Giving Thanks

Good Morning! Yes, I still have a couple minutes till noon :) It's snowing here this morning, so everyone at my house is moving pretty slowly :) The snow is beautiful though, since I don't have to go out in it :)

I have finished up my Thanksgiving cards and soon they will all be on their way to their recipients. This is the last one I made. I looked on the back of the Hero Arts November stamp set and there was a card with this leaf background and I just loved it so I used that as my starting point. The cornucopia is from Kim Hughes at Cornish Heritage Farms. I used eyelets on this card (they had done that part on the hero arts card too) - I was excited because I hardly ever use eyelets anymore, mostly brads.....hmmmmm! I used scrap papers and I colored with prismacolor pencils and mineral spirits.

I have some other things I would like to finish today and maybe even post, so maybe, just maybe, I'll post twice in one day :) We'll see though because we found Guitar Hero World Tour (the one with the drums, mic and guitars) so I've been playing that some lately too :) Ben and I already played this morning :)

Our quote for the day: "There’s always room for improvement, you know—it’s the biggest room in the house. " — Louise Heath Leber

Thanks so much for stopping by and check back soon, you might find something new before tomorrow! :)

Used the same stamp TWICE :)

Good Morning - it's still morning :)

Like the title of this post? Well, I know I shouldn't be amazed by this fact and really all my stamps get used more than once eventually, but this one has been used twice in three days! And I don't mean I used it to make 10 of the same cards, that doesn't count. I used it to make 2 DIFFERENT cards :) Yes, I am proud of myself as silly as that sounds. Someone please tell me that you are the same way............PLEASE! :)

If there are typos in this I apologize, I have one of my cats laying on my arm as I type. She was doing it earlier and I got up and moved around hoping she would find somewhere else to lay, but she followed me around and when I came back in here, she came too and jumped back up on the desk and is again laying on my arm. She's so sweet and cute and has such a great personality that I can't just push her away (she'd just come back again anyway :).

Okay, on to the card - My picture came out with the colors a little brighter than they are in real life, think a little darker, a little more fallish (sorry about that). I made this as part of a challenge on SCS. The challenge was to use a background stamp with a glue pad and then glitter it. This was soooooo much fun!! I used to not like glitter believe it or not and now I even like playing with the loose glitter, boy how things change. I used the abstract leaves backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms and Art Glitter in orange crush. Oooops, I started with a chocolate brown card base. For the tree image which is an Autumn Leaves stamp, I did it just like I did for the last card. Burnt Sienna colorbox chalk ink, with Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy on the leaf edges, then glittered leaves with clear glitter from stampendous. I cut the image with my nesties and pierced the scallops. The plaid paper is from the DCWV Fall paper stack, the buttons are from Autumn Leaves and the ribbon is from May Arts.

Our quote for the day: "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. " — Hannah Arendt

Thanks so much for stopping and have a wonderful day!

I'm Living on Challenges right now.....

Good Morning! Thanks for thinking of me when you're watching Gustav, I appreciate it! I talked to my mom yesterday for just a minute. They were in Baton Rouge, had lost power, and had a little bit of damage to my brother's house, but nothing major as far as they know. Lake Charles, where my parents live was supposed to get less of the storms so we'll see.

This card was made for the Inspiration Challenge over on SCS. The inspiration is a hotel called Hotel Fox in Copenhagen, Denmark. It's really cool. Take a look! The challenge was to choose a room to use as your inspiration. The room I chose was Room 312. These rooms are really pieces of art although I'm not sure I could sleep in many of them. It would be an interesting night :)

My card uses Bazzill Basics - ocean and flamingo, Hero Arts Scroll Tree stamp, CHF Motivation Centers for the quote, ribbon and dew drops. Oh, I did pull out my old CM wave cutter. It was fun once I found it :)

Tomorrow is the All That Scraps Wednesday Challenge, be sure to stop by tomorrow and see what we have in store for you. We are also getting closer to the sneak peeks of the new CC Designs stamps. All I have to say is be prepared, they're awesome!!!

Our quote for the day: "The road to happiness lies in two simple principles:
find what it is that interests you and that you can do well,
and when you find it put your whole soul into it -
every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have." - John D. Rockefeller II

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!