a season for love, A Season of Thanks . . .

Hi everyone thanks for stopping by.  If you are here from the Card ADay Blog you know we are celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving this week. 

 



I started by cutting the background paper a little bit smaller than my card.  I then embossed and inked the flower shape that I cut with my Cricut. The other shaped I just inked the edges.  The leaves are stamped onto white cardstock, cleared embossed, inked then cut out.  I have layered them with pop up dots between the layers.  I tied a bow and wrapped a piece of embroidery thread around the center of the bow before attaching it to the top of the leaves.

For the inside I stamped my sentiment "a season for love, A Season of Thanks, A Season For Love" then added a little border at the top of the card.

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Cutting Instructions:
Card Base: 8 1/2" x 5 1/2", scored at 4 1/4"
Pattern Paper: 5 1/4" x 4"
White cardstock (inside)  5 1/4" x 4"

Cricut Cartridges:
Close to my Heart Art Philosophy - button 33 cut at 2 1/2"
Bloom - button 48 cut at 3 7/8"

Recipe:
Paper: Recollections Cardstock - brown, kraft, white and off white: Unknown polka dot paper
Ink: Stampin' Up - Dustry Durango, Crushed Curry, Wild Wasabi and Bravo Burgundy; Distress Ink - Vintage Photo; Inkadinkadoo - Burgundy; Stazon - Jet Black
Stamp: Unity August 2013 Kit of the Month { cozy moments}
Embossing Folder: Stampin' Up - Final Press
Cricut Cartridges - Close to my Heart Art Philosophy and Bloom
Misc.: Adhesive, scrap ribbon, embroidery floss, pop up dots, clear embossing powder, Cuttlebug, scissors.

Chillin'

I finished a double page layout for a wedding we attended.  I  am using the DCWV Heirloom stack for all of the pattern paper and added both black and dark brown cardstock. Remember you can click on the page to make it larger to see the detail.

I used alphabet stickers to spell out "chillin" on the top scallop,  cut out the"Good Times" from the paper and turned it into a banner on the bottom scallop.

Both pages have stick pins that I made and attached to the ribbon. I scattered a couple of buttons along with the silk roses on the pages.  These layouts are for my oldest son's album and I just love how these papers do not make it a girly page.
Cutting Instructions:
You will need to cut two of each if you are making a two page layout.
Background Paper: 12x12 Brown Cardstock
Red: 11 3/4 x 11 3/4
Green Pattern Paper: 10 1/2 x 5
Red and Blue Flower: 8 1/2 x 4 1/2
Blue and tan pattern paper: 9 1/4 x 3 1/4
Black Photo Mat: 6 1/4 x 4 1/4

Click here for the cutting file.

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Recipe:
Paper:
Cardstock - The Paper Company - Umber Cover; Recollections - black; Pattern Papers - DCWV - The Heirloom Stack
Alphabet Stickers - Pink Paislee Holiday Doodle Aqua
Ribbon: Offray Straight 'n' Narrow - Dancer brown, unknown blue ribbon scraps.
Punch: Stampin' Up - Decorative Lable punch
Misc: buttons, beads for pins, silk roses, pop up dots, adhesive

Bloom Layout

I had a little bit of free time this week end so I finished a layout I had made in Design Studio. It's not a Fall, Thanksgiving or Christmas related just one I have been wanting to do.

 I started by stamping The bird and bee from Nature Walk and the Decorative stamp from Bliss in Soft Suede randomly on my tan cardstock.  I stamped the Butterfly from Nature Walk in Rich Razzleberry.   I then used my glue gun to attach a piece of lace, I had left over from another project, to the back of my stamped cardstock.  I inked my tan photo and journal mat with Soft Suede.

 

I used pop up dots for the branch at the bottom of the layout The other branch I cut apart and placed it where I wanted it to go.  After that I added the large purple flowers then my pearls from the Stampin' Up Pretties Kit.  I then filled in the area around the flowers with the punched purple and orange flowers.  I used two different sizes of pearls for the centers.   I then added the yellow roses after twisting the wire around a paint brush handle. 

 

The vellum butterflies are inked and placed randomly around the page.  I layered the single butterfly wing on the page with hot glue and then layered the other one a little bit off so that it looks like they were flying.  The butterflies that are in one piece I used pearls for the bodies.  This large butterfly was a happy accident as I was originally going to cut the outline out of vellum and the body out of the pattern paper.  I had my papers in the wrong spot when I went to cut.  I liked how it turned out so I didn't recut it.

For the journal spot I was originally going to use "bloom" in the center of it but decided to leave it for a journal spot instead. 

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Click here for the cut file.

Recipe:

Paper: Recollections - Tan; DCWV - Purple background and circle; Scraps from my stash - orange, green, brown, purple, and Stampin' Up - vellum

Cricut Cartridges: Bloom, George and Basic Shapes, MS Elegant

Stamps: Stampin' Up - Bliss and Nature Walk

Ink: Stampin' Up - Soft Suede and Rich Razzleberry

Punch: Stampin' Up - Itty Bitty Shapes

Misc: Recollections Pearls - brown; Stampin' Up - Pretties kit; adhesive, pop up dots, glue gun, Purple flowers - Prima embellishments (I've had forever), yellow roses - Prima Flowers - Fleurs de Prima, scrap of lace