Stick it Down Post: The Boo Crew!

This month's Sketch:

 My take includes:

Paper lines and embellishments: by Simple Stories- Vintage Halloween; Bo-Bunny Vintage Double Dot; Tim Holtz Metallic Confections

Inks: Tim Holtz Distress- Black Soot

Tools: Sewing machine, Scissors, foam squares,Corner Punches, Star boarder Die

Techniques include: layering, sewing, fussy cutting, using the sketch as the base and then layering on  top of it

Photos: Supplied by a proud Grandma and a great crafty friend. Thanks Hilda!

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So Sweet

Making cards is something I really like to do when I want to feel accomplished in a short period of time. Batch creating still allows you to make each card unique but allows for more efficiencies in getting multiple cards done at once.

Stamp: Adorable Elephant - My Favorite Things

Paper Line: Oh Happy Day- Carta Bella

Other items: So Sweet Die; Stitched dies (square and arrow); Wink of Stella; Pop foam; Chameleon Color Tone Pencils

Stick it Down post: Hello Pumpkin!

 Sketch of the month:

My take includes:

Paper lines and embellishments by Simple Stories- Vintage Blessings; Carta Bella- Fall Break; Echo Park- Celebrate Autumn

Ink by Tim Holtz- Frayed Burlap and Peeled Paint

Tools: Sewing machine, Circle dies, stencil from stash

Techniques include: layering, stenciling, sewing, fussy cutting, die cutting and most of all mixing up lines and embellishments! 

Photos: Supplied by a proud Grandma! you can check her blog out HERE as she too is a brilliant scrapbooker!

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Fall Blessings

This layout is of our daughters family...they hunted for a pumpkin patch and when they found one they could take some photo's at, well lets just say Thumper was the hit for all the young children!

Paper and embellishments used was Simple Stories "Vintage Blessings"

Other material includes: EZ success edge punch, Prima Leave dies, Sewing- free hand circles, Background stamping and ink splats.

Life is Lovely

We all need to take time to smell the flowers. In this instance I was smelling our gi-normous lilies!

They get larger and more beautiful each each. Right under the kitchen and our room window, the smell waffles through the house for several weeks.

Paper line: Echo Park- "Just be You" and Photo Play- "Think to Remember"

Dies: Edges; Tim Holtz Thinlets- "Calendar Words- Script and Mixed Media"; Lawn Fawn- "Stitched Circles"; Scribbles & Splat"

Ink: Distress Forest Moss and Oxide Picked Raspberry

Lots of sewing