Willow & Paisley

Trick or Treat

 

 

Are you all ready for trick or treating tonight?  We have enough chips and chocolate bars for 50 kids.  I doubt we will get that many but you never know.  Unfortunately, I bought chips and chocolate bars that I actually like so I've eaten my fair share already.  Not smart.  

 

 

This is my last Halloween card.  Obviously.  Duh.   I used Leaves are Lovely by Ali Edwards for the sentiment.  The Chevron was stamped using acrylic paint.   (The adorable Owl is Stampin Up but I'm not sure if it's still available or not)

 

Does this mean I get to start on Christmas cards now?!!!!

 

 

 

 

Happy Sunday

 

Hey Everyone

Here's a Halloween card that I had every intention of mailing out.  Honestly I was going to mail several.  But I didn't.  Yeah, I know.......but I'm a card maker....not card giver.  

 

Technique Tuesday stamps used:  EEK.  Seriously, look at that little bat.  So cute!!!

 

 

Mike and I started a DIY project of our laundry room last Monday (we had the week off to use up vacation days).  We did the board and batten treatment on the walls, which I'm sure you've seen all over the blog world, and painted the upper portion a deep charcoal.  We ordered a new washer and dryer but we are now at a stand still for 4 weeks as that's how long the new sink and vanity will take to come in.  I shoulda been more on top of that.  If the room turns out decent enough I'll think about posting the before and afters.  But I also have been planning on posting my final kitchen pictures for the last 2 years now and haven't done that yet either.  What is wrong with me?  

 

Hope you've had a great weekend!  

 

 

 

Embellish Color Trends Challenge - Paint

 

 

Hey Everyone.   Well, it's Friday and it's snowy and cold here so it's been the perfect week to stay indoors and get stuff done.  Does anyone else find there is always so much to do no matter how productive you try to be with list after list? 

 

Here is my newest Embellish Magazine Challenge card. {I don't do many Halloween cards but I have a few more I've made recently so I'll have to get those up before the holiday comes and goes.  And MAYBE I'll even mail some out.  Maybe.  Maybe not.}}

 

 

I used Chevrons Two Step stamp set as well as Leaves are Lovely by Ali Edwards from Technique Tuesday.   I LOVE that Chevron set.  I used acrylic paint on it and love how distressed the Chevron stripes came out.  Does it remind you of Charlie Brown's shirt too?  I have a Charlie Brown Christmas stamp so I'll have to remember to use it with the chevron.  

 

 

Hope you can join us over at the Embellish blog.  See you there and have a wonderful weekend. 

 

 

 

Technique Tuesday Printable Blog Hop

 

Hi everyone!  As you may know (or not) I’m a Stamping Tech for Technique Tuesday, and I’m excited to be taking part in a blog hop today with my fellow stamping pals!

 

 

 

 

Today, all of us are playing with the new Printables that Technique Tuesday recently debuted at the scrapbook conventions they go to. These three printed sheets (Candy Cane Wishes, Harvest Time and Hocus Pocus) consist of designs you can cut up and use to decorate cards, scrapbook pages and other fun paper crafted projects. They will be available through TechniqueTuesday.com soon.

 

 

 

 

I'm always buying different and fun bottles of pop to have on hand (I'm not sure why since I only drink Diet Pepsi. Ha.)  Think Jones Soda, Pick a Pop and now these "Frosties".  The blue soda (oh how healthy are we in this household!!) seemed like the perfect choice for the "Witches Brew" label don'tcha think?  I'll save these decorated bottles to give to my neighbors kiddo's for Halloween {{note to self:  check expiry date on the pop}}.

 

 

 

 

I also threw together a card with the cut out printables.  This card took maybe 5 steps and I love how fun it turned out.  I'm gonna need to go out this weekend and buy some candy......now that I'm in the mood for Halloween, ya know!

 

 

 

 

From the comments received on all the blogs, we will pick one lucky person to win Technique Tuesday’s Verbose stamp set. 

 

This is our way of saying thanks for your comments! You don’t need to comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. But the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!

 

Comments must be posted by midnight on Sept. 2, 2011. The winner will be announced on Sept. 3rd sometime on the Technique Tuesday BLOG.  <<<--------come visit us there mmm...kay? 

 

Thanks for joining us today!  Be sure to check out the creations of these talented ladies.  I've seen a sneak peek of a few and you are in for a treat!

 

Tanis

Ashley

Daniela

Tobi

Laura

Sharyn

Kris

Jaclyn

Teri

 

 

Trick or Treat and Boo!

