Thanksgiving Card

 I made this Thanksgiving card with 3 different colored pattern papers from a PTI paper pad I've had for quite some time. I cut 3 panels and placed them on a piece of green cardstock and criss-crossed the dark green polka dot ribbon on top. The sentiment is a very old (retired) SU! image that was cut with a matching SU! punch and the leaves were cut from snippets of brown and green cardstock using Lawn Fawn stitched leaf dies. The random colored gems were from my stash and I placed this all on a cream colored card base. Thanksgiving will be here in less than a week - this month has just flown by for me.

Sharing this with these challenges:

The Allsorts Challenge week 808 - use ribbon or twine or A/G

the Four Seasons Challenge (Fall Season November 2024) -  Fall Theme

Love Those Pretty Papers November Challenge - A/G using designer papers

*optional - use brown and yellow as the main colors

Thanks for the visit and as always I wish you the best day possible.

Carol

Give Thanks

 It's time to get those Thanksgiving cards ready as that day is just around the corner. I put this card together with some stamped and die-cut images, stitched clouds and designer paper all from Lawn Fawn. The large pumpkin was made with an older SU! oval punch, while the tiny pumpkins and apple were stamped and fussy cut using a Gerda Steiner stamp set. The sky was done with a stencil I made with assorted punches and some Tumbled Glass distress ink, and I added a few birds to the sky with a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set. The Lawn Fawn sentiment was stamped on a white snippet with the ends fish-tailed with a hexagon punch and all images were colored with Copics.

Sharing this with...

The Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving

the November 2024 Stencil Fun Challenge - A/G using a stencil

with an option to make it sparkle

the Allsorts Challenge week 807 - A/G 

with an option of Food and Drink

Thanks for stopping by and my wish is for all of you to enjoy a great weekend!

Carol

Thanksgiving Treats

Here are a few treat boxes I made for Thanksgiving. Each box holds a Lindor Truffle candy. I used a Lawn Fawn tiny box die to make each box, and created the hats from the Lawn Fawn Tiny Box Turkey add-on die set to embellish the boxes.

Here I stacked them so you can see the tiny Happy Thanksgiving greeting I put on the side of each box.

Here are a few of the Tiny boxes with the turkey add on dies. For these boxes, I put the wings down.

 and for these Tiny Turkey boxes, the wings are up. Some are wearing hats while some just have the little "comb" or feathers on top.

It's fun using so many snippets in assorted colors to make these treat boxes and I always make lots of these for different holidays.

Thanks for stopping by and for those who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope your holiday tomorrow is a fun one filled with lots of good treats!

Carol

Thanksgiving

 I used a Brutus Monroe stamp and colored the pumpkins with Copics for this Thanksgiving card. I added some Lawn Fawn designer paper for the punched borders and leafy green panel, placing it all on an orange peel card base. The sentiment was done with a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp and placed on a MFT fishtail flag frames die cut.

I'm sharing this with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of Thanks/Thanksgiving

Wishing you a great weekend, and thanks so much for stopping by.

Carol

Thanksgiving Card for a Friend

 I put this card together using a Lawn Fawn die and Gerda Stein stamps. I colored everything with Copics and added a leaf I found in my box of snippets. 

The inside has a happy Thanksgiving sentiment. I just love those cute little mice and all the colorful harvest vegetables.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

The Allsorts Challenge Week 754 - Friendship or optional A/G

Just Us Girls Challenge #705 - Thanks or Thanksgiving

Veteran's day honors going out to those who served. We wouldn't be a free country today without your sacrifices. I'm thankful for all of you.

Also a happy heavenly birthday to my mom who would have turned 100 today!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great day.

Carol

Give Thanks

I recently had to treat myself to this cute set of stamps and dies from Lawn Fawn so I made a card using some of their fun flannel plaid designer paper to make this card.

I stamped and die-cut the images, coloring them with Copics and adding some wink of stella to the cheese just for fun. I added the plaid strips to a piece of kraft cardstock and added everything to an ivory card base. I thought those mice were just too cute to pass up so I added the set to my stash.

I'm adding this card to the following challenges:

The Paper Players PP665 - Let's Give Thanks

the Allsorts Challenge Week #753 - The Great Outdoors or A/G

Sketch Saturday Sketch # 738

the Four Seasons Fall November 2023 challenge - A/G fall

the Paper Funday November Challenge #59 - A/G with optional twist

Grateful/Thankful/Thank you

Thanks as always for stopping by and make it a great week!

