3 Thanksgiving Card Ideas
I’ll show you some easy and fun card-making ideas for Thanksgiving cards that you can whip up in no time. And the best part is you don’t need anything beyond a few simple Thanksgiving sentiments to do it! By incorporating a rich, autumnal palette and taking a few cues from nature, your Thanksgiving cards will shine and spread the thankfulness of the season.
Bring the Outdoors In
Fall brings a bounty of riches. Try scouring your yard for these simple gifts from Mother Nature. Pick up a fallen leaf, or a twig, or a sprig of berries, and incorporate it into your design. The bonus? No coloring required! Keep the embellishments to a minimum and set off your natural element with a simple sentiment for a clean and bold look that lets the beauty of nature come through.
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Supplies summer sunrise, white cardstock (Papertrey Ink) • sentiment stamp (Impress) • fig ink (Fresh Ink) • gel pen (Uni-ball) • 4 ¼ x 5 ½ card by Cristina Kowalczyk |
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Go Modern
We all have background stamps in our stash, or stamps that aren’t occasion-specific. Pull them out! Depending on the colors you choose, you can dramatically change the look of a card. Here, I stamped a series of modern images in colors typically found on Thanksgiving cards: harvest yellow, honey gold, and terracotta. Pair it with a seasonal sentiment and you have an instant Thanksgiving card, not to mention one that’s oh-so unique and contemporary.
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Supplies white, terracotta tile cardstock (Papertrey Ink) • Modern Basics and Gobble, Gobble stamps sets (Papertrey Ink) • fig, honey, harvest ink (Fresh Ink) • buttons (Paper Studio) • floss (DMC) • corner rounder (We R Memory Keepers) • 4 ¼ x 5 ½ card by Cristina Kowalczyk |
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Do It Yourself
The classic Thanksgiving icon is a turkey, of course. But what happens when you don’t have any turkey stamps? No turkey stickers? No turkey chipboard pieces? How about making your own! Here, I die cut a scalloped flower in three different sizes and three different papers, then cut each in half. I punched a ½-inch circle and a 3/4-inch circle to make the body and drew on eyes and a beak. Almost any “thanks” sentiment would work next to this little guy, but on this card I added “Gobble, gobble” to keep it funny and cute.
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Supplies rustic cream, dark chocolate, kraft cardstock (Papertrey Ink) • patterned paper (Jillibean Soup) • Gobble, Gobble stamp set (Papertrey Ink) • chocolate ink (Fresh Ink) • flower dies (Papertrey Ink) • circle punches (Marvy) • corner rounder (We R Memory Keepers) • 5 ½ x 4 ¼ card by Cristina Kowalczyk |
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Have fun expressing your gratitude by creating handmade cards!
Cristina Kowalczyk is a card-maker, stamper, and published fiction writer who shares her love of crafts and card making at mypapersecret.blogspot.com. She’s the author of a novel, The World in Half
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