Blessings Basket

 Hi and welcome!  Today is a very special day as I am representing Freshly Made Sketches in a wonderful blog hop - the Giving Thanks Blog Hop for Stamplorations.

The lovely Shery Russ from Stamplorations has invited several challenge blogs to join with her design team so you can hop around and check out the fabulous creations using the newest Stamplorations products.  And there's prizes, which I'll tell you about shortly.  But first, let me show you what I made with these gorgeous products.  My first card uses all the products I received - a fabulous stencil, stamp set with die and word die.

I sponged some distress inks onto a watercolor panel and then placed the stencil over the top before lightly spritzing with water and quickly removing.  left behind was a faint outline of the leaves pattern in the stencil.  I die-cut the panel and adhered it to a white card base.  The basket was colored with Copics and die-cut and adhered with foam tape.  For the sentiment, I sponged distress inks in an ombre fashion before die-cutting the word die.  I also cut it from black cardstock and adhered it slightly offset.

My second card was made very similarly but without the stenciled background, making a more CAS card.  I also used a side-opening card base to give it a different orientation.

Here's a close up:

And the markers I used:

Now, back to the hop and those prizes I mentioned earlier.

Giving Thanks Hop

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs will receive a $50 gift certificate.
• THREE (3) winners randomly drawn from all comments left on the STAMPlorations blog and participating designers blogs will each receive a $20 gift certificate to the shop.
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Facebook page will win a $15 gift certificate for herself and a $15 gift certificate for one friend she tags in her comment.
• ONE (1) commenter randomly drawn from our Instagram account will win her choice of Giving Thanks bundle (Be Thankful, Oh So Grateful, or Many Blessings)/

Commenting ends on November 30 at 11:55 p.m. Pacific

Giving Thanks Linky Party

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive the Be Thankfulbundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive Oh So Grateful bundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

• ONE (1) winner randomly drawn from all entries linked up will receive Many Blessings bundle (stamp set with coordinating die, word die, and stencil)

[Players have until November 30 to link up their projects to the linky party.]

Winners will be announced on December 9 in the November Challenges and Hops winners post. Winners have until December 20 to claim their prize.

And now it's time to hop along and check out the wonderful creations made by the Stamplorations Design Team and their guests.  If you get lost along the way, you can go back to the Stamplorations blog by clicking on the Giving Thanks graphic at the top of this post.

Have fun!  Thanks to Shery for inviting Freshly Made Sketches to be a part of this fun event.

Giving Thanks Blog Hop
Participating Designers

1. STAMPlorations blog  2. Maria Fischer  3. Anita in France - Time Out  4. Shirley Bampton  5. Monika Skinner  6. Monika Reeck - Creative with Stamps  7. Suchi Paithankar  8. Judy Rogers - Tuesday Throwdown  9. Lisa Lahiff  10. Samantha Aguilera - Crafty Gals Corner  11. Tanja Kabel  12. Deepti Malik  13. Rhonda Alman - Creative Artiste  14. Tenia Nelson  15. Karren Johnson - Freshly Made Sketches  16. MariLynn DeGroot  17. Darnell Knauss - NBUS  18. LauraJane Head  19. Wei Wei Wang  20. Shona Chambers - Time Out  21. Linda Walmsley  22. Toni Maddox  23. Chrissie Stokes - Less Is More  24. Ksenija Rizova  25. Vicki Dutcher  26. Kylie Purtell - Addicted to Stamps and More  27. Kim Makortoff  28. Trish Latimer - Craft Stamper Take It, Make It  29. Cornelia Wenokor  30. Melissa Lane  31. Amy Tsuruta - Coffee Loving Cardmarkers  32. Sari Aavamaki  33. Karola Rehnstrom  34. Barb Ghigliotty - Addicted to CAS  35. Amy Almeida  36. Debbie Owens - Cupcake Inspirations  37. Becca Cruger - The Hop to Stop  38. Melissa Chipperfield  39. Shery Russ

(Linkup closed)

Products used:

Stamps:  Many Blessings (Stamplorations)
Ink:  Black Licorice Hybrid, Versafine Onyx Black, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint Distress Inks
Cardstock:  X-Press It, White, Watercolor
Dies:  Many Blessings, Blessings (Stamplorations)
Accessories:  Autumn Falling Stencil (Stamplorations), Copic Markers

Cheers
Karren

Edited to Add:  I am thrilled that my second card above was featured on Kathy's All About You post as part of The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge.