Thanksgiving Turkey Card

The other Thanksgiving card I made this year is an adorable turkey!  I saw this cute die at Frantic Stampers and had to have him! I love how he turned out.

I made my base card in SU's More Mustard and the my layer was in Crumb Cake mounted on Very Vanilla, which I ran through my embossing folder - Basket Weave.  I used Chocolate Chip for his body and scraps of DSP for his feathers.  Each piece is a separate die cut and they all fit together to make this cute little turkey - too cute to eat for dinner!!

I used y oval punches for my greeting, which is a Cardztv Stamp.  I felt it needed something else on the front, so I tied some twine under the sentiment.

My inside sentiment is from SU and I hand wrote You!  underneath it when I sent them out!  I really enjoyed making this cute little bird.  Jennifer thought it was cute as well, as I gave it to her for Thanksgiving.  I'm sure everyone is busy getting ready for the big day tomorrow.  Jennifer called me this morning to tell me she and her Mom are making cupcakes for tomorrow - her favorite thing to do and the girls, Joe and I are going shopping for Xmas gifts this afternoon when they get out of school.  We must be nuts!

Everyone in the Pansy Patch wishes you and your family a wonderful Happy Thanksgiving!!

   Nancy            Rachel            Sarah

Thoughtful Branches Thanksgiving Card

I didn't have a lot of time to make very many Thanksgiving cards this year, but fortunately, when my friend Martha was here this summer we were playing around with her SU stamp set Thoughtful Branches she had just purchased.  I did most of the stamping and put them away and just remembered them,

It was kinda of fun how we made these.  We stamped the leaves in Pumpkin Pie ink on our Whisper White layer.  Then we used the die and cut out the tree leaves in Pumpkin Pie and placed it over the stamped image.  We did this upside down so it would look like a pumpkin instead of a tree.  Any little white spots that showed through we used our marker to color them in.

For the inside sentiment I had an old SU stamp I used.

We used the tree trunk for the stem of the pumpkin and die cut a few leaves to place on it using Old Olive.  Since I didn't have any Old Olive ribbon, I used my sponge daubers to color my ribbon.  I think they turned out pretty good.  Just another way to use that stamp set.

Well, Thanksgiving is almost here and NO, I'm not ready!  Lots to do the next few days!  Hope everyone is having a great weekend.  We are enjoying some beautiful weather, but that's about to change tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by,
Nancy, Rachel & Sarah

I entered this card in Cardz TV Anything Goes Challenge #4.

Birthday Card

Well, today is moving day for my daughter, Rachel and Sarah.  Lots of mixed emotions on this day.  I will miss their comings and goings, but it will be nice to have the place to ourselves again plus my stamp room back!!  The movers just left for their new house, so I decided to post this cute birthday card I made for a special friend.  She loves anything to do with ice cream, so I thought this card would be perfect.

Recipe:

Stamps - Honeycomb Happiness, Gorgeous Grunge
Ink - Watermelon Wonder, Crumb Cake, Basic Black
Paper - Crumb Cake, Watermelon Wonder, Whisper White
Accessories - SU Aqua Painter
Embellishments - Enamel Shapes

After I cut my layers, I used my Gorgeous Grunge splatter stamp on the Whisper White CS using both of my colors, stamping off once.  Then I stamped my ice cream cone out and colored it in using my aqua painter.  I cut it out and placed in on the center of my card using a thick dimensional so it would stand out.  I stamped my sentiment near the bottom and placed my little hearts.  I love these shapes.

Then I adhered it to my layers and stamped my sentiment on the inside.  I really liked how it turned out.  Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by,
Nancy, Rachel & Sarah

Jennifer's Recordable Birthday Card

I am in the midst of playing catch-up!  These days are flying bye.  It has been a busy week with Jennifer's birthday and then with everyone here celebrating Halloween.  My daughter has also started moving things into their new home so chaos is everywhere!  Poor little Joey - their Chihuahua - is so confused he is following me around everywhere!  I wanted to show you the birthday card that I made Jennifer.  I was so pleased how it turned out!  I had made her a recordable card for her 1st birthday and she loves to play it, so I decided to make her another one.  I took me awhile to find one which was buried in craft stuff but after a good hour I finally found it.

I had purchased a few of these from SU.  I don't think they sell then anymore.  I layered a piece of DSP on the front flap and then a layer of Daffodil Delight.  I used SU's Honeycomb Happiness stamp set and the # of Years set.  I stamped the little bird twice - once on the layer and then one on the Perfectly Artistically DSP (the beige side) and shaded his little tummy.  I stamped my balloon on the layer and then fussy cut the bird out and adhered is over the stamped bird on the layer.  It basically created a mask.  I stamped the balloon again on the same DSP, cut that out and placed it over the stamped balloon.  For the birthday hat, I used the Hello stamp set and cut it out as well.  I die cut the number 3 from the same DSP, as well as with some thin cardboard to give it some depth.

Here is the inside of the card.  After we recorded our sentiment, I made a template using my circle punches, so only the play and sound would not be covered.  This way she won't be able to press the wrong button and erase over the recording.

For the other side of the card, I just layer a piece of the same DSP that I had used on the front.  She loved it!

When we got to her house for her party last Saturday this is what greeted us!

My daughter and her husband surprised her with a bounce house.  Boy did the kids love this.  They even had a slide inside that one could go down on and she actually did!  Even my husband went in - but not for long!  Oh, to be young again!

Here is a picture of her birthday cake - Princess Sophia - that is her favorite right now!

Before the festivities started my daughter got a picture of the birthday girl.  They always have the number of pumpkins that is her age.  We'll see how long this lasts.

This picture is her on Halloween in her giraffe costume!  They had a cute parade in daycare and these are the goodie bags I made for her to give the kids!

The girls had a ball with her this year,  She was definitely into going "trick or treating".  Today is our 51st Wedding Anniversary!  We decided to sneak out and go to our favorite restaurant for dinner. It was delicious!  I don't think I will eat for at least 48 hours!  Hope everyone has a great week!

Thanks for stopping by,
Nancy, Rachel & Sarah