Fall Cards

Cards using some fall papers. This first one and the last one are nearly identical, but different enough that I'm sharing both. The sentiment panel was one that I cut out from one of the sheets that came with the paper pad. The apple basket stamp is from Repeat Impressions. I colored it with Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol and it's popped up on foam squares. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

The circle piece was also from the paper pad. Hard to see in the photo, but it says, "Thankful for You" in gold.

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Multiple Simple Cards

I've had many of this sized pieces of patterned paper for about fifteen years or more, and I finally used up some more of them. I believe they are old samples of Stampin' Up! papers, but I'm not sure. I matted each of them with black and added a popped-up sentiment. The sentiments are from various companies. I made thirteen of them.

This last one uses ephemera from Gina K.

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Happy (Belated!) Thanksgiving

Well, I'm finally catching up a little bit. The fronts of my Christmas cards are done and I have printed the insides. The labels are printed. The letter still needs to be done, though. My calendars are finished. Yippee!! I have several cards that I can post - I just need the time to do that. So, I thought I would start with the one Thanksgiving card that I made. It comes as a result of doing my November calendar page for next year. The pumpkin image is from Inkadinkadoo. I stamped it with Versamark on vellum, embossed it with gold, and colored on the backside with Copic markers. The image panel is popped up on foam squares.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. And I hope you all can enjoy this holiday season without too much stress!!

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Thanksgiving

I had this set from Gina K out on my desk, thinking I might use the pumpkins on my calendar. However, I decided it would be just too time-consuming to color 15 of them. So, I put these two on Thanksgiving cards. The sentiment stamps are both from Gina K, also. I colored the images with Copic markers. The pumpkins are popped up with foam squares.

I used a Tim Holtz stencil for the background on the top of this card. I die-cut the image and punched out a scalloped circle with a punch. The image panel is also mounted on foam squares.

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Thanksgiving and Fall Birthday

Two more fall cards - a birthday and a Thanksgiving. I used the matstack from Michael's again. I fussy cut out the two pieces that are along the bottom of each card. They started out on opposite corners. I added them to a piece of solid color cardstock and matted them. On the top card I added some foam squares to the leaves that overlap. I gold heat embossed the sentiments. The top one is from Hero Arts and the bottom one is from Stampendous. I also added a few sequins on the second card.

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Thanksgiving - Using Up Paper #5

And here is the last card - finally using up the Lasting Impressions patterned paper I got from a friend several years ago. Thanks, Vicki! I told you I would use it up. 😊 The center panel is a slightly "textured" pattern. I added very thin cardstock strips between the two patterns. I used a decorative circle die to cut the base for the ephemera pieces. The ephemera is from Gina K. The front pumpkin is mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from Gina K, also.

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Thankful Thoughts

I was looking through my wood-mounted Stampin' Up! stamps recently and came across this set of "stained glass" images. I stamped this one on vellum and embossed with pewter embossing powder. I colored the backside with Copic markers and wrapped it around a piece of ivory cardstock and mounted on foam squares. The sentiment is from a different old SU! set and is also embossed with pewter powder. The card base is ivory.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I actually made another Thanksgiving card this year. So, I thought I would post it today. Happy Thanksgiving!

The flower stamps are all from Gina K, as is the sentiment. Sorry you can't read the sentiment very well. It says, "There is always something to be grateful for." The flower and the leaves are mounted on foam squares. This card was made to fit into a legal size envelope. I used ivory cardstock.

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Autumn/Thanksgiving

I thought I would play with this set a little bit. I bought it at the garage sale at the stamping store we were at last summer at our Group Gathering in Ankeny, Iowa. It's from Papertrey Ink. All the stamps I used on these two cards are from the same set. I did a little light coloring with Copics. I used Gina K inks, and I matted them each a little bit differently.

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Thanksgiving in July

The card part on this card is the pumpkin. I'm pretty sure it was cut with a QuicKutz/Lifestyle Crafts die many years ago. I had cut the pieces and then sponged a bit of ink on the edges before gluing them together. I mounted on foam squares. The patterned paper is from a Recollections matstack and is matted with my favorite brown cardstock - Soft Suede from Stampin' Up! The sentiment is from Inkadinkado.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Just a wish for a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my American friends. I hope this holiday finds you surrounded by good friends and family.

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Happy Thanksgiving??

Wow, a Thanksgiving card for today - in December! :) I finally broke down and bought a (cheap) laser printer, a laminator and some foil. I have seen this technique and I think it's really cool. This image was up on my computer because I had been looking for Thanksgiving images for a friend, and I decided to use it for my first foiling sample. And then, of course, I couldn't toss it. So, here is the card. The foil I used is gold. The patterned paper is from Recollections and the sentiment is from Stampendous. The matting is shimmery gold cardstock, and the image is mounted on foam squares.

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Thoroughly Thankful #1

I really wasn't ready to start another stack of Stampin' Up! stamps (in my quest to use them all) but I was looking for something to color and thought this would work. I was wanting to use my new Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers. I still haven't used them in any way except like "regular" markers, but I did enjoy coloring this image with them. This set is called "Thoroughly Thankful." For this card I used the main image, the greeting on the front of the card, and the sentiment on the inside.

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