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November 8, 2012

Very Thankful for You

I’m participating in the MDS 30 Days of Christmas Class being taught this month by Heather Summers and Martha Inchley. My Thanksgiving card is for their Bonus Sketch 1 Challenge. Yes, I know, I should probably do a Christmas card since it’s a Christmas class, but falling leaves and Thanksgiving were on my mind.

Thankful for You Card

The stamp that I used for the sentiment is actually much larger than what appears on the card:

Very Thankful Stamp

I added this stamp six times and then cropped it to get just the portion I needed:

  1. The word “Very”
  2. The word “Thankful”
  3. The word “For”
  4. The letter “Y”
  5. The letter “O”
  6. The letter “U”

Here is the supply list for the card:

  • Background: Very Vanilla
  • Stamps:
  • Embellishments:
  • Colors:
    • Background Punches: Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzaz, River Rock, Cajun Craze, Always Artichoke
    • Leaf Backgrounds: Daffodil Delight, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango, Peach Parfait, Cherry Cobbler
    • Leaf Overlay Stamps & Sentiment: Early Espresso

 

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September 3, 2012

Thanksgiving Card (PCCC #5)

My card for the Paper Craft Crew Challenge 5 (PCCC #5) is a simple Thanksgiving card. Here’s this week’s original sketch:

PCCC #5 Design

And here’s my version of the card:

Thanksgiving Card

Here are the resources that I used to make the card:

 

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November 21, 2011

Butterfly Punch Turkey Thanksgiving Card

Butterfly Punch Turkey Thanksgiving CardI found a very cute turkey card made with the Owl Punch and the Butterfly Punch on Cindy Washington’s site. I decided to see if I could accomplish the same thing with My Digital Studio, and this card is the result. I didn’t like the different colors for the Butterfly Punches for the tail feathers. It sort of lost something in my version, perhaps because there was less of a paper feel in the digital version. To make my tail feathers, I stacked Butterfly Punches in a series of colors—Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Really Rust, and Creamy Caramel (shown on the left).Butterfly Punch Stack Detail for Thanksgiving Card

The rest of the card is fairly straightforward. The turkey’s body is an elongated Circle Punch (don’t have the Owl Punch yet), Full Heart Punch for wings, resized Square Punch for the hat. The hat’s brim is Basic Black Grosgrain Ribbon, and its decorations are More Mustard Grosgrain Ribbon and Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware—square. The turkey’s wattle is an upside down Small Heart Punch. The eyes are Whisper White Circle Punches with Basic Black Brads. The beak is a very small Square Punch in Summer Sun. The legs are All in the Family—right arm.

I don’t have Twine yet for MDS, so I used Chocolate Chip—Stitching Straight. The border at the bottom is Torn Edges—Eyelet Border in Soft Suede, with two pieces of Soft Suede Grosgrain Ribbon and Chocolate Chip—Stitching Zigzag. More Mustard Brocade Square behind the turkey, and the card background is Wild Wasabi. The sentiment is text, using the Kirsten ITC font in Chocolate Chip.

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November 10, 2011

Thanksgiving Watercolor Card

I was intrigued by the Watercolor card posted by Julie Ann Davidse on the My Digital Studio (MDS) site. She credited the technique to Patty Bennett’s watercolor card, also on the MDS site. I had to figure out that technique!

I ultimately found the instructions on Cindy Schuster’s Watercoloring Technique video and her MDS Watercolor Technique Tutorial blog post. I’m not 100% sure who came up with the instructions originally, but those are the examples and sites that inspired my Thanksgiving Watercolor Card:

Thanksgiving Watercolor Card

I wanted to try something other than flowers, and a splashy fall tree seemed like a perfect option. As the saying goes around here, you can tell Fall is proof that God’s a Hokie.

