Thanksgiving

Here is a fun banner that I made to hang for our family Thanksgiving Celebration as well as for this weeks challenge at Little Scraps of Heaven Designs.

The first and last part of the border holds 5 tags that will be used for writing down what we are thankful for this year.

For this banner I used the following items:

1. Scalloped Circle Pattern from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

2. Give Thanks Pocket from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

3. American Crafts Cardstock

4. Clearsnap Colorbox chalk inks

5. Twine from Trendy Twine in Orange Truffle

6. Liquid Pearls by Ranger ink

7. Misc. ribbons and flowers

If you are interested in joining us this week on the Little Scraps of Heaven Thankful challenge, be sure to click HERE for all the details!

Happy Thanksgiving

As we are in the countdown to Thanksgiving I felt it appropriate to take a moment and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.

I truly and honestly love Thanksgiving.  It's a time to step back, enjoy our family and really take the time to be thankful for all that we have.  It's about nothing more .. nothing less.  

I'm blessed with having family in town for the holiday and I'm looking forward to going all out .. Turkey, Ham, all the fixin's ... I am sure that there will be a ton of leftovers but I'll have fun making (and enjoying every morsel) it from scratch.

To prepare for the Holiday I've made this super cute layout that can be used to capture the wonderful memories that you are about to make.

To create this layout I've used the following items.

1. Paper piecing patterns from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs

- Autumn Blessings

- Indian Boy

- Indian Girl

2. Twine from Trendy Twine in Thanksgiving Truffle

4. Papers and Chipboard from The Farmhouse paper company

5. Solid cardstock from American Crafts

6. Clearsnap colorbox chalks

This layout is available for sale HERE if you have any interest in purchasing it.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I wish ...

I wish ....

To share with you a new layout that I've created for this weeks Little Scraps of Heaven Designs sketch challenge.

To be a part of the challenge ... click HERE for all the details.

Here is the cute sketch that we are looking at for this week:

And here is the two page layout that I've created based upon this sketch.

Remember, that when using a sketch is should spark something in your creativity!  Sometimes I create them exactly, and sometimes I take some liberties with them ... that's the beauty of it.  Have fun with it!

Here is the full layout:

The left page

The right page

Close up of turkey

Close up of Turkey

The title

Some accents

A bunch of pull out tags

The full layout with the pull out tags removed

The pull out tags

For this layout I've used the following products:

1. Paper piecing patterns from Little Scraps of Heaven Designs (I wish ... )

2. Paper from DCWV "The Wild Splendor" stack

3. Twine from Trendy twine in Chocolate Truffle

4. Miscellaneous flowers, buttons, ribbon and thread for stitching.

If you have any interest in purchasing this layout, please click HERE for more details.