CPT ~ A Fond Farewell

Hello friends ~ I come to you today with bittersweet feelings and a sad post. Andrea Budjack has decided to end The Creative Paper Trade challenge blog. Family and other design duties are calling her name and so the blog has come to an end. I want to thank each and every one of you who showed your support on this adventure. Though it was a brief journey I enjoyed every creative moment of it. With a heavy heart I bid it a fond farewell.

I would like to share a project with you that I had prepared for our next round of challenges. Our Color My Week colors were to have been dusty rose, golden yellow, navy and red. 

I used my PTI Mat Stack 5 die to create a tag. I dressed it up with a pretty dusty rose Prima flower topped with an October Afternoon tin pin. I backed this with a PTI Limitless Layers die and a few punched branches...come on how cute are gingham branches!! This sentiment is from the PTI Love Lives Here set. Buttons, felt and twine for accents.

And now for the handmade with love gift ~ snickerdoodles in a jar! I topped this with an inexpensive crocheted doily, a paper doily, a circle of Lily Bee Design paper and a handmade felt bloom I made following one of Andrea's fabulous tutorials. Two MFT die cut leaves, again in the fun navy gingham (also by Lily Bee Design).

Put it all together and you have a yummy little treat! This went to some very special loved ones who were unable to join us for Thanksgiving dinner this year.  But we wanted them to know they were in our hearts.
 

I have one more project I had prepared for The CPT blog , but it can wait for another day. Thanks again friends and to my fellow American bloggers have a blessed Thanksgiving ~Lisa