Thanksgiving - An autumnal bouquet of leaves.

Dawn here,  with another inspiration piece for this month’s challenge over at Die Cut Divas. Our May sponsor is Poppy Stamps, and the theme is Celebrate—a wonderfully open prompt with so many directions to explore. Birthdays, weddings, milestones, holidays… you name it.

For my project today, I decided to lean into a warm, seasonal vibe and create a Thanksgiving card.

I pulled out a few of my older Poppy Stamps dies—always fun to revisit—and paired them with a leftover piece from a recent gesso resist panel I created. That little scrap was just waiting to become something, so I used it with the Orchard Leaves die to cut a handful of textured leaves. I also cut additional leaves from a rich mahogany patterned paper to bring in more depth and contrast.

For the background, I spritzed a panel with Distress Spray Stains and Distress Oxide Spray in Tarnished Brass and Picked Raspberry. Once it dried, I trimmed it down to fit one an “Ardyth-style” 4.25" square card base.

To build the focal point, I die cut an orange ribbon and bow using the Poppy Stamps Grosgrain Ribbon and Grosgrain Bow dies. I adhered the ribbon across the background panel, then tucked the leaves on either side to create a full, autumnal cluster.

A Spellbinders hot-foiled sentiment, die cut and added over the ribbon, finished the card beautifully.

Another celebration card complete—and a lovely way to use up those special little scraps we all hang onto.

Come and join us at Die Cut Divas with you Celebration card - just remember to use your die cut machine.

Hello To Joy Clair Designs!

 

Our fabulous sponsor for April is Joy Clair Designs with everything from clear and digital stamps to dies, stencils and paper.  We are so lucky to have a wonderful sponsor with fantastic products and Joy Clair Designs is definitely one of those companies.  You'll love these products.

The Theme is Tic Tac Toe

The Prize is three digital stamp sets.

Arlene wanted to make a card for a dear friend using the top of the Tic Tac Toe grid (at least 2 layers, bling/glitter & red). She blogs at A Bit of This and That.

Cindy went with the bottom row (flowers, fun fold, washi tape) and created this curvy pop-up card.  Her card features Joy Clair Designs' Refresh The Soul Digital Stamp.  For full supply list and details, you could visit her blog:  Escape To Stamping.

Michelle chose to make stained glass looking daffodils choosing the center horizontal row-

Annie used the Count In Me set. Her Tic Tac Toe is Flowers, 2 Layers and Yellow.

For all the detail visit her blog Little Wings Creates

Lucille made her card using Joy Clair's daffodils with 2 layers, yellow and flowers.

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A Rachel Vass Designs January

Rachel Vass Designs

Sponsor for January

The theme for January is "Frame It" 

We all want to see how you "Frame It" and the Divas have done some "Framing" themselves.

Rachel Vass Designs specialized in beautiful floral hand drawn digital stamps.

The challenge winner will be able to pick 

three digital stamps from her store.

Our first Inspiration card is from Arlene at A Bit of This and That.

 

Lucille's card is made with another of Rachel Vass' digital stamps. Visit Whitepoints for details:

Cindy decided to double frame Rachel's Leafy Floral.  See full supply list at Escape To Stamping.

Michelle framed this single daisy from Rachel Vass Sunshine Daisies with an ornate frame-

 

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Sunflowers for Summer.

Hi, Dawn here to share a Summer card with you.

One of the fun things we did for summer as a child, was to grow sunflowers.  

I used this lovely flower from Bugaboo as it reminded me of sunflowers.  The best thing about digital stamps is you can resize and crop to make the image what you want.  I cropped the image and then die cut it with Simon Says Stamp stitched circle die.  I used some green patterned paper to cut a frame for the focal image.  I cut a white panel and embossed it before matting with the green paper.  I finished with a white embossed sentiment from Altenew

Do come and join us here  for this month's challenge.