It's Time for Family & Turkey over at the All Dressed Up Stamps CHALLENGE

 

 When you're needing a break from all the Hustle and Bustle of Thanksgiving gathering and eating, relax with creating a card or project for our month long Challenge.  All Dressed Up Digital Stamps has an open Challenge right now until Dec. 14th-Lots of time to play~ You just have to use an ADU image!

This is my DT card using the Image "Pumpkin Hat" -a delight to color with my copics.  Used paper and stamps from my stash.  I also decorate the inside of my cards as shown.

So take some time for yourself this Season and CREATE-  We'd love to see your creations and the winner gets some images as prizes!  You've got lots of time to WOW us- the Design Team hand picks the winners.  Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone!!!

 

 

 

 

It's an ATG Challenge over at Color It Create It Show It Off---theme is "Thanks, Thankful

This is the perfect month for our "theme" over at Color It Create It Show It Off--"Thanks, Thankful".  There's so many opportunities to enter a Thank You card or project OR one that shows how thankful you are on this Thanksgiving, into our Blog Challenge.
I'm using the beautiful image by Sherri Baldy called Little White Dove and Running Bear and she can be found here, in Sherri's store.
After Coloring her up with my Copics, I used some dark metal brads to mount her, added a silk Fall leaf and placed a sentiment perfect for Thanksgiving.  I tried to give her a back to Nature feel with the leaf paper.
On the inside of the card, I used a tree like paper and a Thanksgiving Day Sentiment.  This will be going to a family member for that special Day.
I encourage you to join in the fun with the ATG Challenge and show us what YOU are Thankful for!
Entering in the following Challenges:

Crafty Gals Corner- Harvest Colors

Double D Challenge- Fall see Mood Board 
Crafty Card Makers-Thankful 
Crafting by Designs-November Anything Goes 
The Paper Shelter-use a digi

Pilgrim Girl from Paper Nest Dolls--my first Inspiration post for Thanksgiving

Hi Everyone!  This is my first card for Paper Nest Dolls and I'm thrilled to death to be joining you Ladies for the Nov. 1st post.  Until then, I'd like to share an inspiration card for you for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holiday, using Pilgrim Girl!  She was an absolute dream to color up using copics.  I found some "heritage-like" design papers and added some hand-crocheted (HMBM) small flowers in the colors of the card for the corner.  I've been waiting for just the right creation to share them!  With the pearl centers, they are nestled in among the paper flowers and buds.  On the inside, I finished it with the same paper and a stamped Thanksgiving sentiment.  I can't wait to join you in November and am looking forward to using all of Christines' gorgeous images!

Come and Get It Challenge is ATG!! Come see my Sherri Baldy Harvest Girl Thanksgiving card!

Oh I do so love this time of year when the leaves are turning beautiful colors, there's a crispness in the air and you are just Thankful for seeing all the Season's Beauty.
Over at Come and Get It we have a Challenge going on and would love to see whatever creation you'd like to share with us!  Di's Digis is our sponsor this week and it's an ATG Challenge-we all love those don't we!
The Image I chose to use is called Img654 Lil Harvest Indian Girl by Sherri Baldy.  I just adore her and love all the intricate details that Sherri's drawn into this image.  From her leather wrapped hair, the beading on her dress and boots, then to the feathers in her hair or the
buckskin she's wearing--It was all so much fun to color. 
I'm still trying to learn more and more about Prismacolor pencils when I've been hooked on Copics forever.  So I find that I tend to use a blend of both.  The pencils for the fine detail and tight spaces and the copics for a more broad application.  The Best of both Worlds in my opinion.  On this card, I used a dark brown heavily creased handmade paper in the background.  Then I used a leafy cream print that really brings out the buckskin color.  I added a touch of raffia wrap and then 2 thick accents in the corner that were actually found in the party aisle--they were Picks that you might insert in a cupcake perhaps.  I'm always looking in unusual places for embellishments-not just in the scrapbook area of a store.  Think outside the box.  On the inside, an acorn design paper, stamped sentiment from KKS and then I glued the tiny leaf(s) on the mat and down the page..like falling leaves!  Hope you like-come on over and join us!!

