Thankful

Happy Friday!!!  It's time for a new challenge from the Cut It Up Challenge Blog.  This week, the challenge is: Thankful, Grateful, Blessed

Here is my card for your inspiration:

October is traditionally Pastor Appreciation month--a time for church congregations to shower their pastors with appreciation.  They work hard guiding, teaching, leading, etc. and so it is a good time to show them that we appreciate them.  This card is actually not for one of our pastors but for a man who has filled in for our church several times when we have been between pastors and is also teaching a class that my husband and I are taking.  So, I decided to give him a card as well as the four pastors at our church.  We gave them each a gift card to Dunkin' Donuts because, here, in Rhode Island, no one can live without their coffee!!!  (Except me, I don't drink coffee.)  Since I was including a coffee gift card with this card, I decided to continue that theme over onto the card front with the little travel coffee cup.  I thought I had a larger one in stamp form, but after thinking about where that would be, I decided it was most likely in digital form and I didn't have time to search it out, so little it is.

I embossed the front of the card base with a really pretty leaf embossing folder.  Then I added two different die cut maple leaves (I just love the shape of them the best!) cut from a really bright, rather hideous orange card stock.  After inking the edges with red ink, I think they turn into the most beautiful leaves!  I stamped, colored and die cut the travel cup and adhered it on top of the leaves and then die cut the word "thankful" from gold matte card stock and stuck it on the top of the pile.  I finished it all off with some tiny yellow rhinestones.  I didn't want anything too flashy as this is a masculine card, but I think the rhinestones are a good touch.

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: PaperTrey Ink "Heart to Heart #2" coffee cup

Dies: Papertrey Ink large maple leaf; unbranded set from Amazon including the smaller leaf and sentiment

Park Lane embossing folder

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations--autumn/something spooky

Creatalicious Challenge #293--anything goes with the optional twist: fall colours or Halloween

Can You Handle the Pressure--anything goes with the optional twist: pumpkins or orange (I have orange leaves)

Pearly Sparkles #112--pumpkins and/or leaves

Creative Knockouts #557--Halloween OR fall

Lil' Patch of Crafty Friends #264--anything goes

Penny's Challenge #608--anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday--add some texture (texture from the embossing folder, the rhinestones and the layered elements)

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday--anything goes

Crafty Chicks #792--anything goes