Welcome to the Stampin Friends September Blog Hop!

We will be hopping on the third Thursday every month, with a different theme to inspire you each time :)

The theme for September is 'Back to School' or 'Fall'

If you just arrived from Leanne's Blog, thank you for continuing with the hop!

You can continue on the blog hop from here in a loop by clicking on the Next button below.
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This month we are excited to have awesome Guest Hoppers that you should definitely check out!
1. Yolanda Nixon
3. Barbara Welch
3. Mandy Reedyk

Our house is kind've quiet when back to school time comes around. Eilidh is in Savannah and lives there year round now, and Ewan has been in summer football and band practice almost all the vacation - so back to school is really just mom taxi at a different time ;)

And there's no 'Fall' here in Houston to inspire me - so I was a bit stuck a few weeks ago when I started to think about my projects.

For those not in the US, we have Marching Band during the Fall, although they start rehearsing in the summer holidays. As well as travelling to several competitions, the Band travels to all the School Football games and plays in the bleachers during the game and then do a Half-time show on the field. Our son Ewan plays trumpet in the band. Now - Cinco Ranch High School has a BIG band - we send off 8 school buses full of kids and a HUGE truck trailer each time they go anywhere!

A couple of weeks ago I had my first Chaperone session. AND MY FIRST EVER ride on an iconic yellow school bus!!!

I used that trip as inspiration to make a Thank You card for our bus drivers. And, with all the back packs getting thrown around as we got on and off buses I decided to make a little treat bag in the shape of a backpack.

Do you recognize all the shapes I used to assemble the bus? There's a list at the bottom of this post...but one I want to show you close up - I used the new Cable Knit Dynamic Embossing Folder for the tyres :)

For the back pack I used a Petite Cafe bag.

I am always grateful for your comments - but remember to comment below before 18th September to be entered into the Stampin Friends Give Away!

This month we are continuing with our Blog Hop Give-away:
• One lucky person will win an awesome crafty present from every blogger!
• You can enter by commenting once on every blog hop post - use the #SFSeptHop in your comments
• That means you have 15 chances to win 15 crafty prizes!
• Deadline MN Sept. 18th 2016
• To comment on my blog - scroll down.

1. Kathie Rotti - https://kathielovesstamping.wordpress.com/2016/09/15/stampin-friends-fallback-to-school-blog-hop/
2. Melanie Coverston - https://melaniestampsforfun.blogspot.com/2016/09/stampin-friends-fall-blog-hop/
3. Melissa Thomas- http://seatoseastampin.weebly.com/blog/stampin-friends-fall-blog-hop
4. Elizabeth Jeanne - http://craftsbyhappystamper.com/2016/09/15/fall-leaves-stampin-friends-blog-hop
5. Mandy Reedyk - http://mandyreedyk.blogspot.com/2016/09/stampin-friends-september-2016-blog-hop.html
6. Barbara Welch - http://creativestampinspot.blogspot.com/2016/09/stampin-friends-fall-blog-hop.html
7. Steph Jandrow - http://stampinandscrappinwithsteph.weebly.com/home/stampin-friends-back-to-school-blog-hop
8. Kristal Bell - http://thescraptree.com/2016/09/fallback-to-school-stampin-friends-blog-hop/
9. Yolanda Nixon - http://stampingwithyolanda.blogspot.com/p/blog-hops.html
10. Carolina Evans - http://studioevans.blogspot.com/2016/09/stampin-friends-september-blog-hop-back.html
11. Christine Pennington: http://www.christinepennington.com/my-blog/stampin-friends-september-blog-hop-fall
12. Leanne Johnson - http://www.literallymyjoy.com/literallymyjoy/2016/9/15/stamping-friends-fall-blog-hop
13. Kirsteen Gill - You are HERE
14. Cindy Waldroff- http://stampingindixie.blogspot.com/2016/09/back-to-school.html
15. Andrea Tracy-Tucker - http://onestampinmothertucker.blogspot.com/2016/09/stampin-friends-fall-blog-hop.html

Here is what I used for the bus card:

Here is what I used for the backpack:

Today I am sharing another Halloween card from September Card Buffet....with spiders ;)

Even though these are stamped.....all these creepy crawlies still give me - what my Mum would say - the Heebie Jeebies!

​I can almost feel them crawling on me - yuuuuuccckkkk! (shivers down spine)

To make this card - here are the products you need - you can click on these and be taken straiht to my online store!!! 

This was a very quick, easy card on my card buffet this week.
I used the Halloween Night Specialty Designer Paper for the houses.
If you cut at 4" wide and then trim across the bottom of each line of houses you can make a LOT of cards ?
The Paisley Framelits and 'Spooky Fun' stamp set are used for the ghosties!
Quick, easy and reproducible!

Here is a list of what you need to make this card....remember, you can click on 'Supply List' to print the list out :)

When scouring Pinterest for some mojo, a card popped up by Kay Miller that just blew me away.
It was so elegant and with simple, clean lines-exactly what I love.
But, it did not use Stampin' Up! Product...and you know me - a stickler for using our awesome products on projects.
So, I made it my mission one day last month to CASE it but use SU product...here is the result.

I absolutely LOVE how this card turned out - and although a little framelit heavy, my Card Buffet attendees loved it too :)
Here is what I used to make it:

It's been a few weeks.....
And a colourful wheel on our desktop computer, and an iPhone app that keeps crashing...but FINALLY, and HOPEFULLY, I am posting again. :)
Lots of things have been going on over the last few weeks whilst I haven't been able to access my blog...
Plans for our daughter to travel to Hong Kong for the fall semester and our son's football and band commitments have taken up a lot of our time, but also (and you are not reading 'more importantly - well maybe on a couple of these last few days as Mom-taxi)...
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.........THE HOLIDAY CATALOG IS LIVE!!!!

​Click on the picture to download the catalog

Today I am sharing a project and card I made for The Stampin' Friends Blog Hop last month - that never made it to 'live publish' :( The theme for last month was 'Hope' and at first I had no idea what to create until I made a card for card buffet and was inspired by that.

So - now that I can post - the photo jinx has decided to visit. :( This card and project look so elegant in real life - but in the photos they look kind've blah. I may try again when we get a bit of sunshine.

I used the Jar of Love and Letters For You stamp sets and the Flourish, Large Letters and Everyday Jars Thinlits on both the card and the framed project. I really enjoyed making these - and was a little frustrated I couldn't share on the hop - but I love them both and now need to find a spot on my Stamp Room wall for the frame.

On to tomrrow - and with some Faith, Hope and a little computer Love (and some luck), I will post the Card Buffet card that inspired these projects....

Have a great day!
​K

What I used to make these projects....

The little animals in the Barnyard Babies are soooo cute!
But they're not only for Baby Cards!
This was one of the cards from my 'Christmas in July' class this week.
We stamped the sheep and then put glue over the body, then laid a cotton ball on that-let it dry then gently peel the cotton ball off and just enough will be stuck to make the sheep 'fleece-y'...perfect for the Christmas sentiment 'Fleece Navidad' :)