A Harvest of Blessings!

 Hi Friends!

Hope this Wednesday is going well for you!  I've got an easy hanging wall plaque project today featuring Heartfelt Creations Farmers Market Collection. 

I started with the Paper Collection and fussy cut out the large image of bright ripened vegetables.  I decided to bring the sunflowers in the image to life by stamping and die cutting out some sunflowers from the Classic Sunflower collection in a mustard yellow color.  I added some brown and red highlights to each of the petals and shaped them all with flower shaping stylus tools.

For a slightly different effect, I decided to cut away the centers of my die cut sunflowers and attach just the petals over the image's petals, leaving the brown center of the original image exposed.

For comparison of the two styles, here's another sunflower I created from a past project that uses the whole blossom. Just a different way to create the sunflower.

To finish the project, I simply attached the vegetable image to a rectangle strip that I cut from the Paper Collection that had the large "Harvest of Blessings" script on it.  I layered it with a dark brown and black cardstock panel and a heavy (110#) white cardstock layer just to make it a little more sturdy.  I then added my large eyelets and wire.  My plaque ended up being about 4" x 10" in size.

These are the Heartfelt Creations products I used for this project:

HCDP1-257  Farmers Market Designer Paper Collection
HCPC-3626 Classic Sunflower Cling Stamp Set
HCD-753 Classic Sunflower Die

As always, complete step-by-step details on how I made this project are on the HC Blog today.  Want to see more fabulousness??  Check out what the Design Team has come up with this week!  So much inspiration and creativity!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Anne

Chocolate Turkey Parade!

These started out as a very simple idea to turn Ferrero Rocher chocolates into pumpkins.  You know, just real quick, add a little stem and vine at the top??  Easy peasy.  But (always a but) I couldn't get past an idea I had in the middle of the night last night to make them turkeys.  My rosette-flower-obsession disorder got the best of me and I decided they had to be turkeys!!




I started out by making the tail feathers.  I used DCWV 5-1/2"x7" "Harvest Gathering" mat stack (last year's design) and chose several of the panels.  Cut them in half length-wise so I had two 2-1/4"x7" strips from each panel.  I scored them every quarter-inch, then fan folded them. 

To get the "tail" to stay in a fan shape, I hot glued the bottom 1/3 to an arch-shaped scrap cardboard piece.  I started by hot-gluing one side of the bottom end to the cardboard piece, then once that end was set, I added glue to the rest of the cardboard piece and laid the rest of the accordion piece down. This step allowed me time to squeeze bottom end together so it glued down into the fan shape I wanted for the tail feathers. 

To make sure it stayed in place, I hot glued another arch shaped cardboard piece across the front side, across the bottom, so the fan shape was secure.  I trimmed off the overhanging sides of the cardboard pieces.  I then colored the white piece with a brown copic just so it blended in some.

Next I made the turkey heads.  After rummaging through my supplies trying to decide how to do this, I settled on using a 1/2" circle punch, brown card stock, a couple of wiggly eyes, a holly berry stem and puff balls.

The holly berries came these mini pine cone clusters that I deconstructed and separated from the cones.

I punched a 1/16" hole through a 1/2" circle of brown cardstock, then slipped the holly berries through and positioned them so they would hang as the turkey's "gobblers" below their face.

Here's the heads ready for beaks.

The beaks are just little triangles cut free-hand from scrap orange cardstock that I folded in half.

I just glued the beaks onto the front of the face right above the berries/gobblers. 

Next I added a little puff ball to the backs of the heads as "necks" - and because I didn't want to glue the faces flat against the chocolate ball.

Puff balls being glued to the backs of the heads

Here's all the main parts ready to be assembled:

First thing to do is make the body.  With the chocolate ball sitting in it's little brown candy holder that it comes in, stretch the brown holder at one end so you can slip the tail feathers in.  Use a little hot glue on the bottom end of the tail feathers and along the back side so the fan of tail feathers is glued to the brown paper on the bottom and the back.

Next glue the heads on, The puff ball and head are so light weight, it just takes the teeniest drop of glue to stay on -- just enough to stick but not enough to cause the chocolate to melt!!






And here's a few pics of the finished turkeys!  There's going to be one of these guys sitting at the table at each place setting this year!

