Autumn Leaves & Pumpkins for Sparkles Monthly

Hello friends!  I hope that your October month is going well so far.  We’re starting to get some noticeably cooler temps in the forecast as we creep towards Halloween at the end of the month.  Love this time of year when those leaves start showing their pretty colors as they fall from the trees!  We should be getting that soon as well to clean up the yard! LOL

This brings us to a new monthly challenge over at Sparkles Monthly and we have the theme of “AUTUMN LEAVES & PUMPKINS  this month.  I look forward to seeing all of the projects in the gallery for this one.  Here’s what I came up with: 

I fell in love with this cute scarecrow from Newton’s Nook called Autumn Fields and I knew that I wanted to use it for this challenge.  I colored up the image along with a few pumpkins and cut them out in the coordinating dies.  I was going to add a couple of leaves for the background, but I thought it would be cool to pull out the NN Fabulous Fall Toner Card Fronts and ink blend over it for the background.  So I gold foiled the background and blended some various inks to create the background scene for the scarecrow.

I die cut a grassy hill border from Lawn Fawn and inked the blades with a gold ink pad and layered that onto my foiled leaves background.  I tucked in the scarecrow and pumpkins for grounding and then white heat embossed a sentiment (from the scarecrow set) that was cut out with a banner die (from MFT- closed).  I also used the gold ink pad around that as well.

I cut out the entire layered panel with a cross-stitched rectangle die from Lawn Fawn and then used a scalloped rectangle die from Taylored Expressions cut from white cardstock to layer behind it.  I attached everything to an A2 side folding card base in the Latte color from Taylored Expressions.

  • Hope you’ve enjoyed my card and will hop on over to the challenge blog to check out what the rest of the design team has made for inspiration.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR STOPPING BY TODAY!!

Challenges:

  1. Try it On Tuesday – Autumn Colors
  2. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2541 Anything Goes
  3. Four Seasons – Anything Goes Fall
  4. Pearly Sparkles Pumpkins and/or Fall Leaves
  5. Creative Fingers Anything Goes
  6. Stamping Sensations – Autumn/Anything Goes
  7. We Love Stamping – Anything Autumn/Anything Goes
  8. Cupcake Inspirations Fall Harvest
  9. Aud Sentiments Ink Blending and/or Fall/Thanksgiving + sentiment

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Hello friends!  Hope that you’re doing well and enjoying the month of May so far!  As I’ve mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been very busy working on projects “behind the scenes” that I will be sharing at a later date.  The next couple of posts are scheduled as I will be away until next week.  But I need to catch you up on the new challenge for now…

Today starts a new challenge over at the Alphabet Challenge Blog!   We are now onto the letter “D” and the hostess has chosen “D” is for Dogs  *Remember that this is a bi-weekly challenge, so you have two weeks to enter*  I hope you will find some time to play along!  Here’s what I’ve created:

I’ve pulled out this adorable stamp from my stash by Newton’s Nook called Birthday Barks and I’ve colored the stack of dogs along with a few extra balloon and gift images with Copic markers and cut them all out with the coordinating dies. (I’ve used a white gel pen for highlights and a silver gel pen for the bottom dog’s collar.)  Some of the balloons and gift images were glued on the blue background, but the stack of dogs and a few of the other images were popped up with foam tape.

I’ve used some papers from the Newton’s Nook Birthday Woofs Paper Pad and the blue background was made using a solid balloon image from my stash and stamping it with white ink.  I’ve black heat embossed the sentiment from the Birthday Barks stamp set and added a few clear sequins to the background.

This will make a great birthday card for a guy or girl!  (I’m sure I’ve probably missed someone’s birthday somewhere! LOL)  Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and will stop by the challenge blog to see what the rest of the team has come up with.  Pull out those dog stamps and come join in the fun!

Thanks so much for stopping in today and I’ll be back with another post tomorrow!

