Thursday, September 8, 2011

Harvest Blessings

Happy Thursday and thanks for taking the time to visit the charmed life blog. Today was about me. I had my 3 month visit to the dentist office and time with the hygienist. All is well just a cleaning. Then I was off to my hairdresser for a cut and color. Oh, its so easy to wash that gray right out of my hair (lol).

I did some grocery shopping and then home to make a salmon dinner for hubby & I. He liked it-me not so much. Some recipes are keepers some not.

Oh well, lets move onto my card for today.

This one I made for the sketch challenge on splitcoaststampers. Roxie was our hostess and she gave us a great layout to work into a card. I will probably use this one again.

I decided to make a Thanksgiving card and use no patterned paper. I stamped the background with the "season of change" set from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.  My ink colors are cherry cobbler, more mustard and old olive.

The middle panel is cardstock and lace. I added a seam binding bow with button. I also stamped a leaf and cut it out and popped it up. I sponged the colors on the leaf and then stamped it. A little hint from my paper doll friend, Betty Wright.

Oh yes, this card was also picked as one of the top 5 faves on Meljens Design blog. Whoo-hoo!!

Well, that's my post for today. So until next time........God bless.

Some other challenges:
1.  Craft Us Crazy blog has an autumn challenge.
2.  The Outlawz twisted Thursday challenge is to use punches or dies. We can use pencils or die inks on our creations. I stamped my images in dye inks.
3Crafts and Me challenges wants us to use buttons & bows.

13 comments:

  1. Mary, your lovely leaves look stunning on this fabulous card. Lovin' that button as the center of the bow too! So glad to see your entry at the Crafts and Me Digi team's Buttons and Bows challenge. ~ Rose

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  2. What a beauty, Mary! I love seeing autumn-themed cards. Great colors!

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  3. This is so pretty. I love the variation of colors you used. Fall is my favorite time of year. Great job.

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  4. This is fabulous and oh so "Fall" - I love it. You know this goes well with the current Flourishes challenge too. You might want to check that out.
    I hear you on recipes...I tried one for Salmon Burgers, Ugh it was awful. Went right to the "Never Try Again" recipe file.

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  5. Beautiful card! Love that addition of the lace too. So very pretty.
    LYnn

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  6. Beautiful Mary! Love the layout and the colorful leaves! I just got my set and matching dies today and can't wait to ink them up!

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  7. So beautiful! I love the lace against the red! Your sponged leaf turned out great (I actually forgot about using this technique...)Glad you had a good day, even if dinner wasn't your favorite!

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  8. Such a beautiful card, Mary! I love those leaves. Gorgeous colors. Hugs,

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  9. Gorgeous colors. Love how you did that main leaf!

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  10. Love your beautiful BG of leaves! Gorgeous fall card, Mary!

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  11. This is fabulous!!! Thanks for joining the Buttons and Bows challenge this week at Crafts and Me!

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  12. Gorgeous card Mary. Love the fabulous fall colors, the lace... the button looks perfect with the bow. :o)

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  13. Fabulous fall creation, Mary! Love the beautiful background you created!

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