Happy Halloween......{TKJ Sketch Challenge #140}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

A Sketch Challenge 
based on the sketch as seen below

I LOVE working with sketches and here is my inspiration! 
Sure hope you like it!!

I wanted to make a Halloween card..seeing that tomorrow is October 1st and it is almost Halloween time. Plus I thought this sketch would look so adorable with an image made to look like the circle was a moon. So with that being said, I ran with that image in my head and found the cutest digi from Some Odd Girl to work with. 

Meet Witchy Tia...isn't she adorable??? I took her into my Silhouette Studio, traced her and then made a frame around her so I could have a nice border for her. After she was cut out, I colored her using my copic markers and then set her aside to assemble my card.

I used a piece of Blackboard Stock Paper as my card base and then added my layers of designer papers from My Minds Eye~ Mischievous paper pack. Again using my Cameo, I cut 2 circles, one in the matching designer paper and another using more of the Blackboard Stock Paper. Once my layers were all cut, I ran the mat through my sewing machine adding 2 different stitches and then adhering it to my card base. For the sentiment, I used My Creative Time~Vintage Stitched Label Die for the banner and then the Fright Night stamp set for the sentiment. Once the banner was in place, I added the "31" from the Mini Numerals pack using foam pop dots for a bit more dimension. Finally Witchy Tia was added to the card, again using some foam pop dots and I further embellished with some mini bat punches.

So there you have it....

my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!
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Entering this into the following challenges:
The Paper Shelter~ Stitching real or faux
Totally PaperCrafts~ Stitching
The Scrapbooking Queen Digi Challenge~Anything Goes
Craftin Desert Divas~ Anything with a Sentiment
Just B Creative Crazy~ Sept Linky Party
Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Thanksgiving Table Place Cards & a Winner!!....... {PKS Challenge}

Good Morning Everyone!!

I have a project to share today that I made for the currently Peachy Keen Stamps challenge. I have to say this challenge really threw me for a few days. 

According to Wikipedia a Potluck dinner is a gathering of people where each person or group of people may contribute a dish of food prepared by the person or the group of people, to be shared among the group.

I thought this would be a great opportunity to get a jump on this year's Thanksgiving place cards and since I host Thanksgiving every year and other's bring dishes to pass, I pulled out some of my PKS that were food related and made the following 6 place cards. 

Now that I started these I will have to make the rest that match our meal. Those will come as it gets closer to Thanksgiving time.

Anyways here they are...please click on the pic if you want to see the group larger. I did take additional pics of them individually so that will help too :) 

Here are all 6 together! I had so much fun picking the images I wanted to use along with the papers that were all fall related.  I will take you through each one now so you can see them up close...sorry about the below average pictures...I took them last night with very poor lighting..

The base layers are all the same for each place card. I used Kraft Cardstock, MCT Stitched Journal Die and the Vintage Label die along with pattern papers from Echo Park. Since I didn't have the matching SVG for this adorable corn, I decided to make my own. I love the border that is around that corn :) I finished this off my bringing out my sewing machine for a little stitching and stamping the "corn" minus the "Y" for the label. 

Here is my turkey. I did the same thing for the base and again made my own SVG for that adorable Turkey. I paper pieces part of him and then colored the rest using my copic markers, some white gel pen and chalk.

How super adorable is this pumpkin??? Don't you just love his face...LOL!!! I didn't have a "pumpkin" sentiment stamp from PKS so I used a part of a MCT stamp instead.  Again I made the SVG for this cutie too!!

I LOVE these faceless fruit from PKS and I used the matching sentiment set for the "apple". All the sentiments I used are parts of longer sentiments, so I did a bit of masking to get the wording I wanted.

Not really sure how much Ketchup fits into the Thanksgiving theme, but I couldn't pass up using these adorable condiment bottles...That was my original thought too...to use "Condiments" as my sentiment...but love the font and look of the Ketchup sentiment so I went with that.

Finally here is the last place card. My cute cherry. I think these will look adorable sitting next to each of the fruit pies, the corn and of course the turkey.

