Happy Thanksgiving US Friends

Hello Everyone,

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL my crafty friends in the United States. 

The last couple of months my post have been scarce with the amount of time I have had to dedicate to school, but I want to send a BIG thank you to all my bloggy friends, followers, and DT supporters. THANK YOU for baring with me! Full time posting and hopefully new Design Team/Guest Designer opportunities will be coming soon.

It's turkey time!

This turkey treat box is by SVG Cutting Files.

Materials:

brown, white, mustard, red, and copper card stock

DCWV pattern paer ~ The Autumn Melody

Trendy Twine ~ Chocolate Truffle

Jaded Blossom stamp ~ Turkey Poop set

Tim Holtz distress ink ~ gathered twigs

Challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations ~ Photo/Thankful
Always Fun Challenges ~ Thanksgiving
City Crafter Ch. ~ Autumn Colors
The Color Throwdown ~ Autumn Colors Photo

Hope you had a wonderful day with your families. Happy Black Friday shopping!

Stay Creative,

Georgiana 

Die Cuttin Diva ~ Thanksgiving

Hello Diva Fans,

Today I am sharing the new challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas. I hope you will join us this week since we all have so much to be thankful for.

This Week's Challenge...

Thanksgiving or Being Thankful

Here is my Design Team project...

Thanksgiving will be celebrated next week at my in-laws house, but this year it is extra special. My 23rd anniversary falls on the same day. LOTS to be thankful for this year! Family, my dog, our education, job, friends, happiness, etc.

I used the Sketch Saturday layout for my card.

This turkey is by KaDoodle Bug Designs ~ Gobblers. The pattern papers are by My Mind's Eye and the solid card stock is by Recollections.

The stamped sentiment is by Jaded Blossom ~ Turkey Poop set.

Other Challenges:

DL.Art ~ Thanksgiving 

Simply Create Too ~ Turkey

My Sheri Crafts ~ Thanksgiving

Hope you will join us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week for our "Thanksgiving/Thankful" challenge. The Design Team really did a terrific job with their projects. Looking forward to seeing yours.

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Gobble Gobble, Turkey Wobble

Happy Wednesday! It's Hump Day!

No camel here, but I have a turkey who is not as excited as me that Thanksgiving is coming. I am looking forward to a long, relaxing weekend. My hubby and I will also be celebrating our anniversary on Thanksgiving Day this year. 23 years and many more to go!

This Week's Challenge...

Here is my Design Team project...

 I used the turkey from Animal Kingdom Cricut cartridge and cut him at 3". I little bit of red Skittles for his wattle and a small twine bow for his neck.

Turkey sounds on the left.  I cut them at 1/2".

Now, I hope you will  join us this week for the Paper Play Sketches challenge. Be sure to visit the other Design Team members and share some crafty love!

Thanks again for stopping by!

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Thanksgiving Wishes at Die Cuttin' Divas

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome back for another Die Cuttin' Diva Challenge.

This Week's Challenge...

Thanksgiving

My Design Team Project...

A gift bag for either candy treats, a gift card, or any other small surprise.

The female turkey svg file is from KaDoodle Bug Designs ~ Gobblers. The tag was cut on the Cricut with Plantin Schoolbook cartridge.

The sentiment is from Craftin' Desert Divas ~ Simply Said set.

Other Challenges:
Cut It Up! ~ Turkey
Simply Create Too ~ Thanksgiving
Allsorts ~ Anything But a Card
My Sheri Crafts ~ Turkey Time
Pumpkin Spice ~ Freebie Friday
Come and Get It ~ Thanksgiving Traditions

Hope you will join us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week for our "Thanksgiving" challenge. The other design team members have been making a feast of treats, so be sure to check them out.

Hope you will join the challenge this week!

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Let's Talk Turkey at Die Cuttin' Divas

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome back for another Die Cuttin' Diva Challenge.

This Week's Challenge...

Let's Talk Turkey

My Design Team Project...

This turkey is part of the Gobblers svg file by KaDoodle Bugs.

The stamp is from BugBites (Autumn Splendor set).

Hope you will join us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week for our "Turkey Talk" challenge. The other design team members have been gobbling away making fantastic turkey projects, so be sure to check them out.

Hope you will join the challenge this week!

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

A Recipe Challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas

Hello Crafty Friends,

Welcome back for another Die Cuttin' Diva Challenge.

This Week's Challenge...A Recipe 

1 Ribbon, 2 Pattern Papers, and 3 Gems/Pearls

My Design Team Project...

Working on getting a few Thanksgiving themed cards done before the holiday rather than procrastinating and waiting until the day before.

The girl turkey was part of the Thanksgiving Kids svg file by Too Cute By Jessica.

