CCM Saturday Blog Hop - Vintage Thanksgiving

Today's Create With Connie & Mary Saturday Blog Hop theme is Vintage Thanksgiving. I have to admit, I struggled a bit with this theme! I Googled vintage Thanksgiving greeting cards and found lots of Pilgrims and turkeys, neither of which I had available to use. So I figured Thanksgiving is all about being grateful, and I knew I could make some vintage, worn-looking elements and come up with a card expressing gratitude. 😊

After cutting the Crumb Cake DSP with the Deckled Rectangles (using the second and third largest dies), some Soft Suede ink was sponged on the edges to give it that aged paper look. I tucked a Distressed Gold Specialty Paper grid (die from the Chic Dies) between the DSP layers for some added visual appeal.

The leaf label also had its edges inked with Soft Suede, and the greeting was heat embossed in white. And I really distressed the 2 3/4" x 2 3/4" Distressed Gold behind the leaf by crumbling it up then smoothing it a bit and rolling the edges.

When the card was finished, I felt it still needed something, so I spattered some white poster paint on it (making a huge mess in the process) and added some Brushed Metallic Dots.

That's all for today - see you next Saturday! Up next is Libby Fens at Libby Stamps. Or click the "back" button to go back to visit Lori at Loritamarie Crafts.

 

Stampin' Up! products used:

• Stamps: Soft Seedlings
  
• Paper: Basic White, Neutrals 6" x 6" DSP, Distressed Gold Specialty Paper
  
• Ink: Soft Suede, VersaMark
  
• Accessories:  Chic Dies, Deckled Rectangles Dies, Heat Tool, Basics Embossing Powders, Leaf Label & Amber Gem Combo Pack, Gold Shimmer Ribbon, Baker's Twine Essentials Pack, Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots, Sponge Daubers
  

Christmas Banner Candy Canes

The Sweet Candy Canes bundle needed to be used at least one more time, this time using Merry Merlot and Polished Pink, with a bit of Quatrefoil Tile embossed vellum over the pink to soften the color.

I used clear packing tape again on the candy canes to give them a shiny look. This is such a clever trick! No need to wait for Crystal Effects to dry, and run the risk of smearing it before it's completely set.

The greeting and banner are from the Christmas Banners bundle. There wasn't a greeting in Sweet Candy Canes to fit the banner, and I wanted to use that banner because it fit so nicely through the openings of the Designer Tags label. The gold and white evergreen sprigs were from a die in the Christmas Banners bundle as well.

The Festive Pearls are supposed to be Cherry Cobbler, but I think they coordinate with Polished Pink and Merry Merlot, too.

Product List

Sweet Candy Canes Bundle (English)

Christmas Banners Bundle (English)

Whisper White 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Vellum 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Gold & Rose Gold 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Metallic Specialty Paper

Polished Pink 8 1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Merry Merlot 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock

Merry Merlot Classic Stampin' Pad

Stitched Rectangles Dies

Designer Tags Dies

Quatrefoil Tile Embossing Folder

Festive Pearls

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Sweet Candy Canes Again

This card turned out exactly the way I pictured it in my head! That rarely happens, LOL. I wanted to have a textured background behind the Merriest Frames, but none of my embossing folders looked right, so I pulled out the Simply Scored board and went to work making lines every 1/8" with the stylus. I love the subtle corrugated look! Unfortunately, I had a hard time getting the lighting right when I was taking the pics, so you can't really see it.

I learned a trick from my upline's Facebook group. You can use clear packing tape over your stamped image before die cutting to make it shiny (similar to Crystal Effects), so I made the candy canes shiny, like they would be in real life!

Anyhoo, here it is - the masterpiece I imagined a few days ago. 😁