Thursday, November 12, 2009

Gratitude

Do you Facebook? I don't. Well not really - I farm, but that's a whole different problem. But because I have to go through Facebook to farm, I read other people's wall comments. One friend has me deciding to at least post daily on Facebook. Her suggestion, and she's already begun, is to post one thing you're thankful for a day. And she said not the obvious stuff like family. I like it. It's a good idea. Today I'm grateful that I got this card finished before it got too dark outside for photos. And that's a really big thing for me to be thankful for, believe me!

This card hits four, count'em, four challenges at once. It's a sketch, JUGS6, a Color Throwdown #68, a theme of "Thankful" from The Pink Elephant and then then adds the leaf requirement from Pile It On. It looks better than it sounds, honest.




You can already see that the colors and leaves work together and adding Thankful - logical too.

Here's the card:

I did some dry embossing today, always a good thing because it doesn't demand perfection. The templates are from Lasting Impressions and the cardstock is from a DCWV Brights stack with a white core. I try to use white core for dry embossing in case I want to distress. I made a determined effort not to use buttons on this card - been over doing those a bit! - and thought I'd gotten away without ribbon too. Not quite - the embellishment was on the clearance rack at Michaels. 

Gratitude on Facebook. I'm gonna try it. Try it here too - I'm really thankful if you read this!

14 comments:

  1. So cute, makes me giggle! Thankful that you played this week!

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  2. How cute! Love that plump turkey! Thanks for playing the Color Throwdown with us!

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  3. Cute Turkey! Nice job with the challenge and thanks for playing along with Just The Girls!!

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  4. Very cute card! I love how all your embossing shows through on that white core cs! Very cute & clever all in one! Thanks for playing along with JUGS sketch challenge! I hope you join us Saturday for an all new challenge! :)

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  5. Super cute turkey - great take on the sketch. Thanks SO MUCH for playing along with Just Us Girls. Hope to see you again on Saturday for our next technique challenge!

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  6. What a cute turkey. Like the way that your embossing is showing up.

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  7. WOW! How cute! LOVE how you worked this into several challenges! LOVE the turkey!

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  8. Ohhhhh, this is a FUN, fun, F U N card! Looks to me like you had a lot of fun here and THAT is fabulous! Way to knock down these challenges! Love what you did with the Color Throwdown colors - yipee!

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  9. Great card - love the colours - I thankful that you've shared it with us at the Pink Elephant.
    Ann xxx

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  10. Love that turkey! The LI template are awesome! Great card! Thanks for playing the Color Throwdown!

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  11. This is so cute! Great take on the challenge :)

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  12. Oh so cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Pile It On.
    Brenda

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  13. That Tom is too cute. Thanks for creating with us at TPE this week!

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  14. Wow, 4 challenges in one card. That's quite an accomplishment! The embossing on the white-core paper looks great. I really need to try that sometime. I'm thankful for blog readers like you who leave sweet comments on my blog. Thanks!

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