Challenge # 28 - The First Thanksgiving

The challenge this time is "The First Thanksgiving"  There are so many possibilities.  You can use so many different images.  Just for example, there is the ship, The Mayflower, food, Pilgrims, cornucopia, Indians, corn, and  of course, giving thanks.

Vicki

My card is an easel card.  I chose the turkey as my first image as the wild turkey is what the Pilgrims had.  It is a stamp from Inkadinkadoo and was colored with Copics.  The greeting "Happy Thanksgiving" is a VAP stamp.  The easel card is a very easy card to make using the Scor-Pal scoring tool and it sits up nicely so the main image can be seen at a distance which placed on a table.  The colors I chose for the card and matting were those found in a woods or forest and were compatible to the coloring of the focal image.

Valerie

Hi, Here is Valerie- I have made 2 tags for Thanksgiving. The background of each tag has been distressed with inks and sprays in wild honey, spiced marmalade, barn door and forest moss. The first tag has been decorated with some stamped leaves (stamps from Lavinia) and then with some sack linen, a German scrap, some decorative leaves and the text *Give thanks to the Lord for He is good*. The second one has a similar distressed and stamped background, to which I have added a flower fairy tag, some leaves, and another German scrap. I have printed a Native American and a Pilgrim Father with his child onto transparency foil, and laid them over the background. The text this time is in Hebrew, means *Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for He loves the world* and is spoken *Hodu L'Adonai ki tov, ki le Olam hasdo*. Here's wishing you all a happy autumn and Thanksgiving!

Petra

It was a good pumpkin year and the last ones are still to be harvested from our allotment! I am always very grateful for this vegatable as it is not only very tasty but also good fun to grow and to play with (lol). The base is a Kraftcard layered with Kaisercraft paper and an image from The Graphics Fairy. Lace, ribbon, flower, bling and wooden leaves come from my stash. The letters are from BoBunny. Thank you for looking!



Michele

I've also made a tag in honor of this special holiday.  My piece is representative of the harvest.  I've got some brown packing material affixed to my tag along with a bit of decorative paper from my stash.  Then I placed a vintage image of squashes and a hand offering a gift of flowers, both from the now-defunct Paula's Kits Club.  A bundle of raffia finishes it off.  It is always good to think of the things you are thankful for and this holiday offers a welcome moment for reflection.

Barbara

I really enjoyed making this card. First I got to use one of my favorite Thanksgiving stamps. It's from Paper Inspirations. I've had it for years and it's wood mounted so I'm not sure it's available any more. I also got to use my Tim Holtz Autumn Gatherings die for the side border. The image is colored using Copics. The leaves were colored using Pan Pastels. The image panel and border were adhered to a brown panel and then to a kraft card base. It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner, but then anytime is a good time to be thankful.

Starting the Christmas Season

I am always so late in making my Christmas cards and little gifts, but this year I hope to get things done without being in a rush at the last minute.  Well, in any case here is a start.  This post will have a lot of pictures which I hope you will enjoy viewing.

It is my Christmas Box, one which will hold candy and after it is eaten, becomes a greeting card.  Using your Scor-Pal is a must for this project.  Stamps used include those from Inkadinkadoo, Stampabilities, and Heartfelt Impressions.

Outside the box

Another view

Inside holding candy

When all the candy is gone.

A view of the different images

The greeting

Even this post was a little long, I hope you enjoyed it.  If you did, please enter my upcoming Christmas challenges as I and the Design Team would love to see what you are making this holiday.  I will be running my Christmas challenges a little earlier this year.

Thanksgiving Inspirations

Here are some additional inspirations for your "First Thanksgiving" entries.  We are looking forward to see what you create.

Vicki

When I think of the Pilgrims, I think of simplicity.  Therefore, I decided to make a very simple and classic card.    I'm not sure where I got the digital of the ship as I have had it for a long time.  The ship has been put on a black mat and then placed on gold cardstock.

As I make my Thanksgiving cards, I think about the many ways I am thankful.  I have so much to be thankful for.  One of them is that I have made so many friends - more than I could possibly have imagined- the past couple of years as a result of starting this blog. 

