City Crafter Guest Designer!

Hey there! Several weeks ago my card was chosen as the winner at the City Crafter challenge blog. With that honor came the privilege of being their guest designer!! That day is finally here and we have a Halloween inspiration photo. If you don't celebrate Halloween be sure to add the color orange to your project. I was inspired by the old fashioned look of the photo and made a treat bag for my project today!

This project started by stamping two different flourishes on the canvas bag. One was stamped along the bottom and the other was stamped twice on the upper right side. Next I glued the felt pumpkin into place. I picked this up at Hobby Lobby but changed out the leaves with some of my own felt. A pretty ruffly trim was added under the pumpkin. Two leaves were die cut with MFT leaf dies, one is polka dot the other stars. Next I stamped and trimmed out three oak leaves. To bring the green from the pumpkin leaves into my design, I snipped a few pompoms and tucked them in for the look of berries. 

I opened the bag up in this photo so you can see the upper flourishes (Inkadinkado) better. I added a few black gems for interest and an orange button to the bottom flourish (Hero Arts). I think the bottom flourish represents the lower portion of the inspiration photo fairly well, along with the addition of my button!

I've mentioned before that our neighborhood does the "You've Been Booed" activity for Halloween. I think this pretty little bag will be perfect to leave at the door of one of our couples who's kids have grown or those who have no children. 

I'm also linking this up at Moxie Fab World for a couple of challenges ~ ready made embellishments and general craft supplies!!

I'm so happy you could spend some time with me today. I hope you'll stop by the City Crafter challenge blog to see what the team has to share. You have a week to get crafty and link up your project, sure hope you will!! ~Lisa