Thanksgiving in the United States is a week from Thursday. Many of us will be celebrating alone this year. There will just be the two of us here for the first time in our 47 year marriage. It's a necessary consequence of the pandemic, so I'm OK with it. One of my greatest blessings is to be spending all this pandemic time with my best friend. Being alone would make this so. much. harder. And indeed, I have several friends who do live alone, and I give them credit for keeping in touch with friends and family so they don't feel quite so isolated. I decided they might appreciate a card, so I made a set of Thanksgiving cards and will get them in the mail early next week. I don't think I've ever made a Thanksgiving card before, but these probably won't be the last.
I made two versions of the card, but both use the same stamps: Pretty Pink Posh's "Autumn Wreath," and a sentiment from Hero Arts "Autumn." Both were embossed in gold, and then watercolored with a combination of Zig Clean Color Markers and Altenew Watercolor Brush Markers. The first is a one-layer card---very unusual for me.
Once I had embossed the images on the kraft cardstock, I decided to try a piece of Fine Linen cardstock. I liked that better, so made four of these. One is also a one layer card, but I ended up die cutting the piece with a Rounded Rectangle by Hero Arts for three of the cards and layering them on a card base of Honey Nut. That turned out to be my favorite.
I'm linking up to the following challenges: Simon Says Wednesday Challenge (Thanks/Thanksgiving), Time Out: Festivals--(I think Thanksgiving fits, although most of the entries seem to be birthday or Christmas cards), and Fusion (Thankful).