Petra

Thanksgiving is not only a time to be grateful for the everything we have but it always reminds me of my childhood days. When the crops were harvested and the fields laid bare, every day we would hope for some windy weather and then we would go out with our kites and have competitions which kite would fly highest (lol). In this spirit I kept my Thanksgiving card very simple (paper: American Craft, stamps: Waltzing Mouse) but added some little friendly kites.

Michele

I've made another tag for this Thanksgiving challenge.  One of my favorite Thanksgiving themes is the cornucopia or "horn of plenty."  This stamp comes from MadRat Rubber; she is a huntress with her beautiful dog and her cornucopia full of goodies.  To me it represents all the things we have to be thankful for.  In addition to having a home and food in times when many do not, I am also extremely thankful for the time and the ability to craft.  

Face

I love working with faces.  This card is using a face from CS Designs.  This one is Sea Nymph.   She is put in a diecut frame which has been modified to fit the size of the card.  I love the way the nymph peeks out from underneath the starfish  She is colored with Copic markers.  The background uses designer paper which looks like sand.   I used on the paper Highlight Cuttlebug technique which uses an embossing folder and then is highlighted with walnut distressing ink.

A couple of colorful paper flowers give additional color to the card.

I am entering this in Our Creative Corner's  Fabulous Faces.

New Design Team Member

I am so pleased to announce that I am now a member of the CS Designs Stamps Design Team.  These are one of a kind digital stamps created by Chris Stern.  These digitals are very unique and are so much fun to use.  You should go to her site and see all the different digitals and visit her blog Art with No Boundaries to enter the challenges and to see the inspirations created by me and the other members of the team.

I am so excited to be a part of this group of ladies as they are all so talented.  Thank you Chris, for letting me be a part of this wonderful group.

My card portrays the season, The image is called Solitaire Mummified from CS Designs.  I really like my greeting. It is from the "Family" background paper.  It reads "nothing is scarier than family".   Coloring was done with Copic markers.

I cannot resist.  I thought I would send this card to my daughter who just recently moved to St. Louis as all my other children are still near by in the Nashville area.  She will get a laugh from it as it is SO true.

I am entering this at Shopping Our Stash and Gingersnap Creations' Horror Stories.

Turquoise, Purple and Black

I made this card today for the Gingersnap Creations challenge. Turqoise, Purple and Black.  However, before I could post, company dropped by and I didn't get it posted in time.  Oh well, that is the breaks of the game when one waits until the last day to enter a challenge. 

In any case, I wanted to show my combination of colors.  I am fairly please with the way it turned out.  I made an easel card using a Stampin' Up medallion stamp as the focal point.  I decided to turn the Spellbinder dye sideways instead of up and down like I usually see it.  It gives it an Asian feel.

I made the easel card into a birthday card for a friend.  I hope she likes it.

Challenge # 27 - Halloween

I have decided to continue my challenges.  I hope everyone will continue to enter these challengess if for no other reason than enjoyment and to have their entry posted in my winner's spot at the top of my sidebar.  From time to time I will surprise the featured entry with a prize, but one will not be given for every challenge.

They will continue to run for a two-week period.  So you have plenty of time to create something.

October brings out all the witching and spooky images.  So with nothing more said, here are some ideas from the design team.

Vicki

My card features a design from CS Designs. The artist, Chris, has a number of images with different type masks in her Solitaire collection. On thist card is the Mysterious Butterfly. She was colored with Copic markers. I made the mask dark since this was to be a Halloween card. Also I think it makes her look like a Super Hero character ready to jump into action and go trick or treating. The image was placed on a black mat over some Halloween paper with spiders on it. To carry out the blue ghoulish color, I added a blue flower.

Valerie

Hi Everyone, Valerie here. This is a Calendar page I made for a friend. She got the calendar as a new year present, and I make her a page each month- This is the October page with a Halloween theme, as it is my fave holiday. For next week I will show you a little album I am making.

Michele

I love making Hallowe'en cards and this year I found lots of cool new images to work with. This image came from http://www.geckogalz.com/ a company I just discovered. I enjoyed pulling together cool ribbons, papers and other embellishments to make one of my first holiday cards for this spooky season. If you're making Hallowe''en cards anyway you ought to just come on along and join this challenge!

