Harvest Time Birthday Pocket Card

With Labor Day weekend winding down, there is one more get together on our schedule. A visit from Adelaide and her mom. Since our son has to work, we will be cooking out with just the ladies today. For later in the day, I have some craft time planned... if I still have the energy... lol.

My Harvest Time pocket card was a struggle for me to make, but ended up as one I'm extremely happy with. When I pre-ordered this new Tim Holtz Scarecrow Thinlit set, I wasn't thinking about it taking up all the real estate of the card front. It dawned on me when I started that I would need to re-think my layers and foliage. Since I normally pile them on, something had to be changed.

I started with a pocket card base and a mat layer (this is Prima's gorgeous new Amber Moon collection), inking the edges with Distress in Carved Pumpkin. I stamped some fence post on my next layer, and realizing it didn't match the scarecrow silhouette, cut another layer from the same paper. I pulled out my Alterations Mixed Media die, cutting the right corner to expose that bottom layer I had already adhered down. Now I was on a roll and it all began to fall into place.

I scuffed my black Kraft Core scarecrow with my sanding block, cut leaves and a twig with Thinlits Fall Foliage in three fall shades of Kraft Core, inking and shaping with my tweezers.

I added the flying birds that are part of the Scarecrow set, and made a sentiment using Thinlits Labels, a scrap of Metallic Kraft Core, and my old Sweet 'n Sassy Happy Harvest stamp set. In the corner I put three Theresa Collins gems (still using up my old stash). On my tag I added a wide copper eyelet and some wrinkled, pumpkin colored seam binding tied into a double bow.

This is a great new die set. 

If you're looking to buy something for fall, I recommend this one. I have lots of ideas in mind for this set and will show you what I come up with as I create. 

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Happy Birthday Fall Card

Happy Saturday!

And another happy mix of papers to make-up this birthday card for our wonderful grandson. I combined some of the same collections I used for my last card... Prima, K & Company, Echo Park... but with the addition of patterns from DCWV's Timeless Type 8x8 pad.

I created this one on a standard kraft 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 pre-made card base. Layers tied with natural burlap string and popped up with art foam. 

Alterations Thinlits Fall Foliage and Wildflowers dies with heat set Ranger UTEE.

The stamp is from Artistic Outpost's Home set. The ink is Archival Jet Black. I'll bet you've noticed I'm doing more stamping since the Tim Holtz Stamping Platform came into my life! This is an amazing tool. One I wish I would have had long before now.

I hope you're having a great weekend. 

The weather is pretty nasty here, but there is another family birthday party planned later in the afternoon so pleasant times ahead. 

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Hello Autumn Pocket Card

Hello, sweet friends!

It's been several days since I last did a post. I had a bit of an arthritis flare-up and couldn't do much with my hands... the joys of old age... LOL!

My newest fall card is a mix of papers from Prima, Echo Park and K & Company.

For somethings different, I stamped my Old Grist Mill image from Artistic Outpost onto a piece of Tim Holtz Textile Surfaces. To make the frame, I used a layer of Prima foiled Love Clippings and three layers of thin chipboard cut with Alterations Ornate Frame 2... glued together with Ranger Distress College Matte Medium.

The florals are I Am Roses flowers and leaves cut with Thinlits Fall Foliage. 

My bird embellishment stack is a bottom layer of Echo Park orange Fall Is In The Air paper cut with Thinlits Stitched Ovals, a Prima Amber Moon printed chipboard foiled Hello Autumn piece, topped with Fall Foliage leaves and twig, and a Prima Amber Moon Ephemera bird.

To decorate the frame... a few more FF leaves and a tiny acorn duo I found in our daughter's front yard.

Happy Fall Y'all! (Coming soon!)

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Live in the Sunshine Cabinet Card

Hello again friends!

Our weather definitely has a fall feel to it today, so I pulled out my Alterations Thinlits Fall Foliage set and an Idea-ology Cabinet Card to make this birthday card.

