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After all the turkey is eaten and the last of the leftovers are put away and the kitchen cleaned up, why not make some scrapbook pages of your Thanksgiving Day? It only takes minutes if you do it in My Digital Studio. If you prefer, make them the traditional way with card stock and embellishments. It will be something to treasure for years to come. Maybe your guests will want to help or make their own little album!
I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed Thankgiving!
As you are looking through lots of old family recipes as you prepare for Thanksgiving dinner, you might consider doing something creative with those real special ones. A friend asked me to do something with this favorite recipe of her mother's. I love how it turned out and I think she did, too.
She had already made copies of the recipe, so I scanned it again and printed on Very Vanilla card stock. I did a little stamping in the corners using markers on the stamp, which, as it turned out, gave it that lighter, more vintage look. The edges are sponged with Soft Suede very lightly.
For the paper flower and the bottom border I used the retired Springtime Vintage Designer Series Paper. It looked perfect for this project.
As I have said before, if you ever think your handwriting is not good enough for journaling or scrapbooking or writing notes in cards, just take a look at this handwritten recipe and realize how it brings the person to life for the people who knew her. Get off the computer and pick up a pen once in awhile! Your handwriting will be a real treasure to someone in later years, I guarantee it.
With an assortment of stamping supplies you can make more than cards or scrapbook pages. Explore your creativity and see what wonderful projects you can come up with!
For Stampin' Up! supplies, just visit my Online Store! Be sure to check out the Online Extravaganza from now until November 30.
Warmest of Wishes is a hostess stamp set in the Holiday Mini Catalog, and the wreath can be used on a Thanksgiving card or many other kinds of cards. It's a versatile stamp set. Check it out in my Stampin' Up! store. If you hold a Stampin' Up! workshop, you can purchase this stamp set with your Hostess dollars if you achieve $150 in workshop sales (OR if your own personal order reaches that total).
Stampin' Up! has made it very enticing right now to hold a workshop with your friends! Yesterday they announced the "It's Good To Be The Hostess" promotion!! If your workshop (or personal order) reaches $350 in total sales, you will get an EXTRA $35 in Hostess dollars to spend! That's $35 extra in Stampin' Up! products you will receive!
Contact me at Karen@Karenstamps.com to schedule your workshop between now and December 15 or to place your own order. Another way to "have a workshop" is to show the catalog to some friends and collect their orders. No muss, no fuss....if you would like to do it that way. Of course it is always fun to get together to stamp. Contact me if you'd like to participate in this great promotion but would like workshop alternatives.
Images copyright Stampin' Up! 2010
This card made with My Digital Studio.
Don't miss it! Stampin' Up! is having a Thanksgiving Online Spectacular Sale! It starts today, Nov. 22 and lasts until Nov. 30!!! Just click HERE to see items 20%, 30%, 40%...and even 50% off!!!!!
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50% off....MY DIGITAL STUDIO SOFTWARE (digital papercrafting program)
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Deadline for this Spectacular is Tuesday, Nov. 30th at 11:50 pm MT.
This is one of my all-time favorite things for Thanksgiving, even though it is not made out of paper! I'm not sure where I learned to make these, but probably in a magazine, could be about twenty years ago. I know I have made LOTS of these turkeys for class parties for my children in preschool and probably elementary school and they were always a hit! There are lots of similar turkeys out there made with Oreos or more pieces of candy corn involving frosting and all kinds of stuff. I always thought these were the easiest and still darn cute!
Supplies: Keebler Fudge Stripe Cookies, Hershey Kisses, candy corn, Kraft Caramels
Directions: Take a Kraft caramel and microwave it just a few seconds until it is slightly soft. Not melting or anything! Just a little soft. Have a Hershey's Kiss unwrapped and sitting on the plate or napkin and a cookie and candy corn ready. When the caramel comes out of the microwave, plop it on top of the Hershey's Kiss. Immediately "smoosh" the cookie against the backside of the caramel until it sticks. Take the candy corn on edge and stick it into the caramel. Voila! You have a turkey!
These turkeys are so fun to make for Thanksgiving! To make multiples, just have your ingredients ready to go. You can soften several caramels at a time on a paper plate in the microwave, maybe about six. You want to be able to work quickly when the caramels come out of the microwave so you can stick everything together. Have extras on hand because there will be some broken cookies!
I so enjoyed decorating these Mini Lunch Sacks #121031 for Halloween in the Holiday Mini that I decided to do one more for the first day of November. Is it really November already?! I guess so, and that means Thanksgiving isn't far behind! Wouldn't this make a nice little gift to take to someone at Thanksgiving? You could fill it with some special treat or gift or perhaps some little 3"x 3" notecards like the one I made. Once you start working with this beautiful Autumn Spice Specialty Designer Series Paper #120808 (also in the Holiday Mini) you won't be able to stop! This is textured, heavyweight paper so it really is rich and special. You can see another sheet of it in the background of my photo. Pair it with the stamp set "Day of Gratitude" in either wood-mount or clear-mount and you will have a wonderful way to stamp lots of beautiful fall projects!
If you need to place an order for any of these supplies, you can shop 24/7 at my Online Store. Just click on the "Shop Now" button!
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you today! Just made this in My Digital Studio!!
(not sure the dinner will get made, but hey, I made something in MDS!!)
Aren't these the cutest guys for Thanksgiving?! The idea was in our Stampin' Up! demonstrator magazine (I've mentioned before how we all can't WAIT to get it in the mail every month!), Stampin' Success, last October. I added the Hershey's Nugget candy wrapped in our Autumn Traditions Designer Series Paper. First I thought I would put the turkey feathers at the back of the nugget but I like them right behind the turkey. Then the nugget makes a good stand for the turkey and would great at each place setting of your Thanksgiving table! See directions below.
Here are the easy directions for the turkey feathers. You can use either Designer Series Paper (DSP) or card stock. The DSP is easier to fold since it is thinner.
To complete the turkey, you'll need some punches.
Color in two black dots for the eyes.
Cut a 3/4" square for the hat. Trim off a little strip for the hat brim. Perhaps trim a bit more to make the hat the right size.
It's really very easy and you can put your own custom touch to the project. Or just make the turkey without the nugget and adhere him to the front of a Thanksgiving card or bag!
Happy Thanksgiving!!
With the Christmas holidays fast approaching, I fear we almost forget to think about Thanksgiving. So today I got my creative mind back on Thanksgiving and wanted to use this cute little turkey, "Gobble Gobble" available now in the Holiday Mini (page 31) #116535. You'll be pleased to know it is one of the "Under $10" stamps! Here is the card I made!
My card base is Soft Suede, 4 1/4" x 4 1/4".
Autumn Traditions DSP layered on Ruby Red card stock.
Gobble Gobble Turkey stamped on Very Vanilla and layered on More Mustard and Always Artichoke.
Ribbon Very Vanilla Taffeta.
I had purchased this stamp set, Autumn Splendor, in the Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini, thinking about our upcoming (at the time) New England fall foliage trip. I knew it would make beautiful cards and scrapbook pages with fall colored leaves. Here is a card I made. I stamped the leaf with Basic Brown ink so I could watercolor the leaf with my Aquapainter and Watercolor Crayons to give it the fall colors. Then I painted over the leaf with the new Shimmer Paint in the Holiday Mini (Champagne Mist). The shimmer kind of covered the colors of the leaf but I think it still turned out well and I hope you can see the shimmer in the photos. You'll love the new Shimmer Paint! If you need any suggestions or tips on using it, please email me.
The card base is made with Dusty Durango card stock and the Designer Paper layer is Autumn Meadows from the Holiday Mini. Those are actually the two sides of the paper you see in the photo! The ribbon is Dusty Durango polka dot turned around so you just see the solid side. And for a greeting I used Teeny Tiny Wishes punched out with the Oval Punch and layered on the Scallop Oval Punch. You'll notice the leaf layer is sponged on the side, which I do think adds a lot....but just so you know, I decided to do the sponging after somehow getting extra ink from my fingers on the edges of the card. See! There are no mistakes in stamping! You can probably click on the photos to see them enlarged.
Here are some more photos from our trip!
Wouldn't you love to stamp some colored leaves??!
