Pals Blog Hop: So Thankful

Welcome to the Pals November Blog Hop.  We’re so thankful you stopped by!  This month we are showcasing projects that feature Stampin’ Up! Thanksgiving or “thank you” products.  We hope you enjoy our creations.

You may just be starting the Blog Hop or you may have come from the previous blog on the Pals Blog Hop listing shown below.  The full lineup will help you move along from blog to blog so you can enjoy each and every beautiful project.

Modern Vintage Leaves

Today is the second of two modern, clean cards I made this past weekend with Vintage Leaves – I shared the first one yesterday (you can see it here).  Today’s card is a thank you card that uses the same set but offers another modern twist.  Here’s my clean and modern project for today’s Pals Blog Hop:

Tips, Tricks and Reminders

• Just Snip It.  You might think I cropped this leaf with the Leaflets Framelits and glued it to the white panel, but no.  That would be too easy.  I stamped the leaf on a piece of Thick Whisper White.  I lined up the leaf in the plastic cutting arm of my Stampin’ Trimmer, I cut a straight line to the top, center of the leaf, picked up the cutting blade and the cut straight down from the tip of the leaf stem.  I fussy cut the leaf out of the side panel I had cut so that it’s one, solid panel.  What fun!
• Thank You, Stamp-a-ma-jig.  Vintage Leaves is a photopolymer stamp set, so it’s super-easy to stamp it exactly where I want it.  The sentiment, however, is a red rubber stamp and required the assistance of my handy Stamp-a-ma-jig.  The modern font sentiment is from One Big Meaning.  In the stamp set, “thank” and “you” are positioned next to each other, but I used Scotch tape to isolate the images and my Stamp-a-ma-jig to get them right where I wanted them.  If you want more information about isolating images on a stamp, you can see my video here.
  

  One Big Meaning stamp set, Stampin’ Up!

• Color Combination.  A couple of months ago, I featured Thanksgiving card with a deep red/bright orange color combination (you can see it here).  For today’s project, I paired Cherry Cobbler with Tangelo Twist and added a touch of Crushed Curry.  The colors work so well together and speak to the bright side of Autumn.  If you like these colors, too, feel free to save this:

Stamp Sets:  Vintage Leaves, One Big Meaning  Papers:  Cherry Cobbler, Thick Whisper White, Crushed Curry, Tangerine Tango  Inks:  Cherry Cobbler, Tangerine Tango  Accessories:  Stampin’ Dimensionals

Thanks for stopping by today!

Brian

To continue with the hop, please refer to the Blog Hop Line-up below. We hope to see you on next month’s Pals Blog Hop!

BLOG HOP LINE-UP:

1. Jennifer Michalski at Stampin’ Serenity
2. Shawn de Oliveira at Shawn Stamps
3. Katy McGloin at Just Fun Stamping
4. Kim Jolley at Stampin’ Artfully
5. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
6. Peggy Noe at Prettypapercards
7. Rae Harper at Wild West Paper Arts
8. Kelly DeTommaso at Kelly’s Creative Corner
9. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
10. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
11. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
12. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
13. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
14. Lisa Ann Bernard at Queen B Creations
15. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
16. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!
17. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
18. Debra Simonis at Deb’s Stampin’ Grounds
19. Nancy Gleason at My Stampin Space
20. Brian King at Stamp with Brian  <—- YOU ARE HERE
21. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits from Dawn
22. Jane Knudsen at see jane stamp
23. Sherrie Gross at Stampin’ Sunshine
24. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs