Autumn...The year's last Loveliest Smile

This card was created for Paper Sweeties Inspiration #37 and my inspiration came from the color palette.  For last month's challenge I had chosen the birdcage, but missed the deadline.  So, I decided to use the birdcage for this month's challenge, having a pretty good idea of what I wanted to do, so I changed the color palette and design paper.  I love the CTMH Design Paper "Pathfinding" for Fall/Autumn cards and chose the busier design paper which included all the challenge colors, along with a soft blue...the blue would be incorporated into my embellishment.  Abigail was stamped, colored and fussy-cut, her outfit was cut from design paper for the top and the pants colored, shoes colored on feet and added liquid glass.  

Back to Cricut Design Space...Selected a tag to provide a more decorative bottom for the birdcage so that I could place flowers in and around.  Selected two different flowers similar to the ones on the design paper, cut variety of colors, stamped with a small floral stamp, rolled the edges and then adhered with glue dots in/around and flowing down from the bottom of the birdcage.  Added blue and gold sequins to centers of some of the flowers, and added a flower to Abagail's hair.  3D Foam tape was used for Abigail and birdcage.  Blue crinkle ribbon/bow added to bottom of card.  The Sentiment, a quote of William Cullen Bryant, was on one of the Stamps in Paper Sweeties which I did not have, however I typed and printed the sentiment in Design Space with Very Berry color thin pen.   

Please click on any of the highlighted challenges to see the many inspirations and creative designs from each of the Design Team members and the many submissions to these challenges. Some of these challenges may still be open...so hop on by.

Also submitted to the following:

Bitten by the Bug 2
Monday, November 9, 2015
Thanksgiving/Fall Color Challenge

Heart2Heart 
Monday, November 9, 2015
Trending Now - Gold Glitter, Crinkle Ribbon/Bows

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge
Monday, November 9, 2015
"Anything Goes"

Through the Craft Room Door
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
"Anything Goes"

Aud Sentiments Challenge
Thursday, November 12, 2015 - Week #2
Challenge #144  Tic-Tac-Toe with Sentiment
Ribbon or Lace, Rubber Stamp or Digi, Flowers

The Outlawz Challenge
Thursday, November
"Anything Goes"
and November 2015 Inlinkz

Products used in this Card: 

CTMH Design Paper/Cardstock:

     Pathfinding Paperpak 

     Paper Fundamentals - Enchantment "Goldrush"

     Cardstock Colonial White, Goldrush, Glacier, Lagoon

     Glitter Paper - Gold and Lagoon

Stamps: 

     Paper Sweeties "Abigail" 

     CTMH W2028 Delicate Wings, Petite Perks

Die-Cuts (Cricut Design Space) 

     Heart Flowers:  Kate's ABC's
     Pointed Petal Flowers:  CTMH Art Philosophy
     Birdcage & Birds:  Winter Frolic Bird
     Bottom of Birdcage - a Tag from Ultimate Creative Sampler
     Green Vine:  Anna's Garden Cards & Embellishments
     Sentiment:  Cricut Text
Embellishments:
     Paper Sweeties Sequins - Gold and Blue
     Paper Sweeties Blue Crinkle Ribbon
     CTMH 3D Thin and Regular Foam Tape
     CTMH Liquid Glass