Happy Thanksgiving!......{w/Trendy Twine}

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
I hope you all have a GREAT day with family and friend and eat WAY too fun yummy turkey...LOL
Every year my husband and I do the cooking and I just LOVE the way the house smells!
Good times, lots of laughs and yummy food....who could ask for more?

Now onto my card....a few of the Trendy Twine DT decided to do another group post sharing Thanksgiving projects~ so make sure you stop by the Trendy Twine blog to see the other projects.
Here is my simple but pretty adorable Thanksgiving card.....

I used a card base file from Lori Whitlock and added designer paper from The Paper Loft.
I did tie a simple bow of Orange Truffle Trendy Twine around the bottom of the card top and then knotted the ends.

For the image, I used a stamp from Inkadinkado that I have had in my stash forever! It has never been inked up and I am so glad I used it...how cute is it...right?

I did scan the image into my computer and then imported the scanned image to the Silhouette Studio. Once there, I did a trace of the image and then made an offset of the image at 0.075. Tada...now you have a perfectly shaped cut of the stamped image . I took it one step further and made another offset so I could add a colored mat to the back of the stamped image.

Once I cut the image out, I stamped it and then colored it using my copic markers and as well as adding some gold stickles to his hat and shoe buckles.

Here is another pic so you can see the dimension of the image as well as see the fun wave shape of the card base.  To finish my card I stamped my sentiment using Joy's Life Stamps~It's All Fall Puns.

Supplies Used:

Paper~ 

The Paper Loft~Funkysaurus

Kraft, Bazzill Brown

Stamps~ 

Joy's Life Stamps~It's All Fall Puns

Inkadinkado~ Halloween Mini Assortment

Cuts/Dies~ 

Lori Whitlock~ Wave card base

Embellishments~

Trendy Twine~ Orange Truffle

Stickles

copic markers

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 Turkey Day!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Ribbon Carousel Blog~Holiday's and Celebrations

Just B Creative Crazy~ November Linky

Word Art Wednesday~ Anything Goes
Everyday is an Occasion~Sunday Funday #15
Paper Playtime~Anything Goes

Toad-ally Awesome..............{Trendy Twine/ Little Scraps of Heaven Cross Promo}

Morning and welcome to a special 

Trendy Twine post!

Today a few of the Trendy Twine DT will be doing a cross promotion with

Little Scraps of Heaven Designs and showcasing the 

Cotton Candy Trio of Trendy Twine.

For my card, I made another easel...

(kinda obsessed with these lately)

and used the adorable "Bring on the Rain" file and Sky Trendy Twine 

Here is my card.....

Didn't this turn out CUTE????? I love that froggy and pairing him up with some peachy keen goodness...well you can just see his personalty popping out!

Here he is a bit closer. I cut him out using all scraps from my stash along with papers from Echo Park~ Paradise Beach paper pad. After inking the edges of my cuts using Distress ink in Broken China, Peeled Paint and Antique Linen I stamped his face using PKS~ Happy Lil' Frog. I did add some Sky TT bows to his boots and then bordered my bracket card mat with the same Sky Trendy Twine and tied a triple bow at the side.

This twine was a perfect match to my color theme and added just the right amount of extra embellishments the front of the card needed.

Finally here is the inside of my card....I did end up cutting some raindrops and gluing them to the sentiment as well as the front of the card....just thought it needed something more. I also added glossy accents to them for the look of actual raindrops. The sentiment is from Joy's Life Stamps~ Punny Animals....so cute!

Supplies Used~

Trendy Twine~ Sky 

Little Scraps of Heaven Designs~ Bring on the Rain

Peachy Keen Stamps~ Happy Lil' Frog (Cottage Cutz)

Lori Whitlock Bracket Easel Card~ Silhouette Store

Joy's Life Stamps~Punny Animals

Echo Park Paradise Beach 6x6 paper pad

glossy accents, pop dots, distress ink, brads, flat back pearl

Well that is all I have for you today.....

I hope you like my card :)

Make sure to pop over to the Trendy Twine blog to see what the other girls created as well!!

And don't forget to check out these colors in the Trendy Twine Store!!

Thanks for stopping by and have a GREAT weekend!!!

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Linking this up over at the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps~ Photo Inspiration

(I used the colors GREEN, YELLOW and BROWN as my inspiration)

Divas by Designs~ Shape it Up

Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party

DL Art~ May Linky Party
Simon Says Stamp and Show~ Little Paper

USe a Digi w/Ribbon.......{3GJ Challenge #18}

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is a happy day over here....

I am hosting the new challenge over at the

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog

and

this week's challenge is~ 

Use a Digi w/Ribbon

This week's challenge will be open for 2 weeks, May 1oth~ May23rd so plenty of time to create and share!!

