Halloween Treats & Sweets...

Yes, Halloween is coming soon! I don't know about you, but I just love Halloween. My older daughter's birthday is two days after, so we have a lot of excitement around that time of year! We are focusing on Papertrey Ink's new Halloween Treats & Sweets stamp set and new Halloween dies to go with it today...
My assignment this time around was to make something with a skeleton. It's hard to make a skeleton look shabby, ha, so I went with a clean, fun design this time. When playing around with everything, I discovered that when you turn the new Favor It 6 Box die upside down, it looks very much like a skeleton head!

I cut two of the box dies with white cardstock and put them together to form the head. I also did an orange one for his mouth to add a little bit of color and fun to his face. I cut my own little speech bubble and used the new Treats & Sweets stamp set for "happy fright night". The eyes are made from the cat ears die! I placed them on his face a little funky to make him fun. Didn't want him to be TOO scary! :)
Next, I made the body, which is actually just a package of buttons that I bought from Papertrey Ink, like the Spring Mix buttons here. I emptied out the buttons and filled it with lollipops! I used the Summer Sunrise Saddle Stitched ribbon 5/8" by Papertrey Ink around the top of the container.

Then I cut some "ribs" to put on the front of the container with the new Mega Halloween Treats & Sweets dies. I think they are supposed to be spider legs, but they worked nicely as ribs too!

I put a couple of pencils inside the container to hold up the head. He's VERY dimensional. heee :) :) He makes me laugh when I look at him!

Next, I wanted a card to go with it, so I used the little faces from the new Treats & Sweets stamp set with Fresh Snow ink onto black cardstock, like little eyes peering out at you at night! I embossed them with white embossing powder.

I cut a hole in the front of the card for the faces to show through with the new die called Layerz Mat Stack 1 die. This one is 3 1/2" x 2 1/2", but there is also a larger version of it coming out too that is 3 3/4" x 5".

One more look...

 Skeleton Treat Bucket and card:

STAMPS: Halloween Treats & Sweets

INK: True Black, Fresh Snow

PAPER: Echo Park Dots and Stripes, white cardstock, black cardstock

DIES: Mega Halloween Treats & Sweets die collection

OTHER: ribbon by Papertrey Ink, pearls by Melissa Frances, button/twine by Papertrey Ink, treat bucket, lollipops.

This stamp set will be available on the 15th at www.papertreyink.com. I hope you enjoyed this quirky project! Stop over to the other Papertrey Ink girls' blogs to see what they have made with these stamps and dies:

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Lisa Johnson  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips
Michelle Wooderson
Nichole Heady

curls and swirls...

Right now I'm busily creating for the next Papertrey Ink release, which I think you are going to love! Fall is always one of my favorite times to create - think leaves, pumpkins, grateful mini albums, etc. :) Meanwhile, I'd love to share this page I made a long while back for the Scrapbooking Girls e-book, which you can find in my sidebar. --->

For me, it's always hard to come up with the journaling. I have many pics that I adore, but never quite know what to say about them! Here I decided to use these pictures of Kati to focus on a physical attribute - her curls. First, I printed the title out in Photoshop onto white cardstock in the center, along with the journaling above it, leaving room in the bottom corner for the 2 photos.

Last, I wanted to add some dimension by stitching the "curls" onto the page, so I drew them out with a pencil first, then hand stitched along the lines.

Please check out the e-books, they are so much fun and have lots of ideas for journaling! There are many journaling prompts to get you started in the Scrapbooking Girls e-book!

I also wanted to announce the winner of the CREATE magazine. Congratulations goes to Susie! Please email me: dflanders71@hotmail.com with your mailing adress.

Susie said...
Congrats on your published project! Not surprising...since all of your work is beautiful!
Thanks for the chance to win a copy of CREATE :)

August 6, 2011 7:04 PM

all things pink...

It's almost Friday, not sure where the week went, but this summer is just flying by! Would you agree? I haven't had time to go through my beach pictures yet to post a few, so I thought I'd share a couple other crafting things instead. My daughter accidentally deleted our beach photos from my computer, but luckily my husband had put them on his Ipad while we were in Maine, thank goodness!! I'll share soon!

Not too long ago I received the Create: For the Home issue and was thrilled to have this little baby hanger project in there:

I used one of Melissa Frances' wooden hangers that she used to sell, added a rub on saying to it, some of her resin wings and a key hole to the top. Then I just hung little frames from it with photos and patterned papers!

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I have a quick card to share also. I was having fun with my Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists one day for an assignment and made this card...

It's a really fun and simple technique...I punched some hearts from cardstock, put them down on the Pink Paislee patterned paper and misted over the top of the hearts with Glimmer Mist! Remove the punched hearts and when dry, you can stamp a saying or add a rub on saying in the center.

Great way to use those punches and dies, while also using up your scraps of paper. I think this technique could surely work with any sort of sentiment - misting over stars for a birthday card would be fun!

I have an extra copy of this issue of CREATE magazine that I'd love to share with someone. Please leave a note here if you are interested in it! I'll choose someone to send it to soon. :)