Fall Thanks

  Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Thanks/Thanksgiving

And our fabulous sponsor is:

Lawn Fawn

Here is my card for your inspiration:

You know that feeling when you create a card you are really happy with and it happened pretty much by accident?  Yep, I have that feeling with this card.  The leaf (already inked), the sentiment banner, the glittery "thanks" and the focal circle were all sitting on my desk in my bits and pieces stash.  I had a sketch in mind for my card and all of these pieces fit it just perfectly!!  The two rectangular pieces of patterned paper I didn't even have to cut, except trimming the top 1/2" off the gnome paper.  They were already perfect!  And I used scraps for the little banners on the left and the coffee mug.  I did have one little goof that has added one piece back into my bits and pieces stash, unfortunately.  I wanted to add some dimension to the "thanks" die cut, so I cut three more out of scrap white card stock, adhered them all together and went to adhere the gold sparkly piece on top when I realized they were not cut with the same die! Then I realized that I must have borrowed the original die from my mother-in-law.  Thankfully, I had several more of the gold sparkly die cuts and I adhered a couple of them together to achieve the dimension I wanted.

Another funny story about this card:  I DO NOT drink coffee, ever!!  Well, I went out with my friend the day I made this card and I decided "hmmm . . . that caramel apple latte sounds really good; I'll give it a try."  Well, that was a mistake!!  My stomach roiled and rumbled ALL day!!  Apparently, if you don't drink coffee it does something will all the acids in your stomach.  I most likely will not be trying that again!  I think I'll probably send this card to that friend and hope she enjoys a laugh out of it.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I hope you will hop over to the Cut It Up blog for the full details of the challenge and to see what the rest of the Design Team has created. 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn "Thanks a Latte" mug and sentiment

Dies: Lawn Fawn "Double Slider Surprise" sentiment banner; MFT "Blueprints 13" smaller banner; PTI maple leaf; Spellbinders "Classic Circles, large"; and Verve "Flag It" larger flag banner

Challenges:

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #192--anything goes

Snippets Playground #440--anything goes (with snippets of course) with the optional twist: autumn/halloween

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #497--sketch

Cupcake Inspirations #556--anything goes

Double Trouble #124--SomeThing, AnyThing, EveryThing (Thing #1: anything goes, Thing #3: play with past partners--I played with Atlantic Hearts and Cupcake Inspirations)

Die Cut Divas--anything goes

Sheepski Designs #68--gems, glitter, sparkle

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--thanks/thanksgiving

Creative Knockouts #477--lots of layers

Krafty Chicks #636--stamp act