

Also some of our blog hop host/hostess designers will be offering blog candy as prizes on their blog sites, so please do not forget to visit his/her blog (and leave a comment) to be eligible for bonus blog hop prizes!

Here is my fall card. I love fall, mostly because of the beautiful colors. I love seeing the gorgeous fall leaves and the pumpkins that start showing up everywhere. So, I had to incorporate both into my card.


My card is made using Gina K Designs Pure Luxury brand new Tomato Soup card stock as the base. (Love this new color!). The a layer of Pure Luxury Dusty Sage. The strip on the left side is PL Honey Mustard with a piece of patterned paper from the new Gina K Designs Sun-kissed Autumn patterned paper pack. I used stamps from the new Gina K Designs set by Theresa Momber called Country Roads and from her set called Autumn Beauty stamped on PL Ivory paper. Inks used were Memento Espresso Truffle,Toffee Crunch and Summer Sky. I colored the trees, grass and pumpkins with Copics. The ribbon and the nail heads are from Gina K Designs also.  I hope my card inspires you to think of your favorite fall things.

Now it is your turn to blog hop with all of our friends!  The rules are simple:

Leave a comment on Regina’s blog first (and become a follower to enter a chance to win the grand prize from Scrapbook Stamp Society)!  :) 

Go down the list of blogs visiting all of them (see below).  Leave comments on their blog pages to be eligible for bonus blog candy from select blog hosts. The blog hop host/hostee offering bonus blog candy will indicate that he/she has a bonus blog candy prize so read their blog post carefully.  Each blog will have the name and blog address for the next host/hostess in line for the blog hop.  

At the end of the hop, a random winner will be chosen for the Blog Hop prize from our sponsor and select blog hop hosts for Bonus Blog Candy.  The deadline for leaving comments is Monday, August 20, 2012 at 8pm CST.   Winners of the Grand Prize and bonus Blog Candy will be announced Tuesday, August 21, 2012

The Blog Hop with Sean & Regina participants are as follows:
Thanks for visiting and joining in on the hop! Now jump on over to Donna's blog to see what she has created.

20 comments:

Melissa said...

Kay, your card is very pretty. I love summer, but I am so ready for some cooler weather and fall colors.

Anonymous said...

Kay, your card is so gorgeous! I love your use of the GKD "Sun-Kissed Autumn" line! Beautiful! Thank you for being a design hostess on our hop! Sean

CraftyMomFL said...

Kay, oh my gosh - how super pretty your card is! I love fall and it's this time of the year when I wish most we could have the change of seasons! (I'm in So. FL so that doesn't happen) I love the new GKD stamps and paper.

Donna said...

Beautiful colors and great layout. I love the fall colors and pumpkins too. My favorite time of the year!

meemee48 said...

Such a bold, beautiful card. Fall, here we come!

TammieLien said...

Love the fall colors and since I live in Az..Well let's just say I come to my home state for two months and enjoy the changing colors of the trees here in Wash State.Pumpkins I love too...What a lovely card:)

TammieLien said...

lovely fall card.My favorite time of year:)

TammieLien said...

lovely fall card

TammieLien said...

lovely fall card

cardscookiecarrotcake said...

Gorgeous card! Can't wait to get these new Gina K color card stock.

Aixa M. said...

Very nice; love the colors and the scene.

Cheryl Wright said...

Beautiful card, Kay! Those colours are gorgeous too - very bright and bold!

Linda Anderson said...

Wowza Kay, this card is stunning!! Your coloring is absolutely spot-on! Love the orange, yellow and brown.

Linda

Ina G said...

Such lovely fall colours (autumn here) A beautiful time of the year as it is so colourful and you have captured these colours in your really lovely card.

Unknown said...

Beautiful card - the colors are gorgeous together!
new follower!
www.craftycardgallery.blogspot.com

michele said...

so ready for fall , thanks for the inspiration

Anonymous said...

Love the touch the ribbons give. How did you secure the ribbons?

Judy D said...

Beautiful card!

Benwah said...

Doesn't look like my comment worked.
I love the vibrancy of your card. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Angelica Schmidt said...

Such a gorgeous card!Love the fall colors you picked so beautiful together! New follower of your blog!