Mountain Life

Hello world!

That's how I felt as I climbed on top of this stump

We headed over the mountain friday and saturday to hike and take in all the fall beauty.  

I'm literally standing at the bottom of the lake

Lake Cle Elum to be exact, there is a dam at the very southern tip of the lake where they let the water out slowly throughout the summer. 

 So much that this is what is left,  

dry baron land all cracked and full of very large petrified tree trunks.           

You can see in this picture by the rings in the wall bed of

the lake how slowly the water release is. 

We hiked down into the lake and although this picture

doesn't look deep it was quite a hike down in.

Dan found some "antlers" 

my clown......

These stumps are as tall as me! and I'm 5'8"!

It was a full weekend of adventuring with my guy

The colors were amazing yesterday

and seeing these Mule deer was the icing on 

the cake!

Farmhouse Christmas Halloween

The only thing better about September is October!

Getting my spooky on by changing things up

with the Farmhouse Christmas set.

I used a sponge dauber to create the spooky sky.

I used Daffodil Delight and Concord Grape

This set is so versatile, I'm loving it!

I plan on showing you one more idea for the holidays with this set

in the next post.

Farmhouse Christmas

Feeling the lovely effects of fall here in the Pacific Northwest

Pulled out one of my fav new sets,  Farmhouse Christmas 

to come up with a cozy fall card to gift.

I used the Aqua Painter for this card

The ink colors I used were Basic Gray for the roof of the house,

the shutters are Mossy Meadows and the the leaves on the trees are

Mossy Meadow as well.  The tree trunks are Crumb Cake and the pumpkins a mix of Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie ink

I decided to pop the house off the card using dimensionals to

give it a 3D look.

Here is the Farmhouse Christmas stamp set

Always take a look at your stamp sets and see how you

can use them for other type cards besides what they are 

intended for.  Such as this one is for Christmas, but

as you can see I turned it into a fall card.

The farmhouse Christmas Set

can be ordered alone or as a bundle

with the framelits you see here that 

cuts out all the pieces that you stamp

In order to use the Framelits you need to 

have a Big Shot

So the stamp set alone is

#147478 for $17.00

or the bundle #149941 for $44.00

Order HERE

Wood bead garland

My towels and wood beads are back in stock in my shop!

You can visit HERE to view the items

The beads look great in any decor and fun to add to your fall decor.

The smaller round bead fits perfectly around a vase or around a cute pumpkin

You can now pick up a set of the beads that contain a long 30" garland and a smaller 2 1/2" bead tassel for $25

What are you waiting for?

Get your fall decor on!

Stitching

Anyone else love avocado toast as much as me?

I can't get enough of it.  Sometimes I add a fried egg on top too.

The recipe is super easy.  I use a toasted rustic bread sliced thin.

Then a use a whole avocado sliced up in a bowl and mix in just a little bit of red crushed pepper flakes, pepper and a dash of lemon

on top I grate some white cheddar cheese and add sea salt.

YUM!!!!! sooo stinkin good!

My sister LOVES cats!

I got my new shipment of tea towels in and thought how fun it would be to stitch on cats on a few for her.

I'm going to save these to give to her for Christmas

Using a pencil, I lightly drew the cats onto the towels

then just stitched them.

They turned out pretty good!

I think she will like them!

I'm going to have to put some kind of light material behind

the design to hide all the loose threads.

Any suggestions?

Santa's Workshop

Good morning friends!

Sharing some more of the whimsical cards that I made from the

Santa's workshop Memories and More kit.

Seriously,  this could'nt be any easier to make your Christmas cards

Slap the cute cards on top of cardstock and your done!

Can you see the glitter on the cards?

No mess for you cause they come this way!

I did stamp a few sayings on a couple of the cards

Santa's Workshop Memories and More card pack

You can order them

HERE

Thank me later!

Santa's Workshop

How would you like and extremely easy set of cards you can make?

