Harvest Recipe #1

 

 Today I thought I'd share a card that I made for the 

Double Trouble Challenge #153, 3-2-1 Recipe to a Happy Harvest.

 From:       The Kitchen at Double Trouble 

 Recipe:     3-2-1 Fall Harvest Recipe

Servings:  Unlimited Portions of Fun

Ingredients - At least:  

     3  Patterned Papers  

     2  Embellishments 

     1  Fall or Harvest Item

 

Here's the sketch I followed at Try Stamping on Tuesday Challenge.

 

 

I'm not really happy with how the colors of the turkey image show up in the photo.  His body looks too green for me, no matter what position I tilt my screen.  I hate when that happens. 

 

Thanks for the visit. 

 

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge #631

 

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

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

 

 

Here is this week's sketch:

 

I was at Farmhouse Memories in Paradise, PA 

a couple weeks ago and this beautiful fall paper caught my eye, 

(along with a few other items).

These stamps are from CTMH.

 

I hope you'll have time to play along at

Tuesday Morning Sketches 

this week. 

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

Andrea

Debbie 

Melissa

Patti

Tammy

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

 
 

Cranberries or not?

My DH and I will be having a nice quiet Thanksgiving together this year.  Consequently, I don't plan to make as many dishes as I normally would when everyone is here.  One thing I won't be forgetting, though, is cranberry sauce

because.... 

 The sentiment/image is a digi from TLC Creations.

 

Challenges: Di's Digi Challenge - Use a digi image; Crafting Happiness Challenge #70 - Thanksgiving; Through the Craft Room Door Week of Nov 11th - AG; Digi Choosday Challenge Week 45 - AG; Arty Divas Challenge #31 - AG; The Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge - Embossing; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving     

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.

Turkey Card #2

Yesterday I posted my first turkey card of the season.  

Here's my second, and it has been a nightmare from beginning to end.  I won't bore you with the details.  Suffice it to say, there is a reason why I don't do a lot of distressing.

Papers and stamps are all retired CTMH products.

The design is kind of a joy fold, a card in a card, with a latch.

Inside of the fully open card.

Challenges:   Krafty Chicks Challenge #531 - AG; Cardz 4 Galz Challenge #133 - Fall/Autumn; Scor-Pal More Than One Score October Challenge #75 - AG or Harvest/Halloween (both cards are scored); 613 Avenue Create October Challenge - AG optional Things with Wings; Crafting Happiness Challenge #69 - AG; Through the Craft Room Door Week of Oct. 27th - AG; Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - AG; The House That Stamps Built Challenge - AG; Creative Moments Challenge #201-AG  

Now I have a broken ribbon jar to go clean up.  I told you this card was a nightmare.  And notice there isn't even a ribbon on it.   TTFN 

 

Thanksgiving

My grown grandchildren have already been pestering me to see if I'm making Thanksgiving dinner this year and putting in their orders for favorite dishes.  Will it be here that soon?

With that in mind, I thought I'd make a Thanksgiving card for this week's My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge.

I flipped the sketch sideways to accommodate the image, a CTMH stamp I discovered at my mother's earlier today.  I've also used Die-namics from My Favorite Things to die cut the layers.

Washi tape and dazzles finished off the card.

It might be easier to look at the card this way.

 

 

Challenges: My Favorite Things Wednesday Sketch Challenge #511 - see above; Di's Digi Designs Challenge - Add a Pumpkin; Crafter's Castle October Challenge #34 - AG; We Love Chocolate Baroque October Challenge - AG; Artsy Stamper Challenge #25 - Harvest Time; Through the Craft Room Door Challenge Week of October 13th - AG

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #415 with Newton's Nook

  There's a new challenge starting at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge today.

The theme for this challenge is Crazy Circles.

With Halloween just a week away and Thanksgiving not long after that, I thought I'd make cards for each occasion using the Pick a Pumpkin stamp set and the Simply Seasonal sentiment stamp set available at the  

  Newton's Nook Designs store. 

 

The baker's twine also came from Newton's Nook, nicely wrapped around my order.

I hope you'll enjoy all the wonderful cards featuring Newton's Nook Designs made by Team B for this week's  Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  When you get a moment, be sure to take a look at the wonderful stamps and coordinating dies at the Newton's Nook Designs Shop and stop by their blog for some great ideas and to play in the Inky Paws Challenge. 

 

Challenges: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Halloween/Spooky

Dragonfly Journeys Challenge #127 - Happy Halloween

A Gem of a Challenge #228 - Anything Goes

Crafty Friends Challenge #95 - Circles

My Time to Craft Challenge #382 - Halloween or Cats

How's Your Mojo Today?

With a lot of sewing and a bit of cookie baking on my To Do list,  I don't really have much time to "play".  But, making and posting a Mojo Monday card comes first!

This is my favorite turkey stamp from CTMH.

