Fall Birthday a Comin...Some Orange, Green & Blue

I have a Family Members Birthday coming up and I thought this could be used to set on an easel or hung on a hook to add to the fall decor.  Uusally my tags are finished on both sides, one side to display and the reverse with the words for the occasion. My tag today was made by using a Mat Board distressed with TH distressing tool and distress inks, some old patterned beige fabric and patterned paper from My Minds Eye a top of that,  top with a Felt Homemade Flower,with an old button in the center, some scraps of trim with all the beads to the right, a  Sizzix Leaf Die cut from TH Grungepaper, Distressed with inks of Peeled Paint, Wild Honey, Vintage Photo, a Spellbinders Long Classic Scalloped Rectangle, stamped with Sentiment (a garage sale find) Card Stock Pleated with Scor Pal , the little blue checkered bow is from a collection of Making Memories, a charm added to a green fiber, TH Journaling Ticket, several colored fibers at the top of tag.
The back was finished with Senitment from Stampabilities, and Patterned My Minds Eye Papers.

I will enter this into the following Challenges:
Fresh Brewed Blog Challenge #15 :   D-Distressing A-Autumn R-Ribbon E-Embellishments
Joans Gardens Challenge #15 : Color - Orange, Green and Blue
Embellishment - Printed Ribbon and something hanging
3 different prints - can include ribbon print
Distress with ink
Creative Inspiration Challenge #78 :  Tag It
Alphabet Challenge  "U" Unused Stash  (old fabric, trim, button)
Creative Belli Challenge # 100 : OLD AND FORGOTTEN Brads, Buttons, Bows, Blues, Brass....if it starts with a B,  (button, little blue patterend bow, blue mat board, little brass charm)
Artful Inkables Think INK #29 : Color Combo  Blue and Orange
Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #101 :  Anything Goes
ABC Challenge "D" for Distressing
Our Vintage Affair   Challenge #6   Vintage Tag 

All of these have some really great inspirations to offer so hop on over and get your creative juices moving a bit...
The Iowa weather has really cooled off..in the 50's...so it's sweatshirt weather and time to get out the varieties of hot chocolate or apple cider brewing.  Lets hope the week ahead blesses us with more than what we went thru last week.  Just for sanity sake....
2 Days away from my husband combining his bean fields,  a wind and heavy hail storm came and destroyed one field and left much of nothing in the others.  We are finding out more and more neighbors fields around us were also hit hard.  Many  also lost trees and had building damage.

Farming is a Gamble, day to day, survival depends on mother nature.  There are Farm Programs to help but with any Government Program a lot of waiting, paperwork and down to the end there will be some little gletch that won't quailify this ONE certain stiuplation...so you pull up your boot straps and go on..because you love the land and what you do.
  When the Grain Prices go up, so does the next years rent,  seed sales, equipment, and the BIG gas and chemical gouge.  When the Grain Prices go down, NONE of these revert back to lowering prices. We keep our faith, and are thankful for what we have, "someone else always has it worse". 

Now that that is off my chest, I'm off to bigger and better things....lunch and a little crafting, trying out a few stichery projects and maybe going for a drive in the country, with a stop for some homemade pizza later.  Enjoy your week ahead and thanks for stopping by.