It's Thanksgiving Day here in the US and before I have to get my rear in gear and start preparing my portion of today's feast, I thought to take a couple of hours and add a holiday card. I was inspired by the current challenge over at CAS Colours & Sketches Challenge #526. This week they are challenging us with a sketch and I wanted to do a predominantly white card for this one:
My idea was to do a snowy scene broken into three equal parts. I started by blind embossing a panel of white cardstock with a Darice snowy embossing folder and then die-cutting it into three stitched rectangles. I then overlaid some white birch tree die cuts from Impression Obsession ("Birch Trees" #DIE079-U) and trimmed them to fit within the small rectangles. I mounted them to the face of a white card base and white heat embossed the sentiment on a strip of printed paper and mounted that over the rectangles. The final element is a little red cardinal from the same IO die set (I really wish we had cardinals here in Oregon). Done!
Here's the link to the challenge:
CAS Colours & Sketches: Challenge #526 - Sketch (cascoloursandsketches.blogspot.com)
Added December 9, 2023:
I'm also sharing this card over at Time Out Challenges Winter/Holiday - the fact that this challenge is sponsored by Birch Press seems appropriate!
Added December 14, 2023:
Wishing all of my American friends the very best
Thanksgiving ever!
On a personal note: Having wished all of my American friends a Happy Thanksgiving, I'm going to take a little bit of space here to complain about the crass commercialism surrounding this holiday in this country. The market-driven Christmas season completely eclipses our day of thanks by imposing Black Friday sales tomorrow and into the rest of the weekend. And Black Friday (which apparently is the real holiday) has been sliding earlier and earlier into the weeks before Thanksgiving. Maybe I would feel differently if I was a retailer. Am I sounding like an old fart?
So pretty Fran! Love the pop of red from the little cardinal, I must be an old fart too LOL!! I agree that Thanksgiving should be given it's due. Heck, I refuse to watch Christmas movies until after Thanksgiving LOL and we don't put up Christmas decorations until after either. We have neighbors (more than one) who've had their trees up for weeks, right after Halloween. They'll tear them down on Dec. 26th too, not even thinking of the 12 days of Christmas or New Years! Oh, and stores should be CLOSED on Thanksgiving! Yep, I'm an old fart too!!
ReplyDeleteI knew I liked you, Lisa - now I have another reason! Thanks for chiming in!
DeleteFran, your Christmas card is really so elegant! We have cardinals year round and I love seeing them and all the other birds. Hope you had a very Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteWow, I have this IO set and it's one of my favourites but I just love what you've done with it here, breaking it across the panels! Inspired! Thanks for taking some Time Out to play cards with us at Time Out Challenges!
ReplyDeleteHugs, Kate (DT Time Out Challenges)!
Wow, Fran, your background has so much interest and texture even with it all white - love it! Thanks so much for sharing with us at CC&S. ps come to Australia - we don't have Thanksgiving (obviously). It's definitely more chill in the leadup to christmas. lol
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely gorgeous! So simple but so wonderful! Thanks for playing along with us at CAS Colours & Sketches and Time Out Challenges!
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