October Ds Stamping Team USA Giving Thanks

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This is my very first blog hop.  Thank you, Darla Roberts, for inviting me to participate!

What better subject could there be than Giving Thanks?  I have so much to be grateful for, that I couldn’t even begin to count my blessings!

Fall is my very favorite time of year, and I love to watch the leaves turn from green to a rainbow of glorious color!  I hope you enjoy my card.

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I started with a base of Chocolate Chip.  The next layer is Very Vanilla.  If you’re wondering which embossing folder I used….surprise!  I took the Stampin’ Score and scored every other line with the cardstock horizontal, then turned it, and (on the same side) scored every other line with the cardstock vertical.  I used the Vintage Leaves stamp set, stamping the leaves in Chocolate Chip, sponging with a combination of Crushed Curry, Cajun Craze, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive inks, then cutting out with the matching framelits.  The greeting is from Lighthearted Leaves, a set that goes with the same framelits!  It’s stamped on a 2″ circle, pierced, then matted onto a Chocolate Chip 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle.  A double linen thread bow was glued to the stems of the leaves, and a few rhinestones were sprinkled on using the Multipurpose Glue.  The leaves and the scallop circle are popped up with dimensionals.  I hope you like it!

All of the supplies used to create this card may be purchased in my Online Store.  If you don’t already have a demonstrator, I’d love to be yours!

Until next time……stay inky, my friends!

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Lighthearted Leaves 2.0

I still have the nasty cough, but I’m feeling better today.

Yesterday, I promised to post a “stepped up” version of the Lighthearted Leaves card we made in Stamp Club this month.

One of the products I wanted to use in class was the chalk marker.  Just a small touch here and there, can add so much to your project, and it really looks pretty on any color of cardstock (CS).

Unfortunately, one of the two markers I ordered for class was damaged when it arrived.  One thing I LOVE about Stampin’ Up! is how dedicated they are to fixing any problems with their products.  They sent me a new marker right away, but I didn’t have it in time for class.

With 28 people coming to Stamp Club this month, I wasn’t sure how long the one marker would last, so in class, we only added a little bit of the chalk marker to the leaf we cut out.  Here’s the picture from the Stamp Club card (see yesterday’s post for details).

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And here’s the stepped up version.

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Can you see the difference?  I added more detail to the leaves with the chalk marker, and added a black CS layer between the Soft Suede card base and the Crumb Cake panel.

What do you think?  Which one do you like best?

If you need any of the supplies used in these cards (see yesterday’s post for details), please visit my online store by clicking on the shopping basket.  If you’re in the Fort Knox/Elizabethtown, Kentucky area, I’d like to meet you.  And, if you don’t have one, I’d love to be your demonstrator.

Until next time……stay inky, my friends!

I Love Kentucky…..

but, I also hate Kentucky.  We have something here in the Ohio Valley that we call the Kentucky Crud.  I get it a couple of times each year.  Stuffy head, runny nose, sneezing, and coughing.  Not polite little coughs, but hacking, horrible coughs.  And, it seems like the cough hangs on for weeks.  Anyway, I’m struggling with a bout of the Kentucky Crud right now.  So, I’ve been lying around in my PJs all day doing nothing.  No stamping for me today, but I do have a card to share.

This is one of our Stamp Club projects from this month.

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Here are the fixin’s:

The card base is Soft Suede CS (cardstock) (5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″, folded in half).  The panel is Crumb Cake CS (3 3/4″ x 5′).

The leaves and greeting are from the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set in the Holiday catalog.  I love this set, especially because it works with the same framelits as the Vintage Leaves stamp set, which I’ll be showcasing in another post later this week.

The two larger leaves and the greeting are stamped directly on the panel in Archival Basic Black.  The smaller leaf is stamped on a crumb cake scrap, colored with the white chalk marker, and cut out with the framelits.  Gold cord was added to the back of the leaf and it is popped up with a dimensional.

Sprinkle a few gold sequins, and you’re finished!

Tomorrow, I’ll show you how to add a couple of details to step this card up a notch.

All the products used in this project are from Stampin’ Up!  If you’d like to order any of them, please visit my online store by clicking on the shopping basket!

Until then…..stay inky, my friends!