Inking It Up Crazy Design Team Project - Thankful Project

Kassidy challenged us this week to make a grateful/thankful project.  She wanted us to design it around something we are grateful for.  I chose to do a banner to display in my house because I am thankful for my home and everything it stands for - the love of my precious family who live inside the home and the friends who visit my home.   I plan to put this up on my piano when Halloween is over and the halloween decorations are put away.  Thanks for stopping by and make sure to check out Kassidy's blog to see what the rest of my design team sisters created!!

I used Eledgant Edges to cut out the scalloped square at 4.25".  The letters are from Storybook, the shorty holes function and are cut at 3.25".  The leaves are from Doodlecharms and the acorns are from Create A Critter.

Gift bag and matching card

I realized that I have not fully utilized most of my cartridges' potential yet.  I have done a few cuts on each cartridge.  There are even a few cartridges I have not even used**gasp!!**  so, I challenged myself to try a new cut yesterday.  I used the Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and cut the inchie bag.  I cut it fit to page and added a handle.  I used a cut from Storybook to decorate the front of the bag and then used the negative image from that cut to make a matching card.  (Diane from Capadia Designs would be so proud of me for that)  I love these colors together - light aqua, dark lavendar and white. 

There has been very little sunlight these past few days out here in Oregon (constant rain and gray, ugh!!) so it has been tricky trying to get a great picture of my projects.  Thanks for looking and hope you have a DRY and wonderful weekend in your neck of the woods:-)