Giant Sized Punch Art

I have been on a roll the last few days scrapping this year's school pictures.  My husband is a teacher so of course I had to scrap his too.  I combined directions from a couple of different sites to come up with my punch art.  No ones punch art was as big as I needed mine to be so I just modified their directions  to make mine bigger.
I got the idea for the books from Flowerbug, but actually used her directions for another card on how to make them. (I know clear as mud).
I had to make up the apple based on several different directions I saw on the internet.
Overall, I like how the page turned out. 

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Patty Mickle
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Stampin' and Scrappin' and French Foliage

I love Fall, and I love the stamp set, French Foliage.  It is so easy to make the leaves look very realistic.
My first sample here is a scrapbook page of my son's school picture.  I took my cardstock colors from his shirt and went from there.  I had a couple of leaves already made, so I thought why not make a few more, and make the page with a fall theme to it.

Making the leaves is fun and easy.  First I inked up my stamp with so saffron.  I then used a dauber to ink up the stamp in a few areas with dusty durango (retired).  Lastly, I went around the outer edges of the stamp with old olive.  Next, I stamped and cut out each leaf.  After they were cut out, I again used a dauber and dusty durango to ink all the edges, and I used a sponge and old olive to lightly go over each leaf.  I think they turned out looking very realistic.
I used the same technique on the card below.  I also used the sketch from Stamping 411 and the challenge from Stampin' Sisters in Christ to complete the card.

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Patty Mickle

Peace

To create this 6x6 scrapbook page, I used two different challenges.  I got the color scheme at the inspiration challenge at The Paper Players.  They have the cutest picture for inspiration this week.
I got the title of my page, Peace, from the challenge at Stampin' Sisters in Christ, and I also used the verse they used.  It is such a comforting verse spoken by the Lord, himself.

I made another ribbon flower for this page.  It is a little messy but that is ok with me.  I like messy sometimes when making embellishments.... and getting haircuts.  That way I can say it is supposed to look that way ;)

The colors I used are basic black and pretty in pink.  I added tone on tone texture by gluing 3/4 inch circles around the perimeter of the page before I attached the center square piece.
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Patty Mickle
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