Guest Designer at Craft and Smash

Hello, everyone!  I am delighted to tell you that I am a Guest Designer at Craft and Smash this month!  I won a challenge over there in September and was invited to come back to be Guest Designer for November.  How awesome is that!  If you are not familiar with Craft and Smash, why not head over and become a follower like I did!  Our theme for November is Autumn, and you can create a card, smash journal page, altered item, tag, or ATC.  I made a center-step card, full of Autumn goodness!

I don't often make step cards because I find them a bit tricky, but I wanted to do something different for my GD spot.  I used an adorable Elisabeth Bell stamped image (received in a RAK, thank you!) and coloured it with my Prismacolor pencils. No digis used today!

I added lots of fun die cuts that I made from leftover snippets of cardstock:  leaves from Impression Obsession; cat from Poppy Stamps; tree, ivy leaves, and double-edge border from Cheery Lynn; doily from Spellbinders Moroccan Accents; bird from Marianne Design; and grass from Lawn Fawn. The patterned paper is from Momenta.

The blue flower is from a very kind and generous bloggy friend who sent me a lovely RAK (random act of kindness).  I will keep her name anonymous in case she wants to remain so. I have received a couple of RAKs lately and I haven't been able to bring myself to use any of these goodies yet (until today)!  I love everything I received - but I enjoy looking at the goodies so much that it is very hard to use them.  But now that I've used something from a RAK, hopefully I will be able to continue and use some of my other new crafty RAK goodies.    

The brown flower is from Flower Love Delice, and the larger flower is from the dollar store, as is the glittery butterfly and row of gems.  The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted's A Little Sentimental (I won a blog hop gift voucher in October and this set of clear stamps was one of my purchases!). Lastly I added a little heart charm from my stash. I had a lot of fun making this card!  

Thank you to Craft and Smash for having me as your Guest Designer this month!

I would like to support the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks AG UE
613 Avenue Create AG 3/3

Art by Miran AG 1/3

As You Like It Favourite Style/Cute or Elegant and Why (my favourite style is cute because it fits my personality.  I enjoy cute images like animals, cats, children, etc.) 3/3
Aud Sentiments 2 or 3 Word Sentiment 5/5

Blessings Ink Amusing Challenges AG No Digis 1/2

Brown Sugar AG 1/.2

Card and Scrap Layers UE

Craft Hoarders Anonymous At Least 3 Layers 1/3

Crafts Galore Encore AG 1/3

Crafty Catz AG 1/3

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper AG with Patterned Paper UE 

Creative Fingers AG 1/3

Decorate to Celebrate AG 

Dies R Us Thankful 1/3

Digi Stamps 4 Joy AG 1/3

Divas by Design AG 1/2

DL.ART November AG UE 1/day

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Halloween/Alternative Thank You 3/3

DRS Designs Any Autumn Holiday (Thanksgiving) UE

Eclectic Ellapu Purple Team Leaves and Foliage UE

Fashionable Stamping Weather Forecast 1/3

Fussy and Fancy Thankful UE

Hiding in my Craftroom Fall Colours 1/3

Inspiration Destination AG UE

Ladybug Crafts Bright Colours 1/3

My Craft Creations AG UE
My Time to Craft Charmed I'm Sure 1/

Not Just Cards AG UE
One Crazy Stamper AG No Digis 1/5
Paradise of Stamps Halloween or Autumn 1/3
Party Time Tuesdays AG 1/3

Penny's Paper-Crafty AG 1/3

TOP 3 Pile it On Create a Scene UE

Quirky Crafts Quirky Charades: Book, Film or Song "We're Going on a Leaf Hunt" 2/3 

Red Rubber Inspirationals Fall Foliage  (stamped leaves in image) 1/3

Scribbles Designs Fall Impressions (see embossed leaves) 1/3

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday AG 2/5

Sister Act (Cards Only) AG UE

Sisters of Craft AG All the Time 1/3

RANDOM WINNER Sparkles Monthly Fall/Autumn Colours 1/3 

Suzy Bee's Bloomin AG with Layers UE

The House that Stamps Built Repeat Impressions DCC1022 Leftovers (all die cuts from left overs) UE
The Outlawz Friday Paper a la Mode Leaves 1E

The Paper Girls AG 3/3

The Paper Nest Dolls AG 1/2

The Pink Elephant AG UE

The Sisterhood of Crafters Fall Colours 1/3

The Stamping Boutique Fall Colours 1E

Treasured Times AG 1/3

Wags n Whiskers Let's Be Thankful 1/2

Word Art Wednesday AG w Uplifting Sentiment 2/5

Thank you for looking at my card!  Wishing you a joyful day!