Trick-or-Treat

Here's what you can expect if you stop by our house tonight to Trick-or-Treat.

I put together little treat boxes with assorted chocolates. The die for the favor box is from Clear and Simple Stamps, the papers are from Authentique's Glowing collection and the stamps are from Whipper Snapper - Anna Wight's cling set Spooky Expressions. I added googly eyes to the little bats for some added fun.

I put each one in a clear bag and stapled the top closed in hopes that they would stay together until the trick or treaters get them home.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Halloween!

Haunted House

No our house isn't haunted but I wanted to share some photos of how it's decorated for Halloween.

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Ready for Halloween

Today I'd like to share some photos of my front porch all decked out for Halloween.

 Here's the before photo. It's looking pretty sad out here but I didn't want to spend a bunch of money on pumpkins like we do most years so I started looking at what we already had.

 Here's what it looked like after I pulled out some pieces from my stash and sewed a boo banner.

The pumpkins are all the light up foam ones with faces that we've had for awhile. For the large two, I just tucked the cords into the mouths and turned them around

We bought the bone lights on clearance several years ago but they're still a favorite. I made a burlap BOO banner and attached it to the screen from our old back door.

I found the wicker chair at a sale this summer. The platter came from a sale a couple of years ago and this summer I gave it a coat of chalkboard paint. The sign is something we've had for years and I sewed the pillow case and tied it closed with twine and some orange tulle. I just rolled up an old beach towel for the pillow stuffing. Since our front porch is not covered and I was pretty sure the pillow would get wet at some point, I figured it would be easier to launder the towel "stuffing" rather than actual stuffing. 

 Here it is at night with the lights on. I love Halloween!

Thanks for stopping. I hope you're having a great day.

Spooky Greetings

I found this adorable stamp set on our way home from Ohio back in August and pulled out my Copics and some papers from October Afternoon's Witch Hazel 8x8 pad to put together a card. The stamp set is Bootiful Halloween by Darcie's.

Happy Halloween Week!

Batty for Halloween

Another simple Halloween card to share. This one uses the Clear and Simple Stamps set Taglines: Critters.

Witches Broom

I pulled out some twine and a toothpick and made a little witches broom for this card. I kept it simple so the focus would be on the broom.

Happy Halloween!

Spook.tacular Day

Another Halloween card to share with you today. This one uses the ghost from Stamps of Life Spooky 2 Scare set. I heat embossed the ghost on vellum paper and added some googly eyes.

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Witches fly

Just a quick little Halloween card using papers from October Afternoon.

Boo Blocks

I hope you're in the mood for Halloween because I have another project for Halloween to share today. Yesterday I mentioned the vase I found at a sale this summer for 25 cents and today I have another find while browsing at rummage sales this summer - a set of alphabet wood blocks. After a nice coat of black spray paint they were ready to be covered with some My Mind's Eye  (Night Light collection) halloween papers.

 After all of the sides were covered with paper I added the letters to spell BOO. The letters were stamped in black on kraft cardstock and punched out with a circle punch. The edges of the circles were inked with black soot distress ink and matted with a black circle of cardstock. For the orange pieces I used my Nestabilities.

For the finishing touch the blocks were sprayed with a clear sealer. I really like how they turned out. Have you found any great things at garage sales for your crafting projects? Let me know.


Thanks for stopping by. Happy Stamping!

Halloween Tree

While shopping at rummage sales this summer I found a vase for 25 cents that I thought would be perfect to fill with branches to make a halloween tree. So after a nice coat of black spray paint, some branches from my brother's woods and a variety of halloween balls and signs I came up with this . . .

I thought about spray painting the branches black but since some of the branches still had leaves on them I decided to leave them natural for now. Here are some close-ups of the ornaments. These were made using Nestabilities labels.

For the balls I covered plastic Christmas ornaments and some small syrofoam balls with strips of fabric and a variety of ribbons.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a wonderful Monday!

Batman is a Chicken?!

I love the Batman Chicken stamp from Whipper Snapper Designs. No one draws chicken's quite like Anna Wight! I thought he needed to see some ink before Halloween comes and goes this year so I stamped him a couple of times on Neenah white with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and got out my Copics. Here's Batman Chicken and sentiments from Anna's Spooky Expressions Cling set.

