Count Your Blessings

      Sharing another Thanksgiving card today and this one was really quick and simple.  The image is clip art, printed in gray scale, and colored with markers.  What made it quick is that I had colored this image months ago but it was in a folder of images waiting to be used.

      I cut the image piece with a QuicKutz die, then cut brown CS with another QuicKutz die for the mat behind the image.  I searched the scrap basket and found those two bits of dp which originally came from a DCWV stack.  The tiny leaves on the left hand paper are heat embossed with glittery EP.  The pumpkin is fabric and was cut from a strip of ribbon pumpkins.

     Challenges:

Classic Designs

Creatalicious

Digi Choosday

Dream Valley

Jan's Digi Stamps

Outlawz Monday

Path of Positivity

Triple B

     I'll have another card to share tomorrow and even one for Thanksgiving Day.  Hope you'll stop by on those days, too.  Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Brewing Tricks or Treats?

Before I start this post, take a moment --

 REMEMBER 9-11 

THANK A FIRST RESPONDER

      I now have so many kids, grandkids, and great-grands that I need a lot of Halloween cards and most of them get mailed to family who are out of state so flat or CAS cards are a priority.  Too cute to spook cards are also important since most of the great-grands are young enough to like cute better than spooky.  But the grownups all get wickedly spooky cards!  lol

     This card, with an image from the Stampers Delights progressive challenge, goes to one of the great-grands but I haven't decided just yet who gets it.  I colored with ProMarkers and added glitter to the bubbles.  The die cut 'frame' is actually the left over, outside piece from a cut done for another project (Spellbinders.)  I laid it on top of the image piece and trimmed it to size.  

     I matted it with  orange CS and used scraps of flocked paper from Doodlebug to make the background.  I carefully pieced together strips of that flocked paper so that the seams would barely show.  I added a narrow strip of purple flocked paper (also from the scrap basket) to the bottom of the image piece and then used two stitched, fabric pumpkins to give a bit of texture.

     Challenges:

Crafty Sentiments

Digi Choosday

Di's Digi Designs

Dream Valley

Outlawz Greetings

Pixie's Snippets

Taylormadecards...

TTCRD

Two Old Bats

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

A Little (Halloween) Magic

      This is my second card for the August monthly challenge at Beccy's Place, where the theme is always Anything Goes but where there is also an optional theme which you can use if you desire.  This month, Beccy gave us a Coin Flip chart.  For each line across (1 - 5), you flip a coin and then you use the item listed under either Heads or Tails depending on how the coin landed.

I ended up with: Stitching/Gate fold/Digi image/Ribbon/& Other occasion.

     I chose a sentiment and a digital image from two different Beccy's sets.  The cat is "Hemlock" from 'The Witching Hour' and I can't remember the name of the set for the sentiment.  I looked for it and didn't find it but it may have been retired.  

 

     Hemlock's eyes were colored with a ProMarker, and he was cut with a QuicKutz die.  The sentiment was also cut with a QuicKutz die from a different set.  Both were framed with CS cut with dies one size larger.  My stitching is on the ribbon I used and I added a small, fabric pumpkin.  I folded my card into a modified gate fold with overlapping flaps.  

     Challenges:

Ally's Angels

Carlin's Paradise

Crafter's Cafe

Creative Craft Cottage

Creative Moments

Morgan's Art World

Scor-Pal

Two Old Bats

     Have yourself a wonderful day and Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie

Harvest Moon

     It's Labor Day here in the USA, and out on the West Coast we're suffering under the hottest days we've had in an unusually hot summer but somewhere, the fall harvest is about to start and the air is cooler .  That means the full moon this month, the Harvest Moon, will be shining down on fields of pumpkins and corn stalks and the autumn holidays will be upon us without warning!

     Today, you're getting another 2 for 1 - we're starting a new challenge at Jan's Digi Stamps and also at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.  The theme for each of those challenges is "Anything Goes" and Jan's is the sponsor at PIP this week so it made sense for me to use the same card as my DT creation for both teams. 

     Don't forget, at Jan's, we have two winners every month; one using a JDS image and the other using any image on their projects.  My card today features JDS images from the "Autumn Corn Sheaves" set which I merged before coloring them.

Colored w ProMarkers
Image matted w CS
Chalked card base
Satin ribbon for bow
Fabric pumpkins embellishment

     Challenges:
A Bit More Time...
A Perfect Time...
Allsorts
Classic Design
Country View Crafts  (blue-orange)
Crafter's Castle
Crafty Calendar
Crafty Friends
Friendship
Scribbles Designs

     I want to see you playing along at Jan's Digi Stamps this month.  The challenge runs until Sunday, October 3.  Don't forget, if you use a JDS image, you really increase your chances of winning more beautiful sets because all the JDS image projects go into a completely separate draw.

     Happy Crafting.  NanaConnie