Christi's Creative Crew: Pun Fun Paper Pumpkin

It really is not like me to pull out my Paper Pumpkin Kit after I have worked on it at our monthly Paper Pumpkin Night. Usually I have used up all of my elements and whatever few pieces I have left, I generally donate. (I have 2 friends that love to take my leftovers and scraps to create cards...one for her adult day care job, and the other for ladies from her church who gather to make cards for their congregation)

What do you do with your scraps?

My cousin gave me a challenge to make a card for her daughter-in-law who loves her Cricut Machine to cut out images and create projects, cards & scrapbooking. Oh dear - how was I to incorporate a Cricut Machine into a card?

I started to think Cricut or Cricket? I went to my clip art and found some images, sized them to my liking and printed them out. I had these sitting on my table for at least 2 weeks, and every time I passed by it, I would ponder whatever I was going to do. Every time I made a card I would think..."would this layout work?, and what would I use to pull it together?"

When I played with my Paper Pumpkin kit on Paper Pumpkin night, I had cut apart the envelopes so that I could use the pretty printed insides.

Several days later I pulled out those remaining pieces and saw the curved edge of the envelope flap and my mind kicked in. I pulled out my BASIC BORDERS DIES to give it a better (and stitched) edge. Some pieces are bigger than others, but they both work. I added a second curved layer of Basic White.

I cut out a larger vellum circle because the cute cricket was fairly large - and I came up with this...

My cousin said "this is nothing like what I was thinking, but I love it more than I have words for" *whew!!

Since I liked this layout I thought I should use up the rest of the pieces and came up with a variety of these...

I also had some envelope inside leftovers from the striped printed paper, and when I saw this idea from Mary Fish, I wanted to make some of these up too...

Using the TAILOR MADE TAGS makes making these tags super easy. Since I had run out of the little red hearts in the kit, I used some retired ones. The Poppy Parade twine was also a leftover from a previous Paper Pumpkin kit.

Lastly, I had two card bases left over, and several of the printed elements so I quickly put two of these together...

Dale and I will celebrate 45 years together this June! I think that this is quite a milestone for this day and age, but look at this...we are both the youngest of our families - I have one sister and brother-in-law who will celebrate 49 years together in March, a second sister and brother-in-law who celebrate 50 years together in March, and my oldest sister and brother-in-law will celebrate 55 years together in May. My parents celebrated 70 years together just before mom passed away three + years ago. What an amazing heritage of love and commitment.

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