Fall and Halloween Cards

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a GREAT weekend! It's been more than 3 weeks since I have posted to my blog but I wanted to share with you a few cards that I have done for Fall and Halloween. I really struggled about posting these since I will not have the time to blog or visit my favorite blogs. I am flattered that I continue to get hundreds and hundreds of visitors even though I have not posted for such a long time. The emails are pouring in asking me when I will be resuming my blog...the truth is that blogging is so time consuming, I do not have the luxury of spending countless hours on the Internet at this time. Your kind words have always been an inspiration and mean so much to me. Thank you for your continued support! For those of you that visit on a daily basis...sometimes several times a day, I'd love to hear from you, so please take a moment to say hello! Even though I am no longer blogging, I will make every effort to visit those that leave comments, if not this weekend, for sure by the 1st of next week.

As always if you have any questions on the recipe or supplies that I have used in my posting today, please feel free to email me. Thanks for stopping by...Have a wonderful weekend...I'll see you next time!

Autumn Blessings...From Our Home To Yours

Good Morning! Thanks for stopping by...I hope you are having a great week. We are still out of town but I have scheduled this posting for the first day of Fall to say Happy Fall to you all! I have very limited access to the Internet and am not be able to visit my favorite blogs. To everyone that has visited and left comments, thank you for your continued support! I will be sure to visit you when I return home...I can't wait to see what ya'll have been doing while I've been gone---
Here is the recipe---
Card Size: A2
Copic Markers
Stamps/Image: Angel's Landing Designs-Autumn Tweetings
Nestibilities: Circle/Scallop
Sentiment: Angel's Landing Designs-Autumn Tweetings
Sizzix: Embossing Folder from Birthday Set #2
Accessories: Ribbon, Foam Pop Dots
Base Cardstock: Cordination
Patterned Paper: K & Company

That's it for now! I'm still not sure when we will return home so I will close by saying thanks for stopping by, I will see you when I see you. Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!

P.S. I see that I have several new followers, and several new entries to my guestbook. I'd love to be able to visit you and become a follower as well, If you have a blog, please leave a comment with your blog link so that am able to visit you!

Happy Fall

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a great weekend. Mine was kind of different. It started late Friday night with the air conditioning going out. By the time someone was able to come out Saturday to fix it, it had reached 87* in the house. While we were waiting for the house to cool down, we went to visit my son. He was watching the boys while Kim had her first girls night out since she had the twins. They have really grown and are so alert now. They no longer look like newborns. I must say, I am really proud of my son, he is such a good dad! We spent Sunday packing and doing last minute odds and ends to get reading for the trip but I was able to sneak into my craftroom and make this card. By the time you read this, we will be well on our way to North Carolina to visit my sister-in-law and her husband. I am scheduling this posting since we will not have access to the Internet. Since Labor Day marks the end of Summer, I thought I would do a Fall card and use The Cutting Cafe's Welcome Fall Printable Stamp Set. It is really awesome and comes with 46 images just waiting to be printed out and colored. It also has a few sentiments---
Here is the recipe---
Card Size: 4.75"x4.75"
Copic Markers
Stamps/Image: Cutting Cafe- Welcome Fall
Nestibilities: Circle, Lacey Circle
Sentiment: Cutting Cafe-Welcome Fall
Accessories: Ribbon, Flat Back Pearls, Eyelet, Craft Yarn, Foam Pop Dots
Base Cardstock: Bazzill
Patterned Paper: K & Company-Classic K McKenna 12x12

You may be asking yourself...why did I make this an "odd" size. I have found it works out better for me when I make my own envelopes using patterned paper to match my card and my Scor Pal. The envelope is 5"x5" and fits perfectly into a 5'x7" clear envelope and then into a 6"x6" non bendable mailer, which is what I use to mail my cards.

That's it for today and for the rest of the week. I'm not sure when we will be returning, our plans are up in the air at this time so I'll close by saying...Thanks for stopping by, I will see you when I see you. Enjoy your day and have a wonderful week!

P.S. I tried to visit all my favorite blogs before I shut down my computer for the night, but Blogger was giving me such a fit with "Service Unavailable...Error Code 503" so if I didn't get to you last night, I'll be sure to visit you when I get back!