Barbara

It's that time of year when the Wicked Witch of the West (Stampsmith) becomes a popular character. It's the witching season of Halloween. Here she flies past the moon and is backed by a panel embossed with Tim Holtz' Halloween texture fade highlighted by the newly released seedless preserves distress ink. (Don't you just love that color.) Backing up the image is an orange metal panel which I crimped using a wavy crimper.



Falling Leaves

Here is a little card I made with Darla's cute little kitten watching the leaves fall.  I put the image on multiple different layers and colored the image with Copic markers.  Additional leaves were punched from paint chips and added to the card. 

This card was created for Digi Darla's Fall challenge and I am also entering it in Simon's Says Stamp and Show's Show your Stripes and Gingerloft Challenge Fall

Star Card

Here is a card that needs your Scor-Pal scoring tool.  It is easy if you have one.  It is made of a couple of  interlocking folds.

I did not do any stamping on this card.  The outside has purchased dimensional fall embellishments which I cut apart to use on the different flaps.  On the inside is some scrollwork, also purchased and some leaves punched out of different pieces of cardstock.  The greeting itself  was computer generated and the greeting and the mat for the greeting were cut with Spellbinders.  To finish out the card, I used a  little lace.

If you like this card and wish to learn how to make it,  then you need to go to my sidebar and push on the purchase button for the 3D and Fun Folds Dd.  There are approximately 70 techniques on this CD.  What a bargain!

Below are different views of the card:

The Outside of the Card

Closeup of Some of the Embellishments

The Opened Card

Closeup of the Greeting

If you would like to learn 70 techniques from one CD, don't forget to go to my sidebar.

I am entering this in Scor-Pal Guest Designer challenge.

Step Into My Parlor

"Step into my parlor" said the spider to the fly.  This card brings that saying to life.  I took black cardstock as my mat on a purple card base.   Before gluing it to the base I wrapped it with twine.  On top of that I placed my imaqge from CS Designs which was colored with Copic markers. 

On the right side I made a shrine or "parlor" which is held closed by the greeting.  When open, the parlor is filled with spiders on a commercial web.  In the corner is a pumpkin gritting its teeth.

I am entering this in  Paper Take Weekly. Forever Night and Creative Card Crew challenges.

Second Week of Halloween Challenge

Here are some additional inspirations for your Halloween entry.  You have a week left to create something creepy, ghostly or scary.  It does not have to be a card.  It can be anything including an ATC, wall hanging or a canvass.

Vicki

This time I made a little sweet treat hanger. I highlighted the embossed web with black ink. I like using it over printed designer paper. The little witch watching over the treat is by CS Designs.. She is colored with Copic markers.   Having a Scor-Pal scoring tool makes this an easy project.

The little holder is a "sneak peak" of one of the new projects on the Technique Junkies' 3D and Fun Folds CD. It has 70 techniques on it and can be ordered from my sidebar.  This is one CD you don't want to miss.

Petra B

BOO

... a truly sweet Halloween BOO! When I saw the image from Bumble Buttons, I couldn't resist it. It is just too cute. I made the image the focal point of my card and layered it on patterend digital paper (Chrystal Wilkerson) and black card. To scare you I added the BOO buttons from Karen, the Graphics Fairy and stamped some little tiny spiders from Elzybells onto the card. Happy Halloween!

Michele S

I had fun using stamps and collage for this week's creation.  I used fun papers and stckers for my design and two of my favorite Halloween stamps.  The dancing Jack-o-lantern guy is by American Art Stamps and the howling cat is from 100 Proof Press.  Trick or treat?

Hi Valerie here. I have made an autumn / Halloween tag. The tag has been distressed with wild honey and spiced marmalade and the background has been stamped with a script stamp and some flourishes. the flower basket is also hiding a little skull, and a witch is taking off to do some mischief.

My Day

Here is a type of card I have not made recently.  It is a birthday card.  Since today is my birthday, I thought I would make one to remind me that I am a little older.  However, I already realize that each morning when I get up and I move a little slower.   I am thankful for each day and each year I get.

I used a piece of altered designer paper I had on hand on the right side of the card and took a piece of trim off a candle for the center trim.  The little lady is colored with Copic markers.