This month for the Gentlemen Crafters Design Team Blog Hop I want to show you that you can make beautiful cards without breaking the bank, and with any level of skill from beginner to advanced. Whether you purchase only a stamp set, or the bundle with the dies or punch, or if you go all out and buy the bundle and the coordinating designer series paper - you can get plenty of great creations regardless.

We haven't had a single trick-or-treater at our house in five years, so I decided to dress my Paper Pumpkin treat boxes up in cozy fall sweaters and use them as table toppers for our big family Thanksgiving dinner.  I used scraps and pieces of fall paper from my paper bin, and some designer series paper, beautiful embossed and die cut leaves, wheat and pumpkins made with the new Gather Together suite in the holiday catalogue to embellish them.