This Jaded Blossom stamp is from the School Rules set. 

Other Challenges:

Jaded Blossom ~ Thanksgiving/Thank You

Hope you will join us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week for our "Recipe" challenge. The other design team members have done a creative job, so be sure to check them out!

Hope you will join the challenge this week!

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Give Thanks at Die Cuttin' Divas

Welcome back and thank you for visiting!

 

Today brings a new challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas, so here is another opportunity for you to share your newest creation.

 

 The Challenge...Thanksgiving

Perfect for this week since Turkey Day is next week! We usually go to my in-laws, but this year we are going to celebrate at our house so my sister and her girls can join us. Her husband is away at a job and will not be home, so I want her to have family time too.

I used the following sketch from Mojo Monday.

I cut my turkey from the Thanksgiving Cricut cartridge at 2 1/4". Love his flourish tail! Every turkey needs a wiggly eye.

Brown sequins were added to the top and bottom corner. Sequins come is a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes so you have many options when deciding to use them. These came in a Martha Stewart kit, but you can find them everywhere...Hobby Lobby, Joanns, Michaels, Walmart , and on-line.

Materials:

Various sheets of card stock

dark brown and cream card stock

Thanksgiving Cricut cartridge ~ turkey cut at 2 1/4"

cream and brown ribbon

brown sequins

Spellbinders ~ Lacey Circles

brown ink

 

Other Challenges:

Fantabulous Cricut ~ Use an Animal (turkey)

Exploring Cricut ~ Count Your Blessings

Bitten By the Bug 2 ~ Turkey

Red Carpet Studio ~ Thanksgiving

My Sheri Crafts ~ Thanksgiving/Fall

Can't wait to see what you share at Die Cuttin' Diva this week! Now go check out the Design Team projects...be prepared to see LOTS of Thanksgiving treats!

 

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

Gobble...Gobble...Turkey Treats

Happy Saturday Crafty Friends,

 

I just finished working on a Turkey Treat bag and now I need to decide if I should make one for every student in my class. What do you think? You know I love to make treat bags for them and my students from last year are a bit upset that I am not making any for them (they are in the classroom next to me and I still see them everyday). They really wanted the Halloween candy corn treats, but I didn't have enough for them. : (

 

So, what do you think...are they cute enough to make more?

 

Here is Tom the Turkey...

Each 3 x 3 bag has 6 individually wrapped Rolos.

Here are the scraps I started with to cut out all the pieces. I have way too many! I should try and use even more.

I found the perfect cut on Elegant Edges for the topper. I used the book feature on page 53 and cut it at 3 1/2" and 3 1/4".

The turkey was cut from Create a Critter (p. 70) at 3". I added an extra layer of yellow feathers and lots of Stickles. His brown hat has a rust colored bow and more glitter glue.

Red and gold sequins are scattered around the computer generated sentiment. Can you believe I don't have any good Thanksgiving stamps?!?! I even created a new board on Pinterest of various Thanksgiving stamps, so I have a place for my wish list. If you check it out, let me know which set you would purchase.

Challenges:

Cut It Up! ~ Thanksgiving

Little Scrap Pieces ~ Fun Friday Linky

All That Stickles ~ Thanksgiving

Hiding in My Craft Room ~ Scraps

My Sheri Crafts ~ Fall/Thanksgiving

DL.Art ~ Thankful Thursday

Delightful Challenges ~ All That Glitters

Just B Creative Crazy ~ November Linky

Crafty Creations ~ Autumn Colors

 

Looking for any Design Team calls, so I can get back into regular challenges/postings. If you know of any, please share!

 

Stay Creative,

Georgiana

"Count Your Blessings" at Exploring Cricut

 Hello Cricut Fans,

I sure hope you enjoyed all my turkeys yesterday, especially since there is a new challenge at Exploring Cricut today.

 

The Challenge: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is America's preeminent day. It has a very interesting history. Its origin can be traced back to the 16th century when the first Thanksgiving dinner is said to have taken place.

 

In 1789, following a proclamation issued by President George Washington, America celebrated its first Day of Thanksgiving to God under its new constitution. That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which President Washington was a member, announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, “unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities.” Yet, despite these early national proclamations, official Thanksgiving observances usually occurred only at the State level.

 

Much of the credit for the adoption of a later ANNUAL national Thanksgiving Day may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Joseph Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book. For thirty years, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day, contacting President after President until President Abraham Lincoln responded in 1863 by setting aside the last Thursday of November as a national Day of Thanksgiving. Over the next seventy-five years, Presidents followed Lincoln’s precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day. Then, in 1941, Congress permanently established the fourth Thursday of each November as a national holiday.

 

 Here is my Exploring Cricut project...

