Perfect Sentiments Challenge: Thanksgiving!

It's November! (Can you believe it?!) And over at The Perfect Sentiment our challenge this week is to make a Thanksgiving card. Of course, as with all the challenges at The Perfect Sentiment, there is a "twist" to it. This week it is to incorporate brads or eyelets in your Thanksgiving card.

When I made mine, our temps were in the 80's, so it seemed pretty early to be creating this Fall card. But, in the few days since, our nights have been cooling down and we are supposed to get some daytime highs only in the 60's this week. For Southern California, that's getting quite chilly! And looking at the calender and seeing November now, well, my card doesn't seem quite so seasonally inappropriate anymore!

Here is what I came up with in hopes of inspiring you to play along with us:

I hope you can see there is a lot of texture in this card. For starters, I roughed up the edges, and chose felt for the falling leaves. The satin ribbon adds some softness.

This rosette made using Tim Holtz's die was a great way to add texture and dimension for the center of the card. The large brass brad in the center is one of my faves from Stampin' Up!

The other brad I used was for the bird's eye. And as you can see here, the die cut doily in the background also gives some added texture.

I outlined the oval frame with copper Stickels and love how that looks. Then, I added another falling leaf.

After the card was finished, I sprayed it with a lot of Tattered Angel's glimmer mist in their Wheatfields color. I love all the shimmer from it!

I hope this card inspires you to play along with us this week. You have until 10:00EST next Tuesday to link your card up over at The Perfect Sentiment Challenge Blog, using the keywords PSC05 Thanksgiving. (All details can be found on the blog.)

Our sponsor this week is Stacey from Stacey's Creative Corner. And yes, she's also one of our wonderful design team members from The Perfect Sentiment :-)

Stacey will be donating this prize to our lucky winner:

(Regretfully, if you are a prize winner who lives outside of the United States, we are unable to award you a physical prize. By the time we have to do the customs paperwork and everything associated with sending parcels out of the United States, it always costs more than what the prize is worth in most cases, and this includes Canada, unless you have a Post Office Box in the United States. APO and PPO box addresses are considered US.) If you live outside of the U.S. and you win we will award you with a digital prize that can be sent electronically via email. Thanks for your understanding.

Please be sure to hop on over to check out Stacey's blog and to see her great Thanksgiving card, too!

And for more inspiration, you can see all of The Perfect Sentiments design team's beautiful and inspiring Thanksgiving cards by clicking on their names below:

Jennipher

Sami

Abby

Jan

Kimberly

Rochelle

Shaunna

Tere

Theresa

I am also linking this card up to the following challenges:

The Paper Players -Add a Fall element to your card

Stampin' Sisters In Christ -Use Fall colors in your creation (crimson, orange and gold or similar).

Moxi Fab World -Medallions challenge (Thanks, Rochelle!) :-)

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you will be inspired to join in and make your own Thanksgiving card. And if you'd take a moment to leave me a comment, I'd truly appreciate it!

Wishing you many blessings,

~Sarah

Items used to make my Thanksgiving card include:

Card Stock: Stampin' Up! More Mustard; Close To Cocoa

Patterned Paper: K & Company

Ribbon: Michael's Basic Basic satin olive

Felt leaves from Target's dollar bin

Brads: Stampin' Up! large Antique brad on rosette, and vintage brad on bird's eye

Stampin' Up! Oval hand held punches

Stampin' Up! bird and branch punch

Tim Holtz rosette die

Cheery Lynn Designs Doily die

Copper Stickles

Tattered Angels Wheatfields Glimmer Mist