Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  Hope your Thanksgiving is grand and the food is delicious.  As you gather around the table with family and friends, remember our military that is in a far off land and would love to be gathering with their family and friends, but they are off  protecting our freedom. As the saying goes ” Freedom is not free!”  Give thanks to them and say a prayer for their protection.  Are you planning on Black Friday shopping?  I wish you blessings as you fight the crowds!

This is a Stamp set I received when attending OnStage Atlanta, but have never used before.  It has some wonderful leave images as well as dies.  I didn’t realize that two of the leave dies are really embossing dies.  Found it out when I tried cutting leaves with them, so I ended up  using the one to emboss a portion of my art piece.  I like the way the card turned out.  It is a simple and easy card that makes a great birthday card.

My design comes from Sunday Stamps. Fun layout.

 

The base is Whisper White card stock as is the mat.  The three strips that make up the mat for the art piece are Nature’s Poem DSP and  Tranquil Textures DSP.  Each strip is 1-1/4″ and adhered with Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  After they were glued to the Whisper White mat, the mat was popped onto the card base using Stampin Dimensionals.  The leaves for the  art piece were stamped in Crushed Curry, Blackberry Bliss, and Crumb cake, then cut out using the Nature’s Root Framelits Dies.  They were glued to the art piece using Multipurpose Liquid Glue.  Two  Share What You Love Artisan Pearls were adhered to the upper left corner of the art piece.  The art piece is then popped on using Stampin’ Dimensionals.

The greeting is from the Dragonfly Dreams stamp set stamped in Blackberry Bliss on a scrap of Whisper White card stock and die cut using one of the dies from the Petals and More Thinlits.  Two labels were cut from a scrap of  Tranquil Tide card stock  to use for the mat for the greeting. A Blackberry Faceted Dot was used to embellish the corner of the greeting label.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today on this special family day! As always I wish is that you find encouragement and inspiration.

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Can you believe it is only 35 Days until Christmas Day. Are you working on your Christmas cards, you only have about 18 days before you need to mail them.  We have many great stamps to help you along in that process of your card making, just click my Shop Now link on the right side to check them all out.   Here is a calendar for your viewing.

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November 15-30 Host Code:  EE7BCTKX

Use this host code when you order and receive a free gift from me!  If your order is over $150, please do not use this code, but you’ll still get the free gift.  The free gift is your choice of any item valued up to $10.00 in the 2018-19 Annual Catalog or in the 2018 Holiday Catalog!  That includes some of the Host Exclusive stamp sets! 

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The 2019 Occasions Catalog and Sale-A-Bration are Coming Soon!                 

I can’t wait to create and share some of the awesome new products!  I am so excited about the Geared Up Garage Stamp Bundle and the most wonderful flower bundle called Climbing Roses.  I know I am going to create many cards using these to stamp set plus all the others.  There are just too many great ones to list in one post. There are just so many wonderful bundles and dies and you may faint from the joy of seeing them. We’re getting 2 new Blends colors , Balmy Blue and Mossy Meadow. Also there is gorgeous DSP  and so much more!

 

Ask for a Stampin’ Up! gift certificate for Christmas so you can order just what you want come January.

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Stampin’ Up! Products Used In Creating This Card 

Rooted In Nature Clear-Mount Bundle [148353] $72.75	Dragonfly Dreams Photopolymer Stamp Set [142924] $21.00	Picture Perfect Birthday Photopolymer Stamp Set [145519] $17.00	Nature’s Poem Designer Series Paper [146338] $11.00
Layering Squares Framelits Dies [141708] $35.00	Petals & More Thinlits Dies [145655] $34.00	Whisper White 8-1/2″ X 11″ Card Stock [100730] $9.75	Faceted Dots [146910] $6.00
Share What You Love Artisan Pearls [146927] $6.00	Blackberry Bliss Classic Stampin’ Pad [147092] $7.50	Crushed Curry Classic Stampin’ Pad [147087] $7.50	Crumb Cake Classic Stampin’ Pad [147116] $7.50
Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] $4.00	Stampin’ Dimensionals [104430] $4.00

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