The rust colored ribbon with gold trim brings out the feather colors along with the leaf buttons. I bought that ribbon last year, but Michaels had it on sale as a Daily Doorbuster yesterday (Sunday) for 70% off. Be sure to watch for more deals! Black Friday is coming soon!

 Materials:
pattern paper ~ scrap box
kraft paper and brown card stock
Create a Critter Cricut cartridge
rust and gold ribbon
yellow leaf buttons
gold embroidery floss
Spellbinders ~ Labels 5
"With Thanks" stamp
brown ink
 

Be sure to come back tomorrow for one more Thanksgiving card as part of the Die Cuttin' Diva design team. Then it will be Christmas card time! I am actually excited this year for the holidays. Can you believe I saw someone with their Christmas lights on last night? They were super pretty, but my thought is you wait until the Friday after Thanksgiving. What do you think?

 

Looking forward to seeing all the Thanksgiving projects you make this week.

 

Stay Creative,

Georgiana



Saturday was a Day for Turkeys

Good Morning Crafty Friends and Happy Sunday!

 

Yesterday was a fabulous day for making cards. After I took my daughter to get her haircut, I was able to work on turkey cards for a friend. She was concerned that I spent so much time making all these cards, but I told her it was well worth the time.

 

Let me share some information about each of these Thanksgiving cards.

  This card did not use the Cricut. I used a Spellbinder for the Lacey Circle, but the other pieces are stickers. The turkey was wearing a bow, so I added matching ones next to the sentiment. The background is embossed with Tim Holtz woodgrain folder. 

 This was the first time this season I used the turkey cut from Simply Charmed. I do not typically pull out this cartridge because of all the smiley faces on the images, but the turkey is perfect for the holiday. The stamp is from Card Tv and the papers are My Mind's Eye. 

 Here are a few others in a group shot.

The turkeys were cut from either Create a Critter or Thanksgiving cartridges. A variety of papers and embellishments were used to create unique cards.

 This is a sticker that I purchased either last year or the year before for 10 or 20 cents. It was one piece, but I cut the letters and adhered closer together to fit within the scalloped circle (cut from Elegant Edges). The papers are Cloud9 Design ~ Seasonal stack.

I used the sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday to create this pair. I just alternated the papers and colors.

 

Challenges:

My Sheri Crafts ~ Give Thanks (4th picture)

Cupcake Inspirations ~ turkeys (1st picture)

Party Time Tuesdays ~ Thanksgiving theme

Shopping Our Stash ~ Thanksgiving or Thank You (4th picture)

Tuesday Throwdown ~ Thankful for You (3rd and 4th picture)

Cardz TV ~ Attitude of Gratitude (3rd picture)

Little Red Wagon ~ Texturize It (1st picture)

More Than Favors ~ Thanksgiving

Simply Crafts ~ Thanksgiving Turkey (2nd picture)

The Sisterhood of Crafters ~ Thankful

Card Makin' Mamas ~ Thanksgiving

Cut It Up! ~ Buttons (2nd and 3rd pictures)

Little Scrap Pieces ~ Use an Animal (1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th pictures)

Simple Create Too ~ Use Your Stash (4th picture)

Bitten by the Bug 2 ~ Turkey (2nd, 3rd, and 5th pictures)

 

Hoping everyone (in the United States) has a wonderful Thanksgiving.

 

Stay Creative,

Georgiana 

CCR ~ Thanksgiving Challenge

Thank you for joining us for our new challenge. We enjoyed looking at your Gypsy entries. We appreciate you joining us and hope you will join us for this next challenge.
 

Theme: Thanksgiving must include a Turkey 

 

Here is my Design Team project... 

Materials:

DCWV paper ~ The Autumn Melody stack

Tim Holtz paper

brown card stock

Create a Critter Cricut cartridge ~ turkey cut at 3 1/4"

leaf buttons

brown ribbon

Card TV stamp ~ Blessings!

brown ink

 

We hope you will join us and submit your new project for a chance to win.

Challenge starts today November 15th and runs until November 28, 2012.

 

Follow the rules then submit your new project over at the Creative Cutter Room.

 

Only entries that fit the challenge guidelines will be entered to win the prize!

 

To be eligible to win the prize here are the Rules to keep in mind while playing along:

Be a follower of the CCR
Project submissions must be new, no back linking

CCR must be mentioned in the description with a link back to here

Entry must fit theme to be qualified for the prize

Prize must be claimed within 2 weeks

Please link your project posting not just your blog
One entry per person

 

Please comment after linking over at the CCR

 

You have until November 28, 2012 to enter your project.

 

Here is the line-up for some great inspiration:
 Carri

Georgiana
Diana
Tracy 

Looking forward to seeing your creations!