favourite autumn pattern at Crafty Sentiments

Hello lovelies! How're you doing? Hopefully good. The good news from here is that my computer decided to behave and so I have uploaded my holiday snaps and can add a few ..... don't worry I won't go into overdrive!!!! Also my leggies managed my hill run today - so I'm feeling a little more confident about managing the Great North Run in less than two weeks time now!!! Lol!!!! (thats nervous laughter by the way!).

So here's my card for the new Crafty Sentiments Challenge - which is favourite autumn pattern or fall colours. I'll be honest with you - I didn't know what an autumn pattern was - so I thought it must be leaves falling - but if you check out the blog post here - I'm sure you'll find much more guidance on what it means! I think its plaid or argyle or gingham - that sort of thing.  Anyway I went for leaves and autumn colours - plus a cutie from Crafty Sentiments that really is all about autumn - a sleeping Hedgie!!!!! He's called Sleeping-Hedgehog and you can get him by following the link.

I've used a sheena douglass embossing folder to create the background and highlighted the orangey brown paper with teadye distress ink. I've also used this around the image that was cut with a spellbinders die and coloured with promarkers. The ribbon is from my stash.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:

IDIC:robynsfetishchallengeblog Add some leaves
Crafters Companioncrafterscompanion: Embossing
Just for fun challengelaineyscraftyspace-justforfun: Autumn colours
ALBCpaulaholifieldcrafts: CAS
Totally Gorjusstotallygorjuss: Texture

And so to my holiday snaps:

 This first was taken by Lucy and is at Glen Durgan Garden - a National Trust property we visited on the first day. It was fabulous with a really great maze and something called the Giants Stride that the girls both really enjoyed. Just at the bottom of the property there's also a small village and beach and there was a regatta taking place on the day we visited. It was great fun.

This second one is at the theme park 'Flambards' - Lucy and Penny are enjoying the ride called Harley's angels! They were very funny - Penny always seemed to have the faster bike but Lucy wasn't for letting her through!!!! They have a great deal where you pay once for entry and can then return every day for the next 5 days. So we tended to spend most of the day elsewhere then land up at flambards for an hour or two wih the girls really enjoying the rides!

I'll put a few more piccies up tomorrow!

Thanks for dropping by and hope to see you again soon!

Big Hugs

Rachel x