Happy November!!!

I got a few minutes to spare and thought I would share some more of my contest "non-winners" with you. I just entered again this month, so I will have more material to share with you in a few weeks. I have to wait until the official winners are announced and then I can share my entries with you.

But today, I have some nice ones to share with you. The first one is my old Terrific Trio entry with our frog set. I LOVED these cards and was VERY confident in entering them, but alas, they didn't win. So, that's ok because it gives me something to share with you here on my blog!

I was hoping my picture would show up larger, but you get the idea anyway. It's looking like I used the mimi collection with our brown cardstock as the base paper on each card. I see the scalloped circle punch used on the third card over and I punched holes in it to create a "lace" type look. I used my crop-a-dile for that. I love that thing. It can punch through multiple sheets of paper all at one time. I believe I colored the frogs with my aquacolor crayons and blended them with a blender pen. They were a beautiful bright green. I see a loopy brad on the second card with some ribbon tied on it. I love doing that. I hope you like these cards as much as I do.

I also am showing you a card that I created with our flamingo set. I can't remember the contest name, but it was something to make you think fancy and flashy. I loved how this card came out as well. I used glue and glitter to create the sparkly scarf. The brads were a lot of fun to add as well.

Last is this card. Not one of my favorite entries, but the contest name was something like New and original card elements. I created the black flower affects by taking the same stamp and stamping it once, lifting it slightly and rotating it and stamping it again and then lifting it again and rotating it and stamping it a third time. All without reinking it. I like the techinique,but the card wasn't one of my favorites. I still entered it because hey, you just never know what's going to win.

I hope you've been inspired to go and create some great projects today. Have a great Saturday and Happy November. Thanksgiving will be here before you know it. We're having it at our place this year and I have some paper projects already cooking up in my head to "embellish" the Thanksgiving table with. I'll have to click pictures and share them(if I get to them all). Happy Stamping!