More Thanksgiving Decor Ideas

Hello!  With Thanksgiving being tomorrow, I wanted to share the last few items I've been making this week.  I volunteered to help 'decorate' the dinner table at my sister-in-law's house, and I will show you part of that today.  The other part, you'll have to come back tomorrow to see!  :)  I've had a lot of fun with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die from Stampin' Up!  It works with a Sizzix die cut machine or a cuttlebug, which ever you have. I've cut out so many different kinds of leaves.   I even cut some leaves out of felt for my son to play with and make pictures with.  Today I decided it would be fun to cut out a ton of leaves in many different colors and then sew them together as a garland, since that seems to be very trending right now.  I just put all the leaves in a pile, mixing together the colors and shapes, and then as I sewed one, I just pulled another random leaf from the pile to sew next, and here's how the garland turned out.  (These pictures aren't the greatest, but the sun hadn't come out yet, so it's crummy indoor light.  And I wasn't able to get a great picture of the entire garland from one end to the other, but it actually spans the length of my couch.)

I used various colored card stocks and some with texture, and I love the leaves! I used them again when I made this "Give Thanks" banner.  I love banners, so this was a 'duh' idea.  I really love the look of the champagne glimmer letters up against the many colored leaves.  As I was putting the banner together, I thought about making rosettes to go under the leaves, but that will have to be a project for after Thanksgiving!

I know this last picture isn't the greatest, but maybe I'll get a new camera for Christmas!  Crossing my fingers!  Anyway, thanks for stopping by today, and don't forget to come back tomorrow for one last Thanksgiving project!  I am excited to share it with you!  See you tomorrow!

Another Fall Card

Hello!  Happy weekend to you!  I hope you're enjoying it.  I sure am!  I shared a fall card a week or so ago and wanted to share a card like it with a different color scheme.  I love this card and knew that I'd be making a ton of them when I first saw it.  Here's the card.  You've seen it in pool party with crushed curry, but I was out of pool party so I decided to improvise a little and I'm happy with the result!

I think the champagne glimmer paper really makes the card!  I also love the birch paper in the background from the Thankful tablescape simply created kit.  I will say, that kit is a must have!!!!  You can still order it in time for arrival before Thanksgiving, or after Thanksgiving is over, you can order it to scrapbook your Thanksgiving memories. Order all the supplies to make this card in my online store here.  The greeting is from the Another Thank You photopolymer stamp set, one of my new favorites!  I love the photopolymer stamp sets.  They're awesome.  They stamp great, cling to the blocks great, are easy to clean, easy to re-stamp if your image doesn't come out just right, they're very affordable, and they come in a compact, easy to store package, which is great for all of us crafters out there who are short on space!  I also love thank you stamps, since I send a lot of thank you's, and this set is great because it has all different sized stamps in many different fonts, so there's sure to be a stamp for every project and card you're making!  And last but not least, I am in love with the Autumn Accents Bigz Die.  I love leaves and fall, so this die was made just for me!  It's a great die to have in your collection for anything fall related, and great for spring and summer projects as well, since you can make the leaves whatever colors you want!  This die has so many possibilities!  Cut out leaves with patterned paper, regular cardstock, felt, chipboard, vinyl, magnetic paper, wood sheets, anything!  You won't be sorry you ordered this die, I promise!!!  Order all these supplies and other high quality Stampin' Up! supplies in my online store here.  Thanks for stopping by today.  See you tomorrow!

Thanksgiving place settings

Hello!  Today I wanted to show you what I'm making for our place settings for Thanksgiving.  These are made using the Thankful Tablescapes Simply Created Kit from Stampin' Up!  I love these place settings, and they are so easy and effortless with this kit!  Everything you need to create these place settings is found in the kit except for the pillar candle.  Thanksgiving is only two weeks away!  Crazy!!!!  You still have time to order this kit from my online store and have them delivered in time for Thanksgiving.  Order them here.

Hope you enjoyed today's little post.  I'll be back tomorrow with another fall project.  See you tomorrow!

Gently Falling Card #4

Hello!  Today's card is the last one of the set that I made to go inside the card holder I posted a few days back.  This card is neat because of the technique it uses.  I'm not sure what the exact name of the technique is, but you cut a piece of card stock (for this card, I used a 3 1/4'' x 4 1/2'' piece), stamp your images on the piece of card stock, and then cut it into three equal pieces and adhere it to your card, leaving an 1/8'' of an inch between each strip.  Or, you can cut three equal strips instead of one piece, to avoid having to cut it up again when you finish stamping.  (You'll just have to line all three strips up when stamping to make sure your images line up.  But remember, if you mess up, you can flip your paper over and use the back!  If you are using my measurements, then each strip would be 1 1/2 x 3 1/4''.)  Once I had all my images stamped, I glued a small strip of early espresso card stock to the very bottom strip, added two brads to the top right of my top strip, popped the three strips up using Stampin' Dimensionals, and stuck it to my embossed piece of card stock.

