Thankful Silhouettes | StampersAnonymous & The Greetery

Hi crafty friends!  Today I am sharing a colorful Thanksgiving card that I made using the Thankful Silhouettes stamps from Stampers Anonymous and Tim Holtz, as well as a stamp/stencil set from The Greetery.  The large wordy stamp in Thankful Silhouettes is everything a crafter needs for a great Thanksgiving background created. 

The supplies used:

Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz – Thankful Silhouettes Stamp Set

     Spellbinders – Windy Fall Leaves Press Plates and Die Set

     The Greetery – Oakwood Stamp and Stencil Set

     Spellbinders – Precision Layering A2 A Die Set

     Scrapbook.com – Heavy Weight Mixed Media Paper Pad (White)

     Spellbinders – Timber Color Essentials Cardstock

     Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Archival Ink, Ground Espresso

     Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Saturated Ink – Clay, Nutmeg,

          Cocoa, Cappuccino, Cantaloupe, Sherbet, Honey

     Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Spray Stain – Crackling Campfire,

          Vintage Photo, Squeezed Lemonade, Bundled Sage

     Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Spritz – Crackling Campfire, Squeezed Lemonade

     Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz – Grime “THS130” Layering Stencil

     Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Opaque Texture Paste

     Ranger/Tim Holtz – Distress Palette Knife

     Simon Says Stamp – Big Momma Foam Tape

     Ranger Heat It Craft Tool

     Anna Griffin Empress Die Cutting Machine

     Spellbinders BetterPress Letterpress System

Creating the Card Front Background

I cut a piece of white, Heavy Weight Mixed Media Paper from Scrapbook.com to measure 5-1/2” x 6” and used blue painter’s tape to adhere it to a hardboard.  Since I will be using Distress Spray Stain on the panel, I placed the large wordy stamp from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz called “Thankful Silhouettes” onto an acrylic block and stamped the image using Ranger/Distress Ground Espresso Archival Ink. 

Once the stamping was completed, I used the Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz “Grime/THS130” stencil and Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Opaque Texture Paste and partially pasted portions of the background panel in three locations on each background to add interest.  I cleaned up my stencil and palette knife and set the two backgrounds aside to allow the paste to fully dry.

Once the texture paste was dry, I began spritzing Ranger Distress Spray Stains in the colors Crackling Campfire, Bundled Sage, Squeezed Lemonade, and Vintage Photo.  I alternated between these four colors and small amounts of water until I got the look I was trying to achieve.  I dried the panel with my Ranger Heat It Craft Tool and, once relatively dry, I sprayed a bit of Distress Spritz in the Crackling Campfire and Squeezed Lemonade colors to give the background a bit of shimmer.  When everything was completely dry, I removed the inky panel from the hardboard and die cut it using the third largest die from the Spellbinders Precision Layering A2 A die set.  I also die cut a piece of Spellbinders Timber cardstock using the largest die from the Precision Layering A2 A die set for a matting layer.  I adhered the Timber cardstock to the front of a white A2 size card base and added Simon Says Stamp Big Momma Foam Tape to the inky panel and adhered it onto brown the matting layer.

Creating the Focal Point

For the focal point, I used The Greetery’s “Oakwood” stamp and stencil set.  I started by taking a piece of 4-1/2” x 5-1/2” white cardstock and placed it on my Simon Says Stamp “Stamp and Stencil Mat” and placed the first stencil from the Oakwood set over the cardstock and ink blended Simon Says Stamp Cappuccino ink over the acorns and a combination of Simon Says Stamp Cantaloupe and Sherbet inks over the two leaves.  For stencil 2, I ink blended the top three leaf openings with Simon Says Stamp Honey ink and the same Cantaloupe/Sherbet combination for the bottom leaf opening.  For stencil 3, I ink blended the branch openings with the Cappuccino ink.

Next, I placed the ink blended panel into my MISTI stamp positioner and began placing the stamps from the Oakwood stamp set over the ink blended images they coordinated with.  These are the Simon Says Stamp ink colors I used for each stamp:

     A – Clay

     B – Nutmeg (yellow leaves) and Clay (orange leaf)

     C & D – Cocoa

I removed the stamped cardstock panel from the MISTI and fussy cut it out since I didn’t have the coordinating die. 

Building the Sentiment

Utilizing the Spellbinders “Windy Fall Leaves” Press Plates and Die set, I used Simon Says Stamp Cocoa ink and the ‘Sending Autumn Wishes’ sentiment from that set and together with my Spellbinders BetterPress system created the sentiment and die cut it with the die from that same set.  I placed additional scraps of cardstock on the back of the sentiment to give it some additional strength and dimension.   

Finishing the Design

To complete the card, I added foam squares to the back side of the leafy focal point and adhered it and the sentiment onto the mixed media, card front background.  Lastly, I adhered the card front to an A2 size card base and that wrapped up today’s card.

Thank you for stopping by and checking out today’s blog post, I really appreciate it.  Until next time, happy crafting!

Thanksgiving 2024 | Happy Thanksgiving

Hi friends!  For today’s card I will be doing some ink smooshing with Tim Holtz Distress Inks and cutting some autumn leaves to frame this cheerful Thanksgiving (or Autumn card if you aren’t in the U.S.).   This project can also be found on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/@VeehattInspired .

