Fusion Thanksgiving

Happy Monday, peeps!  Hope you had a good weekend!  The Fusion Card Challenge had an interesting sketch for a Thanksgiving card:

so I made a Thanksgiving card (two, actually) as well as a Christmas card!  First, the really, really CAS Thanksgiving card using circles cut from In Good Taste DSP and a sentiment from Banner Year, and embellished with a piece of Early Espresso Faux Suede ribbon:

And while I had those papers out, I made another one with banners instead of circles; this one uses Braided Linen ribbon and a little acorn from the same Banner Year set, layered on Crumb Cake:

For the Christmas card, I used larger circles and some Toile Tidings DSP, which I have totally neglected this season!  I just love the sweet little scene, it reminds me of my own childhood, sledding down our barn bridge and building snowmen with my siblings!

I used a retired Snow Flurry embossing folder and a sentiment from Itty Bitty Christmas.  Simple and easy!  And since this has Christmas stamping and an embossing folder, I am entering this one at Let's Squash It! as well as Christmas Kickstart!

Thanks for popping in today!

Brilliant maple trees from my yard:

This tree was so yellow, it turned the whole yard yellow!  Beautiful!  And now...they're all gone....laying on my yard, wet and soggy!  Thanks for popping in today!

"Do not let your hearts be troubled.  Trust in God; trust also in me.  In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you.  I am going there to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.  You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4

Fall Foliage

 Hi peeps!  I have a clean-and-simple card today, and it fulfills four challenges!  First, let's look at the card:

I used just the sketch from the Fusion Card Challenge, and the theme at Less Is More is to use more than one foliage:

I started out with a Very Vanilla card base,  some Bronze Brushed Metallic cardstock as well as some Crumb Cake and Cajun Craze to create the elements of the sketch.  The metallic was embossed with the Quilt Top (ret) embossing folder, and the colors were embossed with the Subtle embossing folder.  I stamped and diecut (or fussy-cut) foliage from Beautiful Autumn, Poinsettia Petals and Forever Fern. I did add a little extra coloring to the Crumb Cake petals with some Blends to give them a little more depth:

I fussy-cut the "smile" from Lovely You and mounted it on a piece of Cajun Craze diecut with a stitched banner from Tasteful Labels; the final touch was some sequins from my stash!  I used the colors from Color Throwdown, and the embossing fulfills the new Let's Squash It challenge!

The harvest party at church was a hit....it felt almost like "normal"!!!  The weather was gray and windy but it didn't rain!  Wayne and Josh manned the apple press to make fresh cider (which is delicious!):

Hot dogs and s'mores roasted over the fire was the menu:

Then a hay ride with a tractor breakdown (uh-oh!):

And everyone was having so much fun, they forgot to decorate their pumpkins!  Cellphone flashlights to the rescue:

Thanks for visiting today--enjoy it and be blessed!