It's Anything Goes with Sherri Baldy Images-Monthly Challenge at Color It, Creat It, and Show It Off!

 I just love the Fall colors that I used with this image from Sherri Baldy and it's a perfect theme for a Thanksgiving Day card!  It's Img0061 from her store here and while I imagine that she's loving some hot coffee in the morning, for me it would be a large cup of hot chocolate!  This is my first card for the Sherri Baldy group, Color It, Create It, Show It Off Challenge and it's a month long event that I would love for you to join us in!
I double matted her colored image and then used the fall leaves paper from my stash.  Down at the bottom right corner, I used a burgundy colored sticker that says "Thankful" and then mounted 2 glittered metal fall leaves on either side.  On the inside, I used this glorious rich red paper with muted leaves, and swirly script sentiments all over it.  Found this perfect transparent sticker that says GIVE THANKS.  I can't wait to send it to a close friend.
Please come join us for our Challenge-we don't use the Random Generator for this--the DT votes on the winners which I think makes it much more personal!  The Winner gets a gift of 4 Sherri Baldy images and each of the 3 runner ups get 1 free image-how great is that!!!  See you there!

I'd like to enter this card in the following Challenges: 

My Time to Craft-Autumn Colors
Fussy & Fancy- Shades of Autumn 
Colouring in Scrapland-Fall 
Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge-Anything Goes-option color Orange 
Robyns Fetish Challenge- Anything for Autumn

WINNER at Scrapbook Stamp Society Challenge-rec'd 2 free digis!  Thanks Gals!

It's the last Hurrah at Sweet Pea Stamps- Come join us as a Thank You for all the good times!

 I'm sure that you have been following the "news" that as of the end of November, Sweet Pea Stamps will be closing their doors for good.  The last rubber will have been pressed, the wonderful artists will be moving on to other venues to showcase their creations, and our sweet, kind, courageous leader will have a more routine way of life and will be on the road to a healthier life style.  She took me in on her Design Team and I found a wonderful second home.  Lynette, I will always be grateful for the      time that I've spent here with you. 

We, the DT, wanted to make these last 2 challenges ALL about Thank Yous or a Thanksgiving theme.  Because we are so Thankful for being here on a regular basis!  I chose an image that I feel conveys my sadness for leaving called Into the Light by Karen Middleton.  I will always remember this image as one of my favorites as it was my very first attempt to color Black hair.  I love the color combination of blues and browns so have combined some weathered wood paper with some heritage style brown mat.  I love the sheerness of the taupe brown lace that I added at the side and added the circular die cut.  Inside is a verse that I think conveys my heartfelt feelings for this Digital & rubber stamp site-Sweet Pea Stamps leaves behind many happy customers and friends world wide.  It's great to know that Lynette's hard work saw such a Dream come true.  Please join us and let us see all YOUR Special projects!  We'd love to be inspired!  Signing off as an SPS Design Team Member,  Carolyn

Thanksgiving, a time to be Blessed at Lacy Sunshine Stamps

This is of course the month of Thanksgiving...being grateful for all that we and our loved ones have...of being Thankful for our Friends and Family.  Signs of Harvest and our nations' Bounty leave us very Blessed. 
This month, we at Lacy Sunshine Stamps welcome you all into our little homes, our "blogs", to share in this Fellowship and we share our projects that depict the Bounty of the country.
For my project, I chose Sunflower Indian  Maiden to use-one of a new Indian series that was created by the Founding Artist, Heather Valentin.  The beautiful details of her outfit, flowers, lovely facial expression makes her a real stunner.  I color my images with Copics and have included a recipe card to list them for your pleasure.  I just loved the use of a Kraft card blank to keep the total effect "natural".  I mixed that with some designer papers with a burlap weave and multiple-colored leaves-placed strips of the reverse of the leaf paper on the corners of the image.  It almost looks like beading don't you think?  I wrapped the mat with some hemp cording and added my own pewter sunflower charm.




