Peaceful Season

 It's Thanksgiving Eve and I just finished photographing this card at my dining room table nestled among my centerpiece. Where all is beginning to be set for a family gathering tomorrow. 

I just couldn't resist putting a card together for Ann's pretty sketch at The Paper Players. I worked on it in snippets in between cooking and cleaning up, and all the other busy cozy holiday things. Also in time to wish my US friends a happy Thanksgiving!

Two vintage-y patterned papers from Scrapbook.com are paired with a sentiment and a buck from Nostalgic Christmas stamps and dies (SSS). I love the images of this set and look forward to using the tree and ornaments. It's brand new, so you know I'll be sharing it at the NBUS challenge where there are so many wonderful cards to inspire you!

Now I need to do a bit more cleaning up in the craft space. Love and holiday hugs to you! 

Be yourself

         Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

Grateful Heart for The Paper Players

 Thanksgiving will  soon be happening, have you bought your turkeys yet, my US friends? This is the time of year when I especially need to cultivate a calm and grateful heart. 

Stamping always calms and refreshes me, and a new challenge for The Paper Players #616 fits right in with the gratefulness attitude. Our lovely Claire wants us to create projects with a Give Thanks theme. 

I had the brand new to me Thankful Heart stencil, stamps and dies from The Greetery just waiting for today's card. 

The stencil makes it so easy to sponge an ombre shading to the sentiment. I kept this very simple, using the nesting arched dies to create the card base in Baked Brown Sugar (SU) and arranging the inked die cuts along the panel bottom. 

Both the sentiment and the white panel are popped up with craft foam and dimensionals. Everyone is welcome to play along, hope you will join us at The Paper Players!

I'm grateful for many blessings, thanks to you  for being one of them! I really appreciate your visit today. Have a great week. 

Be yourself

          Have delight in your craft 

               Make something beautiful!  

I'm entering this card in the following challenges: 

NBUS

Double "D" Challenges - Thankful 

Make the Cards Challenge   Thanks

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop Inspiration

Hello friends,
Hope you are having a lovely holiday weekend! 
My times with family have been such a blessing and we've had lots of fun visiting and lovely weather. 
I actually made this card last week so that I could be ready for the blog hop.

Our inspiration photo contains beautiful elements of autumn. I was inspired by the greens gathered around the gold word in the centerpiece and the lovely creams of the table settings.

I used the Year of Psalms February Mini Stamp Set, and embossed it in gold on vanilla card stock. The floral background images are Gathered Garden Stamp Set. I added a gold embossed image accent among the leaves and berries.

I hope you've been inspired by my card today. Much thanks for your visits and kind comments!

Be yourself

     Delight in your craft 

        Make something beautiful!

Other supplies used are 

Inks: PTI - Green Parakeet, SU - Cajun Craze, Versamark

Accessories: ribbon, Gold embossing powder.

Autumn Leaves

We are enjoying cooler fall weather today and I thought I'd get a head start on making a card for Thanksgiving.

I pulled out the Autumn Leaves set from Wplu9 and after stamping the images in black, I sponged and blended shades of Distress Inks to fill in the color.

I arranged the die cut shapes and tucked them around and behind the panel. The sentiment was also die cut of gold foil and added to the panel with a trio of gold sequins. Adding the black twine bow finished off the focal point. 

I'm playing along at CAS(E) this Sketch #240 today. That's it from me, hope you have a great day! 

Be yourself.

     Find delight in your craft.

          Make something beautiful! 

Supplies used: 

Stamps: WPlus9 - Autumn Leaves

Accessories - Scripty Greetings Die from PTI

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