You can take a couple of Hershey's kisses & make a long stemed rose from them. Get the red wrapped ones & if I remember right you put the bottoms of 2 together & wrap it with plastic wrap & you attach it to a flower stem with floral tape & add a couple of silk rose leaves, makes a very pretty long stemed rose. I've got 1 in craft room I might be able to find. So great for nursing homes, club members,church ladies, Mother & grandmas & neighbor lady. When they finish looking at it & Valentine's day is over they get to eat it!!!!You can put a rose in a vase from TS if you want to get fancy. VEry inexpensive to make!!! Jan

Very pretty will have to try it

I love stealing paint chips for making cards and such! I think I posted a scrapbook page I had made with a paper-pieced pumpkin a while back, but I recently made a card in the same style. Not quite so neon in real life, but I think the purple background adds something. The pumpkin body is 4 lumpy ovals stacked up. Foam dots would be great for giving it some dimension. As I am uber-cheap, I used 6 small scrap strips of cardstock between the layers. Green hearts for the leaves. You could use a punch or fold the paper in half and cut out a half heart the way we did in elementary school art class - the crease will just give dimension to the leaves. Mini-strips of green wrapped around a pen for the vines. It may have benefitted from inking the edges or somehow distressing the paper (or using nicer paper to start) - but I think it is a pretty cute use for that giant tablet of cardstock that seemed like such a good idea when you bought it. Here is a link that might be useful:

Hi Penny, I don't really have a favorite either. I try to make every page different. A fun thing to try, is with all those paper punches. There's a book called "Punch Art" that has a lot of examples. It uses up all those scraps that aren't good for much else. I also like rubberstamped images, and since I got a computer, clipart. You will get more creative, trust me. When I look at some of the first pages I did, I shudder! In fact, some I've even redone. Have fun and don't stress over it, that's the main thing! Barbara