Two New Tools!!

Hello all!  I spent Saturday at a crop and took advantage of the day scrapping to work on my fall photo collection.  I know I've already shared a few Halloween pages, but I still have more to come.  I'm quite certain that I document more fall themed pages than any other season.  Is it because the photos are so beautiful with all the rich colours?  Or is it because there seems to be more "occasions" to dig out the camera?  I dont' know but year after year, I find myself creating oodles of fall projects and this year appears to be no exception.  So here it goes, {10/31}.  This also marks the very first post using SRM goodies.  Yay!! 

{10/31}

Supplies:  Paper, Element Stickers (Echo Park), Sentiment Stickers (SRM Stickers), Journaling Spot (Elle's Studio), Bling (Prima), Flower (Jolee's Creations), Banner Punch (Fiskars/Jenni Bowlin)

I bought myself a new punch at the crop....the banner punch by Fiskars/Jenni Bowlin.  It is simply fantastic.  I love it when I buy a punch that works with little to no effort and punches perfect shapes each and every time.  This punch does that.  It's even part of the marketing on the package but I was too excited by the shape to even look at that part.  Although the banner stickers aren't by Jenni Bowlin, these Echo Park stickers worked quite well with the punch;  a great added bonus in my mind.

Second and final tool purchase of the weekend:  Tim Holtz's tiny attacher.  How did I not know how wonderful this stapler is?  All this time I was like, "I have a mini stapler from when I was in elementary school that still works great...why would I need one with Tim Holtz's name on the side?"  I swear it's true.  I should have taken a photo of my beloved stapler.  It's stainless steel with a little red top on it.  I have seriously had it for more than 20 years (okay, maybe 30) and I wouldn't dream of parting with it.  I, however, stand corrected.  My cute little stapler from grade school does not punch through more than two or three layers MAX.  I thought that was the way with all mini staplers.  NOPE.  Not this one.  I ordered it today.  I could resist temptation no longer.  Tim doesn't disappoint. He never does and yes, he makes a better stapler than the average office supply store.  Mr. Holtz, please accept my most sincere apology. I do need a stapler with your name on the side! 

Getting back to the layout, here is another close up:

Check out the date/title sticker from SRM Stickers.  Isn't it great? There is another SRM sticker on the layout.  Can you find it??  Clear stickers rock!  Just sayin'.

With that confession behind me, I'm going to sign off for tonight.  Thanks so much for visiting!