Our challenge is being sponsored by

Sassy Studio Designs
and the winner will receive any 4 images from the store

as well as....

with a $10 Gift Certificate to  3GJ

Awesome prizes for sure!!
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So here is the card I made using the adorable image
Little Honey's~The Little Mermaid

I used the image and made a shaker card....to make it look like she was under the water.

I colored her using my copic markers and added some sequins to the inside of my shaker.

My sentiment is from Joy's Life Stamps~ You're so Punny and I attached it to my card using some Navy Blue Crinkle Ribbon from the lastest new release~ Navy Bundle

I wanted to share another picture as well....so you can see the dimension that the shaker part of my card gives.....Pretty cool right???

What do you think???

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

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog!

Remember this challenge will run for 2 weeks so lots of time to get those 

Use a Digi w/Ribbon 

projects in!!

Thanks so very much for stopping by!!

Have a GREAT Friday!!

Heard You Caught a Bug......{Challenge Card}

Happy Sunday everyone!!
I wanted to pop in with a card I made...that is not for a DT but one that I wanted to make to enter a few challenges!
I used this week's Stella Says Sketch

and came up with this..... I hope you like it!

So for my card I used the adorable Bugaboo Stamps image~ Bug Jar~Ladybug and colored her with my copic markers. I added a layer of glossy accents to the jar as well as some x-mas red stickles to the bow on the jar. Once all that was dry, I ran the image through my sewing machine :)

The designer paper is actually Christmas paper from MME~Christmas (I think this is one of my favorite paper packs....LOVE the colors!!)

I made a border with my sewing machine again for this and then tied some 

3GJ~ Dress White crinkle ribbon which is one of the newest releases and part of the Navy Bundle.

Finally I used the new release stamp set~ Punny Animals from Joy's Life

Well there you have it! 

That is all I have for now.....

Next up, working on my PKS challenge entry....but I wont be posting that until Wed

Make sure to stop by tomorrow for a brand new

The Kraft Journal Challenge

as well as on Tuesday for my

TAWS project

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a GREAT rest of your weekend!!!

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Catch the Bug~ Stella Says Sketch #136

Catch The Bug~ May Anything Goes

Little Scrap Pieces~ Bugs Life
Craftin Desert Diva's~ Use a Pun
Really Reasonable Ribbon~ Sparkle/Bling w Ribbon

To a Fungi~ PKS Challenge 13-10

Hey everyone!!!

Popping in later than normal with a card to share for this week's PKS challenge.

This week's challenge was this beautiful photo and color 

So for my card I used the colors as my inspiration as well as the great outdoors

and came up with this card.

Hope you like it :)

Ha! Isn't he just the cutest "fungi" with his Peachy Keen face :)

I always find making manly cards to be so hard and never seem to have enough on hand so when I saw the color combo and the nature scene I remembered downloading this cutie schroom from SVG Cutting Files and knew he would look adorable with some peachy goodness. 

For his adorable face I used the Pile's of 1" Smiles (PK-146) and added some white gel pen to his teeth and eyes and a red gel pen for his tongue.

The paper is actually Christmas paper from Recollections~ Holly Day Wishes. The colors couldn't have been a better match for the inspiration photo.

My sentiment is from Joy's Life~ Wild Life Puns stamp set. Such a cute stamp set with adorable sentiments! I tend to forget to look through all my stamps when making a card and this one was perfect for this card!

Finally I couldn't leave my card without some distressing around the edges using Tim Holtz Distress ink in Gathered Twigs and some sewing machine stitching.

So there you have it....a manly card that I am sure will be used sooner than later :)

I hope you have enjoyed it and thanks so much for stopping by!!

Enjoy the rest of your day and I will be back tomorrow with a card for 

The Alley Way Stamps :)

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ 13-10 Photo Inspiration

Simon Says Stamps~ Bit 0' Green

Everyday is An Occasion~ Linky Party

Crafty Desert Diva's~ Linky Party

DL Art~ Linky Party

CI Paint Inspired By~Anything Goes

Good Morning Bloggers!!!

It is time for another fun

Inspired By Challenge 

over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!!

This weeks Challenge~

Inspired By: Anything Goes

that's right we want to see ALL of your projects!!!

Here is what I made....

A cute apple for my hubby to put on his desk

Supplies Used:

Paper~ Core'dination, Kraft ~all scraps from the "bin"

Stamps~ Joy's Life Stamps~

It's All Fall Puns

Ink~ Versamark

Tim Holtz Gathered Twigs Distress Ink

Dies/Cuts~ 3D Apple

Silhouette Store

Other~ CI Paint~

Sage, Deliquesce Clear Embossing Powder

Trendy Twine~

Christmas Candy Cane

I hope you like my project and will play along with us over at

Creative Inspirations Paint!

