Nuts about Squirrels with autumn punch pack

 I was in the middle of handcutting the leaves and I remembered the autumn punch pack - they had 2 leaves and an acorn it is on sale at Stampin up clearance - get it before it is gone but made my life easier- - I stamped some leaves below on the branches but did not like it - so you can see it peeking through but that is still fine.  cut the leaves with pumpkin pie and old olive cardstock and colored the margins in with a dauber to case a little shadow and stamped the veins and it was just perfect. 

the leaves are great for creating your own background- using multiple clors - it looks like it could be DSP...

Did I tell you already that I am nuts about the Nuts about Squirrels stampset?  Every body is tied of hearing it but Look how CUTE it is!!!

Merriest Frames Hybrid Embossing Folder - autumn colors

The Merriest Moments Bundle was one of the first things I got from the July - December 2021 catalog-  I love Poinsettia image anyway but the dies and the matching folders were so super cool-  but I was planning on using this for more than just Christmas time so I mad this card for thank yous to my customers this month. The sentiment is from the Pretty Pumpkins set - stamped in Cajun Craze.  I embossed the image in white Cardstock and cute the center rectangle out and mounted with dimenstionals to pop it out a bit.  I used a dauber with pear pizazz, pumpkin pie and cajun craze to lightly touch the raised area to add some color and voila! an autumn colored card. stamped the leaves 

 in pear pizazz and diecut it out - mounted with dimensionals to add a little extra something-

easy peasy but very pretty card. 

Crazy Cat

This cat has attitude- every time I look at this it makes me laugh because it reminds me of my sister - she can be snarky but funny and smart- the paper is from Magic in the Night - retired Stampin Up DSP- it was on sale until recently - daffodil delight moon - I fussy cut the broom and the cat - stamped the cat using stamparatus- multiiple times- to get a really black image- then covered the tail with post it and stamped the broom - added the black gingham ribbon and the sentiment with Matte black dots and mounted the whole thing on black then pumpkin pie- what else?- cardstock

adorable!

 

September 2021 Paperpumpkin Haunts & Harvest

 September Paper Pumpkin was genious.  I normally have a whole mess of the boxes the kits come because they are too nice to throw away and normally I turn them inside out as gift boxes or mailing boxes and they are terrific - but they put this wood pattern on the package and had a design inside that you cut out to make a new project that goes with the content- very cool- the kit was adorable with theseadorable pumpkins with leaves and paper wrapped wires  for the vine. It was just so sweet and I was able to make halloween treats for my whole staff. I gave the cart to one of my favorite nurses - I did replace the glued on front wheel with a brad so it would actually turn- 

it came with 3 different color diecuts - do you think they will ever sell this die?  I certainly could have used more of these.  stickers for the jack-o-lantern faces and everything you need to put it and the wheel barrow together.

I needed a vew more so I had to supplement with tsome extra treats I made with Pretty pillow box dies decorated with images i stamped and cut out from the Crazy Cat stampset 

this is the finishes wheelbarrow - and we used the tissue paper that came with the packaging - nothing wasted!

Some times I make alternates to get some variation but this was just so cute and I used every bit as it was originally designed- thumbs way up!