What do you think???

Supplies Used:

Paper~ Echo Park-Reflections Fall

Echo Park-Reflections

Echo Park-Giddy Up

Dies/Cuts~ My Creative Time

Stitched Jounal Die

Vintage Stitched Label Die

PKS~ SVG's (Let's Katchup)

Self made SVG's for other images 

Stamps~ Peachy Keen Stamps

PK~292 Faceless Corn

PK~239 Faceless Fruit

PK~647 Faceless Fall Fun

PK~115 Let's Ketchup

PK~141 Lil' Tweets Thanksgiving

My Creative Time

Piles of Smiles (Pumpkin sentiment)

Embellishments~ White gel pen

chalk

sewing machine
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~~~WINNER TIME~~~
Using Random. Org 
the winner of the 
Mini Grape Limeade Trendy Twine 
is....

Donna and Sara

I just love the adorable alligator and the stitching was a perfect touch. Happy to be a new follower of you and Trendy Twine too. Thank you. 

Congrats!!!!
Please email me with your mailing address within 7 days so I can get your mini in the mail to you!
eschfamily@yahoo.com

Well that is all I have for you today! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Tuesday!!!

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Entering these into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps~ 3D Objects- Potluck

Craftin Desert Diva's~ Anything Fall

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Color Challenge .....{TKJ #139}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

A Color one based on this gorgeous picture!

And here is my inspiration! Sure hope you like it!!

I started my card out with a piece of Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock  and covered it with a layer of designer paper from Recollections~ Harvest Delight Paper Pack. Then using some burlap I had in my stash I attached it to my card using a zig zag pattern stitch on my sewing machine. Next for the pumpkins I brought out my Cottage Cuts Pumpkin Trio dies and die cut 2 of the different pumpkins using matching designer papers also from the Harvest Delight Paper Pack. For the leaves, I used another one of my favorite dies~ the Stitched Leaf Die from My Creative Time and some beautiful wool felt from my stash. To finish off my pumpkins, I used matching brads from Recollections and some Earthy Hemp Cord.

Finally to complete my card I used a Tim Holtz Memo Pin, stuck it in between the pumpkins and through the burlap, die cut the tag using a piece of Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock and stamped the sentiment from My Creative Time~ Piles of Smiles stamp set.

So there you have it....

my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Craftin Desert Diva's~ Anything Fall

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Aud Sentiments Challenge~ Autumn

The Friday Mashup~Fall Theme

Thanks for Coming to My Rescue.......{Challenge Card}

Good Morning everyone!!!
I hope you are all having a GREAT weekend!!!
If you are looking for my Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Birthday Blog Hop card and giveaway please click HERE

I wanted to pop in and share a card I made to enter into a few challenges. It is a perfect boy card, which I always find very difficult to make. 

Hope you like it!!

I love the CAS design of this card and that adorable Kawaii copter is just too cute...don't you think??? 

Here is a close-up of that cute copter from SVG Cutting Files~ Kawaii Transportation. I cut him out using my Cameo and popped him up using foam pop dots on a mat of Kraft Cardstock and designer paper from DCWV~ The Boyhood Stack. Before adding him to my mat, I did die cut some My Creative Time~ Stitched Cartoon Clouds and ran the designer paper through my sewing machine.

I finished my card with the Jaded Blossom's Super Hero stamp set for the sentiment and added some Trendy Twine Totally White as my "rescue" rope :)

Supplies Used:

Paper~  Kraft, scraps from my stash

Designer Paper~DCVW The Boyhood Stack

Stamps~ Jaded Blossom~ Super Hero

Dies/Cuts~ SVG Cutting Files~Kawaii Transportation

My Creative Time~Stitched Cartoon Cloud Dies

Embellishments~Trendy Twine~ Totally White

Brad

sewing machine

Well there is my card for today.
I want to thank you all for stopping by and hope you have  a GREAT rest of your day!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

SVG Cutting Files~ Boys and Their Toys

CAS(E) this Sketch~ #46

Cameo Creations~ Pattern Paper

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Pile It On~ Cool or Warm Colors

Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Birthday Blog Hop~ Happy Birthday Lisa!!

