Turkey Day Leftovers

TGIF once again, fab peeps, hope you survived the week!

Here in the States, next Thursday is our Thanksgiving holiday...which basically amounts to feasting on turkey, football viewing and frantically shopping for deals. Honey and I will be lunching with his family and then I suspect I will be in my playroom arting and crafting. It's always a peaceful holiday weekend for us as we quit doing the Black Friday shopping many years ago. Instead of putting up my Fall papers to get back on Christmas, I made one card and got 2 more started. So I must be on a scrap card roll, lol.

SUPPLIES:
Papers:  American Crafts and SU card stock scraps, patterned papers from my stash
Stamps: Lawn Fawn, Impression Obsession
Inks: Memento
Dies/Punches: Spellbinders Mega Curved Rectangle Nesties, Marvy maple leaf punch
Stash/Other: enamel dots, velvet ric rac ribbon

I used Feeling Sketchy's current sketch #229 as an inspirational blueprint, using the same elements but placing a few a bit differently and trying to keep the overall lines.  Since I wasn't following the measurements, I did not resize or print.

When I say I used scraps, I pieced together 3 snippets to form a base mat on an A2 card base I'd previously cut to have on hand. Here's a look at it. It was fun following and yet not following the sketch. I'm always so literal so departing is a stretch for me but I need to stretch more often!

I must have punched a bunch of these maple leaves. I used 2 as the corner elements of the sketch. I spent a good amount of time trying to track down where I got the sweet vintage collage sheet image, to no avail. But I do like how well these paper scraps go with the image's colors. It's a calming and peaceful look, isn't it?.

 Opening the card up, things turn lively! I combined 3 long scrap strips as a base layer across the inside. I spied a half-round snippet and used it to stamp my sentiment and turkey, and more strips for a place to write.

 Same strategy on the back of the card, using scraps and snippets along with a stamped siggie.

Final view of a clean layered style inspired by a fun sketch and the constraints of working with scraps. It definitely made creating it interesting!

CHALLENGES:
1.   Feeling Sketchy #229 -- sketch is shown above
2.   Moo Mania #205: Peace and Tranquility
3.   Ike's Art Challenge #126: K is for Kindness/AG
4.   Beccy's Place November Month of Holiday Cards: Day 2 B for Boy

5.   Your Scrapbook Place November Challenge: Always AG
6.   613 Avenue Create Nov. Challenge #227: AG + Opt. Scrap Your Stash -- details in post above
7.   Time Out Challenge #149: Celebrations -- I did not play the option.

8.   Outlawz Festive Friday Nov. 15-28: Anything Goes
9.   Artsystamper Digitals Challenge #4: Give Thanks
10.  Use Your Stuff Challenge #384: Moodboard -- I used the pumpkins and fall leaves

Thanks for visiting me and allowing me to share my creativity with you. Wonderful weekend wishes! XOXO