Thanksgiving is just around the corner...

...and I've made about 15 cards to send out to family and friends.  Here's the first one I made using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.

Please excuse the slightly blurry photo. I guess I was focusing on my pretty leaf, which meant that my sentiment was out of focus.

Anyway, I cut my top mat at 4" X 5 1/4". Then I positioned it on my Cricut mat so that my leaf would cut out in the center of the top half of my mat. It takes a bit of finagling to get this figured out, but it worked perfectly once I did.

After the leaf was cut out, I took it out and colored the outline with a ProMarker to make it match my card base. Then I put the leaf outline back into the negative space (minus its little fill pieces). Once it was in place, I put a square (cut from a sheet) of double-sided adhesive behind it. On the front, I added three different fall colors of glitter in the negative spaces and burnished it in with my finger.

The sentiment was heat embossed with a copper-colored embossing powder, and the ribbon was a left-over scrap from my stash.

Here's a little closer look at my leaf. It's actually really, really pretty IRL. I'm just not adept enough at photography to capture it properly.

My glitter colors are gold, copper and a deep brown. They actually blend really nicely together and add some gorgeous sparkle to my CAS card.

The inside of my card has a computer-generated sentiment. I fiddled with that, too, to get it to print the right color. I wanted it to be a rich brown to fit in with my fall colors, and I think I achieved it! The only embellishment I added was a stitched line (cut with a die) across the top to mimic the stitch lines of the ribbon on the front of my card

I liked these cards so much that I made 6 of them. I've got a few other designs, too, that I'll share with you in the days ahead.

Have a great week, everyone! Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to laugh--a little or a lot--every day.
Cheryl