Challenges:

  1. Allsorts Anything Goes (Happy Birthday!)
  2. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2521 Anything Goes
  3. Passion for Markers 4 legged Friends (colored with Copics)
  4. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
  5. Krafty Chicks Anything Goes

Time to Send Love

Hello friends!  It’s getting closer to Valentine’s Day and Sending out love to others is a good reason to make cards!  I’ve joined a couple of challenges to play along with:

I have fallen in love with these card layout dies from Newton’s Nook called A2 Card Layout Die and was also able to use as part of a sketch for a challenge that worked with it.  The die made it very easy for the layout.  I’ve also used some Newton’s Nook papers as well as a new Valentine themed stamp set that came out in December.  

For the postage stamp on the card, I’ve taken the NN Postage Stamp Layout die and cut one in turquoise and then another in white.  One for the inside and one for the frame.  I cut it apart so that I had several postage stamps.  I stenciled clouds on the turquoise insert and added the heart balloons from the NN Valentine Postage Sampler set over it.  I stamped, colored and cut it out with the coordinating die.  I also white heat embossed the number at the bottom.

I took the same stamp set and stamped some random hearts on the center kraft cardstock panel.  The sentiment came from the NN Sending Hugs stamp set (retired) and was white heat embossed over the hearts.

For the die cut turquoise hearts, I’ve used the NN Charming Hearts Frame die.  It cut out three hearts that I could use for accents on this card.  I’ve attached the entire design over an A2 top folding kraft card base and finished it with some heart shaped sequins.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed my card or found some inspiration!

Challenges:

  1. Newton’s Nook Inky Paws Challenge – Cherry Red, Turquoise, Buttery Brown & White + Newton’s Nook products
  2. Sketch Saturday – #768 sketch with twist:  include a heart
  3. The Divas That Cut…Paper – Something New + die (new Newton’s Nook products!)
  4. Creative Fingers – #293 Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – #2504 Anything Goes

Thankful for Fall, Pumpkins and Coffee!

Hey friends!  Just poppin’ in with another card I made and wanted to get it in before the deadline ends…which I normally don’t always do!😁

I have been playing along (with the exception of the last few years) with the Coffee Loving Papercrafters “Coffee Lovers Blog Hop” which has been going on since 2014!  It’s hard to believe it’s been around that long, but looking back at the posts that were shared recently for “a look back”, I had a different blog platform and there I was playing along 10 years ago!  Really appreciate all of the fun that Amy has provided to us through the years as well as the many sponsors that have been apart of it.

I’ve pulled out some stamp sets from one of the sponsors (Newton’s Nook) new and older from my stash in honor of this occasion:

That is the cutest cup of Pumpkin Spice Latte that I’ve ever seen!  I’ve used the NN Newton’s Mug stamp set with coordinating die to stamp, color and cut him out.  He was popped up with foam tape over the background.  For the pumpkin image on top of the mug, I’ve used an older NN stamp set called “Love a La Carte” (No longer available).  I just stamped, colored and fussy cut the image to place over the mug.  I also added some gold glitter on the heart above it.

For the background:  I cut a piece of paper with the NN Frameworks die set and pulled out some watercolors for the background and then splattered some gold after the background was dry.  I layered this over the brown cardstock.  I also used a piece of that brown cardstock to white heat emboss the sentiment which came from an older STAMPtember collaboration set with NN called “Talk Turkey“.  I cut it out with a banner die and attached it to the side of the scallop panel.  The leaves under the mug and over the watercolor panel were from the NN Autumn Mice stamp set and coordinating dies.  

I was trying to also follow along with a fun sketch from the Inky Paws Challenge (see below) and so I’ve pulled out some more papers from the NN Coffee House Stories paper pad that I thought went with the coloring on my cup and attached it to an A2 top folding brown card base.  I also added a strip of gold glitter paper to bring out the touch of glitter on the tiny heart above the pumpkin.

  • That’s it for today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed my coffee card or have been inspired to create something fun too!  I’m off to check out all the other entries for more inspiration!  Have a wonderful weekend ahead!

