Let's Talk Turkey...

Hey crafty friend, it's Amanda from Pear Blossom Press again. With Thanksgiving less than a week away, I wanted to share one more card for the occasion. The Caffeinated Turkey is such a fun focal point, I had to use him again.

For today's card, I stamped my turkey with Warm Glow ink and Copic colored him, before cutting him out with the coordinating die. To create the embossed background, I ran a tan sheet of cardstock through my die cutting machine, sandwiched between a squishy pad, and the Splish Splash stencil. This is one of my most favorite stenciling techniques (it's fast and mess free too)! 

To pull the card together, I glued the embossed panel to a slightly larger white panel, then glued that to a sand colored card base. Foam tape pops the turkey up. The sentiment is a combination of heat embossed, and die cut words. To make them pop, I used white powder on black Perfect Sentiment Cardstock. This black cardstock is coated, so embossing powder melts fast and smoothly, without sinking into the paper. A few gold gems finish the card. 

Before I go, I wanted to share a side by side comparison of Caffeinated Turkeys. I still have the card I made with him last year, and when I pulled it out, I was pleasantly surprised to see how far my coloring skills have come! I no longer emboss before coloring. I've ventured into no-line coloring, and I'm not afraid to choose markers with big gaps between numbers. I'm not looking for gradual transitions from one color to the next, I want contrast. Obviously, I have lots of room to grow, and I really want to practice more with adding colored pencil details, but I'm happy with my progress so far! I'll have to remember to color this stamp again next year, and see the difference then.

What do you think of my turkeys? I actually love both cards. Lol, so now the question is, do I send the cards out? Or hoard them to compare again next year? Let me know in the comments below. 

Thanks for stopping by today. I'll be back again soon with another fun card to share! Until then, head on over to my blog for links to the products I used, and for some of the coloring tricks I've picked up along the way. 

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Meh....leftovers!

Hello crafty coffee loving peeps!

Welcome back down the rabbit hole. Echo here with another caffeinated critter! This turkey is hilarious and I love all the sentiments that go with it too. 

This Caffeinated Turkey is just in time for the crazy holiday season! This is what I will probably look like the day after Thanksgiving! Although I will probably be thankful for leftovers! 

Here is a quick how to:

Stamp turkey with Copic friendly ink. 

Colored turkey with Copic markers and used the Caffeinated Turkey die to cut him out.

Build a background with some patterned paper and die cuts. Stamp the sentiment and add to matting and card base. Glue down turkey.

 

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Stamp on- Echo

Turkey and Pie - Therm-O-Web Collaboration

Hello again my crafty friend, it's Amanda from Pear Blossom Press! Have you been hopping along with The Rabbit Hole Designs and Term-O-Web for the collaboration this week? I'm back with another fun card, this time for Thanksgiving! I was Pinspired to create a die cut pumpkin pie to go along with the hilarious Caffeinated Turkey. I just love the way this one turned out. And check out the shine of the Opal Foil on the whipped cream layer, and the Gold Metallix on the serving plate at the bottom!

For this card, I started by die cutting several circles to create the pie. I covered the largest one with Gold Metallix gel. For the whipped cream layer and the word thankful, I covered a piece of white cardstock with Deco Foil Liquid Adhesive and foiled it with Opal Foil. Then I die cut the word and nested a pair of scalloped circle dies to cut out the whipped cream. To give the pie the look of depth, I actually cut two kraft circles for the pie crust and slightly offset the bottom layer when I glued it all together.

After I stamped, embossed, and Copic colored the Caffeinated Turkey, I cut him out with the Coordinating Die. The card front was watercolored, with more paint concentrated at the bottom for an ombre effect, and to give the word a darker background to pop off of. As I was layering the pieces, I felt like the word was getting lost with the busy layers behind it, but I didn't want to loose the coloring of the turkey's shorts, so I scanned the word in my Scan N Cut, added a border, then cut it out of vellum. (You can use that trick with any die cut word or shape that doesn't include a halo die.) Once I glued the layers together, I finished the card with a few orange sequins left over from my Halloween blend that came free in my last order from The Rabbit Hole Designs. A little Diamond Glaze over the sequins, and the turkey's eye and mug, give this card some extra sparkle.



I don't send out a lot of Thanksgiving cards, but now that my son has moved to Florida for work, I want to send him a special one. It will be our first Thanksgiving apart. I know, I have to let him grow up, but I was hoping he'd get his first place down the street, not 3000 miles away. Luckily, he came home to visit for a few days last week. And I'll see him again in December, so this card will tide us over. Do you send out Thanksgiving cards?



Thanks for stopping by today, I really appreciate it. Don't forget to keep hopping along with The Rabbit Hole Designs and Therm-O-Web for lots of inspiration and your chance to win! All of the details can be found here. You can find links to the specific products I used in the sister article on my blog.