Tag: Thank you card

Thank You for Sparkles Monthly

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

P is for Pumpkin(s)

Hello friends!  I hope that your month of November has been a good one for you so far!  It’s getting cooler by the week, but I try to get out to enjoy the warmer days as much as I can before the winter gets here!  

Today is a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!  Our next letter is “P”, and our hostess, Deborah, has chosen “Pumpkin(s)”   I hope you will join in the fun with us!  *Please remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter.*  Here’s the project I’ve made for this challenge:

When I saw this challenge, I remembered that I had gotten a stitched pumpkin die set from Lawn Fawn a few years back and haven’t used them yet, so I pulled them out to use for this challenge!  (I had to clip the metal dies apart, so I knew I hadn’t used it yet!)

I decided to cut them out in different colors of cardstock and then ink blended the bottoms of each in a darker shade including the stem on the top pumpkin.  I also took them and splattered some gold, brown and white over all three pumpkins before assembling them in stacking order.

For the card front, I took a stitched white panel and stenciled some leaves (Pink & Main-not in store) in light tan ink.  I made my scene for the pumpkin stack by using some Fall Plaid papers (not in store anymore) by Lawn Fawn for the background and die cutting a hill for the pumpkins to set on.  I placed the plaid paper and ground over a darker brown cardstock layer and popped it up with foam tape over the stenciled leaves card front.  I attached all of these layers onto a white top folding A2 card base.

For the sentiment, I white heat embossed the sentiment (not sure what Lawn Fawn set I used this for it) over dark brown cardstock and cut out a banner to pop up above the pumpkin stack with thin foam squares.  I added a few gold rhinestones for sparkle.

  • Hope you’ve been inspired by my card today and stop on over at the challenge blog to join in the fun with us!  I look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I’ll be back tomorrow with another challenge project!

Challenges:

  1. Four Seasons – Fall
  2. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  3. A Place to Start – Anything Goes with optional:  Something new (I used a “new to me” stitched pumpkins die set from Lawn Fawn!)
  4. A Cut Above – Anything Goes with a die cut (used several Lawn Fawn dies!)
  5. Addicted to Stamps & More – Die Cuts and/or Stencils (I used both!)