Let's give 'em PUMPKIN to talk about ......

  

.. how about love?

♥

 Happy Monday!

I hope your weekend was fantastic

and you were able to *carve out* some crafty time!

 

Mondays are always Fun-days on my blog ~
that's the day I post a card for The Project Bin!

Denise, founder and creative genius behind this stamp line,

has been busy busy busy making gorgeous new stamps/dies.

The shop is bursting with innovative and fun stamps 

~ take a peek!

 

Let me tell you about this. sentiment. right. here!

The minute I saw the Eat Pie! stamp set,

I about swooned ♥

Anne of Green Gables!

Yes please!

As a English Lit minor in undergrad college 

and a book nerd bookworm,

this sentiment just stole my heart ♥

Someday I may be lucky to visit Prince Edward Island :)

When I think of October,

I think pumpkins and the color orange ...

so that's what I based my card on ↓

 I created this pumpkin patch card by masking the single pumpkin stamp

in the set and added some hills in fall plaid paper.

I added a little white gel pen to the tips of the stems for 'frost on the pumpkins',

and kept it simple by popping up a frame on 3d foam around the card.

Here's the set in it's entirety:  

 

You can stop in at The Project Bin's inspiration blog

each week day to see what the design team posted ~

a new card is posted each day during the week! 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, bigger blessings ♥

~Kelly

Entered into:  Creative With Stamps Challenge - Pumpkins

Always Fun challenge - fall colors

Crafty Cardmakers - fall colors 

If friends were pumpkins ...

 I'd pick you!  And you!  And you! :)

 

 

Hello, dear blog friends!  

Indeed I'm blessed to have connected with each of you 

in this wonderful blog world we share!

Now it's been a busier week than usual, 

and I've been trying to post this card since Tuesday!

  I recently purchased some digis at From the Heart Stamps including this one, September's stamp of the month image.  

I've played in their SOTM progressive challenge in the past, 

and then that busy little thing called life stepped in to curb my playtime :/

I'm happy to be back and just absolutely adore this month's image!

 and the inside of my card:

 I've finally got the chance to use up some of my supplies in addition to this

 first time using this digi, like the wonderful Crate Paper 'home' dsp and that little peek of River Rock ribbon that I've hoarded had for awhile!

I'll add my card to Darnell's NBUS #5 challenge

 (which I've also been trying to

do all week - tee hee!) 

I'll also enter my card in the monthly challenge at FTHS.

 I hope Autumn is bringing you wonderful moments 

and pumpkin everything! :)

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

Cornish Heritage Farms: Grateful ♥

 

Good Morning!

 

It's time for a new challenge at Cornish Heritage Farms

 and I'm the hostess of this week's challenge choice :) 

With Thanksgiving is right around the corner,

I challenged the team to create a card with theme of Gratitude

and a bonus to use the color brown.

 

Thanksgiving is a pretty big deal in our home ♥

It's my husband's very favorite holiday

and we are the hosts each year, a tradition I

inherited after my mom tossed in her apron saying she'd paid her dues, LOL!

I love the prepping and baking and cooking and watching the Macy's day parade and all that comes with our special day.

But I confess I also crack up at the memory of being HUGELY pregnant

with our 3 daughters,

all born in December, 2 years apart :)

Every time I look back at those pictures,

 I was ginormous and so very, very pregnant

and looked like I was as stuffed as the poor birds were!

At least our son cut me some slack and was born in September ♥

 

But I digress! 

 For my card, I used the adorable digi

turkey in the pumpkin patch to create the card front ...

 used miminal dsp and kept the card design fairly simple.

I continued the same pattern/style to the inside of the card

with another digi, Happy Thanksgiving.

Brown is a beautiful color, especially at this time of year,

so for the bonus, I chose that as my cardstock base.

Both of these digis are available in the CHF store and

are immediate downloads.

 

Want to play along in our challenge this week?

Of course, we'd love if you did!

You can link up your cards using a Cornish Heritage Farms image,

either stamp or digi, to the CHF Challenge blog.

If you chose a gallery, like Splitcoast, please use the keyword CHF66.

And stop in and see what inspirations the DT has created as well!

 

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly

CHF - It's Fall!

Good Morning, friends!

 

Quick post today as I'm going 900 mph - even on today's day off of school!

Love those Teacher Planning Days! ♥

 

The kids and I are off for shopping later as they've

managed to outgrow just about every pair of jeans,

shoes, socks and warm weather clothes they own!

If I'm lucky and time permits,

we'll squeeze in some lunch, too :)

 

Today's new Cornish Heritage Farms challenge is brought

to us by the amazingly talented, Maureen.

Her challenge is the colors of Fall ~

oh, what a beautiful theme ♥

Here is my take on the challenge ~

using the digi pumpkin wheelbarrow, colored up with

prismacolor markers and some scraps of paper in Autumn tones.

The card design is using an old Deconstructing Jen sketch (#174).

 

Want to play along???

 

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you!
To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps).
Once you have created your card/project come back here and use inlinkz to link to your card/project so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to Splitcoast Stampers please use the keyword CHF65. We can't wait to see what you create!
Don't forget to check the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team's cards on their blogs:

                                      Thanks for stopping by today!

Big hugs, Bigger Blessings!
~Kelly



I'll enter my card to: 
 PDE Linky Party - Autumn Colors
Shopping our Stash - Use Leaves
Try it on Tuesday - Colors of Autumn
Cheerful Stamp Pad -- Autumn Colors
Sparkles Forum - Autumn/Fall