Mtn, I like the idea of a waterlogue card. I first heard about the app here and have since played around with it. I have a WL pic of my youngest DD holding my newest DGS. It looks darling in a little jeweled dragonfly frame. I stopped sending cards years ago as our businesses kept me so busy that I had little time and no energy to send cards. We sold two businesses so I only have one full time and one part time to deal with so this year I bought cards and I will soon start personalizing and addressing them so they are ready to go.. For some odd reason I am overly anxious for the holidays this year. I've already started the silver sorting and polishing and today started washing crystal that has not been in the front of the cabinet, therefore not used. I'm searching for recipes and I can't wait to put up our tree. I think some of this is due to the realization that there aren't as many Christmases left to me as there once was. Also the world we live in seems to be coming apart at the seams. Traditions seem to be the anchor that I need right now.

Still raring to go Still reving it up Still spinning his wheels LOL I am not good at this but I know someone will have a good one for you!

I love stealing paint chips for making cards and such! I think I posted a scrapbook page I had made with a paper-pieced pumpkin a while back, but I recently made a card in the same style. Not quite so neon in real life, but I think the purple background adds something. The pumpkin body is 4 lumpy ovals stacked up. Foam dots would be great for giving it some dimension. As I am uber-cheap, I used 6 small scrap strips of cardstock between the layers. Green hearts for the leaves. You could use a punch or fold the paper in half and cut out a half heart the way we did in elementary school art class - the crease will just give dimension to the leaves. Mini-strips of green wrapped around a pen for the vines. It may have benefitted from inking the edges or somehow distressing the paper (or using nicer paper to start) - but I think it is a pretty cute use for that giant tablet of cardstock that seemed like such a good idea when you bought it. Here is a link that might be useful:

Here are the wrappers,plus other ideas. she says they are free. Here is a link that might be useful: snowman freebie