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November 1998

Well, it's November!  Have you gotten your Halloween pictures back yet?  And are you ready to get going on the fall pictures that have been waiting for the perfect idea?  Well, here are a few punch ideas to help you create wonderful pages.   Remember, if you use any of these ideas we'd love to see them!

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Crimped fall border:

I used my crimper on dark green cardstock, cut the edge with cloud scissors
and then added a few jumbo leaves.  It's very simple, but I think it's
effective.  You can change the colors easily to suit your pictures.
Windy Fall Day:  I think this would be a neat little scene in the corner of
a layout, especially if you had a print paper background.  Maybe even cloud
paper.  The leaves a a regular oak leaf and maple leaf in a variety of
colors.  The rake has a hand cut handle and the claws are a jumbo sun,
trimmed.  I think the spirals add a lot of movement to the falling leaves.
Fall Leaves Border:  This border uses three colors of ink, (Zig Writers in
Wheat, Brown and Antique Burgundy), to draw in a wave ruler border.  Then I
added the regular oak and maple leaves.
Birch Tree:  This tree is made from a jumbo sun, which I trimmed and added
some trimmed pieces behind the other branches to give depth.  Then I added
yellow mini birch leaves on the tree and around the ground.  I shaded them
with colored pencil.
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Books:  These books are simple a rectangle punch, with the corners slightly
rounded.  Then you can simply write titles on the spines. You could make a
whole border of these, or you could use this as an accent piece.
Bat:  The wings of this bat are made with a scalloped flower punch, cut
once, then that piece is cut again with the punch.  The body is a 1/2"
circle, with a small star behind it for the ears.  I drew on the features
with a white pen.
Spider:  This is made with a jumbo sun punch.  Two "arms" are trimmed off at
each end.  That leaves eight arms on each side, so trim off every other one
, leaving four each side.  I added 2 1/8" red circle for eyes.  If you put
him on with a pop-dot, then you could gently bend his legs and give him a
real sense of movement.
One Candy Corn:  This candy corn idea is derived from instructions for using
a circle cutter.  I used the circle cutter for the largest white circle,
about 1 1/2" across.  The next is an orange jumbo circle.  Then comes a
yellow 1/2" circle.  Layer these circles on top of each other.  Then cut it
into eighths.  Ta-dah.
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Candy Corn Border (FILENAME CANDYCORN):  I used a orange and yellow design
line stickers down one side.  Then I simply added the candy corn.
Haunted House:  This little scene would be better with a dark background,
but I wanted to be sure it would show up well.  The hill is cut free form,
the tree is made from the jumbo sun. The tombstones are trimmed small bells
and the path is drawn on.  The house is crimped first, then punched with a
jumbo house punch; the details are then drawn on.

   

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