Favorite Fall Treats

Hello there!

Are you ready for a new challenge at Seize The Birthday? It's time!

AND I'm hosting this challenge, my first since joining the STB Team a couple months ago.  I'm excited.  It also happens to be my birthday today, so a double celebration for me! 

I had to choose the Toppings theme as part of my hosting gig and I chose Favorite Fall Treat.  If you've been to my blog recently, you know Halloween is my favorite holiday besides Christmas and Fall is my favorite season besides spring.  I love the cooler weather, leaves turning and sitting by a fire outside.  I also have fond memories of falls as a teen, our church youth group would spend a Saturday picking apples at a local orchard and then making apple cider on the church parking lot with an old hand turning cider press made by one of the church members.  I think the most fun was picking the apples as we got to climb the trees too.  We would bottle the cider and sell it to raise money for a trip or charity.  We would always end the day with pizza and a small bonfire with marshmallows. Oh, the days gone by. 

SO, the Toppings is Favorite Fall Treat, which can be anything - a hot beverage, apple pie, pumpkin pie, smores, etc.  I chose apples/apple cider for mine.  I still love a mug of hot cider with a cinnamon stick or maybe a shot of Fireball Cinnamon whiskey too!

If you're not a Toppings kind of crafter, there's our Anything Goes challenge as well, just make sure it's a birthday card.  Stop by the STB blog and check out all the other scrumptious cards created by the rest of the Design Team and our Party Guests!

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Apples - Appley Ever After (CP Designs); Sentiment- Birthday Icons (CP Designs) 

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110#; Neenah Natural White; Patterned Paper - To The Orchard (CP Designs).

Ink: Rockin' Red, Cove Blue, Buttercream, Spruce, Sand Castle (CP Designs)

Extras: Mug and steam dies (MFT Stamps); Apple basket (CP Designs); Coordinating apples dies for apple stamps (CP Designs); Coordinating banner die for sentiment (CP Designs); EF - Basketweave (Cuttlebug).

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”  

Henry Ward Beecher

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