Thanksgiving

Had a lovely Thanksgiving, spent with family. We had dinner together with all the fixings: turkey, stuffing, mash potatoes, and pumpkin pie for dessert. After Thanksgiving, I got to work on the latest CSI Challenge: 218.

For this one, I incorporated all the colors, and circles, dots, and metal (staples). I used a little ink and stenciling to create the background on the yellow paper. (Additionally, there is a bow up top.) And journaled about the outdoors, in this case it is about a photo I took in the city of Chicago, when my cousin came up to Chicago to visit over Labor Day. We got to explore some different areas in downtown Chicago. In this picture, there is a wonderful view of The Willis Tower (formerly, the Sears Tower) and the surrounding Chicago skyline.

Fall Color

In fall, I just love taking walks. In my area, there are so many trees that change pretty colors. I created this CSI layout to highlight some of the beauty I have seen in various spots, including Busse Woods.

This is for the CSI 217 challenge: I used all colors for the scheme. For the evidence I used wood grain, heat embossing, leaves and an animal.
For testimony, I documented something about autumn. Journaling reads: Leaves changing color, pretty fall flowers, and squirrels hunting and gathering. Busse Woods to the front lawn: just a few of the sights I have seen, hiking this fall.

To create the layout, I covered some cardstock with gesso, then used prima watercolor oil pastels to color the background. Then added some modeling paste with a wood grain stencil and finally added a little highlighting with gold pearls.

The 2 gold leaves at the bottom were heat embossed with gold embossing powder, and the wood veneer "Live" was heat embossed with green embossing powder. The owl is an American crafts sticker. And created the cluster (at left with a variety of stickers, color me crazy leaves and petaloo butterfly. The little journaling spots were from a prima 6x6 paper pack (epiphany).

Hope you all are enjoying this fall as much as I am.

My layout was chosen as star witness for CSI 217. Be sure to check out the CSI website: 

http://csichallenge.blogspot.com/