ICS Blog Hop Giving Thanks

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Hi everyone! I’m glad you’re joining in with our Inspire Create Share Giving Thanks Blog Hop! Halloween is over, so we can officially start celebrating a month of Thankfulness before Christmas takes over!

Inspire Create Share Blog Hop featured project: Watercolor card using Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Jingle All The Way stamp set

I immediately knew I wanted to do something different than a card when I saw this month’s theme. I wanted to do something I could display in my home. A Thankful Tree was my first thought, but I wanted it to be something different from a tree. I did a little Pinterest searching (one of my favorite pasttimes) and found this which was my inspiration. Here is my take on it.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

I just happened to have this cute tobacco lath and chicken wire frame hanging in my house with nothing on it. I have been planning on putting pictures on it for months now, and it still hasn’t happened. I guess it was just waiting to be turned into a Thankful Frame! If you like the idea of creating something like this but you don’t have a frame like mine, check out the one in the link above. It would be really easy to take a frame you already have or a cheapie from a thrift store and add baker’s twine to it to hang your leaves.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

I made the ‘Give Thanks’ banner using our burlap ribbon and I cut out leaves from gold foil and gold glimmer paper. I cut out the letters using the Little Letters dies as well as a small gold banner to put behind each letter using the Bitty Banners dies. I also added some gold thread and punched a scallop circle from the Winter Wonderland designer vellum using the 7/8″ scallop circle punch.

Here are some close ups of the letters.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

As for the rest of the leaves on the frame, I wanted there to be a lot of texture and variety. I cut a few leaves out of our corrugated paper,

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

a few more out of gold foil sheets, and some colorful ones that I stamped and sponged.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

For the colorful leaves, these are the colors I used to stamp and sponge onto very vanilla cardstock.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

After the leaves were stamped and cut out, I used the Fine-Tip Glue Pen to go over a few of the leaf veins before sprinkling gold glitter over top. Aren’t they pretty?

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

The fourth type of leaves are the most important! They’re my ‘thankful leaves.’ I cut them out of kraft cardstock, wrote on them using my Rich Razzleberry Stampin’ Write Marker, stamped some distress dots using the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set and Sahara Sand ink, crumped them up, uncrumpled them, and sponged Soft Suede lightly over top. I attached leaves to the frame using our wooden clothespins that I sponged with Soft Suede ink as well as gold clothespins from the Mini Metallic Clothespins pack.

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

Here are some of my daughter’s thankful items – Grandmas, Grandpas and Mi Mi (our kitty).

Thankful Tree Frame ICS Blog Hop using Stampin' Up! Vintage Leaves stamp set and leaflets dies. Lath frame, chicken wire and burlap ribbon.

Speaking of my daughter, she is the number one thing I’m thankful for and I just have to share her Halloween picture! We had so much fun Trick-or-Treating and she got 2nd in our town’s costume contest!

Scarecrow Halloween Costume

Thanks for joining in the blog hop! Use the links below or contact your own demonstrator to order the products I used. Now hop on over to Jen’s blog to see what she has to share!

Inspire Create Share Blog Hop featured project: Watercolor card using Sleigh Ride Edgelits and Jingle All The Way stamp set

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18 Replies to “ICS Blog Hop Giving Thanks”

  1. Karen Oster

    I love the innovative ideas that you brought together for a really inspiring project.
    I think you little angel is cute as a button – thanks for sharing. (Please add me to your blog-I’m a newbie Demo-10 months).

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  2. Tina Johnson

    What an amazing project. Definitely something you can cherish for a long time. Great detail and lot’s of hard work. Turned out beautiful!

    Reply

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