Trees, Leaves and Autumn

This is one of those times of the year when I really miss my hometown, Duluth, Minnesota.  Right about now, I can picture all of leaves changing color up the North Shore Drive along Lake Superior on the drive into Canada.  It's absolutely beautiful this time of year, and I miss it SO very much.  I took my kids to Minnesota one October to visit when they were a bit younger, and they LOVED it.  We took hay rides, corn mazes, jumped in piles of raked leaves, and took lots of photos.  My son still talks about what a great time he had.  He really wants to go visit Grandma; especially in Autumn and Winter.

I have been falling more and more in love with these delicious patterned papers and goodies from Simple Stories.  The Fabulous line as well as the Harvest line from Simple Stories have been calling my name for several weeks now.  I was super inspired by Melissa Phillips, Candace Pierce, and Melissa Bove who have all used these sweet papers recently on their lovely blogs.   So, seeing their inspiration caused me to make the purchase and create something for myself, but they definitely inspired me to do so.

 

 

 

Here are the challenges I'm entering:

http://www.creativecardcrew.blogspot.com/2012/09/challenge-19-tree.html - Creative Card Crew Challenge Blog - Challenge #19 - Tree Challenge

http://pileitonchallenge.blogspot.com/2012/09/pile-it-on-37-patterned-paper.html - Pile It On Challenge Blog - Challenge #37 - Patterned Papers

If you've been inspired by someone on a project that you've created this week, I'd love to hear about it.  This is one of the great things about visiting other people's blogs.  We get so many great ideas that get our creative juices flowing.  Let me know what has inspired you recently.

And have a BLESSED day,
Karen