I made this card a few days ago but didn't get it posted until today due to a bit of a family crisis we had. My new baby granddaughter had to be hospitalized due to a urinary tract/kidney problem. That meant we had to drive to Ohio to pick up her sister, 3 year old Payton. We brought her back up to Michigan with us so her mom could stay at the hospital with the baby. Her husband was out of town so we were happy to help out. I adore Payton, but OMG, she totally wears me out and I can't get anything done when she's here. She loves to be in my craft room and play with my IKEA containers on the magnetic board that I store all my embellishments in. She likes to dump them all out into a pile then sort them out. I usually let her choose something to craft with. This time she chose plastic letters to make her family's names with. Then we made bedroom door signs with them. Darn it! I forgot to take pics. Anyway, this card is for the Squigglefly SNR color challenge of red, orange and gold. Squigglefly (
www.squigglefly.com) has some great new images. This adorable turkey is called Thy Cart Overfloweth. My base card is brown cardstock and my sentiment and image are backed with a rust colored cardstock. The leaf print is from the Recollections Autumn stack I picked up last week on clearance at Micheal's.
The Bountiful Blessings sentiment is from The Cutting Cafe. I cut the apple in the center with my Cricut Doodlecharms cartridge. I cut it three times in red, brown and green so I could piece and layer it. I embellished with brown checked ribbon from Hobby Lobby, a little red button and some hemp cord. Just thought I'd add a picture of my embellishments that Payton loves to play with so much.
I made this little decorated paint can for my granddaughter, Payton's, Halloween present. Since she is only 3 years old I didn't want it to look too scary. The Bitten By The Bug challenge this week called for using the tag cut from the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge. I turned the tag into a little black and orange house with a picket fence around it. Instead of making the usual white picket fence I made it black to be a little more Halloweenish. Is that a word? I cut the fence from the My Community cartridge. After I cut the tag on blackout, I placed it on top of the rust paper that I border punched with a Fiskars scallop and traced around the roof line. I cut two squares and a rectangle from the Plantin' Schoolbook cartridge for the windows and door. I added a couple bats on the roof that I cut from Paper Doll Dress-up. You can't see them very well in the picture, but on each side of the house there are black trees.
For the backside of the can I cut a couple more bats and added a couple gravestones. I outlined the picket fence and the gravestones with a white marker to make them a little easier to see. I took a piece of orange cardstock and cut it into 1/2" strips then folded them accordian style to put inside the can. Then I added lots of ribbons to the handle of the can. The trick or treat sentiment on the top of the can came from a stamp that my aunt had. Since it isn't mine I can't really say who it's made by. I added a little spider cut from the Paper Doll Dress-up cartridge because there was a little bare spot that needed a little something.
I will fill the can with Payton's favorite treat. Sour Gummy Worms. Why a 3 year old would like such sour things I'll never know. This looks like it took awhile to make but it was really a pretty quick project. I think it took me about an hour to put it all together. It took longer to cut all the little pieces of ribbon and tie them on than to do everything else on the can. I just love these little paint cans. I bought a dozen of them about a year ago from a place called Tallmouse. They sell craft supplies online. I think I paid somewhere around $30 for the dozen including shipping. I will also use this project for the Saturday Challenge of Halloween and Stamp, scrap and Doodle's anything but a card challenge.