Remember you do not need CI Paints on your project but if you have them we would

LOVE to see how you use them!!!

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

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Entering this into the following challenges:
Pile It On~Anything But Christmas
Totally Gorjuss~ Don't Be Square
Everyday is an Occasion~ Linky Party
DL Art~ Linky Party
Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Fridays
Craft Your Passion~ Use Your Scraps
Pause Dream Enjoy~ Anything Goes
Paper Playtime~ Anything Goes

Every Day is An Occasion Guest Designer & Giveaway!!

Morning!!

I am so excited to be share awesome news with you!

Jill over at

  Every Day is An Occasion 

asked me to be a Guest Designer for her and of course I jumped at the chance!

If you are not familiar with her or her blog you need to go and check it out!

She is super creative and has such awesome projects!!

Plus she has a monthly linky party which is so much fun!

(I have been playing along for the past 3 months now)

here is this month's link.....

And here is my project BUT for full details you need to head over to
Every Day is An Occasion
plus I shared the recipe :)

But before you head over there to check out my post I have an announcement.....

A GIVEAWAY~~

I want to celebrate my guest design post, my birthday (which was yesterday) and all my followers with some goodies 

Here is what is up for grabs.....

• 5 Canvas Bags from Stateline Bags

• All Around Christmas stamp set from My Creative Time

• 90 yards of Twinery Twine~ Blossom, Shore, Cantaloupe, Orchid, Pea Pod and Honeydew

So in order to win this you have to do the following.....

• Be a follower of my blog and leave me some bloggy love 
• Most importantly head over to Every Day is An Occasion and leave me some bloggy love there as well.
• If you become an email subscriber over at Everyday is An Occasion leave another comment either here or there letting me know

I will combine the comments from both blogs and draw my winner from those...So you have 3 chances to win!!!
I will keep this giveaway open until next Tuesday November 20th and announce the winner on Wednesday November 21st

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

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Entering this into the following challenges:

Peachy Keen Stamps Challenge~ Anything Goes

Ribbon Carousel Blog~ Fall Spirit

DL Art~ Thankful Thursday

Everyday is an Occasion~Linky Party

Joyful Stamper~Inspired Me Fridays
Pile It On~ Let's Be Thankful
Paper Playtime~Autumn Colors
Pause Dream Enjoy~ Food/Beverage
The Pink Elephant~ Punches and Dies
My Crafting Channel~ Best of 2012

Have An Owlsome Fall Y'all Blog Hop!

Welcome to the 

Have An Owlsome Fall Y'All 

Blog Hop!

We are so happy to have you join us today!

The hop starts at Heather Lynn's blog so please start there.
You won't want to miss out on any of these wonderful projects! This is a 2 day hop and the line up will be different each day. 

 Our first "Well Owl Be" Blog Hop went over so well,
we decided to do an owl themed hop 4 times a year!
Our next hop will be right before Christmas and we hope you will come back and join us then, too!
So lets get this hop going....if you arrived here from 

Norma G's Blog, 
then you are on track!

 If you are just stopping in you will want to head back to 
Heather Lynn's
There is awesome Blog Candy up for grabs but you will have to comment on
all the blogs in the line-up to be eligible to win them!

Now onto my project...
I made this fun Fall/Halloween card using a freebie
from Treasure Box Designs and the sketch
from this week's Mojo Monday

This is my take on the sketch...

Isn't that owl just a Hoot...LOL!

I designed my LO in the Silhouette Studio  and cut all my pieces using

my Cameo.

Supplies Used:
Card Stock~ Kraft
PTI~ Dark Chocolate, Stamper Select White, New Leaf Summer Sunrise
Bazzill~ Easter Grass, Licorice Twist
Designer Paper~ Simple Stories~
Take a Hike 6x6 Pad
Cut File~ Treasure Box Designs~
Single Owl Witch
Sentiment~ Joy's Life Stamps~
It's All Fall Puns
Extra's~ Trendy Twine~
Chocolate Truffle, Krazy for Kraft
Sewing Machine
Distress Ink
White gel pen

Now it is time to head over to 
Scrapbook Joe  

But before you go I have 
BLOG CANDY!!

~Some twine and stamps~
In order to win my Blog Candy
you need to do the following:
~Leave me some bloggy love :)
and
~be a follower of my blog
Want another chance to win????
put my blog button on your blog....
if you do this come back an leave me another comment!!