Challenges:

  1. Coffee Loving Papercrafters – #fallwinter2024clh 2024 Fall/Winter Coffee Lovers Hop using coffee, tea, cocoa, and/or apple cider
  2. Inky Paws Challenge – #234 sketch
  3. Double Trouble – #179 Lotsa Layers
  4. Inspiration Station – #67 inspirational photo (the coffee, leaves and pumpkin inspired me)
  5. Crafty Animals Anything Goes + animal
  6. Critter Crazy Anything Goes with a Featured Critter
  7. Inkspirational – #328 Layer It (layered leaves and panels)
  8. Shopping Our Stash – #534 Time for a Hot Drink

Birthday, Pizza & Craft Roulette Play #228

Hello friends!  I have a mix of projects that I’ve recently been working on and wanted to share my latest since I’ve gotten all caught up with the projects that I hadn’t posted.

I had a few birthdays come up and of course I forgot to take photos of a few of them before I sent them out the door and now they’re long gone! (DOH!)  But I did remember to take photos of these:

I fell in love with the stack of party pups from Newton’s Nook and I always wanted to try out one of those cool card layout dies!  The person that I’m sending this to loves his dog and I know the dog also has some “friends” she visits with, so why not a “PAW-ty” of them together! 

I’ve used the NN Birthday Barks stamps & dies and colored it out with Copic markers.  I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment in the top right square and added a stamped paw print from the stamp set.  All the images were popped up with foam squares.

For the background, I took the NN A2 Card Layout 2 die and cut the frame with all of the stitched pieces using the NN Birthday Woofs Paper Pad.  These dies make for some quick and easy cards without much thinking involved which is great when you’re in a hurry!


Next card was made as a thank you for a pizza night using one of those Ooni Pizza outdoor grills.  I’ve never had one and so of course being the pizza lovers that hubby and I are, we gladly excepted!  Very good pizza it was!  I wanted to thank them for having us and made this card:

I’ve used this really cute pizza set from My Favorite Things and I was happy to pull some papers I had for years and years to help pull it together.

I’ve used the MFT A2 Stitched Rectangle dies to cut the checkered pattern paper as well as the light blue panel.  I’ve used the MFT Stitched Mini Scallop Rectangle dies to cut the white piece behind the blue panel. (The red and white checkered paper is so old…got it at a stamp event so many years ago and hoarded it of course!)

Decorating the pizza was so much fun and I used the same ingredients we received on our Ooni pizza which was a handmade crust, tomatoes, pepperoni, Canadian bacon, cheese and sprinkled with basil leaves.  All of the cut pieces to make the pizza came from the MFT Pizza Maker dies and the sentiment came from the MFT Pizza My Heart sentiment set (I don’t see it on the website, so I’m not sure if it’s available any longer?)  I stamped it with black pigment ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I’ve also used the same size stitched rectangle die as the blue panel to cut off a portion of the pizza to make it fit into design.


Lastly, this is a card made hot off the press tonight using the current Craft Roulette parameters!  So if you missed it, go catch tonight’s latest episode #228 and play along!  This is the card that I’ve made with tonight’s parameters:

I decided I wanted to also use the image from Beccy’s Place August Freebie challenge and add myself another challenge on top of the 4 parameters!  I loved the image as it looked so refreshing!  I played around with the image on my computer and added an extra one next to it, but flipped it around and placed it behind the other one.  I also typed up my own sentiment underneath to go with the “Monday” parameter with Craft Roulette.

Project:  I used a Geometric Square stencil for the background with yellow ink and to fit Beccy’s extra twist challenge which was to use something old from your stash, I did dust off those square sequins and brads that I’ve had for years and years to add on the front of the cups.  (Now the image reminds me of those Recesses Peanut Butter shakes! YUM!)

Colors:  Bee Garden colors are obviously the black and yellow and I had to add in some orange for the guest Irene who is a #teamorange color person.

Element: Monday was typed up within the sentiment.

Random:  Use A Marker(s) which the image was colored in with Copic markers.

  • Ok…so that’s it for me this weekend!  I needed to get this posted this evening because I would be missing out on a challenge that I wanted to be sure to play in before time runs out and that will be in like a couple of hours! 

Thanks for dropping by today friends!  I hope you have an amazing weekend!!