Good Morning and
Welcome to the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Birthday Blog Hop!! 

Today we are celebrating Lisa's (owner/designer of PPPR) birthday! 
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!!!
She had a plan for this hop, but we (the Design Team plus guests) have a plan of our OWN because we LOVE her!!!! ;) We are all making special birthday projects using some files from the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons store AND since birthdays are all about celebrating with friends and  giving gifts, we decided to add guests to the lineup and giveaway a TON of prizes!! These awesome prizes include fun twine, stamp sets and gift certificates to some of our favorite crafty stores!! You seriously do NOT want to miss a single stop in this hop!!  

If you are coming to here from Brianna's blog you are in the right place! 
If you have just stumbled upon this hop, make sure to head back to 
Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons!
But remember - and this is important! - Lisa does NOT have the correct lineup on her blog, because she doesn't know there has been a few ADDITIONS to the lineup thanks to her DT!! SURPRISE, Lisa!! :) Lisa will direct you to the correct blog, but after that please disregard her lineup!! 

Now onto my project!! 

I sure hope you like it!!!

Isn't this just too adorable??? I LOVE the CUTE Gator which is this week's freebie file and the fun color combo...don't you? I used a white card base and designer paper from Lilybee Designs~Persnickety paper pack. I ran the mat through my sewing machine for the zig zag pattern, but before that I added some 3GJ Witch's Brew crinkle ribbon so the ribbon was held down by the sewing. Next I used the PPPR Layered Labels 1 and the PPPR Borders 3 to make my next mat.....which became home to that adorable Gator.

Here he is up close :) I am so LOVING him and can see using him for much more than birthday items! Since his party hat come with the file but didn't have the frill (the hat is actually supposed to go behind his eyes)  I ended up adding the frill to the bottom of it using a piece from the Party Items.

Then for the sentiment I used My Creative Time~ Teeny Tag Greetings die and sentiment, a black button from my stash and some Grape Limeade Trendy Twine. So what do you think of my card??? 

MY HOP BLOG CANDY!!!
I am giving away a mini of the Grape Limeade Trendy Twine that I used in my project

In order to win you must do the following

• Be a follower of my blog :)
• be a follower of my FB page HERE
• Be a follower of the Trendy Twine Blog HERE
• be a follower of the Trendy Twine FB page HERE

Please leave 1 comment saying that you did everything and I will announce the winner on Tuesday September 24th.

Of course Lisa has an awesome package to give away to one lucky hopper!! 

For a chance to win, you must be a follower of each blog and also leave a comment on each blog. 

For extra chances, 
~ you can also 'LIKE' Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons on Facebook
 and/or 
~ sign up for the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Newsletter. 
A random winner will be chosen for the prize on Tuesday, September 24th. 
Only US or Canadian mailing addresses please. 

With our blog hop also comes a new Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons Challenge!! The theme of the challenge is Birthday and you can link up your projects at the Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbons blog until Sunday, October 12th for a chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the store. We can't wait to see what you create using PPPR files!! 

Now with all that out of the way it is now to continue
onto the next stop in the hop!! 

Head on over to 
Candace's  blog!! 
Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT weekend!!


Don't forget to pick up your freebies.....the adorable Birthday Gator is this week's freebie and the adorable Happy Bird Day is the freebie available ONLY on Saturday and Sunday. You can get them both HERE 

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Here is the CORRECT hop lineup in case you get lost along the way!! 

Lisa 
Barb 
Julie K. 
Brianna 
Jessica  ~ME~
Candace  ~NEXT~
Monica
Jeanne 
Emma 
Melisa 
Nanne 
Nicole 
Kathy
Shannon 
Sarah 
Tanya 
Ana Maria 
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Entering this into the following challenges:
My Creative Time~ Designer's Challenge
Cameo Creations~ Pattern Paper
Seize The Birthday~ Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Paper Issues~ Put Some Twine on It

My Craft Spot~ Favorite Technique (sewing machine stitching)

Cut it Up~ Going in Circles

Dropping You a Line...... {Trendy Twine & Fleurette Bloom}

Good Morning everyone!!

