It's the 20th of the month and that means another SplitcoastStampers.com Dirty Dozen Design Team & Alumni challenge. I was the hostess of the challenge this month and with Thanksgiving so close I decided to challenge everyone to create a thankful card or gift, Thanksgiving table placecard or treat holder, or Thanksgiving home decor item.
Required Element: At least one heart on your project.
Restricted Element: Nothing
Here's what I came up with:
This is a 10-inch square metal frame from Hobby Lobby. Using Spellbinders Assorted Leaves die templates, I die cut metallic cardstock (Prism Bronze Ore, Cappuccino, Copper and Flame) and then applied ink pads directly onto the die cut leaves, to give them some color variation.
I used Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk inks in Chestnut Roan, Dark Brown, Warm Red, Tangerine & Black. Then I crumpled up the leaves, flattened them back out a little and used regular and pop-up Glue Dots to adhere the leaves to the metal frame.
Fall colors of Creative Impressions ribbon was tied in one corner to accent it.
For the 3-5/8" x 5-1/2" opening, I placed Fall Splendor patterned paper by Fancy Pants into the opening and then created the vellum overlay piece by using my JustRite Harmony Rectangle Stamper and Special Occasions and Brayton font sets to create my custom "Thanksgiving Blessings" sentiment. I inked the three Special Occasions letters with a Red Brick VersaMagic Dew Drop chalk ink pad and the remaining Brayton letters with Jumbo Java, then stamped onto WorldWin's Inkjet Printable Translucent Vellum, leaving room for my heart accent. The chalk ink dried pretty quickly on this heavier weight vellum and I like thevellum because it was thicker and more opaque than the other vellums I've tried.
Side Note: While linking to the JustRite products above, I see that they still have their Fall Promotion going on -- 50% off of pre-inked stampers and Typewriter Letter sets! Those would make some fantastic holiday gifts, especially for school or church teachers. You can see all the sale products HERE. Then I also hear there will be a brand new Christmas sale starting on Friday -- I'm sure you'll be able to find out all the details on Friday at the JustRite blog.
Back to the final detail of my Thankful Hearts home decor frame . . . the final required element of a heart somewhere on the project. I used a chipboard heart and covered it with Adirondack Gold metallic paint dabber, colored the edges of the heart with the Espresso acrylic paint dabber, and then spritzed some copper Maya Road Mist on top. Next, I heat embossed a coat of UTEE on top, to make it shiny!
That's it for my project . . . be sure to check out this SplitcoastStampers.com GALLERY to see the projects the rest of the girls came up with! I'll be back tomorrow with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge -- yes, it's that time again already! This week has flown by for me -- how about you?
