Every new catalog, the demo team I am on does a card swap. I love seeing designs from other demos and stamp sets I don't have. Check out this catalog's examples:
Kathy Thisted
Nicole Flournoy @ Inky Fingers Stamping
Sandra Vargas
Carla Branton
Heather Green
Today's card is featured over at Stylin' Stampin' Inkspiration and features a fun color challenge:
I adore these colors together. I decided to keep my card in the fall/Thanksgiving arena instead of Christmas. Although now I have a ton of Christmas designs using these colors floating around my head. I saw a few cute grid cards online and decided to make my own featuring some great DSP and stamped images. (Note: the purple vines from Into the Woods are technically Rich Razzleberry, but I love their slightly muted look in the card combination. I kept them there but made sure to add my Blackberry Bliss in card stock and stamped images.)
Today’s card is being featured on Stylin’ Stampin’ Inkspiration. The challenge was to create a card using our Mystery Challenge Rules. What to do? This month I went with Burlap, Island Indigo, and Thanks.
Instead of a card, I decided to make a little Thanksgiving treat box. Wouldn't these look adorable as place settings for Thanksgiving dinner? I sponged on some ink to the bottom of the box to give the paper a little something extra. I then added the sentiment tag for a fun pop of color. I think the little wooden leaf really makes the box! And the burlap is a great texture instead of using regular ribbon.
For the first time, I'm participating in 30 Days of Gratitude. I even joined a FB group with other listers. While many use mini albums to document, I created a simple insert to my regular PL pages. You can see my prep work in this post. Once the month started, I realized that I did't really want the extra duty of picture taking, so I'm going strictly with journaling. I thought I would share my daily cards and a few extra decorative ones.
Day #5: All about sweater weather. It's still warm here, but slightly cooler. The mornings are cool enough to actually wear a sweater!
Day #6: I knew I wanted to incorporate some of my closest people as part of the month. Today I am grateful for J.
Day #7: After thinking about J yesterday, I had to highlight being grateful for my littlest boy. After one miscarriage, we got lucky with this incredibly amazing little boy. Can't wait to see what adventures await us during his second year of life.
Day #8: We make a library trip once a week for lots of great picture books and a few novels for me. Currently ours is 1 mile away, perfect for walking to and from. And they have a great storytime on Tuesday mornings. We'll have to scout the library after we move. I'm sure Castro Valley has a great one.
Day #9: The first twin, if only because he pushed his way to the front.
Day #10: I've found a great group of friends through my parent's group, the Mountain View Parents Association. We won't be in MV for much longer, but I'll definitely keep up the friendships I've made. Looking forward to our next event and especially mom's night out next weekend.
Two pretty Thanksgiving themed cards for you today.
Card #1
I really wanted a Thanksgiving card, but no turkeys or pumpkins. The Four Feathers stamp was a great substitute!
Card #2
I loved the patterned design of this specific sheet of DSP. I wanted to play off of it, so I went to Pinterest. And I found the perfect design concept to modify.
For the first time, I'm participating in 30 Days of Gratitude. I even joined a FB group with other listers. While many use mini albums to document, I created a simple insert to my regular PL pages. You can see my prep work in this post. Once the month started, I realized that I did't really want the extra duty of picture taking, so I'm going strictly with journaling. I thought I would share my daily cards and a few extra decorative ones.
Day #1: Today was all about coffee. Arthur had a rough night and day of not sleeping. Coffee became my best friend. I added some nice navy alphas and cute brown flowers to complete the card.
Day #2: After another rough night, I did not want to cook. Thankfully we have a great street of restaurants only two blocks away. The journaling note and flair came from random PL supply stash. I finally found a use for this fork, knife, and spoon flair.
Day #3: Another rough night, but I needed to run a ton of errands with the baby this morning. Thankfully there's a great local coffee shop near my current house.
Day #4: It was Election Day! Made me think about all the sacrifices of those who came before (especially people like Alice Paul) who helped make it possible for me to vote today.
Day #5
Randomly I decided that I wanted to participate in 30 Days of Gratitude in November. I have seen many great examples using mini albums or small notebooks. I wanted to prep something ahead of time, but make it something I could incorporate into my usual scrapbooking. After thinking about it some more, I decided to do two dedicated pages in my Project Life album.
I dug through my PL card stash and found a ton of fall themed/colored cards. I used a ton from WRMK's Harvest collection. Once i chose some great cards, I used the stickers from SU's Days of Gratitude kit to label my inserts. Even though the cards and stickers come from very different kits, the pages flow together nicely.
I have a few special cards thrown into the mix. I used an overlay from the WRMK Harvest collection for one day. I also pulled on the "Fall" PL swap cards I received last month. I love the little felt pumpkin!
Once November hits, I plan on grabbing the day's card and doing a bit of journaling as to what I am grateful for that day. I may add some more embellishments if time permits. Or I may wait until the end of the month. Either way, I will be sharing my completed pages at the end of November.
For October's big crafting goal, I am attempting to make a different designed card everyday. Instead of flooding everyone's feed with tons of posts, I am just going to do a weekly wrap-up post with my cards. Apparently this week was all about Halloween and Thanksgiving cards. Next week I'm going to break out into non-holiday cards.
Day #8
I love the monochromatic look of this card.
Day #9
A fun pattern play card for fall.
Day #10
I love the this simple card. Not much to it, but very nice in person.
Day #11
Another card using just stamping. I love the layered effect!
Day #12
A repeat design from Day #9, but I liked it so much I wanted to make a variation.
We had a great swap time at the Livermore Unite and Excite event on Sunday. Here are some of the great fall themed swap cards I received:
Debbi S Green
Kristina Holland
Linda Romer
Kristine Custino
Blythe Klipple @ Stamping with Blythe
Lisa Ann Bernard @ Queen B Creations
Yet another simple design to help me finish my twelve sets of twelve cards.
My Interpretation: I decided against the flower and stuck with three simple circles, a sentiment, and a ribbon. I started with just the circles and sentiment, but realized that the card was just too plain. The ribbon goes a long way to adding to the card. I didn't take pictures of the others, but ended up running out of this green plaid ribbon and substituted orange and brown solid ribbon for the rest.
Tip: The orange circles looked too plain as just solid orange, so I made my own patterned paper. I took SU's Magnificent Maple stamp (sadly retired), and stamped all over a 8.5x11 sheet of pumpkin pie paper in pumpkin pie, wild wasabi, early espresso, and more mustard ink. The overlapping leaves created a nice neutral pattern paper to then cut into circles. It definitely adds a bit more homemade touch to card. Plus, I now have some leftover homemade pattern paper to play with.
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