It is my DT day over on the Trendy Twine blog 

and this month the DT is showcasing the FAB new

Cherry Lemonade

Here is a sneak of my project :)

Supplies Used:

Cardstock~ Black, White

Stamps~Joy's Life~ You're so Punny 

Cuts~ Fleurette Bloom~ Ships Ahoy

Embellishments~ Trendy Twine~ Cherry Lemonade

glue dots

sewing machine

Want to see the whole project?? 

Stop on over to the Trendy Twine blog HERE for all the details!! I love popping over to read your comments!! And don't forget to link up a project following our current challenge! 

New to Trendy Twine??? 

Check out the other places where we share our projects .....

Trendy Twine Blog~ HERE

and the

Trendy Twine Facebook page~ HERE

Don't forget to visit the 

 new and improved, packed with tons of product

 Store HERE

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT Day!!!

Thanks for Being so Sweet....& A WINNER!!

Morning everyone!!!

I wanted to pop in and share my card for this week's Peachy Keen Stamps challenge as well as announce a winner from My Craft Spot's Guest Designer giveaway....

This week's challenge over at PKS was a Sketch Challenge! I love working with sketches and this one was no exception :)

Here is the card I made. I hope you like it!!!

What do you think??? I had this fun honeycomb paper in my stash and knew this would be perfect to use with the Stitched Hexy Dies from MCT as well as the adorable bee from Cottage Cuts. I couldn't help but add some sequins in a random pattern as well as using my sewing machine!

Isn't this bee just too adorable??? I just LOVE that face...LOL!! I did end up adding some white gel pen to the face as well as some pink chalk to the cheeks 

Supplies Used:

Paper~ White, Yellow, Black

Simple Stories~ Yellow Honeycomb/Notebook

Stamps~ Peachy Keen Stamps~PK~292 Faceless Corn (sentiment)

Cottage Cuts~ Bugs

Dies~ Cottage Cuts~Bugs (4x6)

My Creative Time~ Stitched Hexy Dies

Extra's~ Sequins

White gel pen

chalk

sewing machine

Foam pop dots

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WINNER!!!

I do want to thank everyone who stopped by to see my project and for all the super sweet comments you all left!

SO...

Using Random. Org the lucky winner of the MCS Stamp set is.....

Naomi

Who left me this sweet comment.....

Jessica this project is super creative, I am totally in love with it and would love to make one, I really need a siloutte! This project blows my mind, it is such a perfect card for someone not doing to well.

My fav stamp set by Kimberly is "Think Snow", love it! I have to say it was very hard to choose just one. Hugs

Congrats Naomi!! 

Please email me your address so I can forward that to Kimberly and she will get your stamp set in the mail!!

Well that is all I have for you today! Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT day!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps~ Sketch Challenge

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Inspired By a Song or a Book...{TKJ}

Good Morning and Happy Monday everyone!!!

It is time for a new challenge over at

 The Kraft Journal!

And this week the challenge is:

Inspired By a Song or a Book

I went with one of my favorite books ever~ Harry Potter and made a fun birthday card that any Harry Potter fan would love....

Here is my card....Hope you like it!!

I started my card by using a piece of Light Kraft Cover Weight Cardstock as my card base and then adding my layers of designer papers from Pebbles Tricks and Treats paper pack. Next I stamped my image from Jaded Blossoms ~ My Favorite Wizard on some Buff Ivory Cover Weight Cardstock, and colored it using my copic markers. Then to embellish my card, I added some Black Twill Tape, Earthy Hemp Cord and a fun witches hat charm.

So there you have it....

my inspiration for this week's challenge.

I hope you have enjoyed my card and will play along with us!

