MY DAYS OF GRATITUDE THANKSGIVING CARD

I was at my upline Janet Wakeland's home over the weekend for a fun Veteran's Day crop.  I made a good dent into my Christmas cards and I got all of my family Thanksgiving cards done.  These cards are all the same on the outside but I wrote something very different and personalized from our family on the inside.  I truly felt like I could have worked for Hallmark doing greetings after coming up with 11 different ones.  My family and close friends will love these cards.  They will go in the mail tomorrow and hopefully get to loved ones in a few days, so plenty of time before Thanksgiving. 

These cards use the stamp set Days of Gratitude as well as the set Thankful For. The sentiment was stamped on the label punch  Do you like my pearl additions?


Stay tuned....I had a Vintage Suite Class at my home last night.  I have some really cool cards to share with you in the next few days, including great cards from Hsiao-hui Lin and Lisa Chatterjee - two of my close demonstrator friends.  Since I have the same class tonight, I'm going to wait to post the cards so that tonight's attendees will be just as surprised as last nights!

DAYS OF GRATITUDE SAMPLES FROM REGIONALS

With Thanksgiving around the corner...I thought I would share some more Days of Gratitude Samples.  These are from the Baltimore Regionals.  I love these samples and I love this set!

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 This is certainly a great set and the possibilities for cards and projects are endless!

FRENCH FOLIAGE MAKE AND TAKE

 

This is one of the make and takes from the Remarkable Retreat last weekend.  Jan Wakeland my upline designed some great projects for us.  This was one of my favorites and I'll probably make it for my Thanksgiving table this year as treats or place settings for all of the guests.  This project uses our adorable scalloped mini brown bags and the stamp set French Foliage.  We stamped the leaves in more mustard and cut them out. I love how realistic these leaves look.  Also note the use of the new glimmer brads.  We put a gold one right atop the postmark from Paris!  The sentiment is from Days of Gratitude set and we used the new label punch to stamp it on!

DAYS OF GRATITUDE - FALL FUN CARD CLASS

Oh, I just love this Days of Gratitude set.  It is really a very beautiful and versatile set.  This is one of the cards we did at my Fall Fun Card class this past Monday night and it is a different card from the last class so I wanted to post it.  Some of you may have seen this card before because it was one of our cards from the SU! regionals in Baltimore at the beginning of the month.  I thought it was a very easy card to do.  Just a little stamping going a long way.  And look at those tiny pearls on the label.  They are just gorgeous!  The card stock, ink and ribbon are all old olive.

 This is the envelope and the inside of the card.  The sentiment Happy Thanksgiving is really great.  I love the font.  This sentiment is from the stamp set Thankful for.  It's a great set that I almost missed.  It's in the main idea book on page 28 (US edition).

Here are some photos from class:

The ladies really liked this card and so did I.  I may use this for some of my Thanksgiving cards, or possibly even for thank you cards and just change the inside sentiment.

MORE FALL FUN AT PAT'S

I just wanted to post a few photos of our fabulous Fall Stampin Event at Pat Nuckels home last night.  I know the ladies will be excited to see themselves posted here.  We had a really great group of crafters and lots of "wow" cards that I'll be posting these next few days. Marlene, Pat, and Hsiao-hui are pictured above.

Linda is passing some stamping supplies to Patti!

Rita is doing some inking of the medallion stamp from the Days of Gratitude set.  We embossed the medallion with chocolate chip craft ink and clear embossing powder.  It was a really "wow" effect on the card.

Linda is stamping the inside of her card.

This was such a lovely group of crafters.  We had a fabulous evening.

FALL FUN CLASS AT PAT'S LAST NIGHT

MORE DAYS OF GRATITUDE

I promised more cards using this set and here is another one.  This is one of the cards we did last night at Pat Nuckels home.  We had a wonderful evening with some really lovely crafters.  Pat is always a gracious hostess.  This was one of the cards that I presented.  I embossed the larger medallion with chocolate chip craft ink and clear embossing powder.  The sentiment Thank You is also embossed.  I stamped the leaves in wild wasabi and cajun craze.  The designer paper is more of that designer card stock Autumn Spice.  Note how I also used our new SU! ribbon punch - wild wasabi.

  

This is the inside of the card and the envelope.  I used our New XL decorative label punch for the sentiment.  This really makes a wonderful Fall card.

DAYS OF GRATITUDE

This will hopefully be the first of many cards I will make with one of my new favorite sets from the SU! Holiday Mini Catalog - called Days of Gratitude.  What an awesome set!  When I saw this set in the mini catalog I loved it.  I was really happy that it was the stamp set that SU! gave us for FREE at our Regional Conference in Baltimore last weekend, so that I could share it with all of you!  It is a great set with so many uses.  For this card, I used the new pad of designer paper stack in the Regals collection.  You get 40 sheets of paper for the money!  What a deal! and not only that ...the patterns are gorgeous!   The strip of paper is actually designer card stock from the new mini catalog that coordinates with this stamp set and is called Autumn Spice.  You need to actually feel the weight and texture of this card stock.  I had no idea that this designer paper was as nice as it is until my upline Jan Wakeland opened her pack for us at a demonstrator event back in August.  That paper went on my very first order of the new Holiday mini! All of the colors complement one of our new SU! colors this year called Cajun Craze.  It is the perfect color for Autumn and it will be perfect for the Christmas holidays as well.