Carol 

Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving to all my US friends and those who celebrate the holiday.

I'm still using a PTI paper pad to make cards, and for this I added a couple Lawn Fawn stitched leaves to the mix along with a panel of olive cardstock. I finished up a mini spool of brown twill ribbon for this along with 3 chocolate pearls. The Thanksgiving sentiment was done with a SU! Tags 4 You stamp and punch combination. 

Wishing everyone a safe and happy holiday weekend and may you all have many blessings to be thankful for!

Thanks for stopping by 😊

Carol

Thanksgiving Gnome

I found a woven paper panel I made last year with the remnants of a 12x12 autumn-themed paper pad. Today I added it to a card and finally finished it. After weaving the strips of paper together, I die-cut it with a Lil Inker stitched rectangle. I created the SSS gnome with designer papers from Lillybee and Lawn Fawn and added 2 pieces of mesh side-by-side underneath her. I added a few Geo sparkler stickers for a little shine, but I had a difficult time getting a good photo to show the sparkle. The sentiment was done with a (r) SU! set called Tags 4 You and a matching punch, and popped up with foam dots. The inside is stamped with "there's always something to be thankful for."

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

The House that Stamps Built N1021 - use up your fall scraps

Four Seasons November Anything Goes Fall Challenge

The Paper Players PP566 Challenge - give thanks

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Thanks/Thanksgiving

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Wednesday!

Carol

Thankful for You

I recently won a beautiful PTI paper pad as a prize and I've made a few fall/Thanksgiving cards with it. For this one, I used 3 strips and added some Lawn Fawn die-cut stitched leaves for accents; using snippets of golden yellow and some sparkly brown cardstock. The stitched circle was done with a MFT die, and I stamped the Sweet 'n Sassy sentiment inside, adding some gemstones for sparkle.

Here's how I did the inside. I used a Sweet 'n Sassy Cocoa Mouse Thanksgiving stamp set that I've had for probably ten years, and colored it with Copics.

I'm sharing this card with the Retro Rubber Challenge #170 - which is "Fallin' for Autumn"

Also sharing with the Snippets Playground #415 - must use snippets

Autumn has definitely arrived here in PA as the leaves are starting to turn colors now and we're waking up to much cooler weather! I love this time of the year!

Thanks for stopping by and make it a fantastic day whatever you do!

Carol

Love & Blessings

 I recently treated myself to this Simon Says Stamp Autumn Splendor stencil and pulled out my long-neglected watercolor pencils to add color. I wasn't sure I liked how I added the autumn colors, so I added some sponged tumbled glass distress ink to the white card base to soften the look. Still unhappy with it, I tossed it aside for a while and finished it several days later with a Gerda Steiner image and sentiment, along with an unbranded die-cut that looks like woven burlap. The sentiment was stamped on a Venetian Label die (Gina Marie Designs) and I added the little red heart to the mouse's hands in keeping with the sentiment. The inside has a Thanksgiving sentiment.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

Repeat Impressions Anything Goes Challenge N2520

NBUS #20 - use your never before used "schtuff" - stencil

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge  - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by, and for those of you who will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, I wish you a wonderful day! For those who don't celebrate, I wish you all a wonderful day as well! We all have a lot to be thankful for in spite of so many bumps in the roads we travel.

Carol

Happy Thanksgiving

 I made this Thanksgiving card recently by using some BoBunny Autumn designer paper and split it into 3 panels, matting with a gold colored cardstock and placing it on a green card base. The image is by Rubbernecker, heat-embossed with gold and embellished with 3 tiny gold gemstones. The sentiment is by SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes, heat embossed with white on a dark brown panel that was cut with a MFT fishtail flag banner die.

I'm entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which is Thanks/Thanksgiving.

Sorry my posts are so few and far between these days. Life just keeps me busy going in so many directions lately and my days become blurs anymore.

I hope you are all well and thanks so much for stopping by.

Carol

Turkey Time!

