Thanksgiving Suite Part 3

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The final part of my Thanksgiving Suite for this year is the card. I've created it using the same elements as the others, seen here and here, but flipped the colors around...

Card: Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Early Espresso
Stamp sets: Vintage Leaves and For All Things
Tools and embellishments: Leaf Framelits
Adhesives: Stampin' Dimensionals

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one. I'll be back on Tuesday with my latest DT creation for the end of term blog hop at House of Cards, so I hope you'll join me then.

Thanksgiving Suite Part 2

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The first of today's projects is a quick and easy banner created with my current favorite stamp set, Vintage Leaves from Stampin' Up!, the matching Framelits and Little Letters Framelits. I know it doesn't look much like a banner in the pic, but I assure you it's now hanging over my mantel, having had holes punched and silver cording trim threaded...

Today's second project, the favor boxes for my Thanksgiving table, have been created using a tutorial from the amazingly talented Pootles, aka my Stampin' Sister Sam Donald...

Card: Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Cajun Craze and Early Espresso
Stamp set: Vintage Leaves and For All Things
Tools and embellishments: Leaf and Little Letters Framelits, Petite Petals Punch (lid of box), 1/8" hole punch and silver cording trim
Adhesives: Tear & Tape, Stampin' Dimensionals and Tombow

Challenges...
#204 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#226 Be Thankful at HIMCR
#47 AG at Crafty Gals Corner

Whether or not you're celebrating the holiday, I want to take this opportunity to tell you how much I love and appreciate all of you, my readers and friends!

I'll be back on Friday with the rest of my Thanksgiving creations, so I hope you'll join me then.

Thanksgiving Suite Part 1

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The first of today's projects is another created using the Envelope Punch Board from Stampin' Up! This time I've used it to make silverware holders for my Thanksgiving table...

Today's second project is another for my table, this time the place cards. They aren't anywhere near as big as they appear, it's just how I've cropped the image...

Card: Cajun Craze and Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Early Espresso
Stamp set: Vintage Leaves and For All Things (sentiment)
Tools and embellishments: Leaf Framelits, Envelope Punch Board,
Adhesives: Tear & Tape and Stampin' Dimensionals

Challenges...
#204 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#145 AG + Sentiment at Aud Sentiments (silverware holder)
#173 AG at Brown Sugar

I'll be back on Wednesday with more Thanksgiving creations, so I hope you'll join me then.

Stamped Punch Window Pictorial for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'm once again honored to be representing Team 2 at House of Cards and bringing you a pictorial on how I created my card for this month's challenge, which you can see here.

I started by stamping the image from the For All Things stamp set from Stampin' Up! onto a piece of Whisper White card that's ½" smaller than my card base, using SU!'s Cajun Craze ink and stamping off first...

I then cut 2 apertures in the card using the smallest die from the Deco Labels Framelits set from SU, and added another couple leaves in Delightful Dijon...

I then stamped my chosen sentiment from the set in Early Espresso ink...

 I then added Stampin' Dimensionals to the back of the panel...

Before adding it to the prepared Delightful Dijon card base. My Cherry Cobbler layer is ¼" smaller than the base card...

To complete the card, I added Tear & Tape to the back of the cutouts and then carefully replaced them into the apertures...

You can see my pictorial and the other members of Group 2's creations in today's post at House of Cards.

Card: Delightful Dijon, Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White
Ink: Delightful Dijon, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso
Stamp set: For All Things
Tools: Deco Labels Framelits
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals and Tear & Tape

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one! I'll be back on Monday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Stamped Punch Window for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

The card I'm sharing with you today is my DT creation for the new challenge over at House of Cards, where the requirement this month is to use the stamped punch window technique. Hop on over to the challenge post to see a great video tutorial from the amazing Mynn.

I've changed the basic technique up and used a seasonal favorite stamp set, For All Things from Stampin' Up!

Card: Whisper White, Delightful Dijon and Cherry Cobbler
Ink: Delightful Dijon, Cajun Craze and Early Espresso
Stamp set: For All Things
Tools: Deco Label Framelits
Adhesive: Stampin Dimensionals and Tear & Tape

Challenges...

#93 Fall Edition at CYCI
#207 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#43 AG at Crafty Gals Corner

The House of Cards DT is hugely talented. Please do stop by some of my teamies and show them some love too.

Barbara

Cohenna

Cornelia

Daen'Ys

Donna N.

Donna T.

Dotty Jo

Em

Emily

Heather

Jane

Joni

Judy

Karen

Katy

Lilian

Linda

Lisa

Merethe

Michele

Monika

Mrs Duck

Pat

Rocky

Ruza

Shawna

Steph

Sue T.

Sue N.

Tammy

Toni

I'll be back on Wednesday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Peek-a-boo Leaves ~ Reminder for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

Can you believe we're halfway through October already? It's scary how quick the month and indeed the year is going!!! The holidays will soon be here, but more about that later. I've got another House of Cards challenge inspired card for you today. Yep, I know, it's the third I've shared with you this month, but if I can't spoil you, who can? If you missed the first two, you can see them here and here.

I've used the same design elements for this card, the Woodgrain TIEF, Vintage Leaves stamp and die bundle and For All Things stamp set from Stampin' Up! that I used for the first two...

Card: Cajun Craze, Whisper White and snippets of Vellum
Ink: Cajun Craze and Jet Black StazOn
Stamp set: For All Things
Tools: Woodgrain TIEF, Deco Labels Framelits

Challenges...

Texture and/ or Fall Colors at House of Cards
#206 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#199 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#221 Favorite cutting machine at HIMCR

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one. I'm taking a bloggy break next week, but I'll be back Saturday, November 1st with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Texture Tips for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

I'm honored to be representing Design Team Team 2 at House of Cards and bringing you some tips on how to add even more texture with embossing folders than is perhaps at first obvious. I LOVE using them and for both my original card for this month's challenge and the one I'm sharing with you today, I've used the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder (TIEF) from Stampin' Up!

Once embossed, card can be used with either the raised image upward (embossed) or downwards (debossed). I've used both for today's card, cutting the embossed layer with one of the Deco Labels Framelits...

Here's a reminder of the card I shared on October 1st at the start of the challenge...

Challenges for today's card...
#203 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#144 AG at 613 Avenue Create
#49 Word Play at AAA Cards
Thankful for You at Incy Wincy Designs

I'll be back on Thursday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.

Texture and/or Fall Colors for House of Cards

Hi everyone,

Thanks for stopping by and for all your wonderful comments. I'm honored to have you here and I truly appreciate each of you more than you know!

It's the first of the month and that means it's time for a new challenge over at House of Cards and this month we have a great theme for you: Texture and/or these fall colors...

For today's card I've chosen to use both texture, by using the Woodgrain TIEF from Stampin' Up! and vellum and one of the colors, in this case Cajun Craze from SU...

Card: Whisper White, Cajun Craze and snippets of vellum
Ink: Cajun Craze and Jet Black StazOn
Stamp set: For All Things and Vintage Leaves (available in a bundle with the Framelits
Tools: Woodgrain TIEF, Stampin' Sponges, Leaf Framelits and Deco Labels Framelits
Adhesive: Stampin' Dimensionals and Tombow

Challenges...
#203 AAG at Word Art Wednesday
#196 AAG at Pixie's Snippets Playground
#141 AG w/ twist of black at Artistic Inspirations

The House of Cards DT is hugely talented. Please do stop by some of my teamies and show them some love too.

Barbara

Cohenna

Cornelia

Daen'Ys

Donna N.

Donna T.

Dotty Jo

Em

Emily

Heather

Jane

Joni

Judy

Karen

Katy

Lilian

Linda

Lisa

Merethe

Michele

Monika

Mrs Duck

Pat

Rocky

Ruza

Shawna

Steph

Sue T.

Sue N.

Tammy

Toni

Whatever you're doing this weekend, have a great one. I'll be back on Tuesday with another creation, so I hope you'll join me then.