Challenges:

  1. Inky Paws – #229 Birthday Theme + NN products (Top card only)
  2. Cupcake Inspirations Happy Birthday!!!  (Top card only)
  3. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2432 Anything Goes
  4. The Cutie Pie – #197 Four Legged Friends (Top card only)
  5. AAA Birthday Critters + Birthday (Top card only)
  6. Penny’s – #578 Anything Goes Using Paper
  7. Beccy’s Place – Use Beccy’s Place image twist: add older stash (sequins & brads)
  8. Ally’s Angels Anything Goes

Hello Flowers & Catch Up

Hello friends!  I hope you’ve had a great week so far!  It’s a rainy day, but I have some errands to do as it will be a busy weekend so I wanted to get some things done.  I also have some more catching up to share with you at the end of the post too!

I made a card using some older Newton’s Nook products I have and played along in a few challenges as well:

I am not sure if I used this stamp set or not before that I received a few years back from Newton’s Nook called Versatile Vases (retired), but I think it’s a great set with lots of versatility.

I stamped the flowers, then stamped the vase over top of it to make it look like the flowers are inside the vase.  I colored with my Copic markers and cut out the panel with the Newton’s Nook Framework Die Set and then cut another panel with pink cardstock for the frame around it.  I then stamped the hello sentiment at the top right corner of the panel.

I followed along with the sketch (see below) for the Inky Paws challenge and used some pink ink to stamp the solid flower image from the Versatile Vases set and layered it over a pink cardstock layer.  The purple dotted paper came from the Newton’s Nook Birthday Woofs Paper Pad.  I arranged each panel over a white top folding A2 card base, but before attaching the purple dotted strip going horizontally behind the flower panel, I wrapped some white twine around it and added a bow with it.  

I used some foam tape to pop up the flower panel and then added some purple rhinestones to the center of each flower.

It’s a very simple and sweet card perfect for sending a smile!


I’m still catching up with some projects that I had been working on earlier this year and never had a chance to post each thing I was doing at the time.

You may remember the “Stamp Joy Virtual Event” that I did back in March and I shared those in my post here.   During the exact same time I was doing that, there was another event going on through Scrapbook.com called SBC Fest which was recorded so I watched it later and participated in the classes as I had time.  I finally finished what I wanted out of it in May and so here are the things I made except for the scrapbooking classes as I wasn’t interested in those projects.  (I used items mostly from my stash.)

*If you’re on my website, click on each photo to enlarge*

I’m getting closer and closer to posting my “catch-up” projects!  I have one more event that I attended this Spring and a class that I haven’t shared yet, but will post soon!  

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by, for leaving me a comment or just catching the photos of what I’m doing.  I hope you enjoy my sharing as much as I’m enjoying creating.

Have a wonderful day!

Challenges: (Top card only)

  1. Inky Paws – #228 sketch
  2. Cupcake Inspirations – #599 Pink & Purple
  3. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2430 Flowers
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes

It’s Halloween!

Hello friends!  Tomorrow is Halloween and so I thought I’d share some cards that I’ve made that were sent out to people. 

The dog and cat ghosts are too cute from Newton’s Nook!  I love their “howling”!  Not much to color and I’ve used the dies to cut them out and pop over the background with the paper pad from NN as well.  I heat embossed the sentiment over a die cut banner and then added a frame around the edges with some holographic paper.

I made this for someone who loves Halloween almost as much as I do and also has both a dog and cat.  The cat’s name is Spooky! LOL

And here’s another card I’ve made using some Taylored Expressions products.  I first ink blended the background in a couple of blue tones with dark blue around the edges and then splattered some silver watercolor for the stars.  I used a layered moon stencil to the moon effect and then die cut the witch in glitter black cardstock.  The sentiment was white heat embossed and cut out with a banner die.  I’ve also used another frame of the holographic cardstock.

And last but not least, I’ve made this card and not necessarily for Halloween, but this was made for my husband’s anniversary card.  We’ve been married 24 years and we both feel the same about Halloween/spooky things! LOL  I found these fun digital images from Etsy to print out and then I fussy cut part of one to add to another.  I stamped the background with a background stamp I had covered with roses and blended some inks around the heart.  I also added some black gems around it and covered the rose “Jack” is holding with a glitter pen.