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I knew I had to get busy with some cards to send out. I pulled out the Lawn Fawn Tiny Box die and Turkey/Peacock add-on dies to make this card. I die cut a pastel green pre-embossed panel with MFT stitched square dies to mat the white panel - which was embossed with a Darice ef and lightly colored with Derwent pencils. The turkey was assembled with snippets of cardstock and popped onto the main panel with foam dots. I added some clear Wink of Stella onto the snood just for fun. The die-cut stitched blue cloud was added to break up the dark green color of the card base. The fence was done with a Martha Stewart punch and the grass was die-cut with a Sweet 'n Sassy grass border die. The tiny leaves and acorn were negatives from an EK leaves border punch that I added just for fun. The stamped sentiment is from SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes (2009-10)

 Since I had all the dies out, I figured I'd make a couple treat boxes too. One with wings up and one with wings down - since I couldn't decide which version I liked best 😜

Sharing with the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground #390 - must use snippets

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #659 - a/g

2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge #44 - a/g using a critter

NBUS Challenge #20 - lawn fawn turkey add-on dies

Dies R Us Challenge #156 - give thanks

Retro Rubber Challenge #147 - a/g using stamps older than 1 year

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope your day is a happy one for you!

Carol

Thanksgiving Pumpkins

Today I have a card for Thanksgiving. I recently saw this card by Janice using the older SU! oval punches to make pumpkins and it inspired me to pull out my punches and do the same thing! (Thanks for letting me know it was your card Janice) The background was done with a Lawn Fawn stitched cloud die, while the piece of mesh was die-cut and embossed with gold ep. The leaves were die cut from scraps of green and the stems, ferns and swirls where all from my snippets box. The pumpkins were done with bits of designer paper and sponged around the edges. I added a curly cue on top of the largest pumpkin by shredding the edge off some green card stock, then winding it around a knitting needle to give it some curl. The sentiment was done on a piece of brown metallic card stock and was embossed with a SU! Teeny Tiny Wishes sentiment stamp and some gold ep.

I'll enter this into the Paper Players PP506 challenge using the tic-tac-toe grid. I used the top row straight across.

We are having an exceptionally beautiful first day of September today with cool breezes and comfortable temperatures. After the humid summer, I'm ready for this cooler comfy weather and love having the windows open and gentle breezes blowing through the house! YES!

Here's wishing you a beautiful day too where you live! Thanks for stopping by!

Carol

 

Early Thanksgiving Card

I've been going through my neglected paper pads recently and found a half-used Bo Bunny Autumn themed pad. It was filled with little snippets of paper left over from previous projects, so I used some dark brown card stock and a mustard-colored card base to put this together.  The image is by Gerda Stein and I stamped it with Antique linen ink, then outlined the edges with a fine dark brown marker, and colored the rest of it with Copics. I put a little pumpkin in his hands and made this a Thanksgiving card, tying some rust-colored twine around the image panel just for fun.

Sharing with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is "oh so cute"

Also sharing with the Snippets Playground challenge #385 - which is always to use your snippets

Thanks for stopping by as always and I hope you are all coping with the ways of our world these days. Me; not so much.

Carol

Happy Thanksgiving!

  Fortunately again this year I don't have to cook a big Thanksgiving dinner as we've been invited out to a friend's house, where 30 or more people will share the meal together. I always take a side dish to share, but I also make a little treat for everyone too. This year I started out making bag-a-lope treats but quickly decided to create something a bit easier to put together. The bottoms of the envelope containers are somewhat fiddly to assemble, so I experimented with some regular copy paper and designed a smaller but similar bag that sits up nicely without falling over. The 3 bags in the background were made from envelopes, while the ones in front were made with copy paper and vellum. This is a great way to use those smaller snippets of dsp and ribbon too. Each bag has a Lawn Fawn stitched leaf, along with a Tags 4 You Thanksgiving punched sentiment and a little piece of ribbon. Some of you will recognize those retired SU! dsp's I've been hoarding for way too long :)

Here's a sampling of 3 more with a bag-a-lope in the background. The bag on the right was stamped with a very old un-named SU! stamp set and colored with markers. Cute, but too time consuming to make many of those LOL

Here's another sampling of some that I've made. I just couldn't photograph all 30 together, so I've shared just a few. If anyone wants the directions for making them, I'll gladly share, so feel free to ask. These could be made with card stock, but I chose copy paper so they wouldn't be too heavy. Each one holds 4 different pieces of candy.

I'm going to share these with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which is "anything goes."

Also sharing with the N2719 Anything Goes challenge at Repeat Impressions

Thanks for stopping by and for those who celebrate, have a happy, healthy and blessed Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for each and every one of you!

Carol

Turkey Time!

