Happy Thanksgiving

 Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends.  I had shared all my cards I had made this year for family, so I thought today I would share a Diamond Dots project I bought last year for the Autumn Season and never got around to doing, so this year I was determined to get it done.  After I finished and I was trying to decide what to do with it, hubby surprised me and stopped at Michaels after work one day and brought home this frame, I wasn't sure it would work but it was called a floating frame and it worked perfectly for this.  I tried to get a picture of it without the reflection of the glass.

• Diamond dots kit from Walmart Fall of 2024
• Floating Frame from Michaels

For those that came to see a card I will share one of those too :)

For awhile I was pretty good at going through my scraps and not used items that I had cut out and ended up not using for other cards but I had gotten away from that and my bin is getting full so hopefully I will start to use up goodies from that bin.  For this card for my friend I ended up using a very delicate but I made on my silhouette machine, I have not used that machine in years so you know how long that has been unused. Some die cut flowers and a background that I made with our stamp group in one of our online meetings.

• Silhouette - Corner cut
• Background I made
• Spellbinders - Scalloped Classic Ovals die
• Crafter's Square - Sentiment stamp
• Altenew - Nature's wonders enamel dots
• Tim Holtz - Flower dies

So thankful for you friends who stop by and give such great encouragement of my cards, wishing you much to be Thankful for too!

Connie

Fall Fence

 These are my last two Thanksgiving cards, this first one that I stamped seemed a little bare so I added a die cut pumpkin to the scene :) I sponged on some ink for grass and then stamped a few little touches of grass. Some light inking of blue just so that it isn't so white.

• Penny Black - Fall Fence Stamp, colored w/markers and Pumpkin Parade die
• Distress inks - Mowed Lawn and Tumbled glass
• CRS Tapestry - Grass blades peg stamp
• 49 and Market - in the leaves rub-on sentiment

I would like to share this card with the Penny Black Saturday challenge 

Next up is another of the images my hubby made for me on the computer.

• Image my hubby made on computer
• Spellbinders - Classic Scalloped Square small die
• Memory Box - Stitched Rectangle layers die
• 49 and Market - in the leaves rub on sentiment

Well we have a wintery mix of rain and snow coming early Saturday morning, so winter is making it's arrival, I can say I am not ready.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Autumn Harvest

 I have a couple more Thanksgiving cards to share, they don't all have traditional sentiments on them this year but I am using what I have.

This first was using another stamp set.

• Great Impressions - Fall Garden stamp set, colored w/markers
• 49 and Market - In the leaves, wishing bubbles and trinkets (sentiment)
• Spellbinders - Labels 37 die

This next one I got recently at the stamp store in Missouri, more pretty Studio Light goodies.

• Studio Light - Charming Autumn die cut ephemera
• Jute twine

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Sisters

 Thanksgiving cards for my sisters, I went with a stamp and shaped card for my first, I know don't be in shock that I didn't use any pattern paper :) Going with a classic clean look. I did a little inking around the edges before removing the die.

• Inky Antics - Pumpkin Scenes stamp set, colored w/markers
• Spellbinders Labels 29
  
  

This next one I used an image from my daily calendar because of the message on it, my brother in law has been going through a lot of health problems over the past couple years and we got some good news recently, so this fits perfectly and they both like coffee :)

• Katy Daisy, Just Bloom 2025 Daily Calendar image
• Graphic 45 - Botanical tea papers
• Martha Stewart - Border punch

Even though this has been a rough year at times, we can always find things we are quite grateful for!

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and hope you have a great weekend!

Connie

Collaboration

 One time when we went into Michaels hubby found these beads that you put together and then melt them with an iron, he thought that was a neat idea, I told him I didn't think I wanted to try that and he ended up getting them for himself.  His first try didn't come out perfect, but he gave it to me and said I should use it on a card, so since Thanksgiving was coming up I thought I would use it for his sisters Thanksgiving card and that way it would be something from both of us.

• Beaded Leaf
• PPD - Burlap Swatch die
• 49 and Market - In the leaves rub on sentiment
• Diamond Dots

Next up is a birthday card for my nephew and I went with a Graphics Fairy image and some stamped leaves to frame it.

• Graphics Fairy - Leaves and branch print
• Hero Arts - Wood frame infinity die
• Stamp in up - Leaves 1997
• Sentiment stamp was in my scraps box

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie