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While at lunch today I was looking at blogs and came across the Bo Bunny Card challenge that was posted today.  BUT the challenge was not to make a card but rather a tag.  I thought about that for awhile after lunch and when I got home from work today I started going through my Bo Bunny drawer looking for some Christmas themed papers so I could make a Christmas tag.  But alas! I had no Bo Bunny Christmas papers.  I kept looking and I found my package of Camp-A-Lot Noteworthy die-cuts.  In there was two awesome trees and I picked this tall skinny tree (which looks very Dr. Seuss-like to me) I also found the yellow tree topper star and the red star I glued on my jute bow.  At the bottom of the drawer I found two perfect sheets of bo Bunny paper....the green Clover Dot and the beautiful Wild Berry Vintage Dot. I added some wooden star veneers and the stamped sentiment is by Paper Smooches.  I also added some Glossy accents to the star tree topper.

 

I was so excited that through a little creativity I was able to use papers and die cuts that are not specifically from a Christmas collection for a Christmas project.  I just love the versatility of Bo Bunny's collections.

 

I am entering this tag in these challenges:

 

Bo Bunny's November Card challenge -- make a tag

 

Paper Issues -- Put a Stamp on It Theme

 

Scrap It Girl -- Use a Tree

 

 

Happy Birthday Pops

 

My wonderful father-in-law has a birthday this month and I decided tonight to make him a clean and simple fall themed card.  The maple leaf is actually a wood veneer that I colored orange with my Adirondack Orange Sunset paint dabber and inked the edges with brown chalk ink.  Keeping it simple I used a clean graphic birthday sentiment from Bella Blvd.  I added some chevron washi tape, faux stitching and some jute twine and called it done.

 

I am entering it in the following challenges:

 

Scrap Fit Workout #79 Tape it Up (use washi)

 

CAS-ual Fridays Masculine theme

 

Trendy Twine November Challenge

Create a project for someone I am thankful for with an autumn theme, using brown, with faux or real stitching and using Trendy Twine.  Since I unfortunately do not have any Trendy Twine I used jute twine.

 

Fall Fun

 

I love scrapping fall pictures and using the rich warm colors of the season so I was thrilled when my son Matt posted this picture of hie and his family on Facebook taken during a recent trip to the apple orchard.  Unfortunately due to the extreme weather this spring and summer, there were no apples to be picked but there was plenty to see and do.

 

For this page I used this sketch from the brand new My Scraps and More sketch blog:

 

 

I used my new "Thankful" collection from Bella Blvd. and I added some burlap for texture.  The cork alphas from my stash were the perfect touch, don't you think?  Because of the burlap and cork alphas, I am linking this layout up to Moxie Fab World's Canvas, Cork and Burlap challenge.

I am also entering it over at Scrap It Girl's November Tree challenge.

 

WINNER!

I went to random.org to get a winner for my giveaway and the winning comment was #14 which belongs to:

 

 

Mariangeles!!!!

 

 

 

Congratulations!  Please contact me with your address so I can send out your prizes!

 

 

Happy Birthday Reyna

 

 

Reyna has recently become part of our family and is turning 6 this week. I wanted to make her a special birthday card so I turned to my very favorite of all time birthday collection.....Birthday Bash by Imaginisce.  I punch an oval window in the polka dot paper so the birthday cake rub-on could shine through and I used this sketch by Imaginisce:

 

 

I am entering it in their monthly challenge which you can see HERE.

 

My three pattern papers are:

The polka dot paper, the paper at the bottom of the card and I cut the "Happy Birthday to You" sentiment out of a third paper.  All the papers are from the Birthday Bash collection.

 

My three embellishments are:

The balloons

The twine

The birthday cake rub-on

 

Reyna

 

Reyna is a beautiful little girl who has recently come to live with (and be spoiled by) my wonderful and big-hearted sister Geri and her husband Bob.  Reyna (which means "Queen" in Spanish) is having a birthday this week and I wanted to send her a gift.  I made a card and this layout last night and will be sending then off to the Midwest tomorrow.  I am so glad that Reyna has a forever home with my sister and that she is now a member of our family.

 

For this layout I used this sketch from the Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs:

 

 

I am also entering this layout at Red Carpet Studio's CAS challenge this week.

 

 

Now that Halloween is over I still have a few projects that I never shared on my blog because I didn't want to spoil the surprise for my grandsons.  I sent a box of spooky cards and treats up there and they really enjoyed receiving them.  I even got a phone call thanking me from my11 year old grandson Jacob which is his card pictured above.

 

I also made this gift bag for Cole, his brother:

 

 

I am entering this in My Craft Spot's Monday challenge -- Too Cute to Spook