Love To Stamp Thanksgiving

Good Day everyone!
     Well, I finished this card this past Friday, but haven't had enough time to really spend loading it up, but I do want to get it up before it is too late :)  Especially since this is Thanksgiving week, and this is a Thanksgiving card.  This year we are not going to be able to get up north to visit our parents so I made each a card.  This is the card I will be sending to my Mom and dad for Thanksgiving:

I won this rubber image and four others in a blog hop for Love to Stamp in late October.  They are called Little Darlings, and most of them are :)  I chose this little girl because she will remind my mom of us kids playing in the leaf piles she would rake up in the fall.  You couldn't keep us out of those leaves for anything.  We would use them to rake out walls for our pretend "houses", pile them up to jump in them, and then just have all out leaf throwing wars.  We were always outside playing, there were no such things as computers, and TV was very limited so that our minds wouldn't get completely polluted from watching that "schmut".  Oh, if our grands could see what is on TV now!  But, I digress.  Every year we would carve out pumpkins that we picked from out of the fields.  So of course, the card had to have pumpkins on it too.  The ribbon is Earth Elements and it just sort of set the tone for the colors I was looking for.  DP is PTI's Autumn and cs is Bazzil. 

I really like the center step card because you can add so much texture, and I love texture :)  I colored the image with copics, but the pumpkins and Sentiment were colored with my Prismas.  The grassy area below the leaf thrower was colored with Shimmerz mossy green paint with lots of mica glimmer in it.  Distress Inks (Peeled Paint and Tea Dye) were used on the edges of all cs and DP's.  SB Long Classic Ovals/scalloped were used for die cutting the image out.  Pumpkins and maple leaf on inside are old Cuttlebug cut/emboss.  And yes, I did do the inside as well:

The inside sentiment was stamped and then embossed with Clear Stampin Up EP.  EP were layered up on the edges of the inside, I just love the look it gives in real life.  It's quite sparkly as well as I used Shimmerz Enamalz Sparkilicious EP.  That's it for this card, no extra bling, just coloring, one of my favorite pass times :)  Hope you have had a great weekend!

Blessings,

This card will be entered into the following challenges:
Card Makin Mamas: Thanksgiving or Thank you,  Joyful Stamper: What inspires you, Craft Your Passion Challenges: Photo Inspiration (leaves),  Crafts and Me Challenges: Simples,  Creative Craft Challenges:  Minimalistic,  FabNFunky Challenges:  It's cold outside,  Our Creative Corner Challenges:  Photo Inspiration (chandelier),  Papercraft Journey:  Embossing,  Patti's Creations Design Challenge:  Birthday or Thanksgiving and Digital or Stamped image,  Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge:  Giving Thanks,  Pile It On: Anything with a "P" (Pumpkins!),  Raise the Bar challenge:  Anything with some type of food (Pumpkin!),  Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays:  Embossing,