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Time for thanks… and the challenge!

Hi everyone!
It’s Cristina here, and today I decided to play along with our current challenge. And I made a thank you card, as this weekend is Thanksgiving:

What the challenge asks, is for you to use one of your old cards to inspire you to make a new one, with a different style. So here is the card I used as inspiration:

I love using die cuts, and this is one of my favorite techniques, here you have the photo tutorial, in case you missed it. 
To make the leaf look real, I used distress inks with the foam applicator, but instead of blending the colors with circular motions, I just “stamped” with the ink tool several times all over the front of the card. Here is a close up of the leave where you can see the dimension:

So now it’s your turn to play along with our fun challenge, and remember that there are just 3 days left:

Thanks for stopping by and if you celebrate it, have a great Thanksgiving weekend!

Supplies:

let it snow (x3) & a giveaway!

Cheiron here…Glad to be back with a post this month! I was planning to share a bunch of cards made with this set, but we are still working on getting back into our house after the hurricane.  I was able to make one little card with what is sure to become one of my go to holiday stamp sets-Spread Joy. I love everything about it: the word bubbles, the little trees and the circle border.

Here is a fun SNOWY card I made using the Snowflake Embossing Folder as my background. I stamped and embossed the snowflakes in glittery embossing powder, and embossed it to give it some texure. A little distressing on the edges to make it even more interesting. I stamped the let it snow in three of my favorite inks and wrapped it all up with some twine.

What do you think of this set? Would you like to win one? I have an extra to share. Just leave a comment here and I will pick a winner on Friday! I will update this post with the name of the winner.

***UPDATED*** 11/23/12-Winner is #1  Patti J who said:
“Darn, #1 never wins 🙂 What a darling set! Those thought bubbles are too much fun, and your card is beautiful and happy. Thanks for sharing!”

Patti, I have emailed you!


SUPPLIES:

Challenge #16: Second Chances

Hi friends!

It’s time for another challenge but it’s only a short one this time, we have something VERY exciting starting  on ABNH the day after Thanksgiving (November 23rd).

A big thank you to our wonderful sponsors
We are delighted to have Sarah Moerman guest designing for us for our 16th challenge! Thank you so much, Sarah. 
Sarah’s before
Sarah’s after

Stephanie’s before
Stephanie’s after
Lucy’s before

Lucy’s after

Danielle’s before
Danielle’s after

Michelle’s before

Michelle’s after

Kelly’s before

Kelly’s after

Mary Dawn’s before

Mary Dawn’s after

So, choose an old project that you hated or even one that you loved, and redo it, update it, make it again. We can’t wait to see what you do with this challenge.

One lucky winner will receive

Because we’re bringing you something AMAZING starting the day after Thanksgiving (in the US) this challenge will be short, it will end next Thursday the 22nd November at 5 pm EST (or whatever it is right now, ugh).

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“Pin”spiring Turkey

Hey everyone! It’s Michelle here and I have a LOT to share with you today. So lets get going….

Today we are going to learn how to make this darling little turkey place card that I found while searching Pinterest. You can see the 2nd original here. (I lost the first pin I found) I fell in love with these little guys and instantly started trying to figure out how I could do these on my own, with the supplies I had on hand. If you would rather just order the dies you can get them here

Before we move onto that though I put together a little Pinterest tutorial for those of you who have never seen Pinterest. It is a wealth of inspiration and I can honestly say I am addicted to it. I love having one place to keep all my inspiration…and with phones and laptops these days, you can take it with you without any bulk.

Here is the video for those interested in Pinterest:

Now onto the turkey:
I cut my turkey out using my Silhouette. You have to make some modifications to the turkey in the Silhouette software so I put together a video for you too. If you don’t have a Silhouette you can down load the pdf below it to get your turkey.

Silhouette video:

**I lost part of the video. You can also used scallop circles in your Silhouette software if you prefer. You will cut the bottoms off just like the turkey and add one cut with the knife tool about 1/2 inch long in the center bottom (refer to 2nd video)

PDF of turkeys…created in PSE by me. Sorry it’s the best I could do.

and finally, here is the final video on how to put the turkey together. Again, if you don’t have a Silhouette no worries! I used a Spellbinders die for my scallop circles and you could also use scallop circle punches. I took all the guess work out of it for you! 🙂

Here is the final video (if the words go ahead…I apologize. I had MAJOR technical issues with my new laptop today)

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I have linked all product below.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S friends.

Giving Thanks!

     Hi crafty friends from around the world! I thought the perfect theme for this month project would be, what else?, giving thanks!
     So I decided to do three very different cards doing that!
     One CAS card:

     One femenine card:

     One masculine card:

     I invite you to take a few minutes to think what blessings have you received this year and to give thanks to God, to your family, friends, everyone who you apprecciate in your life for having been there for you! Blessings to all!