Happy Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving! I will be traveling tomorrow, so I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving.

The Rubber Redneck had a color challenge using Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry. I always have a hard time with challenges, I never know if it ok to use another color. So I couldn't color in my pumpkin (pumpkin pie would have been my choice). So I used the spotlight technique to stay within the guidelines. This stamp set is very old - Turkey Talk (retired in 2004), but hey do Thanksgiving stamps ever retire? Ok, I used rich razzleberry for the base, old olive for the layer, cajun craze for the top layer. I stamped and colored the leaves with the same colors. Did the inlay embossing techique. I used a blender pen to color with ink from ink pads. Sponged the edges of the circle and the scallop. The rectangle is the new retangle sizzlet. I made this card to give to my parents for Thanksgiving.

I hope you enjoy this card.

Fork Bows

Ok, i'd heard of this technique. So I search utube this morning, and found several videos. Then my search in the house for the perfect forks. I found two. One for small bows and one for a little larger bows. Here are my tags (no decorated yet) because Santa hyjacks my craft supplies and makes the tags on Christmas Eve (that's what son thinks anyway). Zippy Zac our Elf on a Shelf makes his own card too, when he comes on Thanksgiving Morning. Good thing Santa and Zippy are crafty ones.

Ok, onto the fork bows.

Double Fork Bow

Large Fork Bow

Small Fork Bow

Lisa

Family Reunion Invites

My friend Brenda needed invitations for her family reunion. We've had a hard time getting together to make them, she really wanted to help, but time and things got in the way. So on Friday she baked me a delicious pound cake, (I think she was trying to bribe me to just make them), it worked. I cranked these out Friday night, of course I was high on sugar and fat.

I used So Saffron cardstock for the base, I used a 2 1/8 piece of DSP from the play date line, and a 3/4 inch piece of the same DSP to make the strip. I ran it through the big shot. I used embroidery floss for the wrap around bow. I used a 3/4 inch piece of brown from the DSP pack to make the scallop border with the scallop border punch. The let's get together stamp is a clear stamps set because I didn't have a stampin up set with that saying on it. I used a hostess set from last year SAB (I think) for the houses. I hope you enjoy.

Gift Tags and Box

I needed to make a make and take for my uplines meeting next weekend. Here is what I came up with, I took the 3x3 pizza box and made it a bit smaller. Enjoy!

Bats Bats Bats

I was scratching my head all day yesterday wanting to make a bat for some treat boxes I'm making for my son's pumpkin carving party. Finally, I went to split coast stampers and found a bat I thought would work. This is what I came up with.

Head - 1 1/8 circle punch

Wings - scallop oval punch and wide oval punch

Body - large oval punch (re-inserted to make smaller and trimmed slightly)

Feet - modern label punch

Nose - small heart punch (cut off tip

Eyes - 1/2 inch circle punch and larch punch from crop a dile.

Ears - 5 petal flower punch.

Pumpkin - small oval punch

CM - leaf punch

hand cut stem

All punches from Stampin Up. I used Basic black cardstock and sponged with whisper white craft ink.

Hope you enjoy!