Thanksgiving Sentiment Card

Stamp TV Potluck Challenge is to make a sentiment background. I ordered "Vintage Borders" stamp set by Nina Brackett the other night but right now I don’t have any sentiment background stamps so I made the background on my computer. The font is Snell Roundhand. I liked the way it looked so typed a page with things I am thankful for. I hope to make Thanksgiving cards this weekend for my family and friends. This is the first one. I love the idea of a sentiment background. Nina’s set has a beautiful Christmas sentiment background stamp. You can see it here.
This card was also inspired by Our Creative Corner Challenge.
Here is the picture for inspiration.









The image is by Theresa Momber from her set called Autumn Beauty. I colored it with Copic Markers. The base card stock is Pure Luxury Pumpkin Spice. The ribbon and brown card stock is something I had.
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Three Challenges

This card is for three challenges.
Stamp TV Sketch challenge 24
Our Creative Corner Purple
Pile it on three flowers - I hope rhinestone flowers count.
I used my new Stamp TV kit, ‘Signs of Autumn’ and ‘Thanks A Million,’ to make this card. Everything came from the kit except the rhinestone flowers and the dark purple paper. The base is pure luxury ivory. I colored the cup with Copic markers V17 and V15. The coffee was colored using E11 and E33. I cut the image out using my Nestabilities. Then I highlighted the image with Memento Desert Sand. I embossed the dark purple with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. The label at the bottom was cut with my Cricut. I split the ribbon to make it thinner. Take a look at Jessica Kick’s sample. Isn’t it beautiful? I used three rhinestone flowers instead of a button. I definitely like Jessica’s better. She is a very gifted person.
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Pile it On

This is my Pile It On card for this week. It works for:
Pile It On - water colors
Our Creative Corner - sketch
Cup Cake Craft - colors pink, green, brown animals & flowers.
Saturday I went to Archiver's and found the cutest Penny Black stamp set called Critter Party. I was so happy when I saw it I almost did the happy dance right there in the store. I have been looking for a Penny Black stamp with a hedge hog for a long time. I love her little critters. I stamped him with SU chocolate brown. Then colored with SU water color pencils and used a Tombow blending pen. The pink, green and brown paper was in my scrap box so I don’t know what it is. The pink ribbon is from SU. I did a lot of jobs today. I took two carpets to get bound, cleaned the garage, pulled weeds, vacuumed the car and truck. Last I cleaned my scrap box and made this card. I have a hard time throwing away scraps of card stock and designer paper. I do use my scraps but they get to be a big mess. My new way to keep them organized is to have folders standing up in a small plastic shoe box. The first folder has white and beige colors, next orange and yellow, then pink and red, next black and brown, then purple, next blue, then green. The solid colors are in the front and the prints are in the back. This is just for the small scrap. I have another crate for larger pieces. I need to go through that crate tomorrow. Now I have something fun to do. I won another stamp at Stamp TV. I did do a happy dance when I found that out. I am going over to Stamp TV now and pick out my new stamp.
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