Thankful Thoughts

 

It's been a crazy busy weekend for my family this weekend.  We made an overnight trip to Mississippi so that our next to youngest son and I could compete in a Spartan Sprint together.  It was my second such event and for his birthday I bought our son a race entry so he could do it with me.  It was a 4.3 mile course with A LOT of water, mud and 18 various obstacles.  All in all we had a great time. 

 

Then today my husband wanted to play golf so he and I did that this afternoon.  And in between all that craziness I had to get just a little bit of cardmaking done.  There are a couple of challenges ending soon and I wanted to play along.

 

For my card I used this adorable Fall Scarecrows from Too Cute by Jessica.  I then added in the following cuts from Cricut cartridges:

 

     Football from Life's a Party

     Leaves from Simply Scarecrows & Pooh and Friends

 

After cutting out and putting all the pieces together I added a bit of twine for the scarecrow's hat band and threw a couple of skittles I found at Michael's in with the leaves that are up in the air. 

 

My stamped sentiment is from the Craftin Desert Divas stamp set titled Hey Pumpkin.

 

I'm entering this card in to the following challenges:

 

Recipe Challenge - Die Cutting Divas - Ends November 10th (use 1  Ribbon/Twine, 2 Pattern Papers, 3 Pearls/Gems)

 

Anything Goes - Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Ends November 9th

 

Football Challenge - Bitten by the Bug 2 - Ends November 9th

Anything Goes - DL Art - Ends November 30th

 

Until next time here are a couple of pictures from the race my son and I ran this weekend......

 

Not sure how far we trudged through this body of water
but it got chest high about half way through.

This is the wall we had to climb coming out of the water

That's my son in front of me

Our final 'obstacle' the fire pit.

Having some after race fun.

 

Scarecrow Tins

I found these wonderful tin buckets in the dollar bin at Target and decided to bring a few home to alter using my new Simply Scarecrow cartridge.  It was a lot of fun deciding which images to use.  I really love the lady scarecrow with a close second going to the one who's having his hat taken away by the crows.

I cut all of my scarecrows at 3" and then cut the additional crows at 1".  As you can see I also tied some glittery Halloween ribbons to the handles to add bling.  What you don't see is that I added some circles to the bottom of the tins - this was to hide the bits of the price tags that were stubborn.

So there you have it.....another fun and easy altered project.  Perfect for the upcoming Fall season.