Hi there!

It’s maybe a little early for Thanksgiving but I couldn’t resist playing with the new “Give Thanks and Eat Pie” layering stamp set that is part of Simon Says Stamp’s STAMPtember® release.  There are two other bold, layering images in this set – including a pilgrim’s hat and a pie.

Sometimes a card layout comes to me by accident – which is what happened here.  When playing with the images from the stamp set, I got it in my head that I wanted to use the turkey.  I happened to have a few leftover die cut “thanks” sentiments on my craft table and realized that the “thanks” sentiment was a good fit, spatially, for the turkey, if I put it vertically.  So that’s how this card started.

To make this card:

1. Stamp the turkey on a card panel.  I used my blending brushes to add ink to each stamp in the layer so that I could get a graduation of intensity for each impression, but I’m not sure that came through as much as I would have liked.
2. Die cut the Thanks vertically next to the turkey (hint:  it fits well under the turkey, too, if you don’t want your sentiment to be vertical).  Be sure to keep the middle pieces for the h, a, and s.
3. Mask off a top and bottom stripe and ink blend a sky and grass to ground the turkey and create a scene.  I faded my ink blending at the edges and where it hit the die cut sentiment.
4. On a card base, ink blend one of the colors from your turkey so that it will show behind the die cut opening.  
5. Adhere your turkey panel to your card base using foam adhesive.
6. If desired ,inset the middle pieces for the h, a, and s (this step could be skipped if you like).

What do you think?  Do you like the layout of this card?

Thank you for stopping by my blog!  I hope you’re having a wonderful STAMPtember®!

Have a wonderfully creative day, everyone!