Give Thanks - Vintage Leafs - Pals Paper Arts #266

The challenge this weekwith Pals Paper Arts is a colour one - perfect Autumn colours - Delightful Dejan, Cajun Craze, and Old Olive.  So I pulled out my Vintage Leaves stamp set and the coordinating framelit set and got to work.

 

• The leaves and the feather were stamped with Versa Mark on Whisper white cardstock, and embossed with gold embossing powder.  They were then die cut using the coordinating framelits.
• Each leaf was coloured with  leaf with the 3 colours, spritzed them lightly with water and scrunched them up.  They were unfurled slowly, leaving most of the creases and folds, and allowed to dry.
• While they were drying, I assembled the rest of the card.
• The base cardstock is Cajun Craze, layered with Very Vanilla cardstock embossed with the Woodgrain embossing folder.  Some Cajun Craze ink was lightly grazed over the embossed surface using a sponge.
• The sentiment is from "Thankful Forest Friends".  It was coloured with markers in the 3 challenge colours and stamped onto a piece of Very Vanilla.  The edges were sponged with Cajun Craze ink.  This piece was matted with two colours - Cajun Craze and Old Olive.  It was adhered near the top towards the right side.
• The leaves were now dry, so I added them one by one with the stems facing the bottom of the card.  I used a hot glue gun to do this.
• A gold metallic button threaded with linen thread was added to the base of the leaves with a glue dot.

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Thankful for You - Sketch Frenzy Friday

Now that my craft shows are slowing down a bit I am finding more time to participate in challenges.  Certainly I haven't done one with SFF for quite a while, but today I'm doing the sketch and making a card.

 

I made a Thanksgiving card that has a window in it and a frame around the window.

• The base card is Soft Suede, layered with first Whisper White cardstock and then Into the Woods DSP.  All layers were sponged with Soft Suede ink.
• On a scrap piece of Whisper White cardstock, I stamped the bear from the stamp set "Thankful Forest Friends" using Early Espresso ink.
• After I attached the DSP and the Whisper White, I used an Oval framelit to create a window in the card. I used the size of the bear to determine which size of Oval framelit to use.
• The bear was also die cut with an Oval framelit, but using a bigger size than the window.
• I then adhered the bear to the window on the wrong side of the paper.
• To create the frame, I used Soft Suede and 2 sizes of Oval framelits and ran it through the Big Shot.  The edges of the frame were then sponged.
• A Neutrals button was threaded using a tiny sliver of  Early Espresso cardstock and attached to the lower frame with glue dots.
• The sentiment is from the same stamp set, but it was inked up with markers:  Early Espresso, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Cajun Craze.  It was die cut using the Lots of Labels framelits, the edges sponged, and then adhered to the card front.

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