Happy Thanksgiving Card

Hope you have a terrific Thanksgiving!  The Lord has blessed us so richly and to Him goes all the glory this harvest season.  Hope you and yours enjoy a very blessed time together this Thanksgiving (and lots of turkey and yummy sides dishes and desserts, too!)  Card supplies: Huntington paper pack (CTMH), Harvest Home stamp set (CTMH, retired) in cocoa ink colored with watercolor pencils, durables round studs.  As always, thanks for stopping by!

Bountiful Season Cards

Back again with some beautiful fall cards made from CTMH's Huntington paper pack.  If you haven't picked up on it from my last blog posts, I loooove fall.  I love decorating for fall, I love anything and everything related to pumpkin in the food and beverage department, and I looove crafting for fall.  These cards are several in a series meant to just thank the special people in my life who have blessed me and encouraged me (if you missed it, check this post out for more inspiration). 

For the stamping, I used CTMH's Bountiful Season stamp using the "rock and roll" method with barn red and goldrush inks from CTMH--looove how this technique gives such an interesting multi-colored image. Then, I lightly brushed over the leaf with a few dabs of glitz glitter gel for some sparkle. This stamp is my favorite seasonal fall stamp that CTMH makes and it is a bargain price at $6.95--one stamp has the image and the sentiment (which reads: May the bounty of the season fill your heart and your home)!  Perfect!

 Additional embellishments (all CTMH)  used include hemp, durables adhesive round studs, goldrush cardstock, and burlap ribbon.  Hope you have a creative day to celebrate fall in your neck of the woods!

Be Still Huntington Card

Here is another little beauty made with the Huntington paper packet from CTMH.  It makes great fall cards, but also looks great for masculine cards, too.  I used the Be Still stamp from CTMH (one of my favorites from their "quick card" collection) stamped in Barn Red ink on colonial white cardstock.  I then backed that with cocoa cardstock and popped the sentiment up with 3D foam tape.  Other embellishments used: Durables round studs.  This card went off to encourage a relative of mine newly diagnosed with cancer.  Our prayers are with you!

Fall Wreath Cards

I have loved using this little wreath stamp from CTMH's Remarkable Wreath stamp set (check out this post to see it stamped for Christmas and Valentines cards...soooo versatile!). I paired this stamp set with the Huntington Paper packet (CTMH) for these gorgeous fall cards.  For the fall leaves, I used the rock and roll technique to get a nice multi-colored image. Inks used (CTMH): cocoa, goldrush, barn red.  Other embellishments (CTMH): hemp, durables round studs, and a bit of glitz glitter gel for a few spots on the fall wreath (hard to see in the photos but nice in person!). 

Sentiments: "My life is blessed" sentiment is from the Because of You stamp set (CTMH, retired); "Life is good" sentiment is from the Remarkable Wreath stamp set.  These cards were super fun and easy to make...and then send to encourage some friends and family with a bit of "happy mail!"  Hope you have a creative day, my friend, and thanks for stopping by!

Blessed Life Cards

I could not be more blessed in my life...seriously.  God is so good to me and my family and has been sooo faithful in soooo many ways over all these years.  I have such amazing, godly, supportive family members, a wonderful husband, three beautiful children...the list could go on, and on, and on.  This time of year makes me just so GRATEFUL for all the blessings in my life.  Therefore, I wanted to take the time to handcraft a few cards for some of the special people who bless my life...and take the time to pen them special notes inside telling them how much I love them!  

These cards feature the Huntington paper pack (with some goldrush cardstock) and coordinating canvas complements from CTMH. Other embellishments used were hemp, burlap ribbon, Huntington assortment wooden spool disk, and durables adhesive round studs.  Ink (CTMH): Cocoa (sentiment), goldrush, barn red, olive (leaves)  Stamps: leaves: Autumn Splendor (CTMH, retired), sentiment: Because of You (CTMH, retired).  Love how these cards can go fall...or masculine...or both.  Card reads "My Life is so blessed..." and inside sentiments reads:"because you are in it!"  Below are a few upclose shots...feel free to click on them to see them larger and in more detail...

 

 

I hope these cards brighten the day of those closest to me this week!  Hope you have a creative day and take the opportunity to thank someone special in your life!

Happy Fall Y'all

Here in Florida, we have to pretend it is fall--it is still 90+ degrees outside, there are NO signs of fall foliage (in fact, most of our trees are pines or palms and don't even have leaves)...so that is where crafting comes into play!  I have to make my own fall leaves in stamping form to get my "fix" :)

This card was made using my favorite stamping technique--the "rock and roll" method.  Basically you stamp your image in one color ink, then move to another (darker) ink and just roll the edges of the stamp on the pad, then make your impression on your paper.  The result is a beautifully shaded multi-color design!  Just love this effect using fall leaf stamps--soooo pretty and realistic!  Using the fall leaves, I random stamped to basically make my own patterned paper. The sentiments are from the zipstrip from CTMH's Huntington paper pack (just popped those on foam tape strips for some added dimension).  I plan to feature this paper pack over the next two weeks--it is great for fall and for masculine cards!  Stamp set: Autumn Splendor (CTMH, retired)  Ink (all CTMH): goldrush, olive, barn red, chocolate

I am off to enjoy my favorite fall delights--a pumpkin spice latte and pumpkin muffins--yum!  DD also has amazing pumpkin donuts this time of year...really anything pumpkin flavored is yummy to me :)