Thank You for Sparkles Monthly

Card Kits, Fall, flowers, Ocassions, Seasons, Slimline cards, Taylored Expressions, Thank you

Hello friends and happy weekend to you!  As we inch closer and closer to Thanksgiving at the end of this month, I think this is a perfect time to create a few thank you style cards to use throughout the year!

This brings us to a new monthly challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “Thank you Card”  this month.  I look forward to seeing all of the projects in the gallery for this one.  Here’s what I came up with: 

I thought I’d try out a mini slim sized card for this one and the tall larger flower was a great fit for it!  I used the Taylored Expressions Natures Canvas Card kit (no longer available).

For the background panel, I embossed a kraft cardstock piece with the TE Sketched Plaid embossing folder and the went around the edges with the same color ink and then added some brown and white splatters before attaching it to a mini slim top folding card base.  I also die cut a frame from the TE Mini Slim Frame in Frame dies out of white cardstock to place over the embossed layer.

I stamped, hand colored and die cut the flower.  I used one of the greeting panels (from card kit) to gold foil and cut out the coordinating sentiment with it to pop up with foam tape over the flower stem.  It was then finished off with some gold gem/rhinestones.

  • I hope you’ve been inspired by my thank you card and will join in the fun with us this month for the challenge!  **NOTE**  This will be my final project for the Sparkles Monthly Challenge as a design team member.  I have enjoyed my time and wish Caz all of the best for the challenge blog in the coming year as well.  Thank you!

Challenges:

  1. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  2. 613 Avenue Create – Anything Goes with optional: Thank you
  3. Triple B – Birds, Blooms &/or Butterflies (bloom)
  4. Penny’s – Anything Goes using Paper
  5. Crafty Catz – Anything Goes/Thanksgiving/Thank you
  6. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2545 Anything Goes
  7. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Thank you
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26 thoughts on “Thank You for Sparkles Monthly”

  1. The mini slim format works beautifully with the tall flower, and the embossed plaid background adds such rich texture. The gold foiled sentiment and gem accents elevate the design with a touch of elegance, making this a striking farewell project for the challenge.

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  8. Oh, this is SO pretty! I love mini slims because they are so much easier to photograph than the full-size ones, lol! This is gorgeous and I love all the TE products you used! They really need you on their design team! I know the Sparkles challenge will miss you!

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    1. Thanks so much friend! I like the mini because the length of the other kind is way to long for me! LOL I just love using the TE products, but no teams for me please! LOL

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  15. The brown embossed background is really beautiful. Keeping it one color really adds a lot of texture and depth to your card. And a thank you card in November makes perfect sense to me. Hope all is well. hugs-Erika

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  16. Saw this and immediately clicked the link – then read that the kit was no longer available. This is gorgeous! I do have a soft spot for daisies. This is the second DT you’re leaving (I’m still catching up!) – guess you’re lessening your duties 🙂 Hope all is well!

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