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Happy Thanksgiving

I am showing you the centerpiece I made for our fall table. I took one of the plastic orange pumpkins that I bought last year and mod podged it with brown craft paper. While the pumpkin was drying I used the 309 and 903 punches to create the flowers. The bigger flowers are using the positive of the punches while the smaller flowers were made using the negatives. I added some burlap that I gathered to the bottom and flowers in the center to complete the look.

Check out the new online magazine

Check out the first edition of the Turtle Soup Magazine and notice they are also having a DT call. I have a card in this magazine. Check it out and come on over and have some fun.

Some grandpa time

A photo from a few years ago. I used this layout for the sketch challenge at Kitchen Keepsake and for the Thursday scraplift at Turtle Soup

New card challenge

The November card challenge is up at Stick it Down. This is the sketch and my take on it. Come on over and give it a try, you know we all need cards.

Gobble, gobble

Since Thanksgiving is rapidly approaching, I thought I would make something to put on my Thanksgiving table. I used the Kreaxion 903 punch and used the negatives to glue on top of a 12" wide sheet of paper, then scored the paper every 1/2 inch. I used pop dots in between the layers to make them stand out. Found a turkey head on line and just edited it, glued that and some leaves to a bottom base of chipboard and cardstock and my little turkey is complete.

Design Team Call!

Design Team Call!

It's time once again for a design team call! We are looking for new members for each of our teams - single page layouts, double page layouts and cards.

Our next term will run from January to June 2015 so please do not apply if you cannot commit to this time frame.

What you will do:

provide one project per month with a possible special event during the six month term
comment on all submissions as you are assigned
post our challenge to your blog and other social media outlets
have projects completed ahead of time in order to meet the deadline

What you need:

an active blog
a facebook account as this is where the DT "meets"
a love for sketches

What we will do:

provide the sketches at least one month in advance
provide your posting schedule and commenting assignments
be supportive and encouraging
share your photo and your link on our blog
share your project on various social media outlets

How to apply:

send an email to Stick it Down with the subject line "Design Team Call"
include your name and location
include a list of current teams (no experience necessary!)
include 3 of your favorite layouts or cards that best display your style and suit the requirements of the team you are applying for (ie, submit cards if you are applying for the card team)
introduce yourself in few brief sentences

This call is open to everyone including our current team members and will run from November 1st to November 21st. The new team will be notified by November 28th and announced by December 1st. The new team's projects will be revealed on January 1st.

Update on Holiday Pinterest Party

I have gotten so many stocking stuffers done for this. I can't show you or my kids will see what they are going to have in their stockings come Christmas morning. I guess you will have to come on over to the Kitchen and see all the wonderful ideas the ladies have come up with.


It's almost November and the holidays are right around the corner! Are you
all ready?


Kitchen Keepsake will be hosting a Holiday Pinterest Party from November
1st - December 24th and YOU are invited!!

All projects are due by midnight December 24th. All you have to do is
start a thread with your (P)interest name and post photos/links of the
holiday project that (P)inspired you and photos of your completed holiday
projects. It can be any holiday project, but each

(P)inspiration only counts once. In other words, if you make a cute little
paper clip bookmark as a stocking stuffer, making 100 of them will not
count 100 times. LOL

The person who completes the most projects will receive a huge box of
scrappy fun!


The Kitchen is here to help with some holiday inspiration, whether it's
gifts or recipes! Come join in the fun and see what everyone is
(P)interested in!

See you in the Kitchen and can't wait to see what you create.

Vintage Christmas card

The challenge this week at Christmas Card Challenge blog was to not use any embellishments. I decided to just use paper and make this beautiful vintage card.

November challenges at Kitchen Keepsake

My card challenge this month was to make a Thank You card and the recipe challenge was to have at least 3 layers on your page.

Here are my examples