Thanksgiving Turkey Card

Hello everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful day.

Do you send out Thanksgiving cards?  
Sometimes I do and some times I don't.

I happened to find this turkey all colored and 

ready to go, in my stash.

I fussy cut him and added him to a

pieced panel that I had just made.

I thought the colors were perfect for a 

fall/Thanksgiving themed card.

On the inside I used a small strip of the 

front panel that I had cut off, just to

give it a little more interest.

I think I'll be sending this card to my

100 yr old Aunt in North Carolina.

Who doesn't love to receive a card in the mail?

If you send out cards for Thanksgiving, have

you made them yet?

Thanks for coming to spend a little time

here, I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

get those cards made and 

ready to go.

 

Give Thanks

Hello crafty people!

Thanksgiving is this week, so I thought I'd share a
"gift thanks" card with you.

I used a piece of eco-printed paper from my stash

for this card.  Having a stash of background papers

makes putting a card together so quick and easy.

I found the sentiment in my stamps stash and

simply stamped it, trimmed it out and adhered it to 

the card with some foam tape.

Easy peasy!

Thank you for coming for a visit and I wish you

a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope you are able to 

spend it with family and friends.

I have a great deal to be thankful for and

crafting and the ability to share it with

y'all is one great blessing in my life.

I hope you will stop by again soon.

Until then,

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Give Thanks

Hello crafty people, I hope you're having a beautiful day.

It's getting to that time of year that we need to think

about making several kinds of cards.

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Today I'm showing you a card I made to send my

Aunt Marilyn for Thanksgiving.

All the supplies came from my stash and actually 

the leaves were punched from some pieces that I had 

put into my recycle box.  Those little scraps did come in

handy.

I used my Silhouette to cut the Give Thanks 

using the Keep On Truckin font.

The inside is blank, as I usually do.

I will write a personal note to her rather than 

stamp a greeting.

Thanks for stopping in today.

Have you started any of your holiday cards?

Come again soon.

Until then,

be thankful.

 

Thanksgiving Onesie

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you are having a wonderful Thanksgiving

and have lots to be thankful for.

I know I do and one thing I'm extremely thankful for

is my granddaughter, Marie.  She has brought joy,

love and sweetness to this difficult time.

My daughter in law had some onesies sent to me

and told me to do whatever I wanted to them.

Marie needed a onesie for Thanksgiving and this

is what I came up with.

She has the best chubby legs ever and 
I thought this suited her perfectly.

Jaryd and Sara love it and I know she's looking 

cute in it with her "turkey" pants.

Here's a picture of Marie with her Thanksgiving 

onesie, but she doesn't have her turkey pants on yet.

Thanks for stopping by,

come again soon.

You never know what you'll see on 

Kristie Kreates!

 

Thanksgiving Card

November is upon us.
For me November is special for a couple reasons.

My birthday is in November and it's the month

where I concentrate on things I'm thankful for.

Today's project is a card that I will be sending to 

my Aunt Marilyn.  Aunt Marilyn was my Mom's 

best friend for almost 90 years.  She lives in a nursing home

in Charlotte, NC and is now 97 yrs old.  She is one of the

sweetest ladies you'd ever meet.

This card started out as a Halloween card,

I sketched the pumpkin, then decided to cut it out

into pieces, and layered it onto the patterned paper.

The leaves at the top and the stem are cut out from a

patterned paper that is all leaves and flowers.

I thought it looked more like a Thanksgiving card

than a Halloween card, and will be perfect to send to her.

I am so thankful that I have had Aunt Marilyn in my life

and that she can still be part of my life.

I haven't been able to see her, because of Covid,

but I've talked to her and she is doing well.

She did test positive for Covid earlier in the year,

but luckily she didn't have any symptoms.

She's one strong lady!

Do you have someone special, like this, in your life?

Here's a picture of my sweet Aunt Marilyn,

this was taken at the beginning of Covid when

the nursing home had just closed to visitors.

They set up a photo booth and put a sign next

to her that said I miss you and sent me this beautiful

picture.  Doesn't look 97 yrs old, does she?

Thanks for stopping by today and spending a little time

here.  I hope your come again soon,

until then,

let someone know you're thankful for them.

