Rose Blossoms Holidays Blog Hop: So Grateful for....

Hi All! Welcome to the Rose Blossom Blog Hop Holiday Edition. I'm batting second in the line-up so if you've just hopped over from Rose Blossom Legacies, you're in the right place. If you're just starting with me, you should hop back and see what the ever-inspiring Brenda Rose has for you. 

So I decided to go with a Thanksgiving project today using the Close To My Heart Design Decor Colonial White Frame, which comes with a honeycomb wire insert. Let's take a look:

I decided to make a gratitude board for my family. I used retired Burlap and Chocolate Striped gross grain ribbons to decorate the frame, and added a cork and wooden button from the Pathfinding Assortment pack. The leaves are stamped using the Fall Harvest stamp set and Chocolate pigment ink. Pigment inks are perfect for heat embossing, so I used Ranger Clear Super Fine embossing powder to emboss the leaves. I then sponged the leaves using Ruby, Canary, Barn Red, Autumn Terracotta, Goldrush and Olive Exclusive Inks. I then fussy cut the leaves and added them to the frame with hot glue.

The banner is made using the Bodacious Banner stamp set, the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge, and Barn Red, Autumn Terracotta, Goldrush, and Chocolate Exclusive Inks. Though the banners fit beautifully on the Art Philosophy cuts, I decided I didn't want the 1/8th of an inch margin around the stamps so I cut it off. The letters in "Gratitude" are stamped in Chocolate ink on Glacier cardstock using the alphabet stamp set that is included in the Artfully Sent Cricut Collection. I tied the pennants together using strands of burlap from the Burlap Ribbon.

The tag holder and tags are cut from Kraft Cardstock and embellished with Pathfinding paper, Chocolate and Glacier cardstocks, Chocolate Gros Grain ribbon, and a little cork embellishment from the Pathfinding Assortment. The tags have Topiary Mini Chevron ribbon pulls and little "I'm Thankful For" flags that are stamped in Glacier Exclusive ink using the Thankful Heart stamp set.

Here are a couple of close-ups:

And here's a look at what I'm most grateful for in my life:

So I hope my little project sparked some ideas for you. For more inspiration hop on over to the über talented Lynn Darda's blog From My Bungalow and see the beautiful project she has in store for you. If you get a little lost along the way, here's a list of blog participants:

Brenda

Kim {that's me}

Lynn

Marg

Margot

Cathy

Tammie

Barbara

12 Days of Christmas: Day 7

Happy Friday! It's Day 7 of the 12 Days Kraft-y Hearts Blog Share. (It's also Pearl Harbor Day, so please don't forget your veterans.)

Today I'm sharing a little tag project that is similar to one I did earlier. You can see it here. This time, however, I thought I would live up to the Kraft in Kraft-y Hearts!

For all of the cutting and scoring dimensions, click here. For this set I used the Dakota collection. I wanted to be able to use some of the tags for non-Christmas holiday gifts, so I kept the theme neutral. The wallet is made with Barn Red cardstock. I layered the top with pattern paper that I stamped using snowflakes and sentiments from the "Snow Flurries" stamp set [retired] by Close To My Heart. The snowflakes are stamped in Sky Exclusive pigment ink and the sentiment is stamped over those using Black Exclusive dye ink. The snowflake is cut from Kraft cardstock at 2 1/2 inches using the Artiste Cricut cartridge. I used Whisper Exclusive pigment ink to stamp a few snowflakes on the snowflake and inked the edges with the same ink. I added some Opaque Pearl adhesive gems and popped the snowflake up using dimensional adhesive. I tied it all together with some bakers twine.

Here are the inside pockets:

And here's a picture with the tags.  I used some of the images from the Very Merry stamp set (October Stamp Of The Month), and used a combination of dye- and pigment-based inks. "Peace" is from the Snow Flurries stamp set and "Joy" is from a set that is part of the Art Philosophy Cricut collection. I inked around the edges of the tags using Barn Red Exclusive dye ink.

So what do you think? Leave me a comment to be entered in my give away that I'll be conducting on 12/12/12. (The winner will receive a Capture the Date stamp set and a Chocolate Exclusive Ink dye ink pad!)

Hop on over to From My Bungalow and grab a little inspiration for the weekend from my oh-so-talented friend, Lynn Darda.