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Fall is here!  My oldest, Audrey, is in Kindergarten (and loving it!) I'm hoping this means I will have more time for stamping and scrapbooking this fall before the baby comes in February... but I doubt it!

For club last night, we made the cutest backpack box... I love it, because you can put a little note in the front folder, and then fill it with candy corn, or any fun fall treat!

 cute, right? I got the instructions and templates from splitcoaststampers: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/backpackbox/

It's quite an undertaking, as it is 31 steps, but we had fun making it! I used old olive and chocolate chip, a favorite fall combo of mine... and the stamp set "day of gratitude".

As a second project (which we never got to), I made a simple 3 x3 card from the stamp set pennant parade:

I used brights, because I wanted a simple, cheery card.  I made the topiary with the trangle, then used the small tip of melon mambo stampin' write marker and the mat pack to make the circles.  I also made the envelope using this tutorial: http://acreativeneed.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/3x3-envelope-tutorial/
Here's the stamp set I used:

Which is a super versatile set... you can use it for ice cream cones:
 


or a little sail boat:
             


or christmas trees:


or birthday hats:


There are tons more ways, I just love this set!