 

Autumn Greetings

Happy Autumn!

I'm not crazy about the fall time,

I don't like the cooler weather,

but I do love the colors of fall.

The trees are so beautiful and the leaves on the

ground are so pretty.

The card I have today is kind of a mash up of a

 cards that I saw on blogs.

This is kind of how inspiration works for me.

I see different techniques and designs and end up 

combining them into something that I like.

For this card, I started with a piece of white card 

stock.  I used different colors of Distress Inks to 

cover the front of the card stock.

I then found all the leaf stamps that I had,

 and stamped them onto the 

colored card with brown Color Box Chalk Ink.

I used 2 rectangle layering dies to cut the

 window in the card.

The outside was adhered to the card base.

The frame was layered with craft foam and card stock

 cut with the same dies to give dimension to the frame

around the window.

I used the frame as a guide to adhere the inside piece

to the back of the window.

I used a piece of acetate that was from some packaging

that I saved to cover the frame and adhered the 

colored frame piece on top of it.

I used a variety of sequins in the shaker window

as well as a few acorns and leaves that I stamped and fussy

cut.  I then stamped the sentiment and fussy cut that

and adhered it to the front of the shaker area.

For the sentiment inside I used a stamp that I borrowed 

from a friend.  Sorry there was no company name anywhere

on the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you are enjoying the beauty of autumn.

See you again soon.

The supplies I used are:

Darice Embossing Essentials Nesting Rectangles

Inkadinkado Autumn Foliage Stamp Set

Large Skeleton Leaf (#90312) Biblical Impressions

Leaf (#3901)  QKR Stampede

Open Maple Leaf (#10501) and

Lg Open Oak Leaf (#10402) from

Eureka Stamps

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Give Thanks

Hello!

I hope you're having a wonderful day!

Today I have a Thanksgiving card to show you.

The other day I was trying something new that didn't

work out for me and I had a few of these pumpkins,

so I decided to make a Thanksgiving card with one 

of them.  This is what I came up with.

I cut the pumpkin and the vine/leaf 

from some paper that I had in my stash

using a die and the Cuttlebug.

I used a bit of Distress Ink to tone down

the orange and white of the pumpkin

and give the leaf etc. a little variation,

then I glued the pieces together.

The striped panel is a scrap I had in my stash.

The "Give Thanks" is part of the 

Give Thanks stamp

(#34109) from Biblical Impressions

The entire stamp reads

"Give Thanks

to the Lord"

I masked off the part that I didn't

want to stamp before I inked up the stamp, 

removed the mask and then stamped directly onto

the card with 

Color Box Fluid Chalk Ink

The card needed a little something more,

so I added some bronze colors sequins

using Ranger Multi Medium Matte adhesive.

I left the inside of this card blank for the time being.

I may stamp a Thanksgiving message or write 

a personal note when I use this card.

I'm glad you stopped in today.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates.

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Cornstalk and Pumpkin card

Thanksgiving is so close

and that is the theme of this weeks

Eureka! Stamps Challenge.

Check out the particulars on the

Eureka! Stamps Blog

and then join in the fun.

I chose to use

"Cornstalk and Pumpkin"  (#29802) from

Eureka! Stamps

for my card.

For the background I taped a paper doily over white card stock,

then used a sponge applicator to apply

Distress Ink over the doily.

When I removed the doily,

I had a beautiful background panel for this card.

The Cornstalk and Pumpkin image was stamped with

brown Color Box Fluid Chalk Ink

and colored with water color crayons.

I love this simple image, to me it says

"Thanksgiving"

I like the idea of the Thanksgiving image

 over the "lace tablecloth" look of the background panel.

I used my Perfect Layers tool to get the perfect mats on

my card without the trouble of measuring.

Easy to use and perfect every time.

 

Thanks for stopping by today.

Why not stop by the Eureka! Stamps Store and

see all the wonderful images they offer

in red rubber and digital format alike.

 

Then stop over to the Perfect Paper Crafting site

and see how the Perfect Layers works.

And keep your eyes open for a give away, here on my blog.

I'll be giving away a set of Perfect Layers Tools one day soon

so come back for a chance to win.

 

Until next time, Happy Crafting!