Thanksgiving Apple...Pie

I love to bake, but most of the time I make cookies and muffins.  Generally I only make pies about twice a year, one of those times being Thanksgiving and I *always* make an apple pie for my husband.  And a pumpkin pie for me ;) So today I bring you...Thanksgiving apples.

Up to now, I've tried to mostly stick to current Stampin' Up! stamps and papers for the cards I share (though my scrapbook pages frequently feature retired items).  Since my customer base has pretty much dried up altogether, and there's absolutely no one policing what I put on my blog, I've decided that if I want to make something with retired stamps, then by golly I'm gonna make it.  So for today's card I pulled out two retired stamp sets that are nice and retro for the Retro Rubber Challenge:

Perfectly Preserved (from whence the apples came) is six years old, and Lighthearted Leaves (source of the sentiment) is three years old.  I looked at this picture yesterday morning and then didn't take another peek before I made my card so I didn't realize there are no apples on it.  But I did remember seeing a whole lot of yellow, so that influenced my choice of patterned paper.  And I had to use apples because of the Paper Players challenge:

Okay, so my card is a bit on the slightly busy side of CAS, but the design is uncluttered and it's the gingham patterned paper that makes it look busier than it really is.  I used this week's Freshly Made Sketch:

So there's today's retro apple card.  Hope you enjoyed it!

Cheers!

Supplies, all SU!
Stamps:  Perfectly Preserved, Lighthearted Leaves
Ink:  Early Espresso, Raspberry Ripple, Lucky Limeade
Paper:  Thick Very Vanilla, Orchard Harvest DSP
Accessories:  Stitched Shapes Framelits, Cannery Framelits, Dimensionals