Lots of "Grateful"....

Last entry I told you about the carnival we had at church.  Many people helped with it so I wanted to thank them all.  Here are some thank you cards I made to send to them. 

The card itself is Soft Suede layered with Crumb Cake.  I used retired designer paper for the front.   The basket of pears and the sentiment are from the Always Thankful stamp set in the new Holiday Mini.  I love this set.  I punched the pear basket out using the 1-3/4" circle punch.  To have a larger circle to layer it on, I used the Round Tab punch and punched one from Pool Party and one from Basic Grey and layered them to make a circle.  Neat idea, huh:?

Here is a close-up for that.  I colored these with markers and also ink and my aqua painter.

For the sentiment, I punched with the Decorative Label from Pool Party, then a 1-3/8" circle from Soft Suede and then used a die from the Lots of Tags die set and cut one from Basic Black.  I punched out GRATEFUL using the large oval punch.

I hope the folks who helped with the carnival liked their "thank you" cards. 

Here is the same card, made using designer paper from the Spice Cake series in the Holiday Mini. 

 As with the other one, I punched a 1-3/4" circle, layered a 1/2" circle on top and added a brad to put on the striped part down the side, just to add more interest.

I love this layout and have used it before and will probably again.  Hope you like it, too.

Smiles, Laura

Grateful....

I am so grateful to all of you for visiting my blog and to my customers for continuing to attend my classes and purchase Stampin' Up! suppliles from me.  I mad ethis card to send to a couple of customers who continually place large orders!  But it would be a wonderful Thanksgiving card, too.  Don't we all have so much to be grateful for!!!

This card uses the new Spice Cake Designer Series Paper from the Holiday Mini.  I think I told you already that I LOVE this series!!  I have used this layout before, but in different colors and stamps, it looks different.

This card is Pool Party and I used More Mustard and Chocolate Chip cardstock on the sentiment to pull out colors from the DSP.

Here is a close-up of the sentiment.  I used the Decorative Label punch for the Pool Party layer, then added a Chocloate Chip circle, and then a More Mustand tag punched using the Lots to Tags Die and the Big Shot.  The GRTEFUL is stamped on vanilla punched out with the Large Oval punch.  I love multiple layer sentiments on my cards!

The sentiment GRATEFUL and the  peck of pears is from the Alwasy Grateful stamp set in the Holiday Mini.  There are two more wonderful stamps in that set.  This is one you will want to use over and over.  Run, don't walk, to order this one!!  I know I'll be using it alot.  I colored the image in with my markers.  I punched the oval using the Ovals #2 die.

The ribbon on this card is the 1/2" Seam Binding Ribbon in Baja Breeze and Crumb Cake.  Those colors go well with the ones in this series of designer paper.

Thanks for visiting today!!  Come back soon!

Smiles, Laura