The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

Hello there on this crisp sunny Wednesday!

To me this truly is the most wonderful time of the year - Fall/Halloween.  I like the leaves changing colors. I like when the temps are in the 60/70s. I loooove Halloween - the decorations, costumes, candy, apple cider, corn mazes, hay rides, pumpkin patches, haunted houses, horror movies! So how is it not wonderful?

Thinking of Fall also always brings back memories in my teen years, our youth group at church made apple cider. We picked the apples at a church member's apple orchard, brought them to the church parking lot where we had an old manual apple press and spent a weekend afternoon pressing apples into cider.  If you wound up with a bee in your cider, you got EXTRA blessed! lol Fun times!

So I pulled out this lovely pumpkin mug by Ellen Hutson for the main character of my card.  I stenciled a background, paired it with an embossed panel and an ink blended scalloped border.

For Following Challenges:

Card Supplies: 

Stamps: Sentiment- Boos Inside (Ellen Hutson-EH) 

Paper: Neenah Natural White; 

Ink: Pebble, Cotton Candy, & Buttercream (Catherine Pooler)

Extras: Mug and steam dies-Pumpkin Mug (EH); Stencil - Floral Mosaic (Honey Bee Stamps); Scallop die (MFT?); EF - (Spellbinders)

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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