Fall Birthday

Today I'm posting a card I lifted from the Nov. Cards magazine.  It turned our so cute.  I added the embossed numbers for the background.  I just love the coordinations paper that you can sand.  I also made one with leaves for the background because I decided I liked this sentiment for a birthday or just and any day card.  I'm still making a lot of fall cards.  Just can't get started on Christmas yet.

Gratitude Album

This year I am doing a gratitude album for the month of November.  It's Cathy Zielske project and she has made it really simple by setting up this down loadable template that all you have to do is print, stick the photo on and add a little journaling.  So here is the cover page and my first day, from yesterday.  I started with really traditional picture of my home.  I am also going to do one for my non-scrapper friend Cheri.  Her birthday is in Nov. and I always do a little scrappy something for her this month.  So she is going to take the pictures and I am going to put it together for her.  Of course I will add stuff.  As you can see I couldn't resist stamping on my photo and adding a litttle bling to the title page.  Cheri's first picture was of her getting her hair colored as yesterday she was really thankful of her hairdresser.  I didn't think she would want me to post that picture though. 

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween!  We had beggars night last night and only had a small handful of trick or treaters and several of then seemed a little old.  I guess if I want to dress up you can't blame the older kids for wanting to get in one more year of fun.  This is a picture of Scott and me at our annual Halloween party from last week.  This years theme was dead celebrities.  Of course he was Harry Caray and I was Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffanys.  It was lots of fun but this year we had lots of duplicates. 

Floating Image

Today I made another fall card for another challenge.  This one was for Papertrey Ink and the challenge was to have a floating image in a window.  I just love this Leaf Prints stamp and die set.  It's an old one of theirs but new to me this year and I can't stop making fall cards with it.  Hope you like it too. 

Happy Mail Challenge 2

This card was made for the second Happy Mail Challenge over at Big Picture Classes.  The challenge was to use two different sized circles on your card.  I hope you can see the embossed circles behind the tree.  Didn't photo very well.  I feel like I'm behind because I'm still making fall cards and everyone else is on to Christmas cards. 

Big Picture Challenge

I made this card for a challenge at the Big Picture Classes.  Stacy Julian is doing a 365 but with cards.  This project is more about sending the cards or hand written notes to someone every day for a year!  I already send a card once a week to my husbands grandma who is in a nursing home so I decided to bump up my card production and sending.  I haven't sent a card every day but almost every day since the project started.  My goal is to at least send a card to someone besides Grandma once a week and I have gone way over that.  It's amazing how many birthdays there are. ha ha Anyway, this was a color challenge with black, red, teal, and gray.  I was very excited to use my new memento gray ink on this project.  I think it turned out nice.  Off to the mailbox with this card.

Stiching on Stamps

Todays PTI challenge was to stamp an image and then stich around it.  I love sewing and use my machine a lot but have not gotten out the needle and embrodery thread for a while so this was fun.  I used the hexagon set and stamped the images and then sewed right around the yellow ones.  It was really fun.