As always I have linked all the supplies I used from The Kraft Outlet throughout my description.  If you have not checked out the store yet....make sure you do! There is so much available, the prices are so reasonable and shipping is super fast!!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT Monday!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just Be Creative Crazy~ Linky Party

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Feel Better Soon + GIVEAWAY...{My Craft Spot GD}

Morning Everyone!!!

(if you are looking for my 3GJ DT project please click HERE or scroll down to the next post)

I am so excited you stopped by today because I can not wait to share my project with you!

Recently I was asked by Kimberly from My Craft Spot to be a Guest Designer over on her blog! 

I am beyond honored that she asked and I had a blast playing with one of her newer stamp sets~

Feel Better Soon

Here is my project....I really hope you like it!

Recipe on how I made this...

~ I started my project by using my Silhouette Cameo to cut the pieces of the tissue box holder I found online here using Kraft cardstock and designer paper from Queen & Co.

~Once all my pieces were cut, I stamped the front panel with the too cute sentiment~ "Heard you're sick as a dog!" from the Feel Better Soon  stamp set as well as using the cute "Achoo!" from that same set stamped right by where the tissues come out.

~Next I used the August SOTM set as well as the matching SVG's  from Peachy Keen Stamps for the puppy, bone and dog tag. Once die cut on white cardstock and stamped on Kraft cardstock and cut out, I went about gluing the layers, adding some white gel pen to the puppy, the stamped sentiment from the Feel Better Soon and a pattern paper collar. 

~It was now time to assemble the tissue box, but before I did that, I ran each of my mats through my sewing machine for alittle more embellishing.

~Finally I finished my box by adding a some new Trendy Twine in Lemon Peppermint wrapping it around my mat two times and tying my dog tag to it in a bow.

Thank you so much for stopping by today,

 I hope you have enjoyed my project!

 I hope you will stop by Kimberly's Blog - My Craft Spot to see her fun stamps, dies and ribbons. Be sure to check out the stamps because I have a GIVEAWAY for you!  

Kimberly has generously offered a free set of stamps for me to give away!   How awesome is that?  

Here's what you need to to:

1) Stop by My Craft Spot and check out all the stamp sets Kimberly has to offer

2) Choose your favorite set

3) Come back here and leave me a comment telling me your choice

That's it...easy!

 I'll choose a random winner on Tuesday September 17th

Before I say goodbye and have a GREAT day, I want to thank Kimberly for letting me play with her fun stamps! I had a GREAT time being a Guest Designer!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes

Just B Creative Crazy~ Linky Party
Paper Issues~ Put Some Twine on It

Let's Celebrate.....{3GJ}

Morning and Happy Friday everyone!!!
I have a fun and easy Celebration project to share for
3 Girl JAM 

that also fits our current challenge going on all month long!
So as a reminder the challenge is
Celebrations

because we are celebrating 3GJ's 2nd Birthday!

So we want to see any project you make that celebrates something!!!

And here is what I made...

I LOVE stamping on the Muslin Bags you can pick up in the 3GJ store. They make great gifts for packaging all those fun treats and are so super easy to embellish with some of your favorite stamps and of course ribbon :)

So using one of my favorite new stamps from My Creative Time~Build a Chevy Background I stamped first the thicker chevron using Stazon Black ink and then the smaller dotted chevron using Fired Brick Distress ink.  Then using the Let's Celebrate stamp set for the sentiment, I again stamped using the Stazon Ink. 

When I make these, I always pull out the rope ties that come with the bag so I can add my 3GJ ribbon instead. Using a combo of Holly Berry Crinkle Ribbon and Sunflower Crinkle Ribbon I threaded the ribbon through to tie in a bow on the side.

Then using the party die from My Creative Time along with the new color of Trendy Twine~ Cherry Lemonade, I added them to my ribbon bow and tied them all together.

I sure hope you have enjoyed my project and will play along with us over at the 

3 Girl JAM Challenge Blog!

Remember you have all month to share those

Celebration 

 projects 

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday!! 

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Entering this into the following challenges:

DL Art~ September Linky Party

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes
Paper Issues~ Put Some Twine on It