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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Thanksgiving Pumpkin Card

Created this Thanksgiving Card recycling a cereal box and mostly using Tim Holtz items. 

Used the cereal box cardboard for base of TH Pumpkin. Layers are Tim Holtz core'dinations cardstock. base of card & sentiment tag are Kraft cardstock.

Embossed using TH embossing folders.

Distressed the Pumpkin using TH Sander, Distress Crackle, Distress Inks & Dabbers.

  Heat embossed the Stampin' Up sentiment "Happy Thanksgiving."

Added wire ribbon.
























embossing: Zing Copper embossing powder, VersaMark, Marvy heat tool
paper: Base Kraft cardstock
punch: Fiskars corner rounder
recycled: cereal box - base of Pumpkin 
ribbon: Celebrate It Harvest Wired Edge
Tim Holtz:
cardstock - Pine Needles, Spiced Marmalade
Dabbers - Copper, Sunset Orange
Distress - Crackle Clear Rock Candy, pine needle ink, spiced marmalade ink, walnut stain ink
embossing: Burlap embossing folder, Thankful Background Border embossing folder
Pumpkin Jack
Sander
 
Entering this into the following challenges:

2 Sisters Ch Anything Goes unlim 10/13-19
Crafts and Me Ch105 Anything Goes unlim 10/10-16
DLART Thankful Thurs Anything Goes unlim 10/4-31
Hiding In My Craft Room HIMCR67 Super Scraps Sat lim3 2nd 10/13-19
Joanna Sheen Autumn Breeze 10/14-25
Kraft Journal Reuse/Recycle unlim 10/8-14
Little Red Wagon Ch154 Fallin' for you unlim 10/10-16
Little Scrap Pieces Fun Fri Thanksgiving or Fall Colors 10/12-18
One Stop Craft Ch200 Heat Embossing lim2 1st 10/13-19
Papercraft Star Ch116 Fall Colors unlim 10/10-16

Raise the Bar Ch115 "Hey Pumpkin" 10/12-18
Robyns Fetish Ch129 Fall Colors 10/14-20
Scrap-Creations Going Grey Ch Pumpkins 10/9-15
Simon Says Stamp Dies and/or Punches unlim 10/10-17 
The Pink Elephnt Ch TPE169 Photo Insp front door & Autumn decor unlim 10/8-14
Tues Alchemy Anything Goes unlim 10/9-15 
Victorine Stamps Ch44 Lots of Layers unlim 10/1

19 comments:

  1. wow love that pumpkin and that ribbon is so fabulous!

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  2. Hardest part was waiting for the Crackle Paint to dry.
    Melissa
    "Sunshine HoneyBee"

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  3. This is so neat. I know that waiting for the paint to dry feeling. I have done that with liquid pearls before and then closed the card and then it won't open or the pearls flatten out- I am very patient, but once in awhile ......
    Have a great Sunday
    Thank you for joining my DL.ART BCA/ANYTHING GOES Linky Party
    DIANA L.
    http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com

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  4. Lovely Fall card!! Thanks so much for playing along with The Pink Elephant!!
    Sheri-TPE DT

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  5. Thanks for sharing your early Thanksgiving spirit with us at Tuesday Alchemy this week with this super cute card!

    Eileen

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  6. what a great idea! Thanks for linking up at Little Scrap Pieces!

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  7. Great card and beautiful pumpkin!
    Thank you for playing in our challenge OSCC,
    Hugs :-))

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  8. WOW Melissa I would never have guessed it was a recycled project...its awesome

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  9. Hi Melissa back to thank you for joining the LSP challenge this week. Karen

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  10. Great texture on the pumpkin and perfect ribbon for your card! Thanks for playing along with us at LRW!

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  11. Very beautiful card! bravo! thanks for playing with IDIC.

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  12. Fabulous card Melissa, love the texture and that ribbon is gorgeous.
    Thanks for joining us at Simon Says Stamp
    hugs Mandy xx

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  13. fab card thanks for joining us at 2sisters challenge this week good luck x

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  14. Excellent pumpkin!! What a great way to use your scraps!! Thanks for joining us at Hiding in my Craft Room
    Cheers Jennie DTM
    Jenscrapstoo

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  15. What a great idea for recycling! That's an amazing card. :) Thank you so much for joining in on our 'Hey Pumpkin' challenge over at Raise The Bar this week!
    ~*Joni RTB DT

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  16. Now this is a GREAT way to use scraps!!! We must starting hoarding MORE!!! LOL!! Thanks for joining us this week at HIMCR!

    Hiding in My Craft Room
    ~Laurie

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  17. Really cool card. I love all the texture.

    Thanks for joining our heat embossing challenge at One Stop Craft challenge.

    Mari

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  18. I love how you made ypur card. The pumpkin is fabulous. Thanks for sharing how you made it.
    Hugz,
    Christine Dt At Robyn's Fetish

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  19. Great card and beautiful pumpkin! Thanks for joining the Autumn Breeze Challenge.

    Wendy -x-

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