Country Thanksgiving

 Materials needed:
A blueish-gray Patterned paper about 6 x 6"
Baked Brown Sugar card stock 6 x 6"
Whisper White card stock
Countryside stamp set (#120495)
Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set (#115370)
Regals Candy Dots (#130932)
Word Window punch (#119857)
Modern Label punch (#119849)
Baked Brown Sugar In Color ink
Thinlits Label Card (#133479)
Big Shot Machine
Stampin' Dimensionals (#104430)

1. Cut both the card stock and the patterned paper with the thinlits label card die and your Big Shot machine. Fold on the scored lines. By folding the lines one way you can get the cut label at the top. The opposite fold direction will give you the label at the bottom. Play with it a bit to see which way you like it.
2. Stamp the images from the Countryside stamp set on white card stock with Baked Brown Sugar ink. If you have the retired color Really Rust, this looks really good in that color too. Cut out the pump and rooster images with scissors.
3. Place the label die from the set over the wheel barrow image, build your sandwich and run through the Big Shot machine. Lay all the images to the side.
4. Cut the patterned paper that you ran through the Big Shot to measure 2 x 5 1/4' and 2 3/4 x 5 1/4". Watch the direction of the label cut in order to get the paper cut to fit. You should have about an 1/8" border around 3 sides of the paper. Adhere the patterned paper to the card stock, carefully fitting the label cut over the label cut of the card stock. (If you have trouble with this, you can cut the paper to size with your paper trimmer instead of running it through the Big Shot. They draw the label design on the back of the paper and cut it out before you adhere it. It is more difficult, IMO, to get a proper fit this way but it will work.)
5. Stamp your "happy thanksgiving" greeting from Teeny Tiny Wishes on white card stock. Punch it out with the Word Window punch.
6. Punch out the Modern Label from the patterned paper. Adhere the greeting on to the Modern Label. Adhere this to the center of the flip part as shown in the picture.
7. Place Stampin' Dimensionals to the back of the rooster. Be sure to place them just on the bottom and the tail feathers so that the head does not stick to the swinging flip label.
8. Adhere the pump image to the top right section of the card. Adhere the wheelbarrow to the back side of the flip part.
9. Place 3 yellow Candy Dots on the bottom right side of the card and 2 on the top left side.

When I make this type of card, I often sign on the center folded section of the card so that it doesn't show until they open the card.

Swinging Circle Card

The new Thinlits Circle Card Die is fun and makes making circle cards so much easier. The old way to make a card like this was a lot of cutting, pasting, & adding string between layers. Now with the Circle Card die, you just run it through your Big Shot and decorate! Fun & easy!

From this angle you can see that the circle flips back & forth to make a really fun card when it's standing. When it comes out of the envelope, it is closed & looks like this.

Open give you this look.

So how do we make this fun card? Here goes!

Materials needed:
Circle Card Thinlits Die (#133480)
Tangerine Tango card stock 5 1/2 x 6"
Epic Day This and That DSP (#130814) 5 1/2 x 6"
Whisper White card stock
coordinating patterned paper (what I used is 2-3 yrs old)
Perfect Punches stamp set (#120516)
Really Good Greetings set (#130333)
2 3/8" Scallop Circle punch (#118874)
Extra large oval punch (#119859)
1 3/4" Circle punch (#119850)
Chevron Border punch (#132154)
Old Olive ink
Stampin' Dimenionals (#104430)

1. Run the Tangerine Tango card stock and the Epic Day patterned paper through your Big Shot. You can probably run them through at the same time but it depends on your machine. Fold the Tangerine Tango card on the fold lines. If you will fold these back & forth a few times it will move easier.
2. On the patterned paper, cut on the score lines. Lay the patterned paper so that it will fit around the circle area and up to the score lines. This will leave you with about 3/4" of Tangerine Tango open. Adhere the patterned paper to cover both sides of the Tangerine Tango card stock.
3. Use the Chevron Border punch to cut out some V shaped chevron pieces from Tangerine Tango card stock. You need 3 pieces. If you have used the punch before, you might have some pieces left over. I had some left from the Harvest Blessings card with the tractor. Adhere these pieces pointing down on the bottom right side of the card.
4. Punch out 2 scallop circles from the coordinating patterned paper. Adhere them to each side of the swinging circle.
5. Stamp the birthday greeting from the Perfect Punches stamp set and the "all about you" greeting from the Really Good Greetings set in Old Olive ink. Use the extra large oval punch to punch out the birthday and the 1 3/4" circle punch to punch out the all about you greeting.
6. Pop up the birthday greeting with Stampin' Dimensionals and place on the front circle. Adhere the other greeting to the back of the circle.
7. You can sign you name or write a short note on the 3/4" strip of Tangerine Tango on the inside or write more on the back of the card.