The supplies used were:

  Distress Watercolor Cardstock

  Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Crackling Campfire, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick,

Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint)

  Sizzix/Tim Holtz Thinlits – “Fall Foliage” Dies

  Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz – “Falling Leaves” Stamp Set

Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink “Ground Espresso”

Studio Katia - "Autumn Borders" Stamp Set

  Spellbinders “Precision Layering A2 A” Dies

  Spellbinders “Crimson” Color Essentials Cardstock

  Brutus Monroe – “Penny” Embossing Powder

  Simon Says Stamp Clear Embossing Ink

  Taylored Expressions Anti-static Powder Tool

  My Sweet Petunia Misti Stamp Positioner

I started the project with ink smooshing Tim Holtz Distress Ink in the colors Crackling Campfire, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick, Candied Apple, Fossilized Amber, Squeezed Lemonade, Shabby Shutters, and Peeled Paint onto pieces of Distress Watercolor Cardstock.  I made four total panels using a random layer of the different ink colors.  I set these aside to dry (sidebar – I also used my Ranger Heat It tool to complete the drying when I was ready to die cut them).

Using Spellbinders’ “Precision Layering A2 A” dies, I cut my two matting layers – the largest die to cut an A2 size panel from Spellbinders Crimson cardstock and the next to largest die to cut a panel of from a scrap Distress Oxide sprayed background I already had in my stash.  If you would like to make a similar looking panel, I believe I used Distress Oxide in the colors Gathered Twigs, Mustard Seed, and Shabby Shutters.

Once the ink smooshed cardstock panels were dry, I used the Tim Holtz/Sizzix die set called “Fall Foliage” and selected some leaf dies in different sizes and die cut them from the inky panels.  Next, I selected three of the leaf diecuts that I liked most and used a foam applicator to apply ink to the edges of the leaves for a distressed look.  I followed that up by stamping a layer of interest to each of the three leaves using Ground Espresso Distress Archival Ink and the Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz stamp set called Falling Leaves.  I simply selected one of the rubber stamps that would accommodate each leaf’s size and stamped the oversized image onto the diecut.

I placed my yellow-ish colored top panel into my Misti Stamp Positioning Tool and placed the “Happy Thanksgiving” sentiment from the Studio Katia “Autumn Borders” stamp set near the lower center of my panel.  To ensure no embossing powder would stick where I didn’t want it, I applied a layer of Taylored Expressions anti-static powder to the area to be embossed and applied Simon Says Stamp’s clear embossing ink to the greeting and gently stamped it onto the cardstock.  I generously sprinkled Brutus Monroe’s “Penny” embossing powder to the inked greeting and used my heat tool to melt the embossing powder.

For the next step, I placed strips of Simon Says Stamp Big Momma Foam tape to the back of the front card panel and adhered it to the Crimson cardstock panel.  I placed thin foam squares onto the backs of the three leaf diecuts and adhered them above the sentiment on the card front in a single row.  Lastly, I glued the completed card front to an A2 size, side folding card base.

I hope you enjoyed the card and found inspiration for some of your own card making projects!  Until next time… happy making!

Thanksgiving 2023 | Turkey Day!

For my first Thanksgiving project of 2023, I’m using an adorable stamp set from Sunny Studio called “Turkey Day”. I love every stamp in this set, and I’ll show you what I created.

This card started with cutting a beautiful piece of patterned paper I selected from the Honey Bee Stamps “Halloween Harvest” paper pad to measure 4” x 5-1/4” and a black piece of cardstock to measure 4-1/4” x 5-1/2”.

I stamped the images I planned to use from the Turkey Day stamp set onto a piece of white cardstock using Simon Says Stamp’s Intense Black Ink. I colored all the images using Faber-Castell Polychromos colored pencils and cut them out using my Brother Scan N Cut machine. After that, I cut out two fence panels from brown cardstock using La La Land Crafts’ “Picket Fence” die and then blended Altenew Mangrove Root Crisp Dye Ink to the tops of the pickets to add a bit of depth to them.

Next, I used Lawn Fawn’s “Grassy Border” die to cut a strip of green cardstock to use as my grass. I blended Altenew’s Forest Glade and Green Opal Crisp Dye Inks onto the grass to make it look a tad more realistic.

I glued the picket fence to the card front and glued the grass along the bottom on top of the picket fence. To add the sky elements, I mixed a small amount of Ranger’s Opaque Matte Texture Paste with a dab of the Tim Holtz/Ranger Distress Snowfall Grit Paste. I positioned the Lawn Fawn “Nighttime Sky” stencil on the patterned paper and used a palette knife to distribute the paste mixture across two of the clouds for my card’s sky and carefully removed the stencil and cleaned it and the palette knife so nothing would dry on them.

Using Simon Says Stamp 3D Foam Squares, I adhered the colored turkeys and pumpkin to the card front. For the sentiment strip, I used a scrap of white cardstock from my stash and colored a space large enough for my sentiment strip with Copic alcohol markers (YR02 and E13) so it would complement the card front. I let the alcohol ink dry then stamped the “Happy Thanksgiving” sentiment onto the panel and used the largest die from Memory Box’s “Banner Sentiment Trio” die set to cut it out.

I adhered the decorated card front to the previously cut piece of black cardstock and adhered that to a top folding, landscape oriented, A2 card base. Lastly, I glued a scattering of sequins from This Calls for Confetti called “The Autumn Leaves”.

Until next time… Happy Making!