A Celebration and a Challenge

Good Morning! I am so very excited today for two reasons, well three actually! First today is my Birthday (64 years young LOL). Second September 12th is the one year anniversary of my blog. I can hardly believe that it has been  a year already, Time sure flies when you are having fun!! Third but not least I'm going to hold my first ever challenge. Anyone else getting excited?
For the challenge you can make a card layout or other crafty item with either a Birthday or an Anniversary theme. Easy enough right? However there is a little catch (wouldn't be as much fun if there wasn't), Since we are fast approaching Fall my favorite time of year. I would like you to use fall colors for your projects. The challenge starts today and runs through September 12th.. At the end there will be a drawing for a stamp set from the wonderful and talented Miss Emma of the  My Creative Time Blog. If you haven't seen her blog you are truly missing out.  Miss Emma has generously donate one of her stamp set for this give away. Which one you ask. that is going to remain a surprise for the moment.  Don;t you just love surprises!!
To get you started I made this card which could be used for either a Birthday or an Anniversary.

The patterned paper is from Creative Memories The rest of the card stock is from my stash, mostly Recollections card stock. I used the 'Art Philosophy' cartridge for the sentiment mat Inked everything with chocolate colored ink added some fall embellishments I had from Recollections and some raffia for the bow, The sentiment is from Miss Emma's newest release called

 "Mixed Holiday Sentiments".

 Please hop over to her site and take a look around,

 I'm new at this so I hope you will bear with me. I am adding a Mister linky widget at the end of this post for you to submit your projects.  .Once the Challenge is completed I will use Random.org to select the winner.
I'm looking forward to seeing your creation. and thanks for playing along!!
Big Blog Hugs *Janet*