On the inside of the card,I stamped a Thanksgiving verse, accented by many of the papers I already used.
THANK you for stopping by my home away from home.  We all hope each of our Lacy Sunshine family and friends will take a moment to be thankful for all the blessings that have been bestowed upon them.  Remember how lucky you are to have all that you have.  Come back and visit a little while longer!

We are so Thankful for Sweet Pea Stamps....It's a bittersweet month ahead

As I'm sure you may have heard, we will be only having 2 more One Sweet Challenge with this wonderful site, Sweet Pea Stamps, before Lynette closes the doors at the end of the month.  She has had such amazing artists and has been such a generous owner, she will be missed greatly.
So. It has been decided, very fittingly, that this month will be all about Thankfulness or  Thanksgiving.  With that in mind, I'm using an image called Thanksgiving by Regan Kubecek.  Loving the Fall colors, embossed shiny leaves, thick baker's twine, and an appropriate Stampin' Up sentiment.  On the inside I used the flip side of the leaf paper, an accent paper and a great Thanksgiving stamp. 
Every time I use this image, I will remember all the good times we, the Design Team, have had with SPS and our Challenges.  We hope that you will all want to take this final lap with us and get inspired with the creations on the Challenge.  Look forward to seeing you there.

Turkey Day cards are warming up our hearts at Doodle Pantry!

I love this time of year when the leaves have turned and there's a crisp breeze in the air.  It won't be long before Thanksgiving Day is upon us and we're stuffing all those yummy goodies into our tummys.
It's a perfect time to use some of Doodle Pantry's wonderful images on my Fall cards.  The beauty of the digital images is that you can combine several different elements of several different sets to make a gorgeous creation.  The leaves come from the set called "Eat More Ham" and the Craft Star is from the set "Autumn Star" (Laurie from DP has several of these 'Star' sets).  Of course the digital paper, mat, sentiments, and the "ribbons" are all from Doodle Pantry!  A One-Stop Shop for sure!  I used some fall cardstock stickers with leaves on the inside accent over some Fall leaf papers from Paper Studio.  Be sure to stop by and let your fingers do your shopping!

Robyn's Fetish is sponsoring Seems a Little Sketchy this week!

This week we at Seems a Little Sketchy are being sponsored by Robyns Fetish digital  stamps and the image I chose to use is called Tom Turkey.  How appropriate for November!!  The sketch shown here is the template for all the sketches that are submitted-makes it so easy to put together a card for sure!
Since I was doing an elaborate paper-piecing job on the ole' bird and that made him a little chubby for the card, I chose to hang him over the edge.  I cut the front panel in half, matted some great leaf/turkey paper called "Where's the Turkey" by Karen Foster, then added my glorious turkey.  The belly is a paper piece that is inserted under a slit by his curved neck feathers.  Each of the feathers were drawn using a duplicate image pattern out of scraps and then glued on top of the finished image.  The three stripes to the right side of the sketch are actually on the inside, again using Fall patterned paper.
Hope you will come and join us in our 2 week challenge!

*H*U*G*E* October Release from Doodle Pantry and a new challenge

 It's time for a H*U*G*E October release from Doodle Pantry!!!  Laurie, our amazing leader, has out done herself and there are so many new images for your pleasure!  The one I'm starting with is called Autumn Song Birdies~Yes! they're back! And they're perfect for Thanksgiving Cards with their fall colors and cornucopia full of colorful vegetables.  I've enjoyed using my layering abilities to use all the digital images and papers together to create some of these cards as Laurie gives everyone jpeg as well as png images-so I can create mats and sentiments where ever I want to.  Then I can use embellishments to create more dimension.  On the inside is another of the solid color choices with mats behind one of the other sentiments.  Please check out the Doodle Pantry site for ALL the new releases and then come back at Noon, October 1st, to participate in the month long challenge, where the only requirement is to use a digital image-How EASY PEASY!  Hope to see you there!

