Happy Tuesday!
We have a new challenge starting for you today at Tuesday Throwdown.  This week it's all about Thanksgiving.  Our awesome sponsor is MyGrafico and they provided some great sentiments for us to use on our projects.

I decided on a very simple design for my card.  The sentiment was printed out so that it would span the width of the card.  I then took it to my paper trimmer and cut out a little frame, leaving the sentiment attached, and then just trimmed around it.

There is a little piece of foam behind the sentiment to help it pop up off the card a bit, but the rest of the frame is adhered flat to a piece of vellum to help mute down the starry background.  I wanted the bright colored leaves to stand out a bit more from the dark paper, so that was the reason for the vellum.

The leaves are from Newton's Nook.  I added 2 colors of distress ink to each leave, spritzed them with water and then did a bit of rock and rolling with the stamp on the paper.  I found that this helped get the water and colors to blend a little easier without leaving a lot of hard lines where the colors met.  And the results were gorgeous!

To finish the card off, I added a green stitched line around the outside and some clear droplets for a bit of shine.

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
    Fussy and Fancy #175-Shades of Fall
    Simon Says Stamp-Anything Goes

Be sure to stop by Tuesday Throwdown to see the rest of the DT's creations and then join in this fun challenge!

Thanks for visiting! <3

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there!  I hope you have some fun plans for today, whether it's with friends, family, or both :)

I wanted to put together a little decoration to have around for the holidays and decided that a couple of Sami Stamps images would be perfect for this fall banner.

I bought a roll of burlap ribbon and cut it up into little pieces for each of the banner flags.  Using my Silhouette, I cut out a couple of leaf shapes and the letters.  I inked up the edges of all the leaves to help add some depth and life to them.  You'd be amazed how much of a difference just a little color on the edges makes.  Changes the whole look of the leaf :)

I cut out frames for all the letters and then started to assemble my banner.
The first image I chose to use was the Little Acorn Bird from Sami Stamps.

I settled on a Gold Finch design and watercolored in the image.  It turned out so stinkin cute!  Once everything was dry, I arranged it all around these little yellow daisies I made and then glued it all down.

The other image I used for the second end cap was the Little Acorn Squirrel.

(sorry for the not so perfect pictures...it was super late at night and we were using our projector to get some nice bright lighting...but it left a lot of weird shadows...)

I watercolored this image in as well and once again arranged everything together on the banner flag.
The fun part about this whole banner is that I stitched all the elements on to the flags, so when the season changes, I can remove them and change out the theme!  And there is plenty of burlap left so if I need more flags, I can easily add them :)

Be sure to stop by Sami Stamps...we still have our November challenge of Anything Goes running!  Just remember to use a Sami Stamps image!

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
    Fussy and Fancy #152-Thankful
    Sassy Studio #309-Happy Thanksgiving
    The Crazy Challenge #211-Everything Goes
    Word Art Wednesday #211-Anything Goes

Thanks so much for visiting, and Happy Thanksgiving!!!  <3

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Since Thanksgiving is next week I decided to work on a scrapbook layout.  I was so excited to do this layout and worked 2 days on it!  But I was a little disheartened when I realized my "thanksgiving" paper stash didn't really add up to my expectations...so I searched through my digi papers and found a few there!  That made my day, so I started plugging away.

I am so proud of this layout!  As I was telling my husband, I don't ever remember a scrapbook layout taking me 2 days to complete!  But it looks so good now that it is done!  Most of the die cuts are from the Cricut Thanksgiving cartridge.  The leaf border at the bottom is from the Holiday Cakes cartridge.

A few close ups:

This layout is entered in the following challenges:

    Crafty Ribbons #6-Anything but a Card

    Paper Cutz Challenge #117-Let's Talk Turkey

    My Time to Craft Challenge #166-Take Two

    Die Cuttin Divas #41-Turkey Time!

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Today is Thanksgiving here in Canada.  Feels kind of weird...no friends or family to hang out with, not black Friday shopping in the morning...haven't even celebrated Halloween yet!  But I had a nice calm day with my husband.
So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, I decided to make a holiday appropriate card. 

I made the triangle side borders using the Cricut Holiday Cakes cartridge and welded 2 pieces together.  The turkey and sentiment are cut from the Cricut Create a Critter cartridge.  I just love that cartridge!  There are so many cute critters on it and one always seems to fit the theme of any card I want to make!
Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
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