More Toil & Trouble

Here’s another page I created with the Toil & Trouble paper and sticker collection.

For the fence, I used the Victorian fence punch (655809).

I used the Oval Custom Cutting System (624389) to make the pumpkins. For the pumpkin leaves and stems, I used the Leaf Trio Punch (655520). You can make any size pumpkin by cutting three oval shapes the same size, adhering two together to form the back of the pumpkin plus one on the top. Here’s a video showing how to use the punch to make the stem and the leaf on the top of the pumpkin. Here’s a video to show you how I do it.

 

 

 

 

The Gift of Memories

On a recent trip, I was checking out at a store, and the lady behind the counter remarked about how much she liked my necklace. I told her it was made out of pottery, so she asked me if I did pottery. I told her I did scrapbooking. That’s when she told me that her sister was about to get married, and she came across an old scrapbook in her mother’s house that her mother and sister had put together when her sister was little. She had taken this scrapbook full of memories and was going to wrap it up and give it to her sister as a gift from her as the maid of honor. 

That little encounter reminded me of how important a physical preservation of memories can be. We live in a time when most of our memories are digitally stored on our phones and computers. As fantastic as that technology is, it cannot be wrapped up and presented as a wedding present.