Stamped Thanksgiving Cards

If you're a regular visitor of my blog you know that I'm not much of a stamper. I love the look of stamps. I try to make them work for me but I'm just not good at it. Today, I changed that. I created some adorable stamped Thanksgiving cards for the Scrapbook Expo blog. Yes, I actually did it!

My sweet friend Mendi recently started her own company called Sunny Studio. Mendi is so sweet, she's one of my online friends that I would LOVE to meet someday. She has the most adorable stamps and dies. I used a couple of her stamp sets to create these fun Thanksgiving cards. I mixed these stamps with the Pebbles Harvest collection. I used a basic black ink and an acrylic stamping block. It's also important to have a pair of really sharp scissors . The "thankful for you" card on the far left is colored with Tombow markers .

Make sure to stop by the Sunny Studio to get your own stamps. You'll love them, I promise! and then Hop on over to the Scrapbook Expo blog and check out how I created these cards.

I have to admit, I'm pretty excited that I have a stamping success. Is there a particular tool or design that you struggle with?

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DIY Thanksgiving Banner

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday...I think I've mentioned that before. Last year, I created this fun DIY Thanksgiving banner. I love spending time with family around a big meal and not having to worry about gifts, costumes, or anything else; just family and lots of food. I keep my Thanksgiving decor simple. Most of my Thanksgiving decorations are DIY projects.
I gathered a few things from around the house and a few things from the Pebbles Home+Made collection by Jen Hadfield of Tatertots and Jello. I grabbed a few sheets of the Home+made Burlap Cardstock. This burlap is SO much fun to work with. If you haven't played with it yet, you really need to! I cut the burlap into a pendant shape using the Pebbles Homemade Dies (Banners). I cut the sheet of 12x12 burlap in half so that it would fit in my manual die cut machine .

 After I had all the pendant shapes cut out I grabbed an old paperback book that I rescued from the discard pile at the library. I tore a few pages out of the book and then cut them to the length that I needed.

 I wanted the burlap to hang just a little bit lower than the book page

Then I cut the teal portion using the die set too.