Let Us Give Thanks

Hello Blogger Friends. Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with the Charmed Life Blog today.  

We are in the full phase of Fall in our area. The trees are in their beautiful autumn colors. We will have plenty of them dropping in our yard since we have 2 huge pin oak tree. Fortunately, my hubby likes going out and raking leaves. I help sometimes but it's not my thing for sure. Yesterday he raked a huge pile of leaves and the two little ones from next door came over and jumped in the pile. My hubby joined them (LOL)!! They love coming over here and spending time with us. 

We just came home from a 2-day getaway at a wonderful Inn about 2 hours away from us. The inn is Tara and we were celebrating our 37th wedding anniversary a little early. It's a beautiful country inn with exceptional rooms and dining. Click here to check it out. 

Now onto my card for today. I have started creating my Thanksgiving cards for this year. And that's what I am showing today. 

This is my card for the Splitcoaststampers color challenge #1022. Barbara is our hostess and she chose crushed curry, cajun craze and coastal cabana for the color trio. Optional this week is Autumn.

coastal cabana, crushed curry, cajun craze

For my card I used the Stampin' Up Paper Pumpkin Kit for September "Autumn Abundance". I ran across a Stampin' Up video where they showed this card as one of their alternate samples. Then I saw the card on Pinterest from the designer. Here is a link to her card. 

Instead of using the snail and mushrooms from the kit since they were the wrong colors, I die cut my own using a CottageCutz die. The mushrooms are cut in the challenge colors and the snail in pecan pie and crumb cake (neutrals).

The card front is a card base from the kit but in a 4" square size. By creating a step fold card, I was able to change it to a full-size card. The wood grain designer paper in the background is another card base from the kit that I cut.

The cajun craze leaves are part of the kit. I stamped a sentiment from an old Verve set (7+ years old) and added a few cajun craze enamel dots to complete my card.

Well, that's it for me for this post. So, until next time......God bless. 

Card Details:

Stamps: Bountiful Harvest (Verve)

Paper: cajun craze, crushed curry, crumb cake, pecan pie, coastal cabana (Stampin' Up)

Ink: cajun craze, coastal cabana (Stampin' Up)

Accessories: Autumn Abundance PP Kit, cajun craze enamel dots (Stampin' Up), stitched mushrooms die, stitched garden friends die, stitched circle die (cottageCutz)

Techniques: step fold

I am also entering:

1.  Love Those Pretty Papers Challenge is anything goes. 

2.  Retro Rubber Challenge wants us to make a Fall card. 

3.  Gem of a Challenge is anything goes. 

4.  Inkspirational has a Seasonal challenge.

5.  Polkadoodles has a anything goes challenge.