Happy Thanksgiving

I want to extend a warm and heart felt  Happy Thanksgiving  to everyone one of you!  I hope you spend time with those who mean the most to you: family and friends.

I didn't get a chance to create a new Thanksgiving card this year.  But, here is one of my favorites from a few years ago.

This card actually went with a magnetic message board I had made.  I love the lay-out, the festive holiday paper, and that adorable deer!  The sentiment is from Paper Trey Ink.  I just love the words!

Happy Thanksgiving

Foil + Alcohol

I think the title says it all!  The super talented Sue B. @ Our Creative Corner has a very fun challenge for us this week!  She wants you to try your hand at using alcohol inks and foil!  Ok, how fun does that sound!  Sue writes:  the technique of dripping alcohol inks onto foil has an amazing effect.  The item you make can be anything; a free standing decoration, or an element to place onto your project, experiment and have some fun, it is getting close to the silly season, so why not let go and free all those inhibitions and let rip with some color!  And she is right!  This technique is fun and unique!  It allows you to explore a different medium to paper crafting.  Here is what I did:

I made tags to go on the dinner table for Thanksgiving.  I thought these would be super chic at each place setting, in the middle of the dinner plates.

So, I'm pretty sure you can figure it out, but my foil and alcohol ink technique is the leaves.  I used 'terra cotta' and 'bottle' to 'color' my leaves.  I glued kitchen foil to a scrap piece of card stock.  Cut the leaves shapes with a die, and then let the ink drip!  I swiped the foil with some rubbing alcohol to help encourage the ink to spread.  I dipped the 'green' in the middle of the leaf and the 'orange' around the edges of the leaf.  I used my heat tool to speed up the drying time.  

I cut a tag from vanilla card stock.  I distressed it with a blank stamp and linen distress ink.  I stamped the text in crumb cake classic ink and the flourish in lucky limeade classic ink.  I edged the tag in corduroy distress ink.  I adhered the leaves, tied some beautifully dyed seam binding around the tag, and looped it through a brass button, and tied a tiny bow.  I stamped the sentiment in basic black craft ink and used clear embossing powder to help heat set the sentiment.  Viola!  easy peasy and a whole lot of fun!

I hope you can carve out a little time this crazy busy week, to play with your paper crafts! and I hope you play along with us @ Our Creative Corner.

Be safe this holiday season, and share this time with those who mean the most to you: family, friends, and neighbors.