 

Hope you’ve enjoyed my post today!  Thanks for dropping in and I hope you all have a wonderfully fun and spooky Halloween!👻

Challenges:

  1. Little Red Wagon – Trick or Treat
  2. Papercraft – Happy Halloween
  3. Creative Crafting Uncles – Halloween
  4. Penny’s Paper-Crafty – Anything Goes using paper
  5. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday – Anything Goes
  6. Krafty Chicks – All Occasions (bottom card anniversary)
  7. Sweet Stampin’ – All Hallow’s Eve

I Scream, You Scream

Did you say “We All Scream for Ice Cream”? or did you think this was about Halloween?  Well although that season is quickly approaching and I do love all the spooky things, this one is actually about ice cream today.  As hot as it has been and going to be this weekend, it might be nice to have!  However, I do have some on my card today:

I made a birthday card for someone that loves a local ice cream parlor that sells lemon ice cream, so that’s why it’s all in the bright yellow colors!  I’ve used some yummy goodies today from Newton’s Nook for my card.  I also followed along with a sketch challenge for the Inky Paws Challenge, and it’s about over, so I needed to get it in! (see details below)

I pulled out the NN Summer Scoops stamp set and stamped a couple of the cones, colored and cut them out with the coordinating dies.  I also took a strip of vellum and heat embossed the sentiment in black over the pattern and black layers. The striped pattern was from the NN Birthday Woofs paper pad, and I used the largest of the NN Frameworks die set to cut it out. For the center of the striped panel, I used the heart die from the NN Furr-ever Friends die set and cut out the center where the vellum sentiment strip was placed.  I added a piece of yellow cardstock behind the heart so that the sentiment would show up and layered the striped panel onto a black layer which I placed over a top folding A2 sized white card base.  After popping up the ice cream cones, I added two black strips above and below them to fit the sketch design.

The Summer Scoops set also had the extra heart which I colored and cut out to place next to the sentiment. I added some shimmer to all of the hearts with a glitter brush pen and then I took some individual sprinkles from the NN Celebration Embellishment Mix and glued those on top of the ice cream.  I saved the twine that came with my order from Newton’s Nook and tied a couple of bows to go on top of the ice cream cones.  It was the perfect color to go with the sprinkles!

Of course, I need to make the envelope yellow too and I stamped an additional cone image on the bottom left corner of that too.  And yes, the birthday person was also gifted some lemon ice cream!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my lemon ice cream card today or found some inspiration with it!  Thanks for dropping by and I hope you’re able to enjoy yourself something refreshing this weekend even if it isn’t ice cream! 😉

Challenges I’d like to enter:

  1. Inky Paws Challenge – #204 Sketch challenge using NND productIPC204
  2. Cupcake Inspirations – CIC575 Add a bow/ribbon
  3. AAA Birthday –  Game #52 Anything Goes Birthday#52 bottom
  4. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  5. Tic Tac Toe – TTTC222 I used middle down: patterned paper, free, birthday
  6. Penny’s Paper-Crafty– #553 Anything Goes using paper
  7. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – PIP2332 Anything Goes

Margarita and a Rainbow

Hello friends!  I hope you’re having a great week so far and that you’re able to keep cool as I know it seems to be pretty warm for many of us in the U.S.  It’s a great time to do some crafting, so I thought I’d share a few cards that I made that I needed. (Scroll down in this post to see the ‘rainbow’ card.)

I think a margarita sounds pretty refreshing in this heat!  Newton here seems to be enjoying it anyway!  All of the stamps I’ve used are from Newton’s Nook and I’ve made this card for a special person’s birthday.  This person I’m making this card for had gotten me hooked on mango margaritas and I wanted to represent that in the card.  (Note the salt rim on the glass.)  The color is more a strawberry color, but I wanted to go with the colors for the Inky Paws Challenge. (See below in the challenge list.)

I stamped the “happy birthday” sentiment (retired set from Newton’s Nook) repeatedly in the background on the pink panel and then I splattered it with white Copic and water with a brush.  The panel was cut from the Newton’s Nook Framework die set and layered with colors that match with the challenge.  The blue card base was repeated stamped with the taco and I stamped, colored and cut one out to place behind Newton with the margarita.  I took a strip of Doodlebug green polka-dot paper and white heat embossed the sentiment.  I cut a tiny strip off and turned it over to glue at the top of the strip.  I used foam tape to add the margarita kitty, finished it off with white twine and sequins with a spot of Stickles in the centers.

Challenges for margarita card:

  1. Inky Paws – #203 color challengeIPC203
  2. Country View – 4 legged friend
  3. The Diva’s That Cut Paper – Birthday theme
  4. NBUS – #52 July (Never Before Used Schtuff!)  New Newton’s Nook products!
  5. Crazy for Cats – Anything ‘CAT’ goes optional: festive
  6. Daring Cardmakers – summer drinkscover
  7. Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes

Here’s another card I wanted to make for Beccy’s Place challenge using the free image that was provided this month and I thought it would make a great card for encouragement to send for a special cause I’m donating for:

I’ve used the non-colored version of this image and before printing it out, I’ve added a sentiment at the bottom from the Seasonal Window digital set from Beccy’s Place.  (There are quite a few uplifting quotes in that one.)  I colored the image with Copics and added a bit of shimmer on the sun with a glitter pen.

I think I’ve made this popped up frame around the image more complicated than what it needed to be, but I cut out the scallop frame twice for thickness, and also printed out a piece of the rainbow looking papers that was also a part of this month’s Beccy’s Place Challenge free image.  I cut it out with the scalloped frame and attached it to my double thick frame layers.  The image was placed over a black cardstock and the popped-out rainbow frame was placed over the image keeping a portion of the black frame showing.  These layers were mounted over a 4 1/2″ square white card base.

Hope that you’ve enjoyed my cards today!  Thank you for stopping in and I’ll be seeing you Saturday for another Art Journal Page!

Challenges for ‘rainbow’ card:

  1. Beccy’s Place Challenge – July Anything Goes using Beccy’s Place image optional: animal(s)
  2. Crafts Galore Encore – Anything Goes
  3. The Corrosive – Anything Goes
  4. The Crafty Addicts – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. Love to Scrap – Anything Goes
  7. Love to Craft – Anything Goes

Thanksgiving Cuteness

Hello! Wishing a Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow for my U.S. friends!  Just wanted to pop in here to share this fun little card I made to help me get into the Thanksgiving mood and I needed a bit of a giggle which is what I was doing as I colored these fun critters:

Aren’t these guys hilarious?!  This is one of the stamp sets that was released during the Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember event this year and of course if you recognize the critters, then you know it was designed by Newton’s Nook.  The stamp set is called “Talk Turkey” and was only available during this event.  I don’t make very many Thanksgiving cards, but when I saw this stamp set come out, it just had me giggling and so I nabbed it up!  I think I would certainly enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner with this crew!

For the card, I ink blended the background with the distress inks:  Rusty Hinge, Wild Honey and Scattered Straw.  I spritzed with water and dried the splotches with a towel.  (I’ve done the same method with the sentiment strip too.)  I then used some black and white paint to splatter over it and set aside to dry.

While waiting for the panel to dry, I colored up all of the images with my Copics.  I’ve added some gold and white gel pen marks in certain places and then I fussy cut them all out leaving a white border around them.  

I took a strip of green cardstock and die cut a grassy border and attached to the background panel.  I cut both of these layers out with a stitched scallop die and then cut out the black embossed sentiment with a banner die.  I then arranged all of the images where I wanted them and glued them down.  I took the banner and popped it up with foam tape.  I added the leaves and covered them with a glitter brush pen for a bit of sparkle.  I attached all of these layers to a white A2 card base and cut off the sentiment strip along the edge.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my card today and it made you smile!  Thanks for dropping by!

Enjoy your Thanksgiving with love, laughter and lots of thankfulness in your heart. 🦃

CHALLENGES:

  1. Aud Sentiments – Anything Goes + sentiment.
  2. Creative Knockouts – Anything Goes
  3. Colour Crazy Craft – Anything Goes with coloring
  4. Lil’ Patch of Crafty Friends – Anything Goes
  5. Pammie’s Inky Pinkies – Anything Goes
  6. Shopping Our Stash – Triple Threat (3 of something- I used 3 different dies, 3 critters, 3 leaves)