Thanksgiving Decor

Lauren over at MTME came out with several beautiful cut files during her last release, including poinsettias, holly, and these lovely autumn leaves. I imported the leaf files into SCAL and used my Cricut to cut them out of various patterned paper, mostly PTI, but the colorful leaf pattern is from last year's SU. I distressed the leaves with Soft Suede ink. Emily helped me, so some of them were a little more "distressed" than I might have made them, but I think it turned out pretty cool anyway. The brown leaves I sponged with Champagne Shimmer paint from SU. I liked the effect so much I sponged all the leaves with it! I hot glued the leaves to a grapevine wreath from Mike's. I cut out the "Happy Thanksgiving" from the Wild Card Cartridge at 10.5 " (fit to length), after first using a Cricut marker to outline to words, then sponged it with the shimmer paint--love that stuff! I had planned to add a bow, but after I got it finished, I wasn't so sure it needed one. Emily thinks it does though, and so in a bit we'll go to Mike's and see what they have in the way of autumn wired ribbon. If I add one I'll probably remove the cluster of leaves above and to the left of the sentiment and put the bow there.

Here is a detail shot of the leaves. Hopefully you can see a bit of the shimmer. I really had fun making this, and it was nice to have Ems helping me. I hope you have enjoyed this project! Have a great day!

Mojo Monday Sketch 144

So yesterday I had a whole bunch of stamps and digi papers from My Time Made Easy spread out on my desk along with the current Mojo Monday sketch, which I really liked this week. And this card just sort of came together. Yeah, yeah, I know I'm a little late for teacher appreciation--I'll hold on to it till next year. Any way, I used Lauren's School Ruled and Apples and Pears digi papers. The combination of those two sitting on my desk pretty much suggested the theme. And of course I have my new Home Accents Cricut Cartridge, which has the adorable apple in it. The red in the apple paper stumped me at first, until I remembered the small amount of Cranberry Crisp I had left from SU's first year of In Colors. One of their new colors should come pretty close as well. Other colors are Glorious Green and So Saffron (my least fave SU color next to Perfect Plum, so of course they are keeping it!) which is good for apple flesh and matches the digi paper. Ribbon is SU. Stamp set is So Sentimental. Hope you've enjoyed this card--thanks for stopping by!

Dragonflies

I just got Sensational Stems and and Sensational Sentiments from My Time Made Easy. I just love this little dragonfly image. I stamped it one time each in Tempting Turquoise, Green Galore, and Orchid Opulence and outlined the wings and antennae in a glitter gel pen. I stamped the sentiment, punched it all out and used my Nestie scallop square dies to punch out the layers. The DP is some old vellum from SU. I mounted it on white with eyelets. Card base is Orchid Opulence, ribbon is from SU. This has to be quick as I'm on my way to a dinner mtg for work. I have been stamping all day, finished up one whole swap start to finish. I had so much fun! Hope you got some creative time today. Thanks for stopping by today.

Fall To Layout #85

I made this for the FTL 85 over on the Clean and Simple blog. I just got Fanciful Flourishes from My Time Made Easy. I knew it would be perfect for this layout. I stamped the vine in Certainly Celery and the little flowers in Apricot Appeal, one of my fave colors which SU will be retiring this year. Thank goodness they aren't retiring Certainly Celery or I'd probably have to quit stamping! I used a retired SU set, Noteworthy, for the sentiment. I used my Embosslits to die cut that tiny butterfly out of some DP. The scalloped oval layer is punched out of the same DP. This card is 3" x 6". It's not a size I usually make, and come to think of it I rarely make single layer cards either. The CAS blog has a lot of great designs for those. I like the little flower in this set; I want to get some liquid pearls for the centers. Thanks for stopping by!