Today starts STAMPlorations 4th Annual Giving Thanks Blog Hop and Wishlist Linky Party - yay!!

There are over $200 worth of prizes in the form of products, gift certificates, and coupon codes available -- wow, that's a lot to be thankful for! Be sure to stop by the STAMPlorations Blog for all the details.

For my card today, I had so much fun using the inlaid die technique with the new Doodle Autumn Pumpkin Cover plate!  The perfect finishing touch was to use the new Thankful Every Day Phrase Die - one of three new 'thankful' themed dies!

 

From November 12 to 30, stamps, stencils, and dies are 40% off! (excludes products in the New Release and Retiring sections)

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SugarPea Designs Welcome Home!

Wow, wow, wow...I'm beyond thrilled to be a Guest Designer for SugarPea Designs this month!!  I've enjoyed creating with these fabulous products for a while and am excited to share my projects with you each week in November!

Ok, now that I've stopped jumping up and down with excitement, let's get to my card for today...

Fall and Thanksgiving bring thoughts of 'homecoming'.  Our family here is small, but we enjoy getting together to share Thanksgiving dinner.  I'm also thrilled to 'welcome home' my daughter who is in college when she arrives for the holiday!  This little creation will be in the center of our kitchen island along with a few Thanksgiving decorations.

What better way to welcome home your family and guests than with this message board!  Layering an olive green cardstock to the cardbase, I cut black cardstock using the Letter Message Board for the background.  Using the Welcome word die, I sponged each letter with different fall colors that coordinate with the colored images.  Speaking of images, how darn cute on these little foxes from the Fall Fox stamp set?!  

Thanks for stopping by today - see you next week with a new project!

Reverse Confetti Inspiration Station

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Here's a sneak peek at my card for this week's newsletter...

Reverse Confetti Fall-idays Blog Hop - Thanksgiving Dinner

Welcome back to Reverse Confetti Fall-idays Blog Hop!  Today the Design Team and some special guests are sharing Thanksgiving-themed projects.  Hope you'll hop along and be inspired PLUS enjoy 15% off your entire order October 8-10, 2018!!

Reverse Confetti Blog

Kelly Lunceford

Kathy Schweinfurth

Tricia Barber

Amy Tsuruta

Deanne Kuntz

Lisa Henke

Heather Hoffman

Amy Rohl

Jeanne Jachna 

Olga Moss

Setting the table for Thanksgiving is as much a family tradition as our meal! There have been years that my daughter and I have go way out so much so that there was almost no room to eat dinner!  This year...we're going clean and simple!

With a simple rustic theme, I created these utensil pockets.  I cut Dark Roast cardstock using the Bag & Tags Creator and gold embossed one of the sentiments in the Fall Foliage set.  Using one of the patterns from the Abundant Autumn paper pad, I wrapped the pocket with it and a piece of wide natural ribbon.  The leaves from the Fall Foliage set were gold embossed on Dark Roast cardstock and cut.

I used the tag die from the Bag & Tags Creator to make the "placecard" which I haven't decided whether to place on a napkin ring or in a pinecone :)  

My daughter made us these wood cut name 'cards' last year (which I added one of the Fall Foliage leaves to) so we may just use both!

Thankful for You

 It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is next week -- 2017 is just speeding to an end!  I'm glad we have a holiday dedicated to giving thanks -- and there is so much to be thankful for even in the midst of the chaos in our world.  Hoping you and yours have a blessed Thanksgiving!

 For my card, I started with Sand cardstock for the base.  Using Premiere Polar White cardstock, I used the Leaves Cover Plate die and then sponged on Lime Green, Rust and Bumblebee ink.  I then cut gold shiny cardstock with one of the Wheat dies.  For the acorns, I stamped the one using Happy Harvest stamps/dies and then die cut Rust cardstock and a pattern paper design from Every Little Bit paper pad for the other.

Thanks to these challenges for the inspiration:

 Allsorts - Colors of Autumn

 Cardz 4 Galz - Thanks/Thanksgiving

 Creative with Stamps - Thankful

 Cupcake Inspiration - Fall

 Curtain Call - Acorns

 Die Cut Divas - Thankful

 Dragonfly Journeys - Add Gold

 The House That Stamps Built - Falling For You

 Tuesday Throwdown - So Very Thankful