Hello everyone!
It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just a week away. I love the Fall season, but it always seems to slip by so quickly and the next thing you know, Christmas carols are playing.
Before we turn on the holiday music at our house, I wanted to pause for a moment and honor Thanksgiving. I have so much for which to be grateful and I took a few minutes to jot that down on this layout.
I made this page with the November kit from My Creative Scrapbook. It featured a mix of lines from Echo Park Paper and Doodlebug Design.
I included a few lines of journaling right under the photo, which I took of the table setting last year.
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
It's over the river and through the woods to Grandmother's house we go - for Thanksgiving, that is. We are making a few side dishes to take along and, of course, I also wanted to bring a little hostess gift.
The one of the left is for Mom. She is certainly fabulous! The one on the right, I am saving for a Christmas party. While I was making one wine tag, I figured I might as well make another.
These tags are easy to make. I cut each tag 3 inches wide by 10 inches long. I scored the tag 2.5 inches from the top to make the fold. I used a circle punch for the wine bottle hole. All paper and embellishments are from Fancy Pants Designs, the cute new Fall and Winter lines.
For the holiday bottle of cheer, I used a patterned paper frame and filled the inside with subway art style paper from the Timbergrove collection. I'm thinking a bottle of red would be perfect for curling up in front of the fireplace on a cold night.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. To all my US friends: wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
Here's a sweet treat for all the last minute moms (me!) who need something quick to bring to a gathering. These Acorn Donut Holes are a super quick and easy treat sure to please young and old. You can't fail with this one and they won't take more than 15 minutes to make. I originally saw this idea in Disney's Family Fun magazine.
Start with your favorite donut holes. Dip just the tops of the donuts in warm frosting. You can also use peanut butter or Nutella as an alternative. Add chocolate sprinkles.
To finish the acorns, add a pretzel stick stem. Put them on a platter and watch them disappear. Side note: the squirrel is a tealight holder from Crate and Barrel. Love repurposing!
Ok, back to Monday's post. Thanks so much to everyone who commented on my Trendy Twine birthday celebration and giveway. I used random.org to pick a winner.
Mary Pat Siehl, you are number 12! I'll click back to your blog to contact you.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
[For the twine hop and giveaway, please see this post. ]
Oh, how quickly the holidays roll around! I can hardly believe that this Thursday is Thanksgiving. I made a quick little card to celebrate.
To make this card, I used some scraps from the Bella Blvd Thankful line and a simple design. I stitched the rows of patterned paper across the card, then added chipboard and little pennants.
To make the pennants, I added word stickers to some plain Bella flags in my stash. To curl the twine for tendrils on the pumpkin, I wet the twine with a glue medium, then wrapped the twine around a pencil. When the glue was dry, I unwrapped the twine and it sprung back into a curlicue shape. Easy!
If you'd like to win some twine, be sure to check out last Saturday's post. I'm giving away 4 colors of holiday twine. Entries close tomorrow night and the winner will be announced here on Wednesday.
To my American friends, I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Thanks so much, everyone, for stopping by.
I love the Fall season and Fall collections. I was so excited to see Bella Blvd's Thankful line spotlighted in the October kit at My Creative Scrapbook.
I found this line to be so versatile. used this collection for a non-Thanksgiving, non-Fall page. On a beautiful (hot!) September day, my family went to the county fair. It was a great outing. I thought my son, age 3, would be most excited about the animals. And while he did love them, what he really had his eyes on - and his heart set on - were the prizes on the Midway.
I took this trio of photos, sized them to match the "love life" journaling card in the Thankful collection, and used them as the focal point of my layout.
Since the colors in this collection are pretty neutral, it's easy to use Thankful with non Fall layouts. Below is a closeup of the page top.
Of course, this Bella Blvd' line is perfect for Fall themed layouts. I particularly liked the Thanksgiving theme that ran through this aptly named Thankful collection. It turned out to be just perfect for scrapbooking a collage of photos from our family gathering last year.
On this layout, I numbered each photo, then journaled directly on the patterned paper below the collage. To do so, I first tested the placement of the journaling on regular printer paper. Then, I cut a strip of patterned paper slightly larger than the journaling area, taped the patterned paper strip on top, and ran the paper through the printer again.
Here's a closeup of that cute turkey. It was part of the "Cute Cuts" sheet in the collection. The heart button is also Bella Blvd and was included in the kit.
Here's a photo of the kit I worked with, the Creative kit.
My Creative Scrapbook has several kits to choose from each month. You can see all the kits on the MCS website. I'll be back next week with more projects with this kit.
We are also giving away this terrific prize package on Monday of papers and embellishments from Webster's Pages, featured in our Limited Edition kit.
To enter the drawing to win this prize (pictured above), just leave a comment on the My Creative Scrapbook blog by midnight EST on Sunday. We'll announce the winner on Monday, Oct. 8.
Have a great weekend!
