Thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I know that today's celebration is an American holiday but being thankful should certainly not be confined to only one day a year, and gratitude is good for all of us regardless of our age, gender, or nationality!  I love this particular holiday and appreciate it more and more the older I get!  I have been missing my parents this week, but especially my mom (she passed in 2014) as I've spent the last several days preparing "heritage family favorite" recipes, and we're saying our thankful prayers as we also just celebrated Patrick's mother's 90th birthday!  We're so grateful to have Matthew with us this year for the holidays!  My gratitude list could go on and on...

Today's card celebrates the vibrant colors of Fall in all its glory!  I wish you could see this card IRL...it is so shimmery and sparkly and very simply elegant.  The camera just doesn't capture it.  

I used copper metallic card stock and a crackle texture sheet of designer paper from Craft Consortium Test of Time for the card's background.  The tag was die-cut from plain white card stock that was inked with Delicata silver and copper inks and spattered with diluted distress inks/distress oxide inks.  That made a bright, shimmery background for the colorful Boho Fall Leaves.    

The inside was kept clean and simple, spattered with silver and copper shimmer and topped with an accent panel of the same metallic and crackle texture papers.

All of the stamps used in this project are from one stamp set, Boho Fall Leaves, which is available individually or as a bundle with its coordinating dies.

Supplies:

• Stamp Simply Clear Stamps - Boho Fall Leaves Bundle
• Sizzix Thinlits Dies by Tim Holtz - Tag Collection
• Stamp Simply Steel Dies - Fishtail Sentiment Banners
• Craft Consortium Test of Time 6x6
• Luxury Pearlescent Metallic 80# TEXT Weight Cardstock - Copper 10 ct
• Memento Full Size Dye Ink Pad - Espresso Truffle
• Delicata inks
• May Arts 1" Sheer - 100 Yard Spool - Orange
• Burlap string
• button from stash
• distress inks/distress oxide inks in various oranges/browns for spattering

I hope that you enjoy this Thanksgiving Day and the coming weekend!  As it ushers in the remaining holiday season, I hope that you find moments of peace and contentment during this, the busiest and most hectic and often quite stressful time of the year!  Holiday blessings to you and yours!