Happy Thanksgiving, friends!  May you be blessed and safe this Thanksgiving!!



TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Hi All,

I was making my Thanksgiving cards and had a hankering to use my Copics.  It's been awhile since I created something with them.  Anyhow, here's the card that I made...pretty intense, huh?  I just kept making the colors darker and darker. 

Then I made this one, just some simple stamping and bling.  I got the idea from a card I saw on Pinterest.  (Still not on Pinterest? What's wrong with you LOL!!!) 

Although my card looks nothing like the one from Pinterest, it was inspired by the use of the tree.  Here's the card, not sure if you can see it if you're not linked in to Pinterest, but just in case to give credit, it's this one!

Have a great week everyone!!  TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Thanksgiving Parade of Cards

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

I'm pleased to be able to post my Thanksgiving cards BEFORE Thanksgiving this year!!  I'm usually up late until the last minute getting these things done and don't have time to post them!!  Anyone else out there like that??  LOL!!  So to get on with the "parade"....

First up:

This card is a CASE from Karen Barber's gallery -- I lost the direct link to this specific card, but here's the link to her blog (you'll love going through it anyways!!), it's in there some where!!.  All the products used on this card are SU!




Next:

A super simple CAS card using a Making Memories glitter chipboard sticker, a clear plastic leaf embellishment that I colored with Copics, and 4 small scalloped circles from Cuttlebug that I folded, embossed and then glued together to make the pumpkin.  I sliced very thin green CS to make the vines.  The sentiment is by SU!  Fortunately this won't be going in an envy!  It will be hand-carried to the hostess (my sister) of our Thanksgiving dinner this week!

Next up:

This card is made using new Basic Grey Pyrus paper that I got from Frantic Stamper!!  Oh how I loooove this paper pad!  The sentiment is a chipboard sticker from the same collection and the flowers are miscellaneous Primas that I ran through my Big Shot along with the panel to give a sort of faux "pressed flowers" look.  (And can you see one of my beloved Peel Offs on there that I managed to sneak in!!)




Next, my over-the-top card:

Sometimes, there's nothing you can do to "save" a card, no matter how many flowers and doo-dads you stick on it!!!  This card was evolving and changing even as I posted it.  Now I just want it to go away!!  :)  

And finally, my Thanksgiving Do Over:

 

I made this altered tin "card" last year for a DT project.  I never really finished it because I didn't like how it came out.  So this year, when I pulled out my Thanksgiving box of crafting goodies, it was in there, so I sat down and re-did all the parts I didn't like.  I'm ok with it now and so it's going in the mail to mom and dad this year!

This is the inside of the top of the lid.  The hardware piece in the center is keeping the little flap closed.

 

 Little flap open...

This is one side of the accordion "card" that is tucked inside the tin.   

This is the other side:

And that concludes this year's Thanksgiving Card Parade!!  May your own Thanksgiving Day bring you and your family peace and blessings as you gather together to thank God for His many blessings!

TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Amazing Birgit!

What a Superstar FS gallery this week over on SCS!! Birgit aka Biggan's gallery is being featured -- A Must See for everyone! Birgit is such a sweetheart too, she's always offering to share her supplies and talent. I adore this woman! Not knowing where to even start in choosing a card from her vast showcase, I have so far now cased two of them! This one is based on her "A Brilliant Challenge" card. I started with Bazzil textured CS in a taupe color and swiped Colorbox Chalk ink in fall colors across the front to create a similar style background as Birgits. I punched leaves and ferns from various punches in coordinating CS colors. Layered them and added a cute squirrel brad from Recollections Autumn Fabric Brads collection. (Love them!) I followed Birgit's layering scheme and used Dark Brown, Taupe, and Green panels. This next card is another one of her lovely, simple cards. It is based on her Christmas in July card. Followed her same design concept but used the stamps and supplies I had on hand. These sparkly brads are by Recollections, part of a big Blog Candy win from earlier this month. My main image is a 3-D sticker, so that made it super easy and quick! Congratulations to Birgit!! TFL, I'm so glad you stopped by!

Plaid and Buttons!

This is my card for the Doubledog Dare challenge this week: Plaid and Buttons!