We Give THANKS

 Happy Thursday, everyone. Hope you are well. 

Another Thanksgiving card to share today. A 5.5-inch square card made flat to mail to my cousin. 

PAPERS: SU card stocks, vellum, misc. paper scraps

IMAGES / STAMPS: premade scrapbooking tags, EKS

INKS: Versafine Clair

DIES: Avery Elle, Lawn Fawn, W Plus 9

OTHER / STASH: Crafters Companion 6x6 Geometric Motif embossing folder, brads, Tim Holtz Seasonal Chit Chat stickers

I used Split Coast Stampers sketch SC608, which was already a square shape, so I made no PSE tweaks. I did not keep the 1-3 elements straight and symmetrical, instead choosing to give them a little loose movement, as if more casually tossed on there, lol.

I've mentioned my themed card bits boxes before. I had saved the 3 tags (plus one more still to be used) leftover from a very old scrapbooking kit that had premade elements. They are very, very dated to our eyes that stay up on the trends and styles, but my card recipient won't see them that way at all and only in a positive light. So, no real reason not to use them. I like their vintage collage-ness. 

The base mat is a sheet of gold vellum I dry-embossed using a 6x6 folder. I fussy-cut trimmed the outside perimeter to lose the straight edges, then I used my trusty Fiskars finger knife to cut the centers of some of the geometric interconnecting rings (some may know this as the wedding quilt pattern). 

Going back to my box, I found the large THANKS die cut. I matted it with a bit of scrap card stock that I also used to cut the bottom banner strip. I cut an orange strip leftover from the card base with an XOXOX die and adhered it on top of the horizontal banner strip that's underneath the THANKS.

I attached leaf brads to the top of each tag and added the words We and Give from Tim's Seasonal Chit Chat sticker book, then matted with more card stock scrap before adhering to the leaf tag.

Inside, I used the same inner sentiment as I used in my last card. I printed out a few because well, I like the quote and this year is unusual since we are not gathering as a family.

For the back, I collaged together a few scraps of papers from the theme box, and stamped the siggie directly on top.

A final view. I will have one more Thanksgiving art share. Thanks for dropping by! XOX

MY CHALLENGE PLAYLIST:

1.   Split Coast Stampers sketch SC608

2.   Scrapping 4 Fun #179: Give Thanks/Thanksgiving/Gratitude -- Entry #3/4  

3.   Crafty Gals Corner #213: Thankful -- Entry #3/3

4.   Die Cut Divas Nov: Thanks/Thanksgiving -- Entry #3/4 -- I've used an embossing folder and 3 dies.

5.   Outlawz Saturday Paper A la Mode 11/7-11/20: Give Thanks Entry #3/No limits

6.   Use Your Stuff #410: Tic Tac Toe  - I chose diagonal row Any Sketch (see above)/Favorite Color (right now, it's the Fall oranges/browns)/Button ( 3 on the center tag) Entry #1/no limits

7.   Paper Funday #23: AG + Opt. Give Thanks/Thankful/Grateful -- Option played! Entry #3/4

8.   Crazy 4 Challenges #C4C560: Give Thanks

9.   Double Trouble #71: All the Trimmings Partnering with Paper Funday -- Thing 1 Trouble Maker: This time I chose diagonal Embossing/Free Space/Dies. Thing 3 Twisted Sister: Sentiment-al I have "We Give THANKS" on front. Thing 2 Double Dare: I have shared with PF, see Challenge #7 above.  

10.  Sisterhood of Crafters: Embossing (Wet or Dry) -- I dry-embossed the vellum base mat.

11.  The Crafters Cafe #255: Embossing, Wet or Dry -- I dry-embossed the vellum base mat. Entry #3/5 + 11 challenges max.