Twelve squirrels and a fox

I have a few cards to share.... and they all have squirrels on them!

The first one is for Grayson. You can read about him here on my friend, Joyce's blog.
I thought he'd like the cute little squirrel and I included a joke on the inside:

"How do you catch a squirrel?

Answer: Climb up a tree and act like a nut." ;)

I used some MME paper from my scrap bin, as well as my PTI Nuts For You set, double-ended banner die and new notched banner dies.

And I wanted to share something that I'm quite excited about...

For the past 14 years, since Austin was 4 months old, I've been volunteering with our Sunday school program. We have it set up that the kids have small group leaders and we do our teaching from a stage. The small group leaders are called coaches and the teachers are called creative communicators.
Well. for the past fourteen years, I've been a creative communicator. Last year, while I was a CC, I subbed as a coach for other groups on occasion, which I didn't mind.

This weekend, though I was asked if I would coach for a few weeks, because they're short on volunteers. I said that would be fine, but asked if I could do it all year. Our coordinator was very happy about that!

So, now, I have a my own group! Sage is in it (yay!) along with seven other grade 3 and 4 boys and girls. As we were sitting together on Sunday morning, getting to know each other, I got excited at the thought that I could make cards and treats for them!

So, when we came home from church, after making Grayson's card, I decided to paper-piece a few more squirrels to make cards for my group, just to let them know that I'm happy they're in my group & that I think we're going to have a great year together. Here's a close up of one of the cards....

I dug through my scraps bin to find some "fallish" patterned paper to paper-piece this little guy.
I just think he's so cute!

And here are the nine other cards I made....
(I know, I have eight kids in my group, but on Sunday, I only had six, until two more showed up, so I thought it might be wise to have a couple of extras on hand, just in case.)

So, that's eleven squirrels....

The last squirrel and the fox are from Sage. She made her card for Grayson,
using the PTI Hello, Foxy set, as well as the new Bubble Talk dies.

We're linking these up to this week's Simon Says Stamp Challenge: Animal Antics.

Thanks for looking!