Tour-de-Freaks: Fall

Welcome to the September 2010 Blog Tour. If you've just arrived from Gretchen Barron's blog, you've come to the right place! But don't worry, if you have started here, it will be possible to go completely to the end and arrive back here after going to the beginning of the tour!

This month's theme is Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving. I cannot believe that fall is already here. I don't even know where September went. Probably because I'm getting married in less than a month so time is on super speed!! Luckily I was able to squeeze in some projects for this months tour.


My first project is a Halloween card. I realized as I was getting ready to make this card, that I had very limited Halloween stamps but I was determined to make a card anyway. So I used my 1 1/4 and 1 3/8 circle punches to make these pumpkins. They are punched out in Tangerine Tango and Peach Parfait. I sponged around the edges of the circles. The leaves are from the XL Bird Punch and the Chocolate Chip stem is actually the very top portion of the Ornament punch. The purple background is Concord Crush with the swirls from Trendy Trees. Grass is Old olive with the top punched from the scallop punch and then that was sponged as well. I also added some sponging on the Crumb Cake piece as well. I accidently started sponging it with the sponge I used for the Concord Crush piece and after looking at it, I think it turned out ok with that color. For the sentiment, I ended up printing out the Happy Halloween saying from MDS (since I didn't have this stamp) and then just punched it with the Modern Label punch. So that is something to keep in mind if you looking for a saying and don't have the stamp...check My Digital Studio and print it out from there.



My next project is two little gift bags. One is Halloween related and one is more fallish but can be used for Halloween. The bags are small frosted bags that I got online. I wanted the pumpkins to be bigger than the punches that I had, so I used my circle cutter to get the size I wanted. This time the pumpkins are Tangerine Tango and Cajun Craze. Also sponged like the others. For the Halloween one, I added two ghosts using the Owl punch and then added some Rich Razzleberry ribbon on top. On the other bag I stamped and cut out leaves from the Falling Leaves set. Then I just added some Certainly Celery ribbon and a mini vintage Tag. Surprisingly I have no candy at my house (gasp!) so I couldn't fill up the bags. Instead I just crinkled up some of the brown bag packaging that you get in the Stampin Up shipments, just so it had some sort of filling to it. I definitely plan to fill them up with candy and give them to some friends at work. I think this will be a nice surprise on their desk.


Thanks for checking out my projects. I hope you are enjoying the tour. Next up is Lisa Martz, with more fabulous projects!