It looks a bit more like an impressionist’s painting to me because of the colors are deep. I used the same basic technique that was described in the tutorials:

  • I changed the background to Very Vanilla.
  • I stamped the Dutch Elm from the Lovely as a Tree set in Early Espresso and resized it to fit the card.
  • I stamped the Splatter from the Extreme Elements set in Cherry Cobbler and in Pumpkin Pie.
  • I rotated and resized the Splatter stamps, and I changed the layering until I had the leaves covered and a color arrangement I liked.
  • I adjusted the opacity on some of the Splatter stamps, rather randomly, to add some lighter colors and give the image some depth.
  • I stamped the Splatter from the Extreme Elements set in Soft Suede and Early Espresso, resized to a much smaller size, to fill in the trunk of the tree.
  • I restamped and resized the Dutch Elm from the Lovely as a Tree set in Early Espresso, and aligned the images (I found this easier than moving the images up and down to get what I wanted).
  • I stamped the sentiment Gratitude Transforms from the Bright Blessings set in Cherry Cobbler, resized it to fit the width, and added the drop shadow.

So happy to learn this technique. I’m now reconsidering my Wish List to see is there are other stamps that would be great for watercoloring. Thanks to Julie, Patty, and Cindy for posting their examples and explanations.

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November 5, 2011

Thanksgiving Card for SQSC11

Here’s my second try at the Stampin’ Queens Sketch Challenge. Each Wednesday they post a sample sketch and some examples based on that sketch. Participants then use the sample sketch for their own cards. Here’s the original sketch for this week, SQSC11:

SQSC11 Design

And here’s my version, a Thanksgiving card using their design (click for a larger version).

Thanksgiving Card for SQSC11

I made the card with Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio. The paper is from the Blueberry Crisp Designer Paper Series. The ribbon is Not Quite Navy. The buttons are from the Ice Cream Parlor Embellishments. The sentiment is from Bright Blessings set.

Created with My Digital Studio by Stampin’ Up. The artwork used to create the design is Copyright © 2009–2011 Stampin’ Up!. All rights reserved.

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August 18, 2011

Happy Turkey Day

Happy Turkey Day card by tengrrl, on FlickrI created this Thanksgiving Hokie Bird Card with My Digital Studio as a swap for the Charlotte, NC Stampin’ Up Regional that I’m attending as a guest of my sister who is a Demonstrator.

The components of the card are:

  • Turkey: Circle Punch, Tall Heart Punch, Brads for eyes, and All in the Family—right arm for legs
  • Hat: Square Punch, Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware—square, and Black Grosgrain Ribbon for brim
  • Colors: Cherry Cobbler, Pumpkin Pie, Basic Black,and Whisper White
  • Background: Sunny Day Designer Series Paper, Sunny Day—Paper 4

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August 14, 2011

My First Project with My Digital Studio

In the last 8 hours, I’ve become completely distracted with Stampin’ Up’s My Digital Studio software. My sister bought it for me as a Christmas present. At the time, my computer had a dead fan and was close to complete failure, so I didn’t install the software. I figured I’d wait for the new machine. The new machine came in March, but I had work to do (and no overwhelming need to make a card) so I never got the software installed.

Next week, I’m going to a Stampin’ Up regional conference as the guest of my sister (who is a demonstrator). Typically, attendees bring card samples to swap with one another. I figured I didn’t have time to get anything done, and I’m not sure I could tell you which box my craft supplies are in anyway. No big deal, I figured.

Suddenly last night however, I remembered the My Digital Studio software, and I realized that I could probably design some cards in time since I could rely on the printer to help me. Okay, my software designs won’t be as cute and complicated as the handcrafted ones, but something is better than nothing. Besides, I figure demonstrators need examples to convince people to buy the software just as much as they need examples to convince people to buy the rubber stamps.

Thanksgiving Place Card Sample 1So over there on the right, you have my first creation. It’s meant to be a Thanksgiving Place Card, which could be printed out on an inkjet business card. Okay, I grant that it’s the kind of thing your average 5-year-old could create with paper and glue, but hey, it was my first project with a new piece of software, so I’m allowing myself not to be Martha Stewart-level designer yet.

For any Stampin’ Up folks who want the details, it uses Grosgrain Ribbon for the brim (Basic Black) and the stripe (Crushed Curry). The buckle is Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware – square. Background is Always Artichoke Stripe. The solid is Always Artichoke. There’s a square punch (Basic Black) for the hat, and the text (Arial Black) is in Crushed Curry with a 50% drop shadow.

I hope to learn a bit more about the software in the next few days and then make it a bit more sophisticated before we leave for the conference. If you have suggestions to jazz it up or pointers for the software, let me know. I’ve only been playing with it for 3 hours, so I have plenty I need to learn.

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