Challenges:

Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge # 474 -

 

One Stitch at a Time Challenge #275 - Autumn Colors

Pile It On Challenge #121 - Thankful, Thanks, Thank You 

Crafty Calendar November Challenge - Autumn Colors

Simply Create Too Challenge #122 - Gobble, Gobble

Fab n Funky Challenge #326 - Get Krafty

The House That Stamps Built DCC119 - Being Thankful

 

CTMH Card Class 10/18/2016 - Shoebox Swap

The Shoebox Swap Joyce planned for our CTMH Card Class today was a huge success!  Class members attending were to make a card and bring all the supplies needed (in a shoebox) for everyone else to make it too.  I came home with 7 wonderful cards, designed by the other gals in the class.

Carol's Thanksgiving card

Bonnie's masculine card

Cindy's fabric card

Mickey's layered card

Sybilla's Cricut Cut card

Eileen's Cricut Cut Card

Judie's glittery card

 Here's my shoebox full of stuff

to make this card: 

which I am entering in these challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's October Patterned Paper Challenge - Anything Goes with pp

Cardz 4 Gals Challenge #33 - Use at least 1 die cut 

613 Avenue Create Challenge #190 - Anything Goes w/ option to use green and gold

The Merry Christmas Challenge #3 - Use a Die Cut 

Love to Scrap Challenge #88 - Anything Goes 

Craft Your Passion Challenge #334 - Always Anything Goes

Crafting From the Heart Challenge #132 - Always Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by.

Tomorrow I have a couple quilted cards to show you!

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

Tuesday Throwdown Challenge #270

Deedee's Digis is sponsoring this week's Thank You challenge at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  I am using an image, sentiment and scripture verse from her digital set Autumn Harvest.  There are 3 more baskets in the set and 5 sentiments in all. 

I hope you'll have some time to stop by her shop and view her wonderful digital designs.  Deedee also has a fun progressive challenge on her blog.  You can purchase the current challenge set (November's is a cute one) for only $1.25, and if you use it and enter the challenge, you'll get a free set to use in the next month's challenge.

(The Thanksgiving sentiment is a CTMH stamp.)

I hope you'll join us this week at Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.  We always enjoy seeing all the wonderfully creative projects you make for our challenge.   And everyone on the Tuesday Throwdown Design team really loves it when you stop by their blogs and say hi, especially....

Amy 
Andrea

Asha

Davi

Kim 

NanaConnie 

 Pam

Tracey

and me! 

Challenges I am entering:

Cards in Envy Challenge - Gratitude 

Crafting from the Heart Challenge #85 - Anything Goes

Eureka Stamps Challenge #166 - Colors of Fall

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Create something beginning with the letter "n" (nuts) 

Pile It On Challenge #94 - Leaves

Crafty Friends Challenge #18 - Add a Charm 

Polkadoodles Challenge #45 - Autumn/Fall Colors 

 

Nana - This is NOT a mouse!

Instead of catching an extra hour of sleep with the start of Daylight Savings Time, I used my extra hour to craft.  The first thing I did was to tear apart the card I made yesterday for the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge #166.  I just did not like it!  This is what I finally created for the challenge.

Yes, that is a paint strip from the hardware store.  I'd like to paint my front door and shutters that dark green color.

The close up of the turkey shows the gold glimmer mist sprayed on it.

 

This turkey is my favorite CTMH Thanksgiving stamp.

Additional Challenges:

613 Avenue Create Challenge #148 - Anything Goes w/optional Host/Hostess Thank You 

Classy Cards n Such Challenge #109 - Gobble Gobble

Glitter n Sparkle Challenge # 161- Anything Goes 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #21 - Anything Goes 

The Ribbon Girls November Challenge - Anything Goes 

 

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Today starts the Month of Holiday Cards Challenge at Beccy's Place.  Day #1's challenge is to create a card using colored pencils.

 Once again, the stamps are CTMH.

Additional Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week 335 - Christmas

Winter Wonderland Challenge - Anything Christmas 

Moving Along with the Times Challenge - Leaves and/or Trees

ABC Christmas Challenge - v for very cute

Fab n Funky Challenge #279 - Christmas 

 

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You might be wondering about the title of today's blog post.

My great-granddaughter paid me a visit yesterday.  Unfortunately, I did not have the foresight to clean off the kitchen table, where my laptop sits, before her arrival.

 

 

From the Heart and Mojo Monday

Cornucopia is the title of the October From the Heart Challenge digital stamp set.  The set includes this lovely cornucopia, Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Birthday sentiments, and a wonderful verse for use inside or out.  

Hope you can see the gold shimmer mist I sprayed on the white cs. 

Challenges into which I've entered this card: 

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And here is my card for this week's Tall & Skinny Mojo Monday Sketch #421 using the colors from the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge.

(using all CTMH products)

 

 
After making this Christmas card, I thought maybe there was too much white for the Color My Heart Color Dare Challenge so I made a masculine birthday card to submit there.

(Inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.)

Additional challenges:
613 Avenue Create Challenge #147 - Anything Goes or Subway Art
Amusing Challenge #23 - Anything Goes
Creative Corner Challenge - No Stamps
Brown Sugar Challenge # 169 - Anything Goes
Seize the Birthday Challenge - A Pocket Card
Aud Sentiments Challenge - Birthday Sentiment

Okay.  That's enough for today.  
Come back tomorrow to see my Design Team Card for the Tuesday Throwdown Challenge.