 

 

Here's a couple of cards I made using Monster Mash from Technique Tuesday.  It was definitely my go to Halloween set this year.

Sorry about the poor quality pics.  I have a very hard time taking photos of cards with so much white on them.  They end up looking blue. 

 

 

 

 

 

 The little 'mummy' has the cutest BOO banner.  See?  Everyone is into banners these days!

 

 

 

I glued down some tissue paper to a card base and then tried to stamped on it.  It smudged...{obviously} so I went with it anyway and now my mummy has a shadowed background. 

I'll keep it short and sweet and end it here.  I'm hopefully going to turn the corner and get over my bronchitis soon (thanks to my friends for pushing me to go to the doctor) but just wanted to pop in here and share these Halloween cards before Halloween comes and goes.  Hope you're having a good day.

 

 




 

A Simple Little Halloween Card

 

 

So I've been making some Halloween cards for my nieces and nephews.  If a halloween card can be "pretty" I think this one is.  I just received the Monster Mash stamp set in my recent Technique Tuesday order and it is so stinkin' cute!!  In the stamp set there is a little "mummy" holding this BOO banner which I just cut out of the stamped image.  You just gotta love banners these days.

 

 

 

I made a couple other cards with this set but I'm having a heck of a time taking pictures of them.  YES, I need to actually start using my Nikon D90 which I have had for almost one year (and I'm still scared of it so it's sitting in my closet).  {{Nancy, why did you have to move before you could give me photography lessons?!!}}

 

 

The big question is whether or not these will get in the mail.  My nephews 1st b-day was yesterday and I made him a card in September.  Did I mail it?  Nope, of course I forgot.  Bad Auntie.


 

Mint Motif - So Cute It's Scary

 

 

Hi Hi Everyone!!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  It's Thanksgiving in Canada so it's also a long weekend and I plan on sleeping in as long as I can!  Boy oh boy, can you tell how productive I'm going to be today? 

 

I'm here to share my Sneaky Peek of the soon to be released new Mint Motif stamps.   My card is certainly halloween but the stamps are NOT.  See the black and orange design?  Yep, that's just 2 of the most fabulous border stamps in one of the sets.  OMG I LOVE THIS STAMP SET.  

 

 

 

I heat embossed both the black and orange borders to create my own dp and I just love it.  For such elegant designs I think they lend themselves very well to the Halloween theme, don't you?

These stamps will be available at i{heart}papers on October 14.  In the mean time please check out my wonderful team mates for their sneak peeks.  Also, Kim Crawford (designer of MM stamps) will be having some extra projects to share on the 12th and 13th.

 

Geny Cassady

Julie Overby

Latisha Yoast

Kazan Clark

Kimberly Crawford

Kate i {heart} papers

 

 

 

 I used some coloured rhinestones I had in my stash but I just noticed that i{heart} papers has a ba-jillion new rhinestones in the BLING section of the on-line store.  How amazing would this Rhinestone Spider look with these background stamps?

 

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by.  I'd love to hear what you think of the new border stamps!!

 

 

 

 

October 31

 

 

Happy Halloween everyone!!  So is everyone handing out candy tonight to the little ghosts and goblins?  What candy did you buy and are you eating most of it yourself??  Haha.  

ETA:  Please watch for this card in an upcoming issue of Paper Creations 

  

The Most Unspooky Card Ever

I bought these black Martha Stewart die cut card bases last year in clearance and decided to use one.  Great....now I only have 7 left.  Haha.  Does anyone else feel guilt over unused product?!  I know I do yet it doesn't seem to stop me from buying more and more schtuff.  Will I ever learn?  Is it just an addiction I need to accept?
  

I am a Demi Diva!!

  

Isn't this the cutest?!!  Becky made them for Kim, Lynn and I.  We have been having a great time using the papers that Becky has been creating - called Demi Design~~~and you can download them for FREE!  Seriously, how amazing is that?  They are all so beautiful.  She has some new ones called Singlets and I am in awe.  Check out her blog and see all the great designs she has come up with.  This new release is called Bats in the Belfry ----that's right---- Halloween!!  I don't think I made any halloween cards last year as I had not even been stamping for a year at that time and I really did not have any Halloween schtuff.  So needless to say I had much fun with this paper!!!  Be sure to check out Kim and Lynn's blogs to see what amazing creations they came up with too.  And of course, Hurry over to Becky's blog to print some out for yourself and play along.  Have a great weekend!  Go create!

ETA:  Please watch for this card in an upcoming issue of Paper Creations.