Giving Thanks blog hop

To celebrate Thanksgiving, Stamplorations have organised their 3rd Annual Giving Thanks blog hop and you're all invited to join! Plus, you can link your Stamplorations products wishlist for a chance to win it, the Wish List Linky party kicked off Monday.

 

There are 35 participating designers all in all in the hop (complete list below) -- with 8 talented guest designers from the various challenge blogs that STAMPlorations has had the privilege to sponsor in the last year.

 

 This is a long post, but well worth getting to the end if you like Stamplorations  designs and a BARGAIN...

 

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Although Thanksgiving is a uniquely US celebration, I decided to make a card on the theme anyway, as I have wonderful memories of a Thanksgiving dinner where orphaned lost souls, be it foreigners like me or just too far from home, gathered for a traditional turkey dinner.

I can't remember if pumpkins were involved, but hey they bring a little bit of sunshine with their vibrant orange hues in an otherwise grey November...

I stamped the small pumpkins from the newly released Thankful & Blessed onto yellow cardstock with Distress Oxide in Fossilized Amber, coloured them with pencils and fussy cut them.

The big pumpkin, from the same set, was stamped on ivory card with yellow die ink. For the colouring I first applied watercolour pencils dry and then used the brush to dissolve the paint.

To anchor my pumpkins I added shading with pencils and a few leaves, stamped and coloured.
The big pumpkin is sandwiched between 2 pieces of card cut with the Stitched Snow Hills dies.

I embossed the sentiment, also from the Thankful & Blessed, with Wow EP in Fairy Tale, you can see the glint of the glitters reflecting off the base!

I am entering my pumpkins in the Fashionable Stamping challenge.

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When Thanksgiving is all over, or if you don't celebrate it where you live, you can still use the pumpkins, which at the stroke of midnight turn into... flowers!

I stamped and embossed the small pumpkins with Sea Glass EP from Wow! on a piece of leftover masterboard and fussy cut them. I added a stalk by die-cutting twice another piece of Masterboard with the ever useful Stitched Snow Hills die. The center of the flower has been filled with Ranger Enamel Accent.
I pulled out some old paper with inclusions (they were all the rage moons ago) to use as a mat for my flower, and completed with a sentiment from the Thankful & Blessed stamp set.

I am entering the Pumpkin Flower in the Penny Black and more challenge

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Don't delay and start hopping... You have until the end of the month to leave comments and link up a project or two of your own. There are prizes to be won for linking projects, commenting along the hop and also on Facebook and Instagram, as well as the chance to win your Stamplorations wishlist.  You'll find all the details here.

 

And if you're not one of the lucky winners.... Shery has thought of you too, with a fab Thanksgiving Sales:

 

* If you do order,  mention in the notes section of the order, that Craftyfield sent you there for a free word die (up to $10) of your choice. This is an offer you can't pass up ladies... *

You should have arrived here from Carol and your next stop is : Kathy. If you get lost, the full list of participants is below.

Enjoy the hop!

Both cards are entering the SSS Monday challenge.