Sleigh Ride!

Were is the time going?

This time change is really getting to me,

it's dark when I leave for work and it's dark when I get home

and soon as the sun goes down I'm ready to go to bed!

Not my favorite thing!

I can not believe we are already celebrating Thanks Giving Day

this coming Thursday and

Christmas is right around the corner.

Time truly flies!

But with all the hustle and the bustel

 it is still the most wonderful time of the year!

I have been playing with my Cricut again...

 This sleigh was cut with the 

'Paper Doll Dress Up" cartridge.

This one is a 5" sleigh.

 Panels are held together by a small box in the middle.

I made mine 11.5 x 5 x 4 cm.

 Sentiment is a from Hero Art "Wishing you flourish".

This little sleigh was so much fun to make and decorate

and I hope it put you in the spirit of the season!

Thanks for stopping in!

To all of you and your families 

a 

Happy and Blessed

THANKSGIVING!

Diana

Have a Wicked ...

... Halloween!

It's been a busy weekend getting all my 

Halloween treats done for 

family and friends.

And thanks to my great blog friend

Cheryl over at 

Artsy Fartsy,

I had a wickedly good time creating these 

wonderful witches shoes.

Thanks, Cheryl for giving my this wonderful Idea!!!

Please hop on over to Cheryl's blog and take a look 

at her wonderful creations!

You can find the witches shoe template at

Skip to my Lou.

 After cutting and scoring the shoe I dry embossed them

to give the shoe a leathery look.

The tag was stamped with Stampin'Up!

"Wicked Cool" stamp set.

 Treat basket for my husbands wickedly sweet co-workers!

 My quick and easy "BOO-Banner"!

 And when I say quick and easy,

I really mean quick and easy!

Everything was cut with my

Cricut machine and

the "Happy Hauntings" cartridge.

 Just add some halloween pictures, patterned  paper, 

cardboard  and glue it all together..

...I LOVE quick and easy!!!

Thanks for stopping in!

Wishing everyone a 

Wickedly Wonderful Halloween

and 

for all of you who are in the way of "Sandy"

please stay safe!

Diana

Quoth the Raven!

Hello everyone! 

Hope you all had a great start to the week!?

After dragging and I mean literally dragging my heals

for a very long time

I finally got my 

Halloween card

DONE!

"Quoth the Raven"

is a background stamp from Stampandous called "Raven",

stamped on recycled brown paper bags.

The bat "Happy Halloween" came from a 

Martha Stewart Halloween stamp set.

I added a little purple sparkles to the ravens hat

to give him a touch of magic.

Hope do you like my quick and easy
Halloween card?
I have to admit background stamps are not my favorites to work with.
For some reason it takes mr several tries for the image
to come out right and evenly stamped.
Anyone have a suggestion or a special trick
you would like to share,
how to use large stamps,
 so the image comes out nice and clean?

Have a great week!
and
Thanks for stopping by!

Diana

It's good to be back home...

... but I'm sure missing the warmer temperatures and our walks on the beach.

Sorry, I don't have a card or creation to share this week.

I had good intensions though, 

packed with my newest knitting project (a scarf), some crochet yarn, books 

and magazines (I really wanted to read) I set out a week ago on vacation to

North Redington Beach, Florida.

Oh ya right, what was I thinking???

It would rain all week!!

Well this wonderful beach chair was my camp-out spot for the week,

weapon with my camera, lots of sunscreen lotion and

numerous trips up and down the white sandy beach

not much knitting was going on.

But I sure had a good time taking all those pictures.

Here are just a few...

... hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

Nature on the Gulf Coast is breathtaking and we had a wonderful time 

just sitting back and soacking it all in.

Thanks for stopping by!

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Diana

50 Years!

Happy Saturday everyone!

A few day's ago my Mom called and ask me if

I could make her a card for her friends and neighbors

"50th Wedding Anniversary".

Since I know the happy couple since my childhood,

I was more then happy to do so.

 I decided to do an easel card.

 Added punched flowers and gold embellishments.

 The number 50 is actually a sticker I found at 

WalMart.

 The two hearts were stamped with Stampin'Up!

"You are Loved" stamp set.

I used my VersaMark stamp pad and then embossed

with gold detail embossing powder.

I did the same on the sentiment.

WOW, 50 year, what an accomplishment!

I'm so happy for them and

really hope they will like the card.

Mom also needed some labels to put on some vine bottles.

Yes, you guessed right a special 

"Golden Wedding Anniversary" vine.

This is the first time I used Avery's website 

www.avery.com

to make labels and I have to say I liked it.

I fell in love with a golden vintage frame, 

I thought it fit the occasion perfectly.

Well, card and labels went in the mail today,

keep the fingers crossed they will make it 

undamaged across the big pond.

Wishing everyone a wonderful and creative weekend

and

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Diana

Pebbles and Shells!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and

 a great start to the week!

I took some time this weekend and tried to salvage what's 

left of my yard and flower beds.

The much cooler temperatures made yard work a breeze 

and I was done in no time.

Maybe that there was hardly anything left 

but cutting down dead stuff sped things up quiet a bit.

Even so Fall is definitely in the air I'm not ready

to let Summer go!

I bought this wooden $1.00 frame a wile back

and deco-paged it with old book pages,

but then I got stuck and it was put aside...

... to this weekend, when I came across a very old

children's book called "Pebbles and Shells". 

 Loved the illustrations in the book.

I also reused some of the text on the frame

and stamped some birds on it.

 This is my mom and me on vacation on the seashore.

Well, what do you think?

Not to bad for my first altered photo frame?!

But I definitely need to get into the fall mode,

well, maybe next week ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Diana