Yeah, That Stack over There!

But before I talk about my project for the day, I want to encourage you to pop by http://www.passionatelyartistic.com/ and take a look at the wonderful work being done over there and join in on the Linky Party going on.  It’s a place I can always go to see fantastic projects and gain inspiration. 

Pumpkins—again!  I’m terrible about latching on to an idea and just doing it to death! But this time it’s a stack of pumpkins, and I’m using them for a table centerpiece on one of my tables at Thanksgiving.  I’ll be adding more to it—I think!  Anyway, I thought I’d share them with you now. 

So how did I do it?  I used a dowel and glued the pumpkins pieces together around the dowel with a glue gun. The pumpkins are cut using a cut file I made using George and my Gypsy.  I adapted the file for the tall skinny pumpkin, but it’s essentially the same file. The bottom pumpkin is about 7” across so the piece is a good size.  There are a few more pieces to this that I haven’t finished yet.  I’ll post them all when I am done.  I had the ivy left over from doing the flowers at my son’s wedding , so I added it to give the pumpkins a lusher feeling.  Anyway here’s a few more shots of the stacked pumpkins. 

The ivy is attached with a hot glue gun. 

I hope you all have a productive day!  I think I’m going to make some pumpkin bread, and no, I won’t be using paper pumpkins. 

Want some pie?

I love pie.  It’s one of my favorite desserts.  Given a choice between cake and pie, I’ll almost always pick pie!  So when I was contemplating my Thanksgiving invitations and I saw the pie cut on the Thanksgiving cart, I thought I’d try to build my card around it!  I think it turned out quite nice. 

I used some cardstock in my stash for the base.  I have no idea where I got it.  The layers are cut from that same fall DCWV stack I’ve been using all fall.  The other bits of card stock are from my scrap drawers.  I love to see those scraps getting used up! 

All of the Cricut cuts come from the Thanksgiving cartridge.  I love that leaf motif.  It’s so elegant.  I cut the pie base twice, once in white and once in the burgundy that used for the card base and then trimmed the steam off. The crust was cut from a very light beige and I made it look brown with my trusty brown ink pad.  The sentiment is from one of my $1.00 stamps.  The edge punch is a Fiskars punch from several years ago and has served me well over the years.  I thought it added to the leaf motif I’d already started. 

Turn out pretty good.  I’m happy with it. 

 

Now to get them in the mail! 

Hey, where do I sit?

Well, you sit over there by that pumpkin!  He he he! 

OK, OK, I will cut the cuttin up!  No I didn’t use Cuttin’ Up for this project.  I used my pumpkin cut file from my wreath, made it smaller and made place cards for my Thanksgiving table. 

How did I do that! I am going to tell you.  I started with my pumpkin file made with George and cut 105!  I have 15 people sitting at my table this Thanksgiving and for each place card I need 7 pumpkins. 

Yeah! My expression hummed along for quite a long time.  Once they were all cut, I dragged out my Cuttlebug and embossed each one of all 105 pumpkins with my Dotted Swiss A2 folder. Sigh!  Yes, my arm did get tired!  OK you’re right. Not really! 

After embossing I folded each of the 105 pumpkins in half.  I know I keep saying 105!  I can’t help it!  That’s a lot of pumpkins!  After folding I trimmed the bottom of each pumpkin so that each pumpkin would sit even.  Can you see the trim? I had originally intended to ink these with gold ink, but I changed my mind.  I mean, come on . . . 105! 

At this point I glued them together and added a green stem to each pumpkin. 

I also cut three of each parts of the actual name plates. This cut came from Gypsy Wanderings and was cut at 3x2”. The leaf paper is the back and the green the front with the beige name plate.  Then I stamped the name plate with a Basic Grey $1 stamp, wrote each person’s name on the name plate, and added faux stitching.   The name plate is attached with a paper clip. 

Turned out sort of cute!  Now to finish all of them!