Here is the whole line-up in case you get lost..
Heather Lynn 
Jessica S 
Ashley
Norma G. 
Jessica E ~~ME~~
Scrapbook Joe 
Paula D. 
Lisa 
Heather E. 

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Entering this into the following challenges:
DL Art~ Thankful Thursday Fall/Owl
Mojo Monday~ Sketch259
The Kraft Journal~ Lavish Layers
The Ribbon Carousel~ Fall into Fall
Pile it On~ Stitch it Up
Divas By Design~ Layers
Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Fridays
DL Art~ 1000 Post Linky Party
Sunday Funday~ Linky Party
Little Scrap Pieces~ Green and Black
2 Sisters Challenge Blog~ Things with Wings

3 Girl Jam Challenge #2~ Ribbon Flowers

Good Morning Bloggers!!

It is a happy day over here....

it is my day to host the new challenge over at the

3 Girl Jam Challenge Blog

and

this week's challenge is~

Ribbon Flowers!!

We want to see those beautiful flowers made with your ribbon!!

Here is the card I made....

I followed the sketch from

Mojo Monday

and came up with this creation..

Here is a close-up of one of the flowers.

I found a tutorial on you-tube

for these rolled flowers...

it can be seen here

mine is alittle different but the idea is the same :)

Supplies Used:

Cardstock~Kraft
PTI~ Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy, Dark Chocolate

Designer Paper~ Recollections~
Simply Autumn

Image~ EAD Designs~

Fall Trees

Sentiment~ Joy's Life Stamps~

It's All Fall Puns

Embellishments~ Ribbon Flowers~

3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon~ Harvest Bundle

Harvest Orange and Sunflower

Burlap~

Liz's Paper Loft Boutique

Extra's~Sewing Machine

Felt Flowers

I hope you have enjoyed my card

and will join in our challenge!!

Head over to 

3 Girl Jam's Challenge Blog

and check out what the other DT member created!

The ribbon flowers are awesome!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a 

GREAT Friday!!!!

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Entering this into the following Challenges~

Mojo Monday~Sketch 257

The Pink Elephant~Use Pattern Paper

DL.Art~ Thankful Thursday Flower

Sunday Funday~Linky Party

Simon Says Stamp Challenge~ Put a Stamp on It

Digi Doodle Shop's Best~ Handmade Flowers

Joyful Stamper~ Inspire Me Friday

Pin and Tack Spark Your Creativity Challenge #1~ Anything Goes

Cardz TV~Happy Holiday's

GSS Christmas In July Blog Hop~ Day 2

Welcome to Day 2

of our

Christmas In July Blog Hop 

with the Ginger Snap Scraps Design Team!

                                                           

This weekend we have been featuring projects all about Christmas! 

Can you believe how fast the year is going!

We hope you enjoy all of the great work this Design Team has done and find some Christmas inspiration. So on to the hop!!

If you came from 

Janea 

then you are in the right spot!!

For my project today I made this adorable gift box,

perfect for giving those last minute little gifts

Supplies Used:

Card Stock~ Kraft

Designer Paper~ My Minds Eye~

I Believe

Cut File~ RibbonWrapped Box~

SnapDragon Snippets

Sentiment~ Wintery Puns~

Joy's Life Stamps

Embellishments~ Ribbon, Christmas items

all from my stash

Stickles

Distress Ink

Your next stop on the hop is 

Kate

We hope you enjoy our Christmas in July Blog Hop! 

Now for some blog candy! 

We are giving away 2 $10 gift card to Ginger Snap Scraps!

Just leave a comment here and let us know that you did the following:

Head over to Ginger Snap Scraps and follow the blog!

also

Head over to Ginger Snap Scraps on Facebook and like them!

Here is the entire line up in case you get lost.

Ginger Snap Scraps - http://ginger-snap-scraps.blogspot.com

Ann - http://annsnovemberrose.blogspot.com

Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com

Barb - http://bugbites411.blogspot.com

Connie - http://conniecancrop.blogspot.com

Gabrielle - http://gabyspapery.blogspot.com

Janea - http://recollectionalley.blogspot.com

Jessica - http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com ~~ ME~~

Kate - http://scrapperscreativecorner.blogspot.com ~~ NEXT~~

Maria - http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com

Patty - http://creativediva98.blogspot.com

Sarah - http://sarahvaitstamps.blogspot.com

Thanks so much for spending your weekend with us!

Have a GREAT day!!

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Entering this into:
My Crafting Channel~ SVG Saturday #4
Jaihart~ Sunday's are Lovely
The Friday Mashup~ Christmas In July
Tabitha's Designs~ Christmas in July
Hiding in My Craft Room~ Christmas in July