A Thankful For You Card

This time of year is just beautiful. The air is cooler, the leaves are changing and everything is so bright, vivid and beautiful. This weekend is Thanksgiving and it's one of my favourite times of the year.
I love making card for friends especially at thanksgiving, and this year I had a lot of fun creating this card:

Here is a video from my YouTube channel explaining and showing how I made this card:

Thanks for Stopping by:

Cheryl

Happy Fall Ya'll

Hello and happy Tuesday! It's a rainy and humid here today so I thought that I would spend some time in my craft room :)
I have been loving all the fall themed images in the silhouette store and have had a lot of fun with the ones I have used so far!
Today's card is using a fun sentiment from the Silhouette on line store that I found about a month ago and have been super excited to finally use it...lol

and the inside:

I just loved that sentiment the moment I saw it!! I love how this card turned out and I can't wait to get it into the mail. 

I made a YouTube video showing how I made this card so I thought that I would share it here too:

Here is a quick pictures of all the supplies I used to create this card:

I hope that you are having a  wonderful day and...

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

A Fun Fall Week

This post is going to be more like a week in review post, with this week being a short week, it seemed to fly by...lol
Now with Thanksgiving over we are into the long haul until Christmas, which I always really look forward to! I have my Christmas countdown app going on my phone and I just love checking it with the boys every morning. While I am writing this post, there are 66 days, 8 hours, 52 min and 27 seconds until the big day!!!!

Before I get carried away with Christmas I have been enjoying all the fun and beautiful things fall has to offer. We went apple picking two weeks ago and this week we had some fun playing in all the leaves. Everything outside is so pretty and I have been really enjoying all the beautiful colours of the season.

Here are some pictures of some backyard fall fun:

Nathan has decided to use our little lawn mower and a hockey stick as a rake..lol

and then what's the point of raking without jumping in them after they are all gathered :)

and of course the dog needs her turn...lol

So we wouldn't miss where his pile is for next time...it is was well marked...

I thought that was the cutest thing!!!

Bobby made this bird house back in the spring and I have enjoyed having it in our tree all summer, I find the brightness of it really cheerful. I have also really enjoyed having it there this fall, it has been such a beautiful contrast to the fall leaves:



Mid week I did have some time in my craft room and I was very happy to finally break open my new stamps from Papertrey Ink!! I have been waiting until I finished up with all my fall time cards before I moved into my Christmas crafting.

I have decided to skip making Halloween cards this year and move onto Christmas Cards.  Now that I have moved onto Christmas, it feels like I am cheating on Halloween a little...lol (I think that I will make some fun little goodie bags for the girls in my church group and for our little neighbours too!)

The first stamp set that I pulled out and used was the O'Tannenbaum stamp set. I just love this stamp set and it was a lot of fun to use. I love stamp sets with a lot of layering, and this set is perfect for that!!

I have a lot of ideas for these stamps and here is some pictures of the first card I made:



I decided to keep this card pretty clean and simple. I stamped all the layers to the card, the sentiment and then some extra gold stars around the tree. For some little sparkle I added some clear Wink of Stella to the red ordainments. I distressed the edges of the paper with a distress tool and mounted the card from onto a Kraft colour top folding card.

I love how it turned out, and how the gold shines and the glitter catches your eye at the right angle :)

While I have been sitting here writing this post, Nathan was at the table finishing up his craft from church this morning.  He was really into it, and wanted me " to cheese him" (take his picture) for my blog...lol

The rainbow is coloured with his Mr. Sketch smelly markers "so it will smell beautiful" for me and he knows how much I love glitter so the cloud is super sparkly...lol





I hope you had a wonderful week too.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Fall Cards

Today I finished the last of my fall time cards. I have had fun creating these fall cards this year, for each card that I shared I made two of them to send off to different family and friends.
I have some of them in the mail already but I still have many more to fill out and send off which I am hoping to do tonight :)

Here is my YouTube video of my final card:



This week has been full of fall card making... I am a leader of a girls group in my church and this week we also made some fall/ Thanksgiving cards. Each girl made two cards, this way they could write letters for two special people in their lives and tell them how they were thankful for them.

Here are the "kits" I prepared for them:



The turkey, pumpkin, and speech bubble are all cut from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge. The leaves are cut from the Doodle Charm and the Flower Shop cartridge. The pretty label was cut with a Papertrey Ink label die and finally the kraft paper was embossed with the Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots.

