Thanksgiving Mix

Today I'd like to share with you a little gift I made for my friend, it's a wrapped harvest candle and some Thanksgiving Mix. I've made more of these for family just like I've done for the past few years, everyone seems to love this Thanksgiving Mix and its something easy to make. The tag on the mix reads:

Thanksgiving Day Mix
The Bugles are a symbol of the Cornucopia, a horn of plenty.
The Pretzels represent arms folded in thanks and prayer.
The Candy Corn reminds us that during the first winter, the pilgrims were allowed only five kernels of corn per day because food was scarce.
The Fruit (or candy orange slices in this case) is a reminder that Thanksgiving is a celebration of the harvest.
The Peanuts represent seeds, the potential of the bounteous harvest for the next season if they are planted and well-tended.
Happy Thanksgiving!

Supplies: Falling Leaves, Circle punches, Ribbon, Brads, Corner tag punch, Linen thread, Tacky tape. Colors: Soft Suede, Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie, Very Vanilla.

PS I also through in some chocolate carmel Hersey kiss in the mix because everyone loves a little chocolate.

Hope your having a good day!

SSSC43 - Blessings

It's Sunday!!! Time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! Karen's got another great sketch for all of us to create with this week! The card I have for the sketch today uses a Paper Trey stamp set (yes you read that right non-Stampin' Up oh my). This last Friday it was so great to be able to get together with my friend Vicki and do some stampin' and chatting and while she was here she let me use some of her stamps.
The center pumpkin on this card was actually stamped twice and pop dotted and the Really Rust panel was embossed using an SU Texturz Plate.

Supplies: Paper Trey stamp set, Retired Hawaii Papaya DSP, Ribbon, Perfect Details Texturz Plate, Pop dots. Colors: Old Olive, Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie.

If your looking for a fun sketch, why not join Karen and the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers and give this weeks sketch a try. Then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Simply Linked for a chance to have your card featured on her blog.

To see more samples using this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch be sure to visit the Sweet Sunday Stampers below:

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Nancy Riley: iStamp

Jennifer Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Sarah-Jane Kale: Janeybell

Hope your enjoying your weekend!

SC253 - O' Christmas Tree

Hello people! Today's card is for the Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge #253, I wasn't sure I was going to attempt to even make a card for this sketch when I first saw it, but decided to jump in anyway and give it a try. It's difficult to see from the picture but the Real Red back ground was wheel with the So Swirly wheel in Versa Mark ink to give it a light texture.

Supplies: Season of Joy, So Swirly wheel, Merry Moments DSP, Ribbon, Piercer, Hole punch. Colors: Real Red, Garden Green, Summer Sun, Versa Mark.

SFYTT/CC243 - More Dasher

Well it certainly feels like Christmas and winter are closing in on us, our weather this week is chilly, the leaves on the trees have all fallen and there's Christmas at every store you go to now. Halloween day I received three catalogs in the mail one being the big Toys R Us catalog but all of them were for Christmas shopping. Anyhoo today's card is for two challenges the first on is Jen del Muro's Sketch for You to Try (which I haven't done in ages and really miss) and the second is the Splitcoast Stampers Color Challenge #243. The color challenge this week was to use all neutral papers and the only pop of color you could use was in your stamping.

Supplies: Dasher, Snow Swirled, Ribbon, Circle punches, Nesties, Pearls, Pop dots. Colors: Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Soft Suede, Riding Hood Red.

MOJO111 - Red Dasher

Today's card is for the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge, I used the Dasher stamp and decided to go with a Real Red monochromatic color scheme. Looking at my post from yesterday and even today I was wondering why just some of my picture seemed blurry and now as I'm posting this card I remembered that my 2yr old son had gotten a hold of my camera the other day, hmmm. Looks like a case of sticky finger prints on the lens to me!

Supplies: Dasher, Holidays and Wishes, Merry Moments DSP, Nesties, Ribbon, Gems, Piercer, Pop dots.

Hope your having a good day!

SSSC42 - JOY!

Good morning everyone I hope all of you had a fun Halloween! Today is Sunday which means that its time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch, the card that I have for today uses the stamp set Season of Joy. The card base is Real Red and measures 3 1/2"x 8" which fits nicely into a standard envelope, the bottom portion of my card was embossed using the Petals-a-Plenty embossing folder and the top was stamped with Versa Mark ink using the large poinsettia flower from the set. I stamped the main image in Old Olive and before stamping I used a Real Red marker and colored directly on the rubber stamp so that I could get a two color image. I popped up the snowflake in the center of the JOY and added small pearls to the centers of the poinsettia's.

