Pumpkin Foil!

I am soooo good at procrastinating--haha! Lots to do before my trip to visit with my sister, but couldn't let that keep me from making a card using my latest foil purchase--yes, the color is pumpkin! Pulled out my MFT pumpkin dies & self adhesive fun foam. Aren't they beautiful?! Glad I bought the DCWV The Harvest House paper pad as I used 3 of those lovely patterns. MFT layered leaves are cut from kraft & vellum. The sentiment is from the MFT Primitive Pumpkins set & is stamped in VersaMagic Jumbo Java.  I used the current MFT Sketch & I'll also enter at The Kraft Journal, Pixies Snippets Playground & SSS Monday. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Thankful for You

MFT has a big contest right now that is about to end:  You Could Be A Card Design Superstar. 
I've been trying for days to figure out what to enter.  Finally I was inspired by the new paper pad I got on sale at JoAnn's--DCWV The Harvest House.

MFT's Primitive Pumpkins dies were cut from orange felt given to me by my friend, Martha. MFT Royal Leaves were cut from kraft cardstock & I tied & curled some gold thread around each stem.  I arranged the pumpkins & mounted them to the smaller MFT Dizzy Doily die cut.  Two of the other papers were attached to a kraft card & the sentiment from MFT Thankful Leaves was stamped in VersaMagic Jumbo Java.  The trim was a gift from my friend, Nat--glad I saw the unopened package in my ribbon drawer.  This will be my 3rd card for Darnell's NBUS challenge & I'm entering the 200th challenge at Word Art Wednesday & The Kraft Journal with Patterned Paper, Leaves, Die Cut.  Now I need to make a bunch more of these as I truly am thankful for all of you.  Edited to add: Entering SSS Work It Wednesday.

Snowflakes

Deanna Jean's Card

PTI's Snowflake Flurries set caught my eye the first day I saw it.  The cards I've made with it do not use it as snowflakes--just pretty images.  As part of the Splitcoaststampers Christmas Card Challenge I've set a goal to make 3 Christmas cards per month, so this card uses the Let It Snow sentiment from the set.  My design comes from the beautiful MUSE Challenge card this week by Deanna Jean.  I used her layout & similar colors (minus the green) provided by Brilliance Pearlescent Poppy, Brilliance Pearlescent Coral,  Vivid! Peach & Versafine Smokey Gray. I tried doodling a frame on some scratch paper & quickly decided to go with embossed lines instead--oh, it was bad!  Good thing I buy gems on sale in big packages--I love to use as many as I want on a card.  Thanks for stopping by.  Check out the MUSE blog if you haven't yet.  It's really neat that everyone gets to vote for the winners.

There's still plenty of time to enter my Blogiversary Challenge if you'd like to CASE one of my first year's cards.  There are some great entries!