Give Thanks in all things

Happy Friday! I know what your thinking.... three fall cards in the same week, gasp!!! Is she feeling okay? ha ha  I have been working on several fall cards, they are not my favorite and I tend to skip over them more often than not. But how do you skip over this gorgeous Bittersweet Wreath, you don't! The first one I created was yes a Christmas card but... do you blame me? At least a fall one came next. hee hee  Moving on... ;-) 

My designer paper for the background is from the Warm and Cozy pack layered onto some mustard and rust card stock. Some faux stitching around the edges. Wrapped lace trim and ribbon around and tied into a bow. More of the CTMH hardware added to the sentiment panel and some suduko gel pen added to the branches. Voila! 

The Power and Spark Challenge Think Pink is still waiting for your creation to be added. We have some wonderful creations already added so be sure to check it out and add yours. 

Bloom Brigade creations today:

Christine Okken 

Julie Koerber 

Simple Maize

Good morning. A clean and simple creation today using Maize for Days image. I can't help but have this printed large, it just looks awesome. This designer paper that was sitting around was my color inspiration. I colored the corn with various Copic markers and added a simple scored border around the edge and a few old Candi dots to the top corner. 

Here is a side shot trying to show you the Suduko gel pen that I added to the corn husk. Still hard to see but looks cool on the card. The inside has the sentiment from Bittersweet Wreath added with a flagged panel and some faux stitching. Voila! Hope you have a wonderful day. 

Happy Fall

Happy Monday and yes a fall card as promised. These sunflowers are so sweet packaged in their wrapper don't you think? These are from Sunny Harvest one of our first fall releases I believe. 

A rather straight forward card with a stitched rectangle to die cut the sunflowers. Stamped my sentiment in the top right corner and added a button and twine combo to the bottom corner. The designer paper is from the Warm and Cozy pack with the base layer textured using chicken wire embossing folder. A little bit of sparkle and voila!

 Since we were raking up leaves yesterday, I thought I would share a picture of Ranger. I don't share pictures of him often since most of the time he won't sit still for one. Dogs... ha ha! This is our small tree that we started clean up around. I was trying to hide this old football to throw away since its all torn. However as you can see Ranger found it and decided it was a keeper still. Ranger is doing okay, lately he has had several more seizures so we changed up his medicine.  :-(  Trying to find the right balance of a normal dog and no seizures is rather taxing. But we will find the right balance and it will all be good.
He sure does love when we rack up the leaves. Ranger will hide his ball and then root around for it like he didn't know it was there. Hence scattering all the leaves we piled up all around again. Makes for fun and giggles for us. We had 5 bags of leaves between this tree and the larger one we have in the back. They all haven't fall off yet so another round of leaf bags in the next few weeks I am sure.

Thanks for stopping in today. Hope you enjoy this wonderful fall day! 

Holiday Acorns

Good morning! I did mention I would have a few fall themed cards for you soon. This is technically not a fall card,but  it does have acorns on it and they are fall.  ;-)  hee hee  Promise next week I have a few truly fall themed cards for you. The new Instant Garden Digi is out at Power Poppy and it is called Acorn Ornaments. On the Power Poppy Blog there is links to everyone who is playing along with some inspiration from Marcy. So check it out! 

I was in the pink spirit as our new Power and Spark challenge from Tosh is Think Pink. You can play along and link all your creations to the Think Pink Link HERE. Not to forget the Dirty Dozen Christmas challenge for November.  ;-)  

After these darling acorns were colored I die cut using a Spellbinders decorative die. Layered them onto some ODBD Christmas Collection 2014 paper on the Spellbinders decorative panel for the base with some pink ribbon around the edge. My sentiment is die cut with an oval and before I removed the die sponged on some light pink. Popped some dimensionals onto the back and some silver cord tied into a bow above the sentiment panel. Added sparkle and sequins to finish it off. Voila! 

Pink Christmas

Welcome to the November Power and Spark challenge with our lovely host Miss Tosha! She has a fun challenge this month with a Think Pink Christmas. Woot woot!! You don't have to ask me twice. Tosha says

 ""I love vintage, so I often think of white and pink for Christmas decor.  I thought it would be fun to feature pink on a Christmas Card.  So, for this month's challenge, let's THINK PINK and make it a Pink Christmas." 

You can play along as much as you like and make sure to post your challenge on the PP Blog post. Now for my creation.... 

A gift tag! hee hee   Yep still have a few more tags to go for the girls requests then I can work on the rest of my gift tags. This one is a layered look with nesting tags from a retired die at Whiff Of Joy. I stamped Poinsettia with the tags layered and colored with various Copic markers. Each tag has dimensionals layered behind it to give it some depth. This is also for the Dirty Dozen November Christmas challenge. Wrapped ribbon and silver cord around the top and a button to tie it off. My sentiment is from Simple Joys with a few pearls added to the end of the tag. Scattered some more around the tags and some sparkle to top it off. Voila! 

Be sure to check out the Bloom Brigades creations today:
  Allison Cope
Christine Okken
Cindy Lawrence
  Katie Sims
  Tosha Leyendekker

November Dirty Dozen Christmas Tidings

Good morning! Today is the first of November and that means the new Dirty Dozen Christmas challenge is posted up. This months theme is "Sing in all achord" and there is a few ways you can interpret this theme. Check it out on the DD Fan Club Page found HERE. Hope you can play along. 

My creation is using the beautiful Wreaths Plain and Fancy for this months challenge. The wreath is colored with various Copic markers. I was going with the flow of the paper for the colors and the circular pattern using the wreath. Wrapped some silver ribbon and silver cord around the base tied into a bow with a jeweled center. My sentiment in the middle is from the set Simple Joys. Added some sparkle and jewels to finish it off, voila! 

Tis the Holly to be Jolly

Gasp! You know what I heard yesterday morning? The first Christmas song on the radio. Squeel.... My stomach did a little tingling and I was instantly excited! Usually I think you need to wait until after Thanksgiving to play the music on the radio, but it was so fun to hear a little jingle right then.  In my defense I create Christmas cards all year round so a little music isn't a surprise. Lately I have had sometime to create and I need to finish cards for a few of the girls orders and some tags. So be watching as I have more to come.  I will try to work in a few more of the fall and Thanksgiving cards for you though.  :-)  

Who doesn't love this new Holly Golightly set? Swoon!!!!  The single holly sprig is stamped in the left corner and die cut with Lil Inkers rectangles die. Colored the holly with various Copic markers then layered over more of the My Minds Eye Cozy Christmas paper. Added a red die cut panel using ODBD Beautiful Borders die to the left edge. Stamped the sentiment and die cut with a Spellbinders Circle. Added the lovely sequins and sparkle to finish it off. Voila!