I'm happy to say that I actually put some Halloween cards in the mail this morning. I make cards all the time but I have a hard time actually getting them in the mail. I still have more that I need to mail so that will be the priority tonight along with putting out some more decorations. 


Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're all having a wonderful day!

Supplies for top card:

• Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs (Batman Chicken and Spooky Expressions Cling Set)
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink Antique Linen
• Paper - Neenah white, Black, Kraft, Daisy D
• Misc - Copics, Tracing Wheel, Ribbon, Slit punch (for making scalloped border)
  

 Supplies for bottom card:

• Stamps - Whipper Snapper Designs (Batman Chicken and Spooky Expressions Cling Set)
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
  
• Paper - Neenah white, Black, Moxxie Toil and Trouble, Marcella K Summer Travel
  
• Misc - Copics, Button

Devil Max from Pink Gem Designs

Today I have a non-traditional Halloween card to share. The image is Devil Max from Pink Gem Designs and the papers are from the Amy Butler Funky Flowers collection. I decided to use some nice fall colored papers with the image instead of Halloween papers and I really like the end result. The card measures 5.5 inches square.

This past spring I purchased several stamps from Pink Gem Designs after stumbling onto owner Janet Roberts' blog. She and her fellow Design Team members have great blogs with lots of fun samples. The stamps are polymer so shipping from the UK is very reasonable even to the US.

I hope you're having a wonderful Wednesday! Thanks so much for stopping by.

Supplies: 

• Stamp - Devil Max from Pink Gem Designs
• Paper - Neenah White, Kraft, Black, K&Co Amy Butler Funky Flowers
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
• Misc - Copics, Corner punch, Sewing machine, Jewels, Glossy accents (to adhere jewels)

No Scary Monsters Here

Are you ready for Halloween? I'm not but I do have some cards ready. Months ago I found an adorable set of Monsters from Recollections at Michael's and finally inked them up.

 I think these smiling little monsters are more cute than scary but the Boo greeting was perfect for Halloween cards. I colored the monsters with Copics then cut them out to mount them to the cards.

 Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful day.

Supplies:

• Stamps- Recollections
• Paper - Neenah White, Black, WeRMemoryKeepers Halloween Dexter
  
• Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
  
• Misc - Copics, Buttons

Happy Halloween!

Last night I pulled out some Halloween papers and quickly made up a batch of small cards (4 1/4 x 2 3/4) to pair with some treat bags that I will give my girlfriends kids.



I love the Halloween papers from My Mind's Eye. They were perfect for putting together cards quickly. Just used SU black for the card base and matted them with a variety of the Halloween papers then added the tags. The spider tags use an old SU hostess set and the Happy Halloween tags use a really old (foam mounted) SU set. The ribbons are from Michael's and are either tied around the card or stapled to the tags.

Halloween is my favorite holiday. No gifts to buy, plenty of candy, lots of fun decorations, wearing costumes. So fun! My husband and I usually host a Halloween costume party but the timing was bad for us this year so I'm hoping to have just a costume party after the holidays. Hhmm . . . maybe a Valentine's costume party! Part of the fun of the party is no one reveals their costumes before the party so it's always fun to see who shows up at the door.

I hope you all have a safe and fun Halloween!

More Inkadinkado Halloween

I just have a minute to quickly post a couple more Inkadinkado Halloween cards. For the top card I stamped the cat on the purple paper then paper pieced his ghost costume! The prima flower was colored with a Copic marker to match the striped paper.

For this card I used the distress ink technique with the craft sheet and shipping tag. The tutorial is here. The birds were stamped in black and glitter was added to the moon but it didn't photograph well. The bottom portion of the black mat was run through my cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder for a little texture.

Thanks for stopping! I hope you are have a fabulous weekend.

Happy Halloween!

Just a couple of simple cards today using the Inkadinkado Ghouls and Goblins clear set. The card bases are Kraft and the designer papers are from My Mind's Eye. Both images are stamped with Palette Hybrid Noir on Kraft. For the monster puppy I colored him with Prisamolor Pencils and then sponged the edges with distress inks. For the Mummy Kitty I colored the bath tissue with a white prismacolor pencil.

Supplies:

• Paper - kraft, black, My Mind's Eye
• Ink - Palette Hybrid Noir, Distress inks
• Stamps - Inkadinkado Ghouls and Goblins
• Other - ribbon, sewing machine, gems, prismacolor pencils