This new Santa's workshop memories and more card and envelope kit is for you.  It will simplify your holiday cardmaking.  Just adhere the cards from the kit onto the card bases and you're done!

No kidding!

And just look at the adorble pieces in the kit! I could'nt even post

them all.

The kit come with 50 card bases 10 of each sizes for $10.00!!!

Here is a small sampling of what's in the kit

and here are a few of the cards I have made....

The little elves are just adorable!

So how about getting a jump start on your Christmas card making with this kit?

Use this code to order  (#147905) 

 and head over 

HERE to order

Creative Class

Happy saturday morning friends!

Yesterdar morning was creative class and it was sooo time

to bring on our fall game!

In the picutre above we made the treat boxes filled with fresh

peanut butter cookes.   The little pumpkins on top are have a clip on them and can be clipped to anything. 

 I found them at the Dollar Tree, they come in white, red and orange

This little guy is made with the Curvy Keepsake framelit that is used with the Big Shot machine.  I simply cut a 1/4" strip of burlap and folded it over for the hat and hot glued it on.  The crow is a bird punch from Stampin Up! We used a sponge dauber to add the cute little blushed cheeks and hand drew on the rest.

 We filled the holders with chocolates

This bright orange pumpkin is the before.....

The pumpkins are from the Dollar Tree

After adding two coats of white chalk paint

 (I used Rustoleum from Lowe's)

it covered the pumpkins completely.

I went out the yard and cut a few branches for the stems.

The original stem pops right off the top, it is just adhered with a toothpick.  So it easily removes so you can add the branch.

I did use a exacto knife to carefully cut the hole just a little bit bigger to fit the new branch.

To distress the pumpkins I used Valspar Antiquing Wax

(also at Lowe's)

While you are at the Dollar Tree pick up some of their paint brushes and use it to distress the pumpkins with the wax

A little of the wax goes a looooong way!

If you don't want to buy the wax you can always purchase a very dark brown acrylic paint 

(you know the small cheap paint bottles at Michael's)

as an alternative.  I just always have the antiquing wax on hand and choose to use it.

And here they are all done in all their glory!!!

Happy fall ya'll!!!

Halloween Crate

I told you I had a halloween crate to share too,

made just the same as the Christmas ones

the instructions are below

The mini gable boxes can be purchased 

HERE

The stamp set I used is called Spooky Sweets

from the new holiday catalog.

You can view it 

HERE

Take a look at how to cut the gable 

boxes.  Just cut the sides off and then

hot glue the paper straws to the handles

Christmas Crates

Let's get to some holiday fun!

These "crates" can be made for any holiday, I also have one to 

share with you for Halloween too.

These are made with gable boxes which can be found 

HERE (gable boxes)

I also used paper straws.  You can use any that match your design.

I used what I had on hand.  To attach the straws I just hot glued them inside the handle.

The cute red christmas truck is from the new catalog, 

the stamp set is called Farmhouse Christmas

side view

Aren't these little characters so mischievous!

I fussy cut out the little elf and santa and glued

them directly onto the box

I glued santa right onto the box and popped up the

elf with dimensionals.  

This designer series paper is called

Santa's Workshop

Each little crate is filled with Christmas candies

I tied pom pom trim on mine as that is what I had

on hand.  You can add any ribbon that matches your design

Here's how I cut the boxes.

Cut off the two sides as you see in the picture, then

assemble the box and glue the straw to the handle

The possibilities are endless!

White Pumpkins

Anyone else as excited for fall besides me?

Bring on all the flannels, cooler temperatures, leaves falling, 

fall decor, etc.

I found these cute little white clip on pumpkins at the 

Dollar Tree.  They come three to a package, for yes, $1.00!

They do come in other colors too, orange and red

You can see they have little clips attached to them

also notice how they are speckled too

You can imagine the possibilites, they will clip

onto about anything.  I used mine and clipped them

onto the leaf of the potted plant above

Are you beginning your fall decorating?