Greetings! One week from tomorrow is Thanksgiving! Holy guacamole where did this year go? Christmas will be here asap! Yesterday I holed up in the crafty cave and made our Thanksgiving cards for 2011. I have made this a tradition for at least 10 years now…pretty cards for family. I love doing this. I love the colors of Fall, the leaves and, most of all, the meaning of Thanksgiving. It's a perfect holiday in my book. I was inspired this year by an unlikely source – some floral paper! I don't know why, but the colors just said Thanksgiving to me. It's a bit non-traditional, but I like it anyway! I distressed and inked, and sewed…oh my!
Here's the final creation:
It took me FOREVER to figure out how to get my machine to zig zag! ACK. It was worth it though! I love the look of this. You should see all the scraps I shredded before making the good ones!
The leaves were punched out of a rust colored (white core) paper and then sanded to show some texture. Then I sprayed them with Perfect Pearls Heirloom Gold Mist. YUM! I tried to get it kind of splotchy on purpose. Aren't they so pretty?
For the words, I stamped them in brown ink on cream paper and cut them into banners. Then I crumpled them with my hands and inked them with Antique Linen distress ink so they would look aged.
I did the same technique on the yellow leaves as I did on the bigger leaves. In this picture you can really see the pearl mist. I also turned the corners of the leaves up.
I inked and distressed the background layer and mounted it to a kraft card base.
Here's my little stack of pretties…all ready to be finished. This was a multi-step process and I always do all the steps for every card…assembly line style…
Here is the inside: I combined two clear stamp sentiments onto one clear block. Then I added another leaf in a butterscotch color.
I had to show you the back too! Hello Kitty Pilgrim! Are you freaking' kidding me??? LOVE her!
I hope you are having fun preparing for a big feast and getting excited about welcoming friends and family. And I am wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving a little early, for I am thankful for you my bloggy friends! Have a great day today!
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11 responses to “Thanksgiving Pretties!”
I love how your Thanksgiving cards turned out! The vintage style give it such a warm cozy feeling…regardless of the non-traditional look. I think it so works, something different. Oh, an hello…that Hello Kitty stamp is so dang cute…can’t stand it! :o)
Beautiful shabby Thanksgiving cards, Wanda – your zig-zags are PERFECT! Thanks for showing us all the details. Have a perfect Thanksgiving!
I love this card Wanda! I really like the touch of vintage, but non traditional colors you used. You are so very creative!
Super cards Wanda..and such a cute back stamp.
card looks like it would take forever such a great looking product very nice
you can really see alot of effort and love went into the card well done wanda
Oh Wanda,
I LOVE your hello kitty pilgrim girl. I also love your card. Awesome.
Oh, these are just adorable, Wanda! Such pretty paper and design, and so unique and eye-catching for Thanksgiving. Love the bits of doily on the side, and LOVE those leaves. You are fabulous, my friend!
Love the Thanksgiving cards, we dont have Thanksgiving in the UK but I am thankful for all the friends I have made through crafting…. hope hubby is recovering well….. strokes to Mr Buddy too….
Your Thanksgiving cards are beautiful!! The floral paper adds that certain element with the distressing. So pretty!!
You are definitely an ar-teest…
The paper is so perfectly shabby. I love the colors and the sentiment in and out the card. Another awesome one!!
What wonderful Thanksgiving cards Wanda! Love your floral inspiration paper…so PRETTY! The Hello Kitty Pilgrim is too flippin’ cute too! 😀