it's been a while

I've been crafty - but mostly stuff for presents and I can't share yet or forget to take pictures and have already sent them off! So, I thought I'd share a couple pics from pie breakfast this year... I was in heaven! I took a key lime, a turtle cheesecake, and a cherry - with cherries I picked, pitted and canned this past summer. There was also lemon meringue, blueberry, strawberry, a chocolate one just to name a few... I was too full for dinner that afternoon! One of the best Turkey day traditions EVER!

Pie for breakfast?

I made this card in honor of my friend Tiffany - her family hosts a Thanksgiving Pie Breakfast on Thanksgiving morning. Sure there is pie after dinner, but this way you can really enjoy the pie without being stuffed from the meal! What a great idea! She said her mom once made something like 15 pies! (or something like that!) just about any kind you can imagine! mmmmm - I've started making my list of pies I want for thanksgiving this year -- we definitely will be borrowing her tradition! Pumpkin, Apple, Marion berry, perhaps a chocolate cream pie or maybe a lemon cream or meringue....this list could go on and on.... What is your favorite pie?

I love it when the colors start to change. There are some trees just down the road from me - every year I say I'm going to take picture of the beautiful colors, but I never get to it! Hopefully this will be the year!

Happy October!

I love the Little people from LAD - the witch is one of my favs! I made this simple little basket for my daughter's teacher for Halloween. I plan to fill it with a caramel corn mix. Adding the rhinestones gave it just the right touch of bling! and of course you can't go wrong with ribbons! Check out LAD's project of the month page for more details on how to make it!

Christmas cards?

When do you start on your Christmas cards? I usually start in late summer or early autumn. I've been making cards here and there, but haven't settled yet on the one that I will mass produce. This little guy is from the Love and Joy labels set from LAD.

Fall is in the air

Even though it's been a warm week (in the 80's) I'm ready for fall - crisp, cool mornings warm afternoons - I love it. This is one of my favortie fabrics - it is all that I have left of it, so I decided to use it to inspire my card - warm fall colors.

Oct?

are you ready for Halloween? I'm ready to get out my Halloween decorations! Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to decorate for! This image is from Lizzie Anne Designs, so fun and the paper is from a retired pack from Stampin' Up.

blank cards?

Do ou have a lot of blank cards? I do, I like them because when I need a card, I can reach for the balnk stack, find the perfect one, add a sentiment and I'm good to go. I like to have a few on hand with the usual sentiments, but this card has so many possibilities that I didn't want to decide when I made which sentiment to use. I used a card sketch to make this card, but of course I don't remember where I found it! The paper is from Sweet Slumber pack from SU and the owl is from LAD, The Great Outdoors.

One Sheet Wonder

It's been a while since I've done a one sheet wonder, but I've been trying to do them more lately. You can get so many cards from just one peice of paper. And they can look so different if you use double sided paper. For my stamp club this month, (actually all year) we are doing one sheet wonders. Since this is the first class, I wanted to stay on the simple side, it was easier than I thought it would be to come up with a OSW on my own. I just started cutting and numbering, so it will be easy to re-create. I used 5 sheets of white CS for my card cases, 1 sheet 12 x 12 for the main backgrounds and then scraps from 4 coordinating colors to fill in the empty spaces and do the accents. Not bad for 10 cards. These are very simple, basic cards and for those who want, it is easy to add extra layers and embellishments.

simply thanks....

I'm always in need of thank you cards and I like to have a stash on hand. This is a very simple card to mass produce. the "simply thanks" is from the Sept Monthly Mix, Something to Crow About. It comes as one image in the set. I stamped it once in black and cut out the "simply" and then stamped it in Celery and cut out each letter to make it have more of an impact. A simple black ribbon and bow across the bottom finish it off nicely.

good bye summer?

Is summer really gone - today was so cold at the bus stop! I'm not quite ready for such a drastic change in the weather. This image is from the Aug LAD Monthly Mix - such a fun little butterfly.

Sunflower

I made this card in honor of my GIANT sunflower we planted this year. We had no idea if it would even grow - 5 of the 6 we planted didn't survive the tranplanting in the spring. But this one - it has done very well. I will have to take a picture of it - it is as tall as our house. Crazy! This is a tri-fold card and of course - I love the dots! Have a wonderful weekend!

In a bind?

I am so loving this new image from LAD - it's one of the Sept singles - being released today. I love the LAD little people and this little guy is the perfect addition!

Christmas already

I've begun to work on Christmas cards..here is one of the ones I made this week,

an apple a day

one of my favorite images from the Sept Mix - Something to Crow About - I love these little apples. School is almost here and my little ones are excited to get started!

mixin' it up again

I love this tree - it's from the Sept Monthly Mix - Something to Crow About. It's so versitile and I just love that you could use it for any holiday or occasion. I also love this paper - I've again been trying to use up the scraps leftover from big projects. I can never seem to use them all up! But that's ok when it's one of my fav - I just love the grren strip across this card.

Ruffles

I wanted to share a pillow that I made to go with this quilt. Ruffles are everywhere and I thought it would be a cute additiont o her bed - a couple more are in the works. I used a serger on the blue strips of fabric and just zigzaged the pink fabric. I was a lot of fun to make this and soooo easy!

new monthly mix!

I am loving this new monthly mix from Lizzie Anne - it has so many great images! This rooster was especially fun - a couple months ago I picked up some chicken/rooster kitchen themed paper and embellishements - perfect for this stamp. I love the chicken wire paper that doesn't scream chicken wire. if you haven't signed up yet, do it now! you won't be disappointed!

lots of flowers

when I saw this single, I knew right away that I wanted a whole row of these flowers, and I didn't want to color them either. I love all the flowers here, and they coordinate so well with so many of the other Lizze Anne sets. Buttons, of course, seem to always finish off a card lately..

A Winner

This is one of the singles that was released on August 1 - along with the football player. I wanted to do something a little different with the sentiment, I even wanted to make it girly. I love how it turned out. The background paper has lots of sparkles on it along with the flower. And this is becoming one of my favorite color combos!