I cut the branch in Core'dination White Washed blue cardstock. I lightly sanded the branch to reveal more of the blue base. I used red metallic to cut the berries. I used Core'dination White Washed white cardstock for the snow on the branch and added icicle Stickles for a frosty look.
I cut the bird in red Core'dination cardstock (shadow), followed by red Bazzill cardstock for the icon cut. I used the red metallic paper to cut the bird's body and gold metallic to cut the bird face. Poor little cold bird; I hope he enjoys the berries.
Happy Thanksgiving Week! This is sure to be a busy, family focused week for many of us, myself included. I am going to apologize right up front if I do not post again for several days.
Today's Bitten by the Bug challenge is to use the cornucopia from Paper Doll Dress Up. I, of course, made a simple Thanksgiving themed card. I used three cartridges to complete this card, PDDU, Plantin Schoolbook, and Winter Woodlands.
I welded a rectangle from PSB to two cornucopias from PDDU (one flipped). The word Thankful was cut using Winter Woodlands, my current favorite font. I then cut two additional cornucopias and used pop dots to layer them on the front of the card. I cut the fruit in three colors of cardstock. I then used copic markers on the cornucopia and fruit.
Monday is my 28th wedding anniversary. I will be going to Atlanta on Tuesday to pick up my younger son from college. On Wednesday the older two children will come home. We may be having friends from work over on Thanksgiving... AND their new baby!!! And at some point we may be seeing Crissie, Aaron's sweet, sweet girlfriend. I am currently wrapping Christmas presents (to "hide" them in the office), and finalizing my menus for the week! And I am a sick, sick woman because I love it!!! :-)
I hope that each of you has a lovely Thanksgiving!!!!!
I used icicle Stickles over the word Brrrr to enhance the frosty effect. I also used Glossy Accents on the top layer of blue skin on the penguin. He looks smooth and sleek, ready for a quick swim.
I decided to go whimpsical in my approach, pretty much abonding reality! I cut my center tree in a polkadots and I used a smaller polkadot for the pumpkin on the farm sign and the left page matting. I cut extra leaves to scatter about using three different papers, two solds and more polkadots!
I used two different Bazzill cardstocks for the pumpkins, the highlighting a few of the pumpkins with a bling cardstock.
I finished th project off with ribbons and white ink..... My daughter and her college roommates usually to pumpkin picking; I can't wait to see this year's photos on this cute layout!!
I will add that the photos really do not do the project justice... which is often the case. And this time that is especially true.
Happy Bitten by the Bug Monday! While I am not participating in the blog hop, I am happy that you hopped by. And speaking of hopping... Do you like my little frog Prince?
This week's BBTB challenge cut is to use the priceless cut from Graphically Speaking. I decided to use the tag with only a minor alteration; I added the word "is". Otherwise I used this adorable frog from the Sweethearts cartridge. And once again, I thought deeper than was necessary for the cut, but truly how many of us know our true worth. How wonderful if we could all appreciate ourselves! Now on to why I did not participate in the blog hop... Because I am a horrid person and still have not gone to the post office and mailed my blog candy from the last blog hop... nor have I mailed the blog candy from the download guess. I have this big flaw in life.... I HATE going to the Post Office. But I DO PROMISE to get to the Post Office this week!!!!
On a side note, I spent much of last evening trying to reorganize my scrap room. I had not unpacked my XXL rolling tote (which was in overflow mode) since the convention. I had a problem (which I had anticipated) dealing with printed paper storage. My storage method for prints was full and just could not handle any more product. I "macgyvered" a temporary fix and will have to decide on a long term fix in the near future. At least I bought myself a bit of time.