Warm Greetings

 

Last night was an image coloring night for me while I watched the election returns.   This image I did to make a card for  the  "SHOPPING OUR STASH"  challenge.

SOS432 - Hot Drinks for Cold Nights

Hello and welcome back friends!

Thanks so much for joining us in our Happy Fall Y'All challenge. Wow! So many entries! Let's see if we can keep it going for our new challenge called: Hot Drinks for Cold Nights

This fortnight, we want to see your coffee, tea, hot chocolate and apple cider creations - anything that's steaming hot and drinkable :)

So Very Thankful

 I love these awesome family pictures from our son and daughter in law and grands in St. Louis.

They went out during the day on Halloween to take these family photos.    They really looked like they were having so much fun and got some great pictures at the same time.

I used the November 'Thankful' challenge at  "SCRAP OUR STASH".    It was perfect for scrapping these pictures because I am so very thankful for our family and to have these great family photos.  I used a beige doily also on my layout and I just cut one in half and used half at the top and the other half at the bottom of the layout.

Carve and Create

 

These are our two granddaughters in Orlando (thus the shorts) and they were busy creating and decorating their pumpkin stack to take to the big neighborhood Halloween party for part of the decorations.

I used the sketch at  "SKETCHES IN THYME"  sketch #443, it fit perfectly with the 3 pictures I had.

Above is the link and here is this weeks sketch.

I was also inspired by the Challenge #409 at  "USE YOUR STUFF"   My background paper is perfect for the challenge of  STRIPES.

STRIPES #409

We are going pattern this week people!  Bring out your STRIPES!  

We want you to incorporate stripes somewhere on your project...maybe your paper, an embellishment, maybe it's in a photo for a layout...if you are stripey we want to see it! 

Christmas card time

 

I wasn't going to do any scrapping today.   I had to catch up on a PL page and that was going to be it.

But then I saw the latest World Card Making Day Sketch #5 at  "SKETCH N SCRAP"  and I decided I wanted to work on it immediately.   I got out a new Christmas paper pad and went to work on it.

Here is the sketch and link to  "SKETCH N SCRAP"

Two Christmas cards

 

The Halloween cards are finished mailed and received by all the grandkids and family members so today I thought I would make a few Christmas cards to add to what I made during Christmas in July.   I'm going to need a lot more of them than any other holiday.     Next week I'll probably switch to the few Thanksgiving cards I will send out but for now I felt like Christmas.   I mean we did have a little snow earlier this week so I'm in the mood.

I used the World Card Day Month sketch #4 at  "SKETCH N SCRAP"  for the card on the right.

It's  been so fun playing along with all their card sketches this month.

Here is the sketch and link to  "SKETCH N SCRAP".

FALL CLEAN-UP

 

This was a fun sketch to work with from "SCRAP OUR STASH".   This is my 2nd time using it since it came out in the challenge on the 15th of the month.   First time I didn't use papers or alphas to go with the challenge.  So now I have all the elements covered.    I used two different  Fall leaf paper and then I have mixed alphas with my title.   Large chipboard alphas for Fall and tiny mini stickers for Clean up.   Plus for a little extra I decided to add some twine to may layout with a single simple wood veneer leaf for a simple embellishment.

Here is the sketch and the link to  "SCRAP OUR STASH" .

Pumpkin Season

 

This is my granddaughter Elle on the left with the black dress and two of her friends that went out to

a local greenhouse to pick out a pumpkin each to bring home.   Looks like they covered all the varieties with a white, orange and yellow pumpkin.

I'm entering this in two different challenges.   "THE STUDIO CHALLENGES"  and   "USE YOUR STUFF BLOG".

THE STUDIO CHALLENGE - has a color palette challenge.

"USE YOUR STUFF BLOG"  challenge #408 is Autumn/Fall and pumpkins always say Fall to me.

#408 Autumn/Fall

I know you have been waiting for it!  Here's this weeks AUTUMN/FALL challenge!

I am sure many of you have been working on autumn challenge for awhile now so be sure to add us to your list!  You can make your project about any autumn/fall theme, holiday, or maybe just the colors....take it where your imagination leads...