We hope you can play along with us!
DEADLINE DATE/TIME IS THE 24th at 8:00 pm CENTRAL TIME
(which is 9:00 pm EASTERN TIME on the 24th) Winners posted on 25th

FEATURED PRODUCT  S'more Please *
**The featured product is ONLY FOR participants who have created a project using a Doodle Pantry image (not just sentiment), will be emailed this set for FREE.**

(Participants emailed approx. on the 8th, 16th, and 24th)

Let's be SQUARE at Squigglefly-2x the Winner!

The challenge this week is called Hip to be Square.  So create a square card or perhaps a square tag, show us your Square side.   We'd love for you to use a Squigglefly image, to be prize eligible it's required, but everyone is welcome to play along.  AND the greatest thing is that last week we didn't have a winner, so this week's prize will be DOUBLE!  Two Squigglefly images or image sets for the winner of this week's challenge. WOW!

I'm using the image Noah's Prize Pumpkin by Cheryl Alger, one of Squigglefly's Premier Artists and the Sentiment Give Thanks by our own DT member, Charlene Mitchell.  My square was created by using a scallop square die which I elevated with pop dots.  I love making these seasonal cards during the Holidays.  I'd love to be a fly on the wall at my relatives' homes when they get my special cards just for them!  Pretty soon I will have to fill up all my Fall copics cause I'm using the heck out of them! 

Be sure and check out some of our newest artists and their original digitals as they join this great group of talented people.  They're so creative.  the husband and wife team of Carmen and Graham Gamble are sure to to make their way to your creations!

Remember to get your entry into this week's challenge so that you have a chance to win some of the images from our library~see you there!

We are Thankful at Squigglefly with our newest Challenge-Thank You cards

I'm using this challenge to create a type of card I so seldom do, a card that's thankful for someone's kindness to them.  At Squigglefly this week the theme is Thank you cards and what with the season, I'm sure there will be many entries centered around Thanksgiving.

But I thought that there's a kindness that's shown that we rarely have a chance to return the favor or say how much it meant to us.  It's when we've suffered a loss or a tragedy and someone has prayed for us, held our hand, put their arm around us to help share the grief.  Those "angels" do the act without any thought of being noticed, or expecting praise.  They are just THERE!  How wonderful we don't have to go through life without compassion for others.

That being said, I wanted to use an image that I've had colored up for some time, waiting for the perfect time to use it-it's called Power of Prayer by Lynne Stansbery, a featured artist from Squigglefly's super group of artists.  In simple elegance, it's a powerful statement.  This digital comes with a wonderful verse also, but to change the focus of the card, I elected not to use it.  However it would make an impactful sympathy card.

So as this season progresses, take time to ponder ALL your reasons to be Thankful.  We truly are Blessed with all our bounty, both in friends and families.

"Down on the Farm" Squigglefly Challenge

It's "Down on the Farm" time at Squigglefly this week and this time of year makes me think of the farmers setting out the fruits of their labor by the road...it might be a clever display of straw bales and mums, or clusters of pumpkins...I know that we used to make several scarecrows and post them all along our split rail fence.  I chose an image by one of SF's talented artists, Marla Shega, called Scarecrow on his Wagon .  I adore all the shading that she puts on her images! I didn't have any farm animals so I though this worked just as well!
I matted the copic colored image on chocolate card stock then use a paper called Pioneer Plaid-so pretty.  The "frame" is a heavy embossed cardstock that I rubbed down with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and mounted on pop dots. I think it makes it look like leather!  I used a 2 sided gloss leaf tucked under the frame like falling leaves.  Then in the opposite corner I had a sticker with a spray of colored leaves-I put three knotted buttons there.  I DO love my buttons!!  Come join us on our weekly challenge and you could win a wonderful image from our artists!
I want to enter this in the Show Me Thursday Challenge at Sassy Cheryl's SMT blog