More Thanksgiving Cards

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!  Here are a few more Thanksgiving cards.

Another Wallpaper Card

A wallpaper card

Matstacks and sentiments CD card

Another wallpaper card

Mat Stack Thanksgiving Cards

I'm focusing this season on making quick and easy Thanksgiving cards.  I have a lot of folks I want to express my gratitude to, and I've decided it is more important that I express gratitude to many in my life, rather than spending time making just a few cards that are more elaborate. With that in mind, today's cards are made using Paper Wishes "Card Greetings and Sentiments CD" - which I notice is listed as their current top seller - and DCWV 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" matstacks for the backgrounds.  Here are the cards.

The matstacks have nice coordinating papers and they are just the right size -- not a lot of waste.  The sentiments and turkey are from the Paper Wishes CD. For the "Happy Turkey Day" card, I printed them out, colored them with chalks, and then cut around them.  For the "Thanksgiving Blessings" card, I used a gel pen to go over the words so they were more the color I wanted.  Then I tore around the sentiment and chalked the edge.  This gave me a couple more quick and easy Thanksgiving cards.

Organization? What's that?????

This week I face the daunting prospect of tearing my craft room apart so new flooring can be put in there.  Since my craft room is also my office and contains my computer set-up as well as all crafting/sewing/painting supplies, the idea is rather overwhelming!  I DO hope that in addition to the new flooring, when all is said and done I'll have more great ideas for organizing things in here that I can share with you.  For now, however, I'm going to deviate from my normal schedule and post about Thanksgiving cards -- in fact, I'll showcase Thanksgiving cards for the next 3 days. 

Several of my Thanksgiving cards have been made the same way -- from a WALLPAPER BOOK!  I told a few days ago about how I was given these books of discontinued wallpaper samples when I was out running some errands.  One of them had a lot of border papers in it - and a couple of them were all about turkeys!  They make GREAT focals for the front of Thanksgiving cards.  Here are a couple of examples:

Aren't those great pictures?  Add a simple greeting and you've got a quick card!

Dry Embossed Card Focals

Today I'll show a couple more cards done with dry embossing - this time where embossing is the card focal.  I love the embossed look and it is so easy with machines like the Big Shot and embossing folders!  The first card is a simple Thank You card.  As Thanksgiving draws near, I want lots of thank you cards on hand to express my appreciation to those who mean so much to me.

This card simply uses a Cuttlebug embossing folder with Color Core card stock (from Core'dinations).  After embossing, I sanded it lightly to make the greetings pop.  Then I glued it to a coordinating light blue card for a quick and easy card.

This next card is more of a Christmas theme.  Many of us are busy making Christmas cards so we'll have plenty to meet our needs as December rolls around.

For this card, as you can see, after I embossed my green cardstock, I colored the raised bits.  The embossing folder was another one from Cuttlebug.  I mounted the embossed rectangle to the front of my card, used outline stickers to create a thin border, and finished it off with a ribbon and tag. I think it looks a bit like a Christmas gift.