Truly Grateful!

Hi there, Stampin' Friends!  Happy Thanksgiving to each one of you!  I would encourage you to take some quiet moments away from the feasting, football, and family to give thanks for all your blessings.  Blessings come in many different shapes and sizes.  Some days we really have to search to find something we count as a blessing.  We don't have to look far to find something to be truly grateful for even if it is a sunrise, a bird's song, a warm shower...the list goes on and on and on.  If you are feeling alone today, please know that you are not! Jesus promises never to leave us or forsake us and He who promises is faithful!  He can be your most precious Companion! If you seek Him, you shall find Him.  If you already know Him, embrace Him!

I truly am grateful for too many things to list.  Stampin' Up! is one of those gifts I am truly grateful for.  I can't begin to list all the blessings I have received through this adventure.  Today's card is for my family...my immediate family, my community that I consider family, my brothers and sisters in Christ and my Stampin' Up! family. Each one of you is a blessing and I am truly grateful for YOU!

A fun shaped card created with the Circle framelits!  If you move your framelit down just a little from your score line you can make a shaped card.  I used the 'wood' type background stamp from the set Truly Grateful behind the wheat. The seam binding is dyed with the ink refill. The woodgrain folder adds some texture.

Supply List:
Stamp Sets: Truly Grateful, Gorgeous Grunge
Card Stock: Early Espresso, Natural's Ivory
Ink: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake, Marina Mist, Crushed Curry, Pool Party
Circle Framelits, Woodgrain embossing folder, Lots of Tags sizzlits (retired), seam binding, linen thread

Please feel free to leave a comment and if you have questions, please ask! 

Happy Thanksgiving Blessings~
RaeDeen

Six-Sided Tree

I always admire the creative punch art cards.  I think to myself, "How do they see those creations in a punch"?  It never ceases to amaze me what some people can create with punches...lions, and tigers, and bears, and Disney characters...you get the idea....you've seen them too.  My vision doesn't seem to stretch that far.  Making a tree out of hexagon punch is stretching it!  But it felt good when it was all down on card stock!   So here it is...my six-sided tree...

Are you counting the sides?  Well the six sides come from the stamp set Six-Sided Sampler and the Hexagon Punch.  When you purchase them as a bundle, you save 15%!    I think this would also make a great masculine Christmas card.  There is a lot of texture and dimension created with embossing folders, stamping, sponging, and paper shaping the star.  A fun card without the bling.

Supply List:
Stamp Set: Six-Sided Sampler
Card Stock: Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit
Ink: Always Artichoke, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit
Woodgrain embossing folder, Stylish Stripes embossing folder, Linen Thread, Hexagon Punch, Merry Minis Punch Pack

Please feel free to leave a comment and if you have questions, please ask!

Blessings ~ RaeDeen

Walk in the Wild Postcard

 Hi there, Stampin' Friends.  That Postcard stamp stays close to my desk...just in case I need it and here it has found its way to card stock again. I have created a masculine card with a few layers and no bling.  The linen thread adds a nice masculine touch as does the Woodgrain embossing folder on the core'dinations card stock.

I ended up using a retired label for the "Thinking of You" because....I used my Stamp a ma jig and stamped the sentiment "perfectly crooked" and had to cover it up.  I like it this way though...it adds a little dimension.

Here are a couple of close ups:

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Supply List:
Stamp Sets: Postcard, Walk in the Wild, Gorgeous Grunge, Amazing Family, Postage Due
Card Stock: Naturals Ivory, Early Espresso Core'dinations
Ink: Soft Suede, Gumball Green

Woodgrain embossing folder, sanding block, Lots of Tags sizzlit (retired), sponge, and dimensionals, spritzing tool (retired), linen thread, aqua painter

Feel free to leave a comments and if you have any questions, please ask!

Blessings ~ RaeDeen

Wisteria Wedding

Hi there Stampin' Friends!  Today's card is the Wedding Shower card.  This one was a lot of fun to create.  I started out with an idea and it took a whole new turn...but that's ok.  I really like the way it turned out.  There is a lot of texture and dimension!

 

 

Supply List:
 Stamp Set:Express Yourself
Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Wisteria Wonder
Ink: Wisteria Wonder

Tulip folder, Woodgrain folder, Polka Dot folder, Hearts framelits, Bird Builder punch, small heart punch, pearls, pine branch punch (non-Stampin' Up!)

Please feel free to leave a comment and if you have questions, please ask!

Blessings ~ RaeDeen