Give Thanks

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Our Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up next weekend, so I was feeling inspired to create some cards.

I was even more inspired after watching one of Vicki Boutin's Friday Night Lives where she did some inking using a sheet of acetate.  

* I call it acetate inking and you can find more examples of this on my blog using the search button *

So, here's what I did to create my card.

• Like I mentioned above, I watched Vicki's live and wanted to make some Thanksgiving cards using some colours inspired by Fall.  Vicki calls her technique 'kissing' and it is very easy to do.
• I cut a piece of white cardstock, got out a sheet of acetate and my Distress inks. The colours I used were:  Mustard Seed, Ripe Persimmon, Barn Door, Peeled Paint and Rusty Hinge.
• I rubbed each colour, one at a time onto the sheet of acetate, sprayed it with a good amount of water and pressed and dragged it over my cardstock.  I dried each layer and I wiped off the acetate between each inking until the cardstock was covered with colour.
• I splattered with my black Posca pen to grunge it up a bit more.

Here is what it looked like:

• After the panel was totally dry, I die cut the leaves and the letters from the sheet.
• I pulled out a piece of brown cardstock and embossed it using a folder from Carabelle to add interest.  I glued that onto an A2 size card base.
• I glued the leaves in the top corner, adding some pop dots just under the tips of leaves to raise them up.
• I glued the 'thanks' letters cut from the same inked sheet, just under the leaves.
• To finish my card off, I tied a small piece of twine around the stems of the leaves.

Thanks so much for coming by and taking a look.

Adding my card to these challenges:

Shopping Our Stash- Leaf Me Alone

Simon Says- ANYTHING GOES

Supplies

Stamps- none

Inks- Distress 

Paper- heavy white- Scribes Nook, Waterloo, Ont.; brown

Accessories and Tools- Leaf Fragments (TH); Thanks (MFT); 

Texte Grunge eb folder (Carabelle); sheet of acetate; black Posca pen