I used what ever scraps I had to cut the foliage... some Bo Bunny, K & Company, and a piece of a file folder I had inked with Distress. I made the tag with Sizzix Framelits w/Stamps by Stephanie Barnard and Archival Ink in Coffee. The twigs I had picked up in Pennsylvania during our movie shooting trip.

The wood, laser-cut butterflies are from my favorite shop in Tennessee.

I cut the Thinlits Stitched Oval frame with paper from the Tim Holtz Dapper 12x12 stack.

For the stamping, I picked out a sheet from the 49 and Market Vintage Artistry collection and my The Outpost stamp set by Artistic Outpost. I used my new TH Stamping Platform for this. I have never been much of a stamper, and this tool has really helped me to up my game. I love this thing!!!

For my tag inside the pocket, I added a bow made from Offray 5/8" polyester ribbon I got on sale at Joann's this week and an I Am Roses orange blossom. 

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Good Life Cabinet Card

Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was great! We had a Thursday to Sunday trip to Indiana... Spring Mill State Park. Had a wonderful time and a much needed get-away to see some old and very dear friends.

I have another card to show you today made with a Tim Holtz cabinet card. For this one I cut a piece of Bo Bunny's Weekend Market collection. I topped it with die-cuts I made from Core'dinations Metallic Kraft paper using Alterations Thinlits Gearhead and slipped it inside the cabinet card. I cut two layers of TH Movers & Shapers Mini Old Jalopy adding those with 3-D foam tape.

I then cut three layers with Thinlits Stitched Ovals using Idea-ology Found Relatives and more of the Core'dinations Metallic Kraft and BB's Weekend Market collection, stacking and applying with foam tape. I chose a good life sentiment from TH Metallic Stickers Quotations pack and backed it with a Thinlits Label cut from Metallic Kraft.

I added some TH metal gears, hex fasteners, and Prima Junkyard Findings screw heads. On my tag, I tied a scrap of masculine-looking black-edged ribbon.

Hope you like it. I'm having a ball using up these cabinet cards. In fact... I might have to buy more!

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You N Me Cabinet Card

One of my favorite scrapbook shops went out of business some time back. It was located in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Whenever we were in the area, we made sure to stop, get inspired, and buy supplies. By being in the area, I mean anywhere in the state of Virginia, so therefor we often drove hours to get there. Well worth the trip though. I very much miss that place, and these cabinet cards are a happy reminder of my shopping excursions. I bought them on our last visit before they closed at a terrific discounted price. But more than a great price, it's still those good memories.

As I said this is a  cabinet card by Tim Holtz that I used as the base. The papers are from Prima's Love Clippings collection.

I made a number of die-cuts using Alterations Thinlits Garden Greens (which I covered in Glossy Accents), Movers and Shapers Mini Hearts...

and Thinlits Lace threaded through with hand-dyed, wrinkled seam binding.

The flowers are from I Am Roses. I included a tag to write a sentiment on and tucked it inside. I added a few crystals here and there.

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A Few Little Notebooks

Ah yes... it's Saturday!!! 

The Penmaker took me out for breakfast at one of our favorite spots, and then a stop at the car dealers. He's been shopping around for something new. It usually takes us months to decide on anything, so I'm not holding my breath.

I did this project last Saturday for our grandkids. My son-in-law gave me a stack of these little notebooks a couple of years back, and while I had decorated one or two, I still had a bunch to use up. I figured it would be a nice little book they could draw or scribble in.

I decided to do some college on them using Tim Holtz Distress College Medium. After working with this stuff, I could easily throw away all my other mediums and never miss them.

I kept them all pretty simple, just working on the covers.

I have a lot of 6x6 paper pads and pulled out some of those... Prima, My Mind's Eye and Graphic 45.

This was a good way to use up some old stash... old printed chipboard pieces and different alphas. 

A fun project for me and hopefully something the grandkids will enjoy.

Thanks for stopping by! ... and have a great Saturday!