Happy Thursday morning to you and welcome to another great Weekend Sketch Challenge on Inspiration in Action! I hope you'll be inspired and challenged to play along this week. Once you've created your card and posted it to your blog or other online service, come back and give us your name and link so we can all see your beautiful work!
I've got three cards to inspire you this morning!
This first card uses the Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper. The Stamp sets are Autumn Splendor, Grateful Greetings and Harvest Home. The colors are Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, More Mustard and Very Vanilla. I used several Earth Elements inks and a Blender Pen to do the watercoloring on the focal image. The leaves are stamped on various colors of cardstock, cut out, sponged with Chocolate Chip 
Ink and attached with Stampin' Dimensionals. The sentiment is punched with the Large Oval Punch and mounted on a Scallop Oval Punchie. I did some more watercoloring on the leaves inside the card. This is pretty much what the scenery looks like in Central Illinois right now. The colors are beautiful this year. Happy Fall, everyone!
Next, I thought I would have a little fun with the delightful little pumpkins from Pumpkin Patch. I used Cast-a-Spell Designer Series Paper and Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive, Pumpkin and Whisper White Cardstocks. The pumpkins that 
are cut or punched out are attached using Stampin' Dimensionals. The sentiment is from Grateful Greetings and the ribbon is 5/8" Old Olive Grosgrain. I just love these little guys -- they look so mischievous!
And finally, this beautiful snowflake card using Serene Snowflakes and the Bride Specialty Designer Series Paper. I sponged Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue and Night of Navy Ink onto the Bride paper. The swirly, iridescent design resists the ink and leaves such a lovely, shimmery look. I just love it! the tiny snowflakes are stamped in Bashful Blue and Night of Navy. The large snowflakes are punched using the Jumbo Snowflake punch and Whisper White and Night of Navy cardstocks. The sentiment is from All Holidays! So peaceful!
Okay -- now it's your turn. Let me see what you create this weekend using this sketch. I will post some of my favorites next week on my blog so watch out! You might see yourself here!
Use Mister Linky below to leave your name and the URL where we can find your card!
Wow! Love all three of your cards! You really did a tremendous job on all of them. I came here to post my IA106 card. Looks like I missed the deadline. Bummer! I hope I get this weeks sketch done it time! :)
Posted by: Krystal/skdeleeuw | October 22, 2009 at 09:15 AM
You are so talented! I love your cards.
Connie
Posted by: Connie Updegraff | October 23, 2009 at 05:18 AM
sorry for the double post I had a brain issue lOL :) I did the photo only and then I thought that would not work very well!!!
so I re-entered with my blog name - I had tried with today post - direct blog - but too many letters - so sorry for the mess u
Posted by: Carole'Anne AKA Stampin Stressaway | October 23, 2009 at 08:20 AM
Hi Gretchen, Just wanted to tell you how lovely your snowflake card is! Wow - it's really a stand-out!! Thanks for sharing your awesome talent with us all. :)
Posted by: Sharon Carr | October 29, 2009 at 02:41 PM
I used your sketch...thanks for the inspiration!
http://stampinwhenican.blogspot.com/2009/10/another-one-of-those-sympathy-cards.html
Posted by: Allison | October 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM