Monday 15 October 2018

An Autumn Thank-you

My Canadian  friends have just celebrated Thanksgiving, my American friends are planning for it. Meanwhile here in the UK we are looking forward to sitting a model of a man on top of a pile of wood and setting fire to him...

That's civilization for you! (And don't get me started on the history of corn dollies, now if you want gruesome there is some SERIOUSLY gruesome stuff going on there!)

Anyway, to much of the Northern Hemisphere, Autumn means Thanks in one way or another. So here is a very Autumnal thank you card.


I used an assortment of peg stamps from my old Rubberstamp Tapestry (now Card-Io) sets and a collection of inkpads in various autumn shades. After die cutting the oval for the sentiment I very faintly drew around it on the card then used that as a guide for the stamping, stamping the leaves with a sort of "organised randomness" that kept it natural looking and yet still CAS. Because we've had a very windy few days, I couldn't stop one or two of the smaller leaves blowing away towards on corner!

There are lots of Autumn and Thanks challenges around at the moment so I'm sharing this with
Little Red Wagon - Thankful for you!
Fab'n'Funky - Autumn Colours
CAS on Friday - Thank You card
Addicted to CAS - Foliage
Stamping Sensations - Shades of Autumn
Crafty Calendar - Autumn   

9 comments:

Craftychris said...

I love this! A fab design and gorgeous autumnal colours. xxx

brenda said...

A really beautiful Autumnal creation for our 'Shades of Autumn' theme at Stamping Sensations, thanks so much for joinig us.

B x

Sandma's Handmade Cards said...

Beautifully CAS Jane and it's lovely to see lots of stamped leaves in Autumnal colours. Thank you for joining us in our 'Shades of Autumn' challenge at Stamping Sensations and good luck. Sandra x

Chris said...

Beautiful CAS design...FABULOUS stamping! Thanks for joining us at Fab 'n' Funky this week.
Chris
x

Liz said...

Gorgeous CAS card, Jane. Great stamping and I love how a few autumn leaves are floating away. I used to make corn dollies so I'll be off to find out about the gruesome history behind them! Visiting your blog today with my Crafty Calendar Challenge DT hat on. Thanks for joining in the challenge - good luck! xx

Heather said...

This is so pretty. Thanks for joining us at Little Rd Wagon this week.

Pat said...

Beautiful card, love all those gorgeous autumn leaves, thanks for joining in our challenge at Fab'n'Funky this week.

Pat xx

Dora said...

Very Beautiful, also the style.
Thank you for joining at Stamping Sensations this month.

Bobby said...

All those little leaf stamps fit so well together, Jane, and I love that a couple of them are drifting away. Thanks for sharing your card with us at Addicted to CAS.