Count Your Blessings

Today I am sharing a Thanksgiving card.  I guess I should make a few of those since Thanksgiving comes before Christmas.  I will only send a few Thanksgiving cards.

This card is made for a couple challenges.

The first challenge is Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge which is gilding/gold.  I used gold glitter paint inside the leaves and around the outside of the frame for the trees.  I did try to gold emboss it but on watercolor paper it just seems to melt into the paper.  Maybe it is just me.  I believe this card in Clean and Simple.

The second challenge is from Monday's Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  The challenge is Go Glossy.  Gold/Glitter/Glossy Accents - I believe the card qualifies.  There is Glossy Accents on all the leaves so the glitter shines through the Glossy Accents.

The third challenge is from Wednesday's Simon Says Stamp Challenge blog.  The challenge this week is Thanks/Thanksgiving.

The card is a little smaller than an A2 card.  It is completely flat so can be mailed with no extra postage.  This never happens to me.  The sentiment is a sticker from SRM Stickers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Oldie Moldie Monday

I have a great 6 x 6 pad from Authentique with beautiful fall colors in it.  I have had this paper for awhile.  I did not look for the year on it.  I cut the leaves with my Silhouette and also the thankful phrase.

I used some old background stamps to add texture to my leaves.  I believe one is from Penny Black and the other from Hero Arts.  I always have a supply of doilies in my doily drawer.  I used some tea to stain them a brownish tint.  The embellishments have been hanging out in my box for quite awhile also.  A little inking around the edges of the leaves and the sentiment plus I used the Tim Holtz distresser on the edges of the layers.

Thankful - so many things to be thankful for - family is one of the biggest ones, health and our friends.

Enjoy your Monday.  Spending the day with a friend.  We are going to shop till we drop today.

Give Thanks

It is time to start thinking about making some Thanksgiving cards.  I have had a piece of fabric floating around my crafting area for years because I liked the images.  I decided to use some of it for a fall card.

I used the sketch from the SRM monthly challenge for the layout of my card.

Unfortunately I did not have an SRM Doily.  I do have some doilies in my supplies so I dug one out.  Of course it was white, so I took a wet tea bag and rubbed across the top of the doily to give it a creamier color and dried it with my heat gun.  When I use fabric on a card, I use a light iron on adhesive on the back of the fabric and then attach it to card stock.  I then cut out my image.  By doing it this way, it gives your fabric some stability.  After it is cut out, I take a marker and go along the edge and color it.  This fabric was then matted with some brown card stock.  I embossed the gold with a embossing folder.  The SRM Sticker was added to a piece of matching card stock and matted in the same brown card stock.  I did add a strip of orangish paper to the top of the sketch to pick up the orange in the one leaf.  The dry embossing was highlighted with brown chalk.  When you use chalk instead of ink to distress or highlight, it seems, to me, that I have more control and get the look I want to achieve.

I am also going to share my card on the Addicted to Stamps Challenge blog.  Their weekly challenge is Holiday.

Enjoy your Thursday.

Thankful

The weekly challenge on Paper Players was CAS with Leaves.

I cut my tree design with my Silhouette Cameo.  I took the trunk of the tree and colored with a couple different mediums to get the brown.  I then took a piece of paper and marked the area where the leaves were located and then I took my paint daubers and just dabbed different colored paints all over.  I added some dashes or regular acrylic paint also.  I think I achieved the look of a fall tree in bloom.

This went in the mail to my daughter in Alaska.  I am sure she will appreciate the beautify of the fall tree.

Happy Thanksgiving

I know - be jealous - I have 2 thanksgiving cards done.  Of course the secret is to not misplace them before I need to mail them.  I need to finish the insides also since the paper is still out.  I let the patterned paper do all the talking on this card.  I did add Stickles and Glossy Accents to some of the leaves to give them a little depth.  I created the sentiment on my computer.  The paper is the fall grouping from Little Yellow Bicycle.

The cards is based on the weekly sketch from Retro Sketches.

Don't be jealous of this - I am not working tomorrow.  The piano is being moved to my daughters tomorrow-  It will be nice for her to have it and play it.  I will enjoy not having it in my living room.