Vintage Leaves Thankful

You'd never know by the weather that we are approaching fall.  The heat and humidity have been stifling and certainly does not put one in the mood to make Christmas cards let alone Thanksgiving or Halloween cards.  However, my craft shows are coming up so I'd better get cracking!!

 had some coloured leaves left over from another project so I  made this Thanksgiving card.  I used the Woodlands Embossing Folder as a background and included an acorn and a feather.

• The base cardstock is Chocolate Chip, layered with Very Vanilla cardstock embossed with the Woodlands Embossing Folder.  To make the birch trees stamp out a little better, I lightly sponged the surface with some chocolate chip ink.

• Using the colours of autumn - Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Daffodil Delight, Real red, some leaves were randomly stamped between the trees.  These are from the stamp set: "Among the Leaves".
  A barn owl and some black birds completed the scene.
  
  At the bottom of this layer, a piece of  Into the Woods Designer paper was adhered.  I did sponge this lightly with Crumb Cake as the background of this paper was Whisper White.  That made the DSP fit in better with the colour scheme of the card. At the top of the DSP I added some gold glitter ribbon.
  
  The leaves were built on a 1 3/8" chocolate chip circle using a hot glue gun. As I mentioned, these leaves and feathers were left over from another project.  The acorn was made using the Acorny Thank You stamp set with its coordinating punch.
  
  The sentiment was stamped in chocolate chip ink and die cut using the bitty banners framelit.
  
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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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Vintage Leaves

It's amazing how the time is just flying by.  Pretty soon the kids are back at school, and Thanksgiving will be on our doorstep.
I have to prepare Thanksgiving cards on 2 fronts - for craft shows and for classes.
Here is one of the ones I created so far, using "Vintage Leaves" and the coordinating framelits.

• I prepared the leaves first because they needed time to dry.
• Three different leaves were stamped with Chocolate Chip ink, then die cut using the coordinating framelits.  I also die cut a fourth leaf using Gold glimmer paper.
• Each leaf was then sponged first on the outer edges with Soft Suede ink, and then on the inside with several different Autumn colours:  Real Red, Hello Honey, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, and Chocolate Chip.
• They were then placed on a waterproof surface,spritzed with a fine mist of water, and crumpled into a ball.  They were left that way for a few minutes, then they were unfurled leaving a lot of creases in them.
• Because I was impatient, I used the embossing tool on low setting to dry the leaves.  Then some Chocolate chip ink was applied to the tips of the leaves.

• The base card is Always Artichoke, layered with Whisper White and a piece of In the Woods DSP.  Both pieces had their edges sponged with Always Artichoke ink.
• Using the smallest leaf and Old Olive ink, a background was created.  Each leaf was stamped off before stamping randomly onto the background.  This was done before the DSP was attached.
• I cut a piece of Burlap ribbon in half, pulling strands of the ribbon off to fray the edges.  This frayed ribbon was adhered to the card over the seam of the DSP.

• The leaves were now ready to be attached to the card.  To do this I used a hot glue gun. After they were all on, I used the pulled off strands from the burlap ribbon, tied them in a knot and adhered them to the stems of the leaves at the top.  I wanted to make a bow, but my recent surgery wouldn't let my hand do this.
• My Crystal Effects was all plugged up and no amount of poking and prodding was going to get some out.  I wanted to make some water drops on the leaves.  Instead I put drops of gold dazzling details.
•  The sentiment "Thanks" was one of the Expressions Natural Elements.

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