' ' ' 'Crafty Endeavours: Giving Thanks blog hop

Wednesday 15 November 2017

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.

Giving Thanks blog hop
 
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:
 
Stamplorations


* 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.
   




40 comments:

  1. Great cards! Pumpkin petals - who'd have thought! Jo x

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  2. Clever and fun ways to use your new Thankful and Blessed stamp set. TFS Hugs..

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  3. So cool using the pumpkin design that way.

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  4. Great cards using Pumpkins, love the texture and fab look on the second one, made me smile!

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  5. Using pumpkins as petals - totally new idea. And beautiful.

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  6. Beautiful cards. Love love love the flower card.

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  7. Those first pumpkins are amazing! Gorgeous. Never would have come up with using the pumpkin stamps as flower petals. Brilliant. My brain just does not operate that way.

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  8. Very creative to turn the pumpkins into a flower. Love that idea!! Awesome cards.

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  9. Your pumpkins card is lovely, and the pumpkins 'transformed at midnight' (you're too funny!) into flowers, is innovative and delightful! Fabulous showcases!
    ~carol

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  10. Love your pumpkins card - simple but so effective - and the pumpkin-petalled flower is simply inspired!
    Alison x

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  11. What pretty colours and such a clever transformation of the image Christine, many thanks for joining us at Penny Black and More Flower Power challenge.

    B x

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  12. Wow! Beautiful cards and colouring!!!

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  13. I like how you colored the pumpkins on the first card and how clever to turn them into a flower on the second.

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  14. Beautiful cards with lovely coloring! :) Thanks for sharing with us :)

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  15. Elles sont belles tes citrouilles, et quelle bonne idée de les utiliser pour faire des pétales.
    bises

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  16. Ohhh... I love it! Fabulous creations

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  17. Both cards are amazing, but turning the pumpkins into a flower? Absolutely BRILLIANT!!

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  18. Both cards are so pretty-I love how you used the pumpkin stamp to make flower petals!

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  19. The card for Fashionable Stamping Challenges ist beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
    The other card also looks great.
    Greetings Carola

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  20. Great projects with the new stamp!

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  21. Love your beautiful card! Thank you so much for sharing with us at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge. :)

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  22. Lovely cards!
    Thank you for sharing at Penny Black and More challenge, good luck;-))m

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  23. Very lovely cards!
    Thank you for playing along with us over Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, we all hope to see you again!
    x Zoey

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  24. Beautiful cards, the flower one is genius! xxx

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  25. What beautiful cards! The pumpkins are so realistically colored!

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  26. Gorgeous duo of cards ! Your coloring is perfect !

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  27. a very clever way to turn pumpkins into flowers! thank you so much for playing along with us at the penny black and more challenge.
    linda

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  28. Gorgeous cards! Love the pumpkin one :) Happy Thanksgiving! xo Cheetarah

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  29. Very pretty projects. Thanks for the inspiration

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  30. Wonderful cards! Thanks for joining us at Penny Black & More and good luck!
    x Daniela (DT)

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  31. Those pumpkins are colored so perfectly... love 'em!

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  32. Clever making a flower with the pumpkins! Fun & Creative! Love the stamp set and your cards are wonderful!

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  33. Deux belles cartes bien dans le style de Stamplorations, tu continue sur ta lancée de DT (ou guest DT) avec brio !!
    A propos, as tu vu que Jean chercahit 2 nouvelles recrues ?... :D
    Si oui, j'espère que tu as pu postuler !!!
    Bisous

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