Simple Pleasures

Good Morning All! Well we are half way to the weekend...which will be sad or me, my son and daughter in law will be back from their cruise and picking the girls up on Saturday :(
I noticed that I had a lot of traffic on my blog yesterday and many you were able to pick up the free images. Isn't it great when you can put a card together with freebies? The image on today's card is also a freebie, it comes in the form of colored clip art, much like the decoupage images that are so popular. When I seen the image I saved it to a word document but didn't save the web site (I can't believe I did that) so I'm not able to give you the link to the web site BUT if you would like a copy of the image just leave me a comment here on my blog with your email address and I will gladly send it to you. I saved a total of 6 images which include a Mr/Mrs Turkey Pilgrims and a Harvest Wheelbarrel filled with Autumn fruits and veggies. I think the images are adorable and remind me of the Thanksgiving commercials for Publix, a regional grocery store we have here in Florida. Then I thought of my daughter in law and how she loved the Pilgrim salt and pepper shakers they offered years ago. When we sold our second home in North Carolina, I asked if there was anything she wanted from the house and all she wanted were those salt and pepper shaker so this will be her Thanksgiving card.











I printed the image several times and cut the 1st layer with a circle Nestibility, the second layer was the head and the body, the third layer was just the body, then pop dotted the layers to give a 3D effect and glittered the leaves. I put it on the background layer that was embossed with Cuttlebug Autumn embossing folder that was inked and added a few brads. The leaves were cut and inked with Martha Stewart Maple leaf punch and added a few sprigs of greenery that was cut with Martha Stewart branch punch along with an acorn that was cut with Cricut Doodlecharm cartridge and added an eyelet and tied t to the ribbon on the side band along with a bow. The sentiment is from the Cutting Cafe Autumn Day Printable Stamp Set that was re sized and re colored.















That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

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Please note, I have received many request for the Pilgrim clip art images this morning but I cannot stress it enough, I need your email address, otherwise I don't know where to send it too
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Autumn Blessings

Good Morning All...I hope you had a nice weekend! I had the sudden thought that I don't have all of my Thanksgiving cards done yet and even though there is plenty of time, it will be here before you know it!
The square in the upper left hand corner is a Cutting Cafe Printable Stamp from The Autumn Days Set that was re colored and printed then attached to the background layer that was embossed with The Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder, then added a ribbon knot. The sentiment, is from The When I Count My Blessings Set also from The Cutting Cafe that was re colored and printed then cut with an oval/scallop Nestibility and pop dotted. The leaves were cut and embossed with the Cuttlebug Maple Leaf 3 x 3 Combo and inked. An eyelet and craft yarn were added.
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget, to be eligible for The Cutting Cafe Give Away, you must leave a comment on the postings from 10/3 before 10/8. I will do the drawing 10/9 and announce the winner that morning. Have a fabulous day!

I'm Thankful For My Family/Autumn Blessings

Good Morning Everyone...Happy Monday! I know this sounds crazy but I love Mondays, (second only to Fridays though) but it sets the stage for the rest of the week!

Here's a couple of Autumn cards, both using Cutting Cafe Printable Stamp...Of course! I had so much fun making these and Regina makes it so easy! For this 1st one, I used the Bountiful Blessings and the Thankful for My Family from the Autumn Days Printable Stamp Set that I re sized and re colored then cut with a circle/scallop Nestibility, pierced the scallops with a paper piercer and pop dotted the layers. I attached a backward L shape to the background and added ribbon. The leaves were cut and inked with Cuttlebug Fall Leaves set that I put an eyelet on and attached it using craft yarn. The "dots" in the corner were cut with the Cuttlebug 3x3 Party die.

This second one I re sized and re colored the Autunm Blessing from the When I Count My Blessings...I count You Twice Printable Stamps Set and printed directly on the background layer, scored it with ScorPal then embossed with with Quickuts Diamond and Dots embossing folder then added square metal brads. I added a ribbon bow. The leaves were cut and inked using the Cuttlebug Fall Leaves set and attached to an oval/scallop Nestibility.

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy your visit. The only way I'll know you stopped by is for you to leave a comment so won't you please take a moment to let me know you were here! Enjoy your day!