This isn’t a paper craft related post but I wanted to share a few pictures form my offices’ Boss’s day celebration. After A LOT of inner office politics and un needed drama, I was happy to see the day go but in the end we were able to sit down together and enjoy a meal together while honoring our bosses. A wonderful local place catered and we went with a fall theme for decor. Being the queen of all things fall I was able to help out with most of the decorations.

This centerpiece to the left is borrowed from my dining room table.  I love using real gourds. The cats love them even more. They are constantly licking them – weirdos! We had 3 tables set up for people to sit and eat at. One is much larger than the other 2 and this basket was placed in the center of the large table with 2 fall topiaries on each side. 

To the right is a pic of the whole table.

The luncheon was held in the board room where the school board holds their stuff. That’s why you can see random odd things on the walls around the room  and the big ugly blue chairs 

Here’s a nice shot of the other table setting. This was the setup for  2 tables. We used a beautiful (yet plastic … imagine that!)   gold table cloth with a maroon plastic runner. Placed 3 topiaries on each table with fall colored votive candles between the topiaries.  Scattered leaves put a nice finishing touch on the whole thing. 

I loved doing the decorations for this. It was fun and turned out beautifully. We had corns stalks wrapped in amber lights in one corner and a scarecrow in another. The Banquet tables were also outfitted for the season.

That’s it for today. Happy Bosses day to all of you  bosses!

I LOVE the fall and I love making fall cards.  For Lauren’s Saturday Sketch I choose a gold background, shimmery brown accent and beautiful maple branch sticker from Jolees Boutique. The picture does not do this card justice. Its stunning in person … TRUST ME.  Click the image to see a bigger prettier version. Here it looks kind of plain. The card stock is all shimmery and sparkly in person and I scalloped the edge as suggested in the sketch.

Oh by the way I decided to start posting the sketch so that you can see what I’m working with so as promised here it is:

I used my favorite binding technique – ribbon. Mostly because my gold card stock was already cut into these rectangles and inorder to make a true card I needed to stick 2 pieces together some how.

Tonight we picked laminant flooring for our living room and kitchen. We are going to install it our selves which should be fun. We have a week off October 6th to the 10th we plan on completing several big home projects during that. I figure if Ty Penntington can build a house in a week surely we can make a few improvements!

My second Sketch Challenge in 1 week! Wow I’m on a roll with these! Sketch challenges are excellent for churning your creative juices. The best advice anyone has ever given me when it comes to stamping was to try every sketch challenge you possibly can.  I have only posted 2 attempts but I have used many sketch challenges for inspiration.

I decided on a another Halloween card. Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year!

 Paper: Black , White, Orange and Purple card stock, Halloween black dots patterned paper from K& company
Embellishments:  Stickles
Stamps: Pumpkin and Trick or Treat from Papertrey Inks’ Spooky Sweets

I love INKADINKADOO stamps! This card was made using the Flourishes set – a clear stamp set. Its by the very talented Brenda Walton. I stamped the swirl twice – once in its entirety and partially second time at the bottom of the card. The small flowers have diamond Stickles added to their centers and the bird is covered in black diamond Stickles. I cant seem to master getting them into photos.  I rarely use black as a card base but I think it paid off this time.

Of course I had to add a ribbon. It matches the mauve card stock used as a mat for the cream card stock with the stamping.

I’m anxious to see what other creations I come up with with this set. 

Paper: Black cream and mauve card stock
Embellishments:  Stickels and ribbon
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo’s Flourishes

So this is my first attempt at a nugget box. It’s a 3 piece box. The original intent for this box  was for it to be a favor for a shower that a co-worker and I put on for a fellow Co-worker. We ran out of time and ended up with no favor. No biggie…. it was a pretty informal shower. We were showering the babies father. The baby is a girl she due tomorrow and her nursery is pink and brown which was the inspiration for the colors of the box.

The box cover is a beautiful sparkly pink and the insert is a sable brown. I used primas to decorate the box and used iridescent seed beads for the flower centers. Unfortunately the glue used to secure the beads discolored the primas a bit. I kept going back and forth on the brown ribbon / bow but I think keeping it was the right choice

These are pretty easy and I wish I had been paper crafting when I got married, these are adorable favors for weddings or showers!

Paper: Sable and Rosebud by The Paper Company
Embellishments:  Primas and ribbon
Stamps: Merci from Paper Trey Ink’s Birds of a Feather