Double Trouble Challenge #71

It's already time for a new challenge at Double Trouble!  It's amazing how 2 weeks just seem to fly by.  With Thanksgiving, here in the US, I need to be getting my Thanksgiving cards, including this one,  in the mail with Christmas cards soon after.  I'd best get busy!

For this 2 week period Double Trouble Challenge has a Tic,Tac,Toe Challenge, 

 

would like to see a sentiment, and is partnered with The Paper Funday Challenge with the theme, Anything Goes with Optional Twist: Give Thanks / Thankful / Grateful

Here is my card: 

(The digital image is from Pattie's Creations.)

 

 

Challenges: Double Trouble Challenge #71 - see above (I've used the middle column: leaves,free,digital stamp); The Paper Funday Challenge #23 - see above; Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #176 -AG

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches #580

 

 

Welcome to my blog, where I have
a new card to share with you each week for

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

Here's the sketch for this week and my card.

 

 

 

I really like this digital image from TLC Creations.  The Give Thanks sentiment is a cricut cut from the CTMH Artiste Cartridge and the oval cuts were made using Spellbinders Candlewick Oval dies.

 

 I hope you'll play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

The Design Team would love it if you'd visit our blogs.

Andrea

Debbie 

Margreet

Melissa

 Patti

Tammy

You can be sure that one of us will be visiting yours!

Have a great and crafty day!

 

Challenges: Die Cut Divas November Challenge - Thanks or Thanksgiving; Dies R Us Challenge #156 - Give Thanks; Crazy 4 Challenges #560 - Give Thanks; Di's Digi Challenge - use a digi image; A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #127 - AG; A Perfect Time to Craft November Challenge - AG; Crafter's Cafe November 1st Challenge - AG; Crafts Galore Encore November Challenge - AG; Love to Scrap Challenge #139 - AG

Turkey card for MFT Color Challenge

This is turkey card #3.  For this one I've used my favorite turkey stamp.  It's from CTMH and has a matching cricut cut on the CTMH Artiste cartridge.  The sentiment is from the same stamp set.

 The colors I've used are from the MFT Color Challenge #152.  The dies I used for the squares and the decorative link border are all from My Favorite Things. 

I colored white pearls with a marker to make them orange.  I rarely buy colored pearls or gems anymore.  It's too easy to color them and know they will match.

Challenges I am entering today:  The Artsy Stamper Challenge #26 - Halloween Colors; Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - AG; Krafty Chicks Challenge #531 - AG; Polkadoodles Challenge Wk 44 - AG; Aud Sentiments Challenge #253 - AG with a sentiment; My Favorite Things Color Challenge #154 -  

 Pinspirational Challenge #274 -

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The sun just came out.  

Looks like the rest of the day will be nicer than the last couple.  

Hope you have a nice one!

Thanks for visiting.

Thanksgiving with Imagine That!

card front

inside

This beautiful basket digi is from the free set, Harvest Basket, generously given to all participants in last month's progressive challenge at Imagine That! to use in the November Challenge.

 

 

 

 

I hope everyone is enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  We are all so very blessed in so many ways.

Challenges:
Crafty Gals Corner Challenge #47 - Anything Goes 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Dies R Us Challenge #37 - Thankful (I used a stitched circle from La La Land)
Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #118 - Anything Goes (optional autumn twist) 
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge # 80 - Anything Goes (option Thanksgiving/Fall)
Incy Wincy Designs Challenge - Tic Tac Toe (diagonally bottom left to upper right - pearls, free, use a die)
 
One Stitch at a Time Challenge #250 - Giving Thanks
Robyn's Fetish Challenge #291 - Autumn Colors 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving 

Mojo Monday Madness

I need to be in the car and on my way in 5 short minutes.  So, getting right to the point, here is my Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 424 Card using a Bugaboo digi image, Thanksgiving Brat, for the Catch the Bug November Challenge - Give Thanks.

Pie and sentiment stamps are CTMH

Combining Stash Items

Ever since I first saw the Paper Sweeties October Inspiration Challenge, I knew I wanted to play.  And for 3 weeks now I have been mulling it over in my head, looking at the inspiration photo and colors again and again, and collecting items from my stash to combine for a card.  Then I saw this week's My Favorite Things Sketch and the pieces started to fit. 

Tag die cut is from Paper Sweeties; sentiment stamp is CTMH

Challenges:
Paper Sweeties Inspiration Challenge - October 2015
 
MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #251 -
 
Stampin Royalty Challenge #300 - Picture Inspiration
 
House of Cards Challenge - Add Texture and/or Color Challenge
Use Your Stuff Challenge #196 - Thankful
Vintage Stamping Challenge #37 - Use a die
Card and Scrap Challenge #105 - Vintage or Shabby Chic
Sparkles Forum Challenge #73 - Pearls and Lace

Autumn Jar

It's mid-November and we're well into autumn.  I finally worked my way all around the house, clearing flower beds of annuals, removing bulbs that would freeze, and trimming dead flowers from perennials.   (Yesterday we got our first bit of snow and now those same beds are all white.)  With Thanksgiving just 2 short weeks away, it's time to use this Bugaboo digi image, Autumn Jar.

Truthfully, I forgot I had this image and accidentally came across it when looking for the Jar Digi I used for yesterday's card.

I added a simple, give thanks, to the card with a CTMH stamp.

The image was hand colored with markers, die cut and encircled by a bit of faux stitching.

