Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #14

It's time for another MIDNIGHT MADNESS SKETCH CHALLENGE ... In fact, I'm late!!!! Here is this week's sketch we had to play with ... isn't it great!!







With seeing all the fall cards that are popping up on blogs ... I decided to create a Thanksgiving Day card. This image came to me as a gift from one of the Stampin' D'Amour gals ... I just LOVE the vintage feel of this little guy!! My designer papers are Pixie Press and Paper Pizazz and the card base is Mellow Moss. All the matting was done with Chocolate Chip and the picket fence was created using the Martha Stewart picket fence border punch on Very Vanilla cs then sponging with Ranger Vintage Photo distress ink. The sentiment is from the SU Country Blessings stamp set and the pumpkins are from the H&M (Beverly Cole) Old Fashioned Hayride stamp set. The pumpkins were stamped onto Pumpkin Pie cs with Versafine sepia ink then cut out with a swivel craft knife and popped up with dimensionals.
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I hope you enjoyed this little creation today!! If you haven't been to Priscilla's blog and taken part in all the festivities over there ... YOU ARE MISSING IT ... GET ON OVER THERE!!!! Have a great day my friends!!

Cuttlebug Challenge

Here is a card for the Papercraft Planet Cuttlebug Challenge #3 - Fall/thanksgiving theme. Your card must have an embossed background or border! I chose the Cuttlebug "thanks" embossing folder for my background and the new Cuttlebug diecut/embossing folder "maple leaf" for my card. The bg paper is made using glossy white cs and brayering with Kaleidocolor - autumn leaves. The ribbon is Hobby Lobby grosgrain and the "blessings" sentiment is from the SU set "country blessings". An easy card to make yet I think a card that "says it all!"

Thanks for stopping by!!

Crafty Secrets Challenge - Thankfulness

Yesterday's challenge over on the Crafty Secrets forum on SCS was hosted by Pammyjo. Her clues on Monday were real brain teasers ... the phrase "I am truly thankful" written in four different languages ... yea, how fun was that!

Of course since I haven't used my french in over 40 years, I cheated and went to the internet and had the phrase translated. Sure was easier than trying to remember 40 years back ... heck I'm lucky to remember what I did yesterday let alone that long ago ... some of you probably know what I mean ... right!! Anyways, on to the card!!

I certainly have a LOT to be thankful for this year. We are not totally out of the woods yet, but after 1 more pet scan I'm praying that DH's cancer is GONE. We'll know the answer to that sometime in December. But after all he's been through this year, he is feeling really good right now and his double cataract surgery last week was a huge success.

My card base is duplex hunter green/ivory cs. I had a few fall colored scraps laying on my work table which I used for my background and the main image is from my Crafty Secrets Fall Cotton Scraps. The images on cotton scraps are fantastic for quick & easy cards. I've rounded just 2 of the 4 corners using my corner rounder by Creative Memories and the leaves are also made from a Creative Memories punch. The ribbon was purchased at Hobby Lobby.

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by to see what I've been up to. Come back later to see what I can come up with for today's SCS sketch challenge ... should be fun!!!

Huge Thanks to ALL!!

I just want to take a moment and say Thanks to all those wonderful people who have sent Well Wishes to my husband, Mark over the past month! So far he has received over 2 dozen cards and they are all so FANTASTIC! He has really enjoyed receiving them and checking out all the different styles and layouts. As a lot of you know, we still have a ways to go on this Chemo Journey but with friends like all of you, the journey isn't quite so bad!!

Many of my friends here and on SCS ask me if I'm OK! Of course, my answer is yes because I know that at the end of this journey my husband will be well again and we can pickup where we left off so many months ago and enjoy the rest of our lives together.

I have been so thrilled with the Get Well/Encouragement focus being on Mark that when I received a few cards of my own, it was even more special! I've posted them for you to see.

If you would like to see the collection of cards Mark has received, I have created an ALBUM on my SCS gallery. What a great community of friends I have made over on SCS and throughout the stamping world ...

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who is keeping us in their thoughts and prayers! God Bless You ALL!!! (And to my local friends ... I don't know what I'd do without you!!)