October D's Stamping Team USA Giving Thanks Blog Hop

Hello!  Hope you have been having a wonderful week so far!  October's D's Stamping Team USA Blog Hop is all about Giving Thanks.  I hope you'll stop by everyone's blog to check out the inspiration!  If you've already been hopping you should have landed here from Deb Naylor's fabulous blog!  Deb was kind enough to join us this month as a guest hopper and we are so excited to have her!

I decided to make a flap card with the Thankful Friends Stamp Set.  Here's my Giving Thanks Blog Hop card

I just love the bear in this set.  He's so stinkin' cute!  For the sentiment, I used sponge daubers to add Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, and Hello Honey ink to my stamp.  

Here's the Inside of my card.

The next best thing to that super cute bear is that precious fox!  lol  For my sentiment on the inside of the card I used the Watercolor Words stamp set.  I really love the boldness of these sentiments!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Please make sure to click the Next button and hop over to my friend, Megan Thompson's blog!  

Here are the Stampin' Up Products that I used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

SIP Challenge #16 Cardmaker's Choice Thankful Forest Friends

Good morning!  Have you ever purchased a stamp set and immediately had an idea of what you wanted to do with it?  Well I sure did with my new Thankful Forest Friends set!  The problem was that all my ideas were falling flat.  I fussy cut so many bears and foxes that my hand was cramping!  But I loved this set and this week's SIP Challenge is all about Cardmaker's Choice and I just knew I wanted to use this set, it was my choice, right??

Well after a lot of playing around with my fussy cut bears and foxes I decided that my bears needed a forest, after all they are Thankful Forest Friends.  Then it came to me..... I had a die that I bought last year with some cool pine trees.  So I pulled out my never used die that I just had to have last year and cut it out in both Old Olive and Early Espresso so I could cut and piece together so my pine trees would have brown trunks.  Here's what I came up with after all of that playing around.

I started with an Early Espresso A2 cardbase.  I added a layer of Soft Sky cardstock and a couple of Old Olive stitched hills.  My Old Olive Pine tree die cuts were sponged with Old Olive Ink to give the trees some dimension.  I made a banner for the bears to hold with a sentiment from the Lighthearted Leaves stamp set and did a little surgery on the Bears arms so they could hold the sign.  After surveying my card, I decided I needed something at the top so I punched a couple of Whisper White clouds out with the Tree Builder Punch.  Well there you have it.. all done!  Now I have to figure out what to do with the Cajun Craze foxes I fussy cut and never used!  

Hope you have a Fabulous Day and head over to SIP and link up your own card.  After all, this week is Cardmaker's Choice so you can make any card you want to make!  It's all up to you!  

Here are the Stampin' Up! Supplies used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non-Stampin' Up! Products Used:

Lawn Fawn Stitched Hills
Die-Namites "Winter Forest"

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Blessings,
Tina