Wishing You a Happy Thanksgiving

Our college student is more than 1,000 miles away and the airline ticket home for the short Thanksgiving break is VERY expensive.  She will celebrate the holiday with family in the area, but I always like to send her a little bit of home with a handmade card.

I was inspired by the fun sketch over at Pals Paper Arts #276 and the card came together very quickly!

Level:  Beginner

Time:  15 minutes

Imagine Crafts by Tsukineko

·      Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves

·      Ink Potion No. 9

·      Memento Dual Marker Rich Cocoa

·      Craft Mat

Other

·      Technique Tuesday Say It Happy

·      Spellbinders Foliage

·      Heartfelt Creations Leaf Medley PreCut Set

·      Darice Foliage embossing folder

·      Miscelaneous:  glossy white, Kraft , and cream card stock, burlap trim, hard rubber brayer, die cut machine, adhesive

1.     Use the hard rubber brayer to apply Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves ink to 5 ½” x 8 ½” glossy card stock.  Ink up the brayer and spritz lightly with Ink Potion No. 9.
2.     Trim selected section of inked glossy card stock to 4 ¼” x 5 ½” and pressure emboss with Darice Foliage embossing folder.
3.     Use Spellbinders Foliage to die cut the small leaves from remaining sections of inked glossy card stock. 
4.     Ink Heartfelt Creations stamp with Memento Rich Cocoa or alternately use Memento Dual Marker if lacking the ink pad.
5.     With tweezers place die cut over stamp and use another acrylic block to apply pressure. 
6.     Ink Technique Tuesday’s Say It Happy sentiment with Kaleidacolor Autumn Leaves.  Reverse the image on the section of ink pad to get a desired color.  Stamp on Kraft card stock and trim to 1 5/8” x 2 ¼”.  Back with cream card stock 1 ¾” x 2 ½” and adhere together.
7.     Trim Kraft card stock to 4 ½” x 5 ¾” and cream card stock base to 6” x 9 ½”.  Score card base and fold in half.  Adhere Kraft card stock and embossed glossy card stock.  Adhere sentiment panel.
8.     Trim burlap trim to 5 ½” and adhere to card.  Adhere die cut leaves.

This turned out to be such a lovely card that went together very quickly!  

I would like to enter it into the following challenges:

Pals Paper Arts #276

Sassy Studio Designs #308 Give Thanks/Thanksgiving

DLart #168 Thanksgiving

Crafting for All Seasons Embossing

Color Throw Down #369

Die Cutting Divas #242 Thanksgiving

My Sheri Crafts Happy Thanksgiving

Happy to Report that this card was selected as the third spotlight at

Crafting by Design Times 3

Thanks for stopping by!  May your Thanksgiving holiday be blessed with family, friends, and food.