August Joy's Life/Cri-Kits blog hop!

I really wanted to use the newly released stamp set, "It's all fall puns"which you can view here. & I also wanted to work some more with my August Citrus Twist kit.

I reallyreallyreally loved the summer stamp set & I am really loving this fall set. Even though I'm not a huge fan of fall (because next comes winter & that's the worst!), I think this stamp set will get a lot of use. 

We're also featuring the Cri kits gel pens with this blog hop. They're so much fun to work with! You can see a layout I did using the pens here.

Anyway. We all know how addictive Pinterest is & how we often pin more than we do. Well, I found a cute fall project & decided it would be my Pinterest Project. Here was my inspiration piece.

I got this at TJ's mom's family reunion that we attended on my birthday. Yeah, pretend like that won't be held over his head for therestofhislife. They do an auction to raise money for cemetery/gravestone maintenance and/or if families are struggling throughout the year, they will take money from the fund to help them out. So this auction - everyone brings an item wrapped. Some were nice, some homemade, some re-gifted items, some sort of white elephant type gifts. But they're wrapped so you have no idea what it is. Some are labeled girl, boy, adult, etc. Bids are super low, but there are tons of items so they end up raising a few hundred dollars. It's a really great idea. TJ's dad kept bidding on items & giving them to me as "birthday gifts." There were a lot of random things, let me tell you.

So this is one of the things I got & everyone was like what in the world?! but I was thinking this could be made into something cool.

All items are from the Citrus Twist kit. The two stamps are from It's all Fall puns. I used the metallic & the glitter Cri-kit pens. As a side note, I was thinking the whole time that it would be nice if there was just a plain black or brown pen. At the end, I found out there was a black one - it's in the regular/neon colors. But I ended up not using it anyway. For the orange fleurish I used a metallic grey pen & on the kraft fleurish I used a yellow glitter.

close up of the stamp & Cri-kits pens, although the glitter didn't photograph well.

The Cricut Stretch your Imagination cartridge is what I used for everything. The fleurishes were 4 inches (orange) & 3 1/2 inches (kraft). The pumpkin was cut at 3 1/4 inches (I think). I used my circle punch on the "give thanks" sentiment. I attached the ribbon at the top with my hot glue gun.

Your next stop on the hop is Cyndy! Go check out her project.

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