Monday 17 October 2011

Waltzingmouse blog waltz - Gratitude/Thanksgiving

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Well welcome to my October contribution to the Waltzingmouse blogwaltz! I just love waltzing every month, and hope you enjoy it too. This month is a theme very close to my heart, Gratitude and Thanksgiving. I am always really keen on showing people how much you appreciate them and the things they do for you, and I think sometimes these days people take for granted so many things. Every birthday/Christmas I make sure we thank people either personally or my letter, and especially so since our little monkey was born. People always get hand made thank you cards (by me at the moment, but hopefully in the future Monkey will be making them too!).
So onto todays card!

I headed straight to my trusty Teeny Trees stamps and stamped the tree and bird onto some grey recycled paper. I had to stamp with dark colours as this paper seemed to drink the ink! I had to stamp the tree trunk 3 times!!!

 I cut the tree image out using my circle nestabilities, and then also cut a white circle and embossed the edge, and then some burgundy paper circle which I then sent through my cuttlebug with a plastic polka dot mask from That Special Touch of. I sponged the edges of the white circle with antique linen and then layered the three circles up.

The background is the inside of a cereal box which I have sent through my cuttlebug in the Swiss dots folder and then sponged the edges with some Antique Linen distress ink.
I have some beautiful ribbon which is burgundy with a gold edge which I ran across the card, and the tied a separate bow over the top and then added a lovely old button over the top. You can see in the close up that it is so old its all crackled on the back! I threaded some burgundy twine through the button and finished it with a tiny tag (which I simply hand cut out of some scrap white card) onto which I wrote 'thanks'.

I hope you like my little thank you card...now to decide who will be getting it!
This card is also being submitted to the Card Patterns sketch challenge, Paper and such Colour challenge and the Stampin Bees challenge to include a bird.

26 comments:

  1. A breautiful card, it has a lovely natural feel. Happy Waltzing!

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  2. Cute card!! Love the embossed background & the cute bird in the tree.

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  3. Lovely card - your little birdie in the tree is a cute touch!

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  4. So, so cute!! I really like the soft/gentle colours too.

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  5. Beautiful.
    Love the "natural" feeling with this card...
    and the embossed background is perfect!

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  6. Oh this card has that folk art feel that I just love! Thanks so much for sharing that nestie trick, it really makes your teeny tree pop! The burgandy accents are just perfect, love that bow! What a great card for the waltz today!

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  7. wonderful CAS design - love the kraft and burgandy colors on this!

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  8. Adorable Fall card and done is terrific colors.

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  9. Such a sweet card! The embossed background looks wonderful!

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  10. I love how you have used so many recycled elements in your lovely card. The neutral colour really makes the burgundy pop. So pretty.
    Hugs
    Carol x

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  11. Lovely colours and has a folksy feel to it - I really like this card!

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  12. This is a beautiful thank you card and you are so right to instill that habit into our children. I am so grateful that my mom "made" us write thank you notes and I carried that tradition on with my own kids. I hope they do as well when they have kids. Now, your card is so cute and I laughed when you talked about your cardbase drinking the ink! I love teeny tree images and you used yours to create a wonderful Fall scene.

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  13. Pretty card! I like the details - embossed background, bow, button and that you gave a tutorial as well. Your card is perfect for Thanksgiving!

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  14. this is such a pretty thank you. i love the embossed circle layers, and that you embossed with circles! it's lovely. i love using cereal boxes, too.. aren't they the best recycled thing for us paper people?!

    -rachel w k
    rwkrafts.blogspot.com

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  15. What a lovely thank you card. I love the earthy tones and CAS design! I really like the bow & button with the teeny note at the bottom.

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  16. Love your teeny tag to go with your teeny tree! And it's great how you upcycled some things around the house:)

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  17. Pretty little card. Teeny trees is one of my favourites, this is great!

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  18. Nice card... love leaves for Thanksgiving.

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  19. What a lovely card! I love Teeny Trees, but I have yet to use that image - I think it's about time I did. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  20. Very pretty! I love how you did the twine and button!

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  21. Hi,
    what a beautiful and peaceful card. I love the layout and the colors. :-)
    XX Kathi

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  22. soooo adorable, luv the sponging and embossing!

    enjoy *~*

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  23. WOW!!! LOve your design and choice of colors - true favorites!! LOVELY!!!

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  24. How cute! I love all the texture this has. So glad you could play along with us on Card Patterns this week!

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  25. Very cute - love that little leaf! Thanks for playing along with us at Paper and Such!

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  26. What a cute and CAS card! Thanks for playing along with us at Paper and Such!

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