If you would like to join in on the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, create a card using the sketch and go to Karen's blog and add your information using Simply Linked.

For more samples using the SSS sketch you can visit the other members of the Sweet Sunday Stampers team:

Jennifer Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Nancy Riley: iStamp

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Laura Fredrickson: Scrapnextras

Sarah-Jane Kale: Janeybell

Thank you for your visit!

Christmas

Hello everyone! These are the other two cards from my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack card class the other night. The first card uses hardly any stamping at all and the idea for this card was from my very talented Sweet Sunday Sketch team member Vicki Burdick, please click on her name and visit Vicki's blog you won't be sorry she has some amazing stamping projects!

The base of this card is Handsome Hunter with an embossed Petals-a-Plenty panel of Real Red, I used the Eyelet border punch for along the bottom of the red panel and tied on a piece of red gingham ribbon. The poinsettia flower was created by punching one Handsome Hunter 5 petal flower and two Real Red flowers out and layering them together. The center of the flower is a large brad covered with a glue dot then dipped in yellow glitter, the whole flower is then layered on top of a white 1 3/8" square punched piece and a Handsome Hunter mat. The be merry is from the stamp set Warm Words and punched out and layered with the large and small oval punches. Thank you Vicki for the wonderful idea!

The last card from the class was cased by another very talented stamper Pam Speidel, the only thing I did different to this card was to add a stamped strip of Kraft and Whisper White paper to the bottom of the card and I used red ribbon. When I saw this card on Pam's blog I instantly loved it and thought it would be perfect for my Stamp-a-Stack class. This card uses the Dasher stamp, the snowflake from the Snow Swirled set and the Merry Christmas from retired stamps set All Year Cheer III.

Thank you Pam for all of your inspiration!

I really admire both Vicki and Pam and enjoy visiting their blogs and seeing their beautiful cards and projects.

And the WINNER IS...

The winner of my birthday blog candy is....
Jenn Greeley
Jenn has a blog you can visit if you'd like to see some of her fantastic work ~ JJGreeley PaperDesigns.
Jen if you could please contact me I'd be happy to send out your candy!

I'd like to thank all of you who left me such wonderful birthday wishes and sweet comments on my work. Thank you, thank you!

Christmas Card Class

Today I have two of the four cards that we created at my Christmas Stamp-a-Stack class last night, I think it was a success and the women had a nice time. I had 7 women and each one made 12 cards so I tried to keep them simple and easy to make. The first card above was created using the stamp set Gifts of Christmas, I love this stamp set especially paired with the Petals-a-Plenty Textured Impressions Folder from the Stampin' Up mini catalog. I stamped the dove image in Garden Green and then removed the ink from the poinsettias using a q-tip, then colored directly on the stamp with a red SU marker to color the poinsettias then stamped. I added Dazzling Diamonds to the dove, a 2 3/4"x 4" Real Red embossed panel using my textured folder, some white ribbon and pearls to finish it off.

The second card for the class uses the stamp sets Christmas Punch (hostess) for the snowflakes, Best Yet (retired hostess set) and Dasher. The card base is Night of Navy with a panel of Brocade Blue that was stamped using the snowflakes from the Christmas Punch set with a 1/8" piece of metallic silver paper along the edge. The deer was heat embossed using silver embossing powder and the saying was stamped in Night of Navy and punched out using the large oval punch and matted with the scallop oval.

I'll be announcing the winner of the blog candy I have up for grabs later today so be sure to stop by!

SSSC41 - Thankful

It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!! Today my card for the challenge uses one of my favorite Stampin' Up fall stamp sets Falling Leaves. The card base is 5 1/2"x4 1/4" and is Elegant Eggplant with a 4 3/4"x 2 1/2" More Mustard panel embossed using a Cuttlebug Herringbone embossing folder and matted with Ruby Red. The other panel 2 3/4"x 3 1/2" and was stamped randomly with the leaves and matted as well, the thankful leaf was stamped in Elegant Eggplant and punched out using my circle punches and pop dotted. The saying and ribbon were added to complete the card.

If you'd like to play along with this Sunday's sketch create a card using the Sweet Sunday Sketch than go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so we can all see your creation!

For more samples using this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch you can visit the other team members of the Sweet Sunday Stampers:

Laura Fredrickson: Scrapnextras

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Sarah-Jane Kale: Janeybell

Nancy Riley and Jennifer Tapler will not be participating this week but will be back next week playing along with the sketch.