I made this turkey with my ancient Quickutz die-cutting tool and some snippets of Debbie Mumm designer paper and autumn-themed colors of card stock. I die-cut a grassy border with a SNSS die and used some markers to make it look like autumn grass. (epic fail) The squares were cut with Gina Marie Designs stitched squares, and I added a stamped crow with a Mark's Finest Papers (now closed) stamp. I used some glaze pens to dot in some bird feed for the crow. The sentiment is from SNSS.

I'd like to enter this into the following challenges:

Dies R Us Challenge #133 - Give Thanks and/or Turkey

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #366 - Use Snippets

Thanks for stopping by and I hope all your Thanksgiving plans are well under way!

Carol

Thanksgiving Wreath

 Today I have a Thanksgiving card to share. The wreath is a stamp from Brutus Monroe, generously gifted to me by a thoughtful blogger, and I had fun coloring it with Copics and adding some gold stickles here and there for some sparkle. All it needed was a sentiment in the center and another generous blogger stamped and punched these sentiments for me with a SU! Tags for You (r) stamp set last year. I thought this turned out quite pretty with the orange card base so I'll make a few more of this design.

I'm sharing this with the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge which is "Thank you/Thanksgiving."

Crafty Gals Corner #201 - anything Fall goes

Addicted to Stamps and More #367 - Make your Mark (use markers, pens, etc)

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a fabulous weekend!

Carol

Thankful for You

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and I wanted to share a card I made for that occasion.

I need to use the snippets of dsp I've accumulated for so long, and today's card makes use of some very old SU! papers. I used a Gerda Steiner image, adding a little Thanksgiving pie and a SNSS sentiment. The tag is a die cut by Lawn Fawn, embossed with a SU! stencil, and some Brutus Monroe glitter paste (that glows in the dark!) I added some twine and some enamel dots from Gina Marie Designs and called this one done.

I'm sharing with the November 2 Crafty Critter Crazies challenge

(Regarding the issues I've been having adding photos here on blogger - I discovered that when I click the icon to add photos and the next window opens, if I continue to repeatedly click the UPLOAD button, the "choose files" option eventually does appear below and I'm able to upload photos. I also discovered through trial and error that if I open a second window of my blog while keeping the first one open, when I click the "add photo" icon, the "choose files" option appears every time as it always did, so those two things work for me. I hope that helps some of you having the same issues I'm having in getting photos posted)

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Monday!

Carol

Thanksgiving Bag-A-Lope

While reading Vicki's recent blog post, she made a Bag-A-Lope and posted a video showing how to make one. I was intrigued as I'd never seen one before, so of course I had to give it a try! I've had a pack of black envelopes for quite a while and seldom use them, so I figured I'd try to make one and this is the result. I like how it turned out and it's perfect for giving hand-made treats at Thanksgiving dinner! I used an unbranded mesh die along with some Lawn Fawn stitched leaves and added a punched SU! sentiment from the "Tags 4 You" stamp set. (Incidentally, if anyone knows of someone who has this stamp set and wants to sell it, please let me know!  Blogging friends have stamped a whole bunch of sentiments for me from this set and they're all just about gone, and I hate to keep asking for favors)

I added 3 different colored enamel dots from SU! along with a twine bow. I cut the top edge with a pair of deckle-edge scissors. I didn't add ribbon yet as I don't know what I'll fill this with, but I can easily add that later. Thanks for the tutorial Vicki - I just love this great little idea!

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge #1942 - anything goes

Happy Little Stampers October anything goes with dies challenge

LTCCB#39 - October Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and have a great Monday!

Carol

TMS #480

Another Tuesday has rolled around again, and it's time to play along with the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge #480 designed by our own Debbie. 

I went with a non-traditional Thanksgiving card, using a rich, royal blue cardstock base along with a center panel of blue dsp done with a SU! lace ribbon punch. The oval die cut was sent to me by a thoughtful blogger friend, and I have no idea who makes it, but the little swirls on the bottom left seemed to be perfect for the sketch. I added some leaves and acorns done with Spellbinder dies, and sponged them with orange, brown, and red distress inks before stamping them with Versamark ink and heat embossing them with clear detail embossing powder. The sentiment is from SU! heat embossed with white ep, and I added 3 clear gemstones for the finishing touch.

Here's the prize up for grabs this week - a Tim Holtz stamp and die set, just in time for making those last minute holiday cards!

For a little inspiration to get you started, please visit the Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge blog to see what the DT has created with this sketch. I'm always intrigued with the different directions we all take in creating a card with the same sketch.

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great Tuesday. Happy sketching!

Carol