I love the subtlety of the metallic gold encore ink pad.  It adds a lot to the card, in my opinion.  The gold was stamped with the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set, the leaves are stamped with the stamp set Gently Falling, and the Thank You is stamped with the Lacy & Lovely stamp set.  The colors used on the card are pool party, very vanilla, early espresso, tangerine tango, and metallic gold.  I love this card. I hope you do too!  See you tomorrow for some Christmas card ideas!  Thanks for stopping by!

Gently Falling Card #3

Hello!  I hope you are enjoying seeing these cards to go with the card holder.  Here's the third card to go inside.  This card is my favorite, by far, of all the cards in the holder.  The reasons I love this one the most is because I love die cut shapes, especially holiday ones (and leaves are really fun), I love the glittery leaf die cut from the Champagne glimmer paper from Stampin' Up!, I love the tag embossed with the woodgrain embossing folder and the birch paper in the background.  They both add great texture that gives the card an additional fall feel.  I also really love the colors used.  I would never have come up with them on my own, and I love how well they go together.

The birch paper is from the Thankful tablescape simply created kit, as is the yellow maple leaf, the pool party leaf and the champagne glitter leaf are cut with the Autumn Accents Bigz die, and the thanks stamp is from the new Another Thank You Photopolymer stamp set.  I really love this card and plan to make a ton more of it!  I hope you were inspired by today's post.  Check back tomorrow for the last card in this series.  After that, I'll be showing off some Christmas cards to help you get ready!  See you tomorrow!

Gently Falling Card #2

Hello!  Here's another card from the card folder I made with Mayra.  I love all the cards in the folder, and couldn't wait to show them to my family and to all of you.  I hope you're getting some great ideas for fall cards to send to your friends and family, and to decorate your home for Thanksgiving!

This is another card using the stamp set Gently Falling from Stampin' Up!, the greeting is from Lacy and Lovely, and the strip of patterned paper is from the Thankful tablescape simply created place setting kit (Item # 132164, $19.95).  It was the napkin holder, cut into pieces to make several of these cards.  A great way to use up your left over pieces if you didn't use a whole kit, or another use for that great kit!  I love everything in that kit and have so many ideas for how to use each and every piece that comes in it.  It doesn't have to be just for place settings.  You can make cards with all of the paper, use the chalkboard pieces for labeling jars in your kitchen, organizing your linen closets or your kids toys, your scrapbook/crafting supplies, garden supplies, and you can also use the napkin holders in the kit to turn into a 6 x 12'' scrapbook tied together with binder rings or ribbon.  I'll have to show my scrapbook later on this month.  Anyway, I hope I've given you some ideas for how to use that kit, so now go order it!  :)  It's a great deal for all the items you get in the kit.  You can order it through my online store here.  Thanks for stopping by today, and I'll see you tomorrow!  Two more cards left to show you, and then I'll show you a few of my Christmas cards for all of you early birds getting a head start!

Gently Falling Card #1

Good morning!  Thanks for stopping by to see more of my cards from the card holder I showed yesterday.  I really love this project I made designed by my friend Mayra.  It's a card holder that holds 4 cards and 4 envelopes to give as a gift to someone.  Such a beautiful gift!  I'd love to be the recipient of something such as this, what about you?

 The cards are absolutely stunning!  Each and every one of them are elegant and beautiful.  I might have a hard time giving these cards away!  Here's the first of four cards I made to go in the card holder.  You'll have to stop by tomorrow and keep coming back to see all of them!  :)

I used the wood grain embossing folder on the larger piece of very vanilla card stock to add some texture and dimension, and the 'twine' is strings from Stampin' Up!'s burlap ribbon.  You cut the finished sides off the ribbon and 'fray' it to get individual strings.  I tied it around some paper from the Thankful tablescape place setting kit and stamped a leaf from the Gently Falling stamp set.  The greeting is from the Lacy and Lovely stamp set.  Check back again tomorrow for some more of this set!

Gently Falling Card Holder

Hello!  Over the next five days, I'm going to be showing you a card holder I made with my friend Mayra.  She comes up with the greatest ideas!  I saw the card holder and the cards that go inside it, and loved them all immediately.  You'll want to check back everyday to see all the cards!  Here's the card holder for today.

The holder is made with a single sheet of 8 1/2 x 11'' card stock, and then tied off with some soft suede taffeta ribbon.  I stamped everything in the card holder with the stamp set Gently Falling.  It's a great fall set.  I absolutely love it!  Each year I tell myself that I don't need a new fall leaves set, because I already have this one, but now I want this one too!  I comes with 12 stamps: 6 solid images, and then 6 outlines to stamp over the image if you would like to step up your stamping.  The colors I used were pool party, early espresso, very vanilla, tangerine tango, crushed curry, and papers from the Sweater Weather Designer series paper pack, and also paper from the Thankful tablescape place settings kit.

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow to see more of the contents of the card holder!