I am entering this card in the following:

Dream It Up Challenge - Thankful and Thoughtful

Milk Coffee Challenge - Hand Color Image

Sassy Studio Designs Challenge - It's Beginning to Look Like Fall

Crafting by Designs Challenge - Give Thanks

Digi Stamps 4 Joy Challenge #104 - Preparing for the Holidays/Fall

The House That Stamps Built DCC#115 - Time to Give Thanks

Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Thank-ful

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps Wonderful Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Digi Choosday Challenge #45 - CAS

{Pin}spirational Challenge #128 - photo inspiration

Cards in Envy Challenge - Pumpkin Patch

Love to Create Challenge #141 - Anything Goes

The Pink Elephant Challenge #276 - CAS

Glitter N Sparkle Challenge #110 - Autumn Colors

Great Impressions November Challenge - Thankful Thoughts

Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Colors of Autumn

Pumpkin Spice Challenge #90 - Anything Fall


If you get a chance, please stop by the Pumpkin Spice Challenge beginning 11/15 and vote for my card.  I'd love to add their badge to my sidebar!

Now this is a conglomeration!

Check out all the things I removed from my messy crafting table, just by making this one card:

• 1 piece of glossy cardbase.
• 1 strip of card stock  8x2.5 (cut in half and pieced in the middle)
• 1 piece of burlap I had previously cut but decided not to use
• 1 piece of glossy paper that I had stamped with multiple stamp pads, spritzed with water, blotted and let dry hoping I could use it for something else but it didn't look right.  So I die cut a leaf out of it for future use and used the negative after mounting it on
• 1 leftover piece of orange CS which turned out to be the perfect size to mat the negative
• 1 piece of text weight kraft on which I stamped the CTMH turkey with Versa Mark and embossed it with SNS antiquities EP that I got out to use on yesterday's card
• 1 already punched kraft paper circle, also stamped first the design in ink and then the sentiment with VM and heat embossed.

My tidying up is moving right along!

I may get back to tidying after entering this card in a few challenges:
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe 194 - My Style (is to use everything and anything at hand)
QKR Stampede Challenge # 105 - Fall Colors
Simply Create Too Challenge #70 - Fall/Autumn
Sweet Pea Stampers Challenge - All Creatures Big and Small (turkey)
Crafting for All Seasons Challenge #86 - Colors of Autumn

Fall Thanks Wreath

At the York Show in October, I purchased a pack of this Crinkles Cardstock  in various colors.  It has a very unique feel and fabulous texture to it.  The stamps are CTMH.  First I stamped the bare wreath  and sentiment in cocoa, then inked the circle of leaves stamp in several colors before stamping on the circle, and added the bow in barn red.  I distressed the circle first in sunny yellow, then olive green and lightly around the edge in barn red, picking up the colors I used on the wreath.  The card is edged in bard red. 

I'll be entering this card in these great challenges:
City Crafter Challenge #186 - Decorate It!
Die Cuttin' Divas Challenge #142 - Thanksgiving
Papertake Weekly Challenge - Giving Thanks
Cards in Envy Challenge - Punch It!
Get Inky Challenge #17 - Thanks and Thanksgiving
Melonheadz Friends Challenge - Give Thanks
Victorine Originals Challenge #72 - CAS with Fall Theme
Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - Give Thanks
Dream Valley Challenge #70 - Clean and Simple
Pile It On Challenge #46 - With Thanks
Outlawz Sunday CAS Challenge - Give Thanks
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #181 - Giving Thanks
Connie Can Crop Challenge #16 - Leaf it up to Me
Mema's Crafts November 2013 Challenge - Anything Goes with 'Thanks' in the sentiment twist
Delicious Doodles Challenge #62 - CAS
Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #80 - Giving Thanks or Thank You
Simply Create Too Challenge #50 - Give Thanks
Totally Papercrafts Friday Challenge #193 - Clean and Simple
Delightful Challenges Weekly Challenge - Thankful

The Missing Piece from Yesterday's Card

(Stamps are by Close to My Heart)

As promised, today's card uses the scalloped oval which was die cut from yesterday's card to create a frame for the turkey.   (Yes, this is a turkey - not a peacock as some might think.... Donna!)    


I'm headed for Edison, NJ tomorrow for the Stamp Scrap Art Tour Rubber Stamping Show and still have a lot to get done.   
But first this turkey is headed for the following challenges:
Crafting for All Seasons Challenge #64 - Autumn Colors 
The Perfect Sentiment Challenge #98 - Fall or Halloween
Word Art Wednesday Challenge #104 - Anything Goes
Cuttlebug Mania Challenge - Autumn (Spellbinders scalloped oval + Darice EF on gold CS; SU EF on flowered DP)
Die Cuttin Divas Challenge #139 - Anything Goes


 

I'm hoping to see some of you this week-end.  I'll be doing Make & Takes at the Close to My Heart Booth, SCAT show, Edison, NJ.   Please stop by and say HI!!

Putting Pattie in the Spotlight

Pattie Gomez's digital images are so much fun, I decided to use this pumpkin vase for another Spotlight Card. 

(For an excellent description of what a Spotlight Card is, go here.)

Of course, I'll be entering this card in the Pattie's Creations Design Challenge #78 - Orange + Black
and these additional challenges:
Cards in Envy Challenge - In the Spotlight
City Crafter Challenge Week # 182 - Pumpkin Patch
Our Daily Bread Designs Challenge #175  - It is Fall
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #124 - Halloween or Orange and Black
Tip Top Tuesday Challenge # 112 - Black and White with a splash of Color
House of Gilli Challenge #55 - Thanks + Anything Goes
Kaboodle Doodles Challenge # 194- Halloween Colors