Friendship is a Blessing

Welcome to the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past customer blog hop for November. The theme for this month's hop is Autumn/Thankful, and I'm thankful for all my wonderful friends, so I decided to make a friendship card with a fall colour scheme.

I used the fun sketch that Sankari put together for this months hop because it just seemed to fit perfectly with the vision I had for this card. The images are from Branching Out and Branching Out Coordinates...my very first Taylored Expressions stamp sets and still some of my faves.

I stamped the branch with Memento Rich Cocoa onto Choice Buttercream then stamped the leaves with fall colours of Colorbox Chalk Ink, but I added the sentiment in black to make it pop. The tire swing was stamped on a separate piece of Buttercream, coloured with two grey copic markers then cut out. I stitched the main panel to some suede brown dark and when I placed the tire swing into position I decided to cut away the middle to reveal the herbal garden medium cardstock underneath. I used my scalloped eyelet border die along the bottom edge of the green layer then added some orange Tiny Twinkles between each scallop. The orange patterned paper is from my Crate Paper Restoration Collection pad and that perfect little bow was done with my bow easy.

I know there's plenty more for you to see on the hop so I won't hold you up any longer. Have fun!

Here are the entries from the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop!

1.	Michelle Single	19.	Carole Chesser
2.	Taylor VanBruggen	20.	Lisa Hjulberg
3.	Monika Davis	21.	Joan Ervin
4.	Rebecca Ednie	22.	Chris Loritsch
5.	Regina Mangum	23.	Jen Arkfeld
6.	Tracy Clemente	24.	Peggy McCurry
7.	Cassie Trask	25.	Jen Tapler
8.	Pattie Goldman	26.	Melody Rupple
9.	Sankari Wegman	27.	Charmaine Ikach
10.	Libby Hickson	28.	Stephanie Kraft
11.	Kelly Collins	29.	Jami Sibley
12.	Cyd Paiva	30.	Tangii Crain
13.	Bonnie Ratzloff	31.	Arielle Gordon
14.	Karen Motz	32.	Jessica Willison
15.	Stacey Schafer	33.	Ashley N Newell
16.	Dana White	34.	Bronwyn Velazquez
17.	Terri Trotter Earley	35.	Donna Baker
18.	Jodi Collins

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Thanks for stopping by!
Karen