Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Hope everyone has a fabulous day visiting with family and friends!

Here is my holiday gift box in spirit of the day and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Schoolbook Serif, Whimsical and Short Order Alphabet Sets, Leaf Lines

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Chocolate Chip Corduroy Button and Wide Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Fancy Favor Box, Big Shot, Horizontal Slot Punch

Fall Thank You Card

Here is a mix of old and new. Old designer series paper and then the rest is new. I have to say my favorite of all time fall designer series paper was the Autumn Meadows.

Here is my fall card and the ingredients to make it:
Stamp Sets: Leaf Lines, Because I Care
Ink: Early Espresso, More Mustard, Crumb Cake
Paper: Autumn Meadows Designer Series PaperPaper, Very Vanilla, Early Espresso
Accessories: Silver Brads, Early Espresso Taffeta Ribbon
Tools: Tasteful Trim Sizzex, Circle Punch

Thank you for your friendship

Only a few more days and Thanksgiving is around the corner. So I will posting a few fall themed cards to countdown to turkey day.

Ingredints to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Pumpkin Patch, Upsy Daisy

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Paper: Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip Patterns Designer Series Paper, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Pewter Eyelets, Chocolate Chip Wide Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Crop-a-dile, Corner Rounder

November Open Workshop

Need some homemade cards! Come by and make 4 cards at this month's open workshop. You will get to learn how to do emboss resist technique and textured embossing plates.

Stop by Monday November 22nd at 7 p.m.and make these fabulous projects.

Location: Totowa, NJ

Workshop Fee: $12
Place a 40$ order or more and your class fee is waived.

Please RSVP as soon as possible for all events so that the card stock is ready for everyone to start stamping when the event begins.

Can't make it to the event? You can now purchase these 4 projects already assembled for only 12$ that includes shipping & handling. Email me today and request your assembled November Open Workshop projects be delivered to your door step.

Featuring products (in order as they appear on this entry): Morning Cup, A Cute Christmas, Heard from the Heart, Northern Hearts, Afterthoughts, Candy Candy DSP, Jolly Holiday DSP, Autumn Spice DSP

Papercraft Star Photo Inspiration

This week's Papercraft Star photo inspiration is a photo from Martha Stewart Living. It is a beautiful fall photo. I wanted to touch upon the soft colors from this photo with my projects. I did a emboss resist technique to do this project. Click here to see a great tutorial on how to do emboss resist. My special tips for doing emboss resist is to use glossy card stock. I also used a few colors to do the technique. Always start with the light color when sponging.

So here's my project and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Afterthoughts, Leaf Lines

Ink: Versamark, Old Olive, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie

Paper: Glossy Cardstock, Whisper White, Old Olive, Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Old Olive Satin Ribbon, Adhesive Halfback Pearls from a local craft store, White Embossing Powder

Tools: Wide Oval Punch, Square Lattice Textured Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Punch from a local craft store, Embossing Buddy, Heat Gun

Fall Inspiration

This week's Pals Paper Arts Challenge is a Fall Inspiration. So here is my creation. Can you believe I made I made it with a Stampin' Around wheel. I rolled the wheel and then cut out the images from the wheel for my card.

Here's my card and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Bright Blessings

Ink: Early Espresso, Cajun Craze

Paper: Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper, Cajun Craze, Early Espresso, Very Vanilla

Accessories: Gold Brads

Tools: 2 1/2 Circle Punch, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Punch, Big Shot, Square Lattice Textured Embossing Folder

Inkredible Color Challenge

This week's color challenge is Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Always Artichoke and Crumb Cake. I have to say I love the way the last two Inkredible color challenges have come out.

So here is my card and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Set: Great Friend

Ink: Early Espresso

Paper: Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Always Artichoke Patterns Designer Series Paper

Accessories: Antique Brads

Tools: Circles #2 Sizzex, Big Shot, Scallop Circle Extra Large Punch, Top Note Sizzex

Special touch on this card: I cut the flower out of the designer series paper. Next, I layered it on a scallop circle and a circle. I layered the designer series paper on a piece of paper and the die cut with the Top Note.

Awesome Autumn Spice Designer Series Paper

As you can see I am flip flopping through the seasons with all my posts. Here I am back to fall. Here is the fabulous Autumn Spice Designer Series Paper.

So here's my card and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Great Friend

Ink: Early Espresso

Paper: Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper, Early Espresso

Accessories: Daffodil Delight Satin Ribbon, Linen Thread, Early Espresso Buttons

Tools: Big Shot, Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder, Circles #2 Sizzex, Circles 1 3/4" Circle Punch

Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge

This week's Pals Paper Arts challenge is a sketch challenge. I just love the new designer series paper from the Holiday Mini, Autumn Spice. It is such beautiful textured paper. Yes it is textured. I also love the new Antique Brads. As you can see I am having so much fun with all the new things that I just came in my order.

So here is my card and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Thoughts & Prayers, Three Little Words

Ink: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Early Espresso

Paper: Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Antique Brads, Vintage Brads, Early Espresso Wide Grosgrain Ribbon

Tools: Scallop Trim Border Punch, Corner Rounder

Taylored Expressions #128

I have to say I absolutely love this week's Taylored Expressions sketch. I can see using this sketch over and over.

So here's the card and the ingredients to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Thoughts & Prayers, Three Little Words

Ink: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Chocolate Chip

Paper: Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper (retired), Very Vanilla, Early Espresso

Accessories: Early Espresso Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Button and Brads

Tools: Scallop Border Punch

Stampin' Royalty Stitching Challenge

This week's Stampin' Royalty challenge is a Stitching. If anyone who knows me sewing is just not my thing. I keep saying I am going to have my mom teach me how to use the sewing machine, but it hasn't happened. Although I can sew a button on and do some light stitching, so that is what I did on this week's challenge. I started on out by pulling out my mat pack and making holes for my stitching. It was every other hole on the mat pack. I have to say I made mom proud. The other special touch was after color in the image with my blender pens and ink, I took my marker and drew in the lines again. After my water color they were a little hard to see.

So here's my card and the ingredients to make it:

Stamp Sets: Leaf Lines

Ink: Basic Brown, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso

Paper: Watercolor Paper and Autumn Meadows Designer Series Paper (retired)

Accessories: Vintage Brads, Linen Thread

Tools: Mat Pack, Paper Piercer, Needle, 2 1/2" Circle Punch, Large Oval Punch, Blender Pen