Thanksgiving Fall Blog Hop ~ Banner

Welcome to the Thanksgiving Blog Hop sponsored by Memories in Tyme!!  If you found me first, please go to the BEGINNING so you don't miss anything!!  You should have arrived from HERE.

I made a Thanksgiving banner for my project today.  It turned out so cute that one of my friends wants to buy it from me.  I typically give my work away and took this as a big compliment!!

For my banner flags, I used these leaves from Art Philosophy at 5.18 inches.

I used this fall paper that I found in my stash and cut out 10 leaves.

I used A Child's Year for my turkeys.  I cut them at 2.41 inches.  I flipped one so they would be looking at each other.  The font is Hannah Montana cut at 1.47 inches.

I cut several doily shapes from Art Philosophy and Martha Stewart Elegant Cake Art.  I found this wheat paper in a Fall paper pad from last year.  I inked the edges of the leaves and doilies with Vintage Photo ink.

I used my Cuttle Bug to emboss the letters with Swiss Dots.  It is hard to see, but the paper is metallic.

I used twine to connect my leaves.  I found it easier to tape the twine to the back of the leaf stem, but wanted a knot.  I used a separate piece of twine to tie the knot.

And here is my completed banner!

I have a super cool Blog Candy today!

I was recently asked to review the scrapbooking software from MyMemories and was given a copy to give away!!  I prefer the traditional scrapbooking method (love getting my hands messy) but I do like making digital books and calendars.  I spent several days playing around with this software and I have to say it was easy to learn.  There are also a lot of FREE digital designs you can download (I was surprised)!!  I am thinking I will be creating a ton more projects in the very near future!!!

I created 8 pages and an album in a few short hours!!!  I loved the embellishments, especially the stitching!!  I plan on printing out the pages and hanging them in 12x12 frames in my home daycare because the photos are of my daycare kids.  I also created a mini album and was so happy to see the software had spell check!  I have at least one typo in every other digital album I have created!!  I am also working on an album of our recent Disney Cruise vacation!!

So I have 2 awesome things for you today.  The first is a chance to win the software FREE (a $40 value).  You just need #1 to be or become a follower here, #2 go to http://www.mymemories.com/ and find two FREE Downloads that you would use.  For an additional chance to win, just do any or all of the following and leave me a separate comment telling me you did:

Blog- http://blog.mymemories.com/
Facebook- http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593
Twitter- http://twitter.com/#!/mymemoriessuite

I will announce my winner on November 18th!!
The second awesome thing for you is $10 off My Memories Suite (you get it for $29.95 instead of $39.95) AND you also get a $10 gift certificate to use in their online store! Software by using this code here:  STMMMS39803 at MyMemories!!
 
Here are a couple of my layouts! 

Thanks for stopping by!!

Your next stop in the hop is TAMI B!

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