GRATEFUL

I've been mulling ideas for my Thanksgiving cards and kept going back to one I did last year and then never sent out. I just didn't get my act together, and anyway it would have been extra postage to send because of the square format, size, and extra layers and I didn't want to pay the extra. So this year I've been rethinking last year's version. I have a stack of old woodgrain kraft card stock from another year and I was thinking that I would use it this year and see what I could do to play around with texture, keeping the colors to a neutral minimum.

I started with a 5x7 top-folded card base and messed with that a while but realized that there was something about the square format that just worked better with these fabulous Spellbinders mushrooms. So I trimmed the card down to a 5x5 and it will now fit into kraft A7 envelopes that I already have on hand. I cut a smaller square and matted it with an ivory scrap. The PTI sentiment is white heat-embossed onto the front panel before adding the leaf swirl, which was over-stamped with VersaMark Watermark ink. Finally, the mushroom parts were die cut from the same woodgrain stock and off-white watercolor paper, assembled, and glued to the face.

I think I'll probably finish these off by binding a folded lightweight ivory paper leaf to the inside with a message. When I have them all finished, I'll put them into my gallery as the 2024 Thanksgiving card.

I thought to enter this in the current AAA Card Challenge #275 - "Anything CAS Goes/Autumn Colors". I think these are autumn colors.

 AAA Cards: AAA Card Challenge #275: Anything CAS Goes (Autumn)