The stamped sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp set Lots of Thanks and the Happy Thanksgiving sentiment is stamped with a My Pink Stamper stamp from the Happiest Moments stamp set.

One of the only non fall/Thanksgiving card I made this week was for my niece. I have been dying to make her a shaker card ever since I received my Papertrey Ink shaker kit and then Sparkle and Shine stamp set.



I feel like I am addicted to making shaker cards...lol I cannot begin express how much I love this kit, I have had so much fun creating all these shaker cards :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Fall Time Fun

Happy October!! Time is just flying by, I cannot believe that that today is already October 6th and we are well into this new month.

I have been having a lot of fun over the last couple of week creating some fall time cards and this weekend I finally got some time to edit a video for a fall shaker card that I made almost two weeks ago. I filmed it while I was making it and haven't had the chance to edit it until Saturday morning and then I uploaded it to my YouTube channel, so I thought that I would share it here too:

I love how this card turned out and I'm happy that it's finally in the mail on it's way to it's recipient :)

This weekend was a lot of fun, Saturday was pretty quiet, my husband was at a memorial baseball tournament all day but Sunday was pretty busy.

After church we went to Costco for a quick shop and lunch where my husband picked up these beautiful flowers for me:

We then went apple picking and as we were driving out to the apple orchard it started to rain, so we were not there very long...lol

My youngest son I were there on Wednesday with his class and here he is with his apples from that day:



I hope you have a happy Monday!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Falling Leaves Card

This has been one busy week for me. My oldest son had oral surgery on Wednesday (which went very well) and this morning I went on a class trip with my middle son, had a nice lunch with my hubby and finished off the day with an open house at the school!!! Tomorrow is a P.A day for my boys so all day it has felt like Friday but with the boys home tomorrow will mean that it will be a very busy day.

With everything I had going on today I was lucky enough to get some time in my craft room. I have been having a lot of fun creating fall cards and today I was back at it making another one :)

I made a video for my YouTube channel describing my card so I thought that I would share that here too:

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

 

 

 

Lots of Crafting!!! :)

Today was a quiet day for me at home. I took my moochy poochy hound dog out for two long walks and got lot of things done around the house and fit in some crafting time too!!!

I don't have much crafting to show you today, I recorded a video for YouTube that needs to be edited and posted. I made a video tutorial creating a another fall shaker card (the same as the one I posted on Sunday), so I will get that ready and posted over the next couple of days.
Here are the two finished shaker cards on a shelf above my kitchen sink waiting for me to fill them out and get them out into the mail...lol

I have crated a couple more backgrounds for upcoming YouTube videos but I thought that I would share them here today :)

The background on the right was created with some distress inks and the one on the right was make with my Inktense pencils. I love how they both turned out and I also love how different they both look!!

 I hope you have a great night :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl

Happy Fall

With this being the last weekend of summer I am looking forward to fall. The leaves have started to turn and the colours are just beautiful.
This time of year I love to send out fall cards, I get so inspired by all of the beautiful colours around me and it's a great reason to say hello to family and friends :)

Todays card is a layered card with lots of colour!

I started off with some water colour paper and distress inks. I grabbed my Fire Brick red, Mustered Seed yellow, Wild Honey orange and Peeled Paint green. I water coloured all the colours all together for the background and then layered some vellum over top to soften the colours up a little.

I cut this cute little tag from my Cricut cartridge Plantin Schoolhouse and stamped the sentiment from the Papertrey Ink stamp set Falling Leaves. The yellow, orange and red leaves were cut with my Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge and inked up around the edges with the same colour distress inks as the background.

I had a lot of fun creating this card and I hope to make a couple more through the week :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl



A Girly Leaf Shaped Card :)

Creating shaped cards are so much fun, and this Button Up for Fall challenge was no exception :) . Sara at live, love and SCRAP's theme for her second challenge was to create a fall themed card with a button, so I made my card a girly leaf card...lol. 

I decided to create a leaf card as well because I just got the Papertrey Ink’s Falling Leaves stamp set and was super excited to use it :) 

I have created a video for my YouTube channel so I thought that I would also share that with you here:

I forgot to add the button while making my video, so I have done that now ...lol :)

This challenge was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to what the next challenge will be :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheryl