So much to be thankful for!

Hello! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I am in the midst of putting the final touches on my Thanksgiving table decorations. It's so much fun to use the stamping supplies I have to decorate my home. I am thankful to the Lord for so many things this Thanksgiving season. Not the least of which is a new baby granddaughter! We are enjoying her so much.So many changes have taken place in our family this year, and I can think of several more coming up next year. Thanks be to God for His many blessings in our lives!

As I was decorating our table for Thanksgiving, I decided to use my Papertrey wine bottle tag for a chair tag. That was the reason I purchased this tag last month - we don't really drink wine or any alcohol to speak of, but there are many other ways to use this tag to decorate - like on packages, and at the table, on doorknobs, etc. Anyway, as I was making these tags, I decided to use the new PTI Make-it-Monday technique Betsy Veldman demonstrated at PTI this week. It is all about using sentiments in the background of your card (or in my case - tag). So I pulled out a generic "Thanks" stamp for my background, and used the hole punched out from the wine bottle tag top to create a Tag-it's base. I used Tag-it's #7 to stamp the tag and the pumpkin and the sentiment, and a Limitless labels die for the zig-zag mat behind it. I also used the leaf from the same Tag-it's to decorate name tags. Hope you enjoy!

Papertrey Blog Hop October 2011

Hello! I am participating in the Papertrey October 2011 Blog Hop. The photo below is supposed to be our inspiration for our Blog Hop card. You can get all the details over at Nicole's blog here.

I chose to key in on the prints on the fabric in the pumpkins, as well as the pumpkins themselves. Here's my card. I used PTI white cardstock, papers from the Fall Prints patterned paper, Tag Sale #4, sentiment from Take Three Fall, and the pumpkin is a Hero Arts stamp. The ribbon is from my stash. I also inked the edges of the paper with the tea dye duo. Hope you enjoy! Have fun looking at everyone's creation!