Goody Bags

I love the Hero Arts Thanksgiving set I got a while back. It has some pretty leaves, a swirly leaf, a turkey, a pumpkin, and some fun sayings it it. So today I decided to get some goody bags made for Thanksgiving. And what fun would it be to make goody bags if I didn't get to emboss something!?! I like making little candy bags to give to friends and neighbors just to let them know we're thinking about them!

So Blessed

I love November. Thanksgiving is such a great time of year. It is a perfect time to remember how blessed we all are, and how thankful we should all be. So today I decided to make a Thanksgiving card, and stop to take a moment and count all of the blessings I have. It's been a while since I distressed the edges of my card, and after looking at Laurie's card here, I decided I wanted to distress the edges of my main image. Then on the section that I ran through the cuttlebug I sanded some of the embossed image. I can't decide if I should add a fifth brad at the bottom, or leave the card as it is. I don't know if it looks off balance to anyone else. Now I'm off to hide from the thunderstorms we are having. Because they petrify me!

Turkey Pot Pie

I've been signed up for recipe swaps since July of this year, so for the past few months I've been crafting away. Some of the swaps have finally ended, so I've started getting packages back in the mail. And it has been so fun! I loved making all the recipe cards, and now that I am getting so many back, I know I am really hooked on these swaps. I love seeing what other people create, both for a recipe, and for a card to share that recipe. This card is for the swap I'm in called "Gobble, gobble, left over turkey recipes." I was so excited when I was in Robert's one day, and saw this Thanksgiving set by Hero Arts. I knew that turkey would be perfect! So I snagged it while I could. The paper is from Chatterbox, inc. and is called Sky Rodeo Paisley. I got a new idea for ribbon in a swap I received yesterday, and was really excited to try it. And of course that's the one thing that doesn't show up very well in the picture. After taking about 25 pictures to try to show the ribbon, I decided this one would have to do. Anyway, the lady in the other swap had tied brown ribbon around the recipe card and then tied blue ribbon around the brown. I loved the way it looked, and did that on this card. I love all the inspiration I receive from so many talented crafters! And thank you to my sister-in-law for sharing her yummy recipe with our family.
Well, today is our day for flu shots, so we have to put the stamps and glue away for now, but we'll see how everyone is feeling later today!

Pumpkin Pie

This is my recipe card for my friend's "From the Garden" recipe swap on http://www.splitcoaststampers.com. She had slots for fruits and vegetables. I took two slots in the vegetable swap and did a squash casserole and zucchini parmesan soup. Then the more I thought about it, I decided to do a fruit selection also. I have lots of yummy recipes, and couldn't quite decide which one to use. I finally settled on Pumpkin Pie. I know that this recipe is on the back of every Libby's can of pumpkin sold in America, probably the whole world. But until this day I've never taken the time to ever write it down in my recipe collection. I'm hoping that other people haven't either, so that this might be useful to my fellow garden swappers. The cardstock is Bazzill and the designer paper is from the Die Cuts With a View Fall Stack. The stamp is from a new Hero Arts Thanksgiving stamp set.