Count Your Blessings Card with Reminisce

Everyday should be a day of counting your blessings and I have many blessings to count. 

I would love to share with you a card I made using the following sketch from Scrapbooking News and Review along with the beautiful fall papers from Reminisce. I love to distress most of my projects with the Tim Holtz distress tool and add ink to the sides. Take time and check out the other projects that will be on the SNR Blog today and try out the following sketch for yourself AND.....

Always remember to "Count Your Blessings".

"Stuck" Layout with Remininsce

Today on Scrapbook News and Review you will find this fabulous sketch that is being shared. If you never tried a sketch this one is a very easy one to get started with and I am sure you will love your layout when it is completed.

This is my take on the layout. I used Reminisce Autumn Harvest for my project.  I punched an edge on the left using an EK Inch Punch, then laced brown sheer ribbon through it and added a Vintag metal with one of the leaves to the top of the triangle shape. I used burlap to give the image of the semi-circle that is shown on the sketch. Added some of the words to the matted photo along with Want2Scrap gemstones to finish the layout. Again I hope you try out the sketch and check on Scrapbook News and Review.

But you know when you make one layout you have to make a layout to go along with it. This is my companion layout showing a few more pictures of my husband and brother-in-law trying to figure out how to get it out of the mud and leaves. Don't you love how I tipped the bottom right corner up and stapled it, I think it is a cool little focal point. My letters are from Creative Imaginations that I stained with Marmalade stain. I added a small piece of burlap and a button to the top of the page, I always like using some of same or similar items on both pages.

Supplies:
Reminisce Autumn Harvest
EK Inch Punch
Want2Scrap Gemstones
Tim Holtz Marmalade Stain
Creative Imaginations Narrative Letters
Tiny Attacher
Chestnut Roan Ink
Burlap
Brown Sheer Ribbon
Vintag Metal

Vintage Heartfelt Designs Fourth of July Challenge

Happy Fourth of July well it will be here before we know it, we are doing a challenge at Vintage Heartfelt Designs and would love for you to show off the cards that you made and participate in the challenge. Make sure to go to Vintage Heartfelt Designs and see how to participate. I am using the new Bo Bunny Liberty Freedom and Dots papers to make my card with.

I took a piece of 8 1/2" x 11" Kraft card stock and made my 5 1/2" card base and with the left overs I made a 2" x 5 1/2" strip to place on the front of my card but first I used my Tim Holtz Broken China, Barn Door Distress Inks and blending tool to give the Kraft card stock some color that would go along with the vintage feel of the card that I was making. I also added some random star stickers from Reminisce The Freedom Collection to place on the inked Kraft card stock.

I took a piece of the Freedom paper, my Martha Stewart scoreboard and scored the paper every 1/8" to make my accordian fold that
I placed pop dots behind my Karen Foster Patriotic Parade sticker that I had place on a piece of the Kraft card stock. I also ink the edges of all of my pieces with Chestnut Roan Ink.

I hope everyone has a bless Fourth of July and enjoy family, bbq, firework but take time to remember your freedom and those that serve our country so that we always can be assured of it. Thank you to our service men and women and their families and sacrifices that they make so willingly.