Halloween Frame

Happy Friday to you, I hope you have your Halloween costumes all picked out if you celebrate Halloween. My little one is going to be a Pirate Princess and even her daddy is dressing up, he is a Pirate, this should make some really good scrapbook pages..he he. This weeks challenge was to take some kind of home decor item and turn it into a Halloween creation. So I took an old photo frame I had and started creating.

   You can see the photo frame is pretty basic, nothing really to it at all.

 I started out by laying the frame on white card stock and traced where the photo cut outs would be and trimmed them out.

Let the stamping begin.............I used H-917 You Need To Dust, D-488 You Shake My Bones and CL-002 Trick or Treat. I stamped the images randomly around my white card stock, then using my Copic Markers, I air brushed a grey tint around the frame, to make it look spooky.

I used a few Spellbinders™ die templates S4-279 Graveyard Scene and Shapes, S4-280 Halloween Fence Scene and Shapes and S4-277 Nested Bats.

  I added some orange festive fringe around the frame and adhered my die cut outs to the frame.

I mixed some Scrap Happy Glue and some You're So Fine Terrifically Teal Glitter then carefully brushed it on the die cut pieces, it really looked cool like they kind of glowed in the dark, well that's the look I was going for. Thanks for stopping by my post today.

Halloween Mini Album

Here is a cute Halloween album I created for Want2Scrap™...this is just one of their fabby chipboard albums.

I used Black Acrylic paint from Eco Green Crafts..love this paint, it covers in one coat quick and easy clean up too.

I adhered the pattern paper to the inside cover using Beacon Adhesive Zip Dry, shown here.

Doesn't that Nestabling™ just make this page pop...I just love this bling. The little chip board pieces are from My Minds Eye.

I used some stamps from Waltzingmouse and stamped them directly on my page then topped it off with a small Kimmie Bracket Bling from Want2Scrap™.

Neat little trick once you put your Nestabling™ down there is a sticky band in between each bling, sprinkle a little glitter and add some more sparkle to your page.

Here's a fun page, I added bling to the spider web..all around each piece of the web..just love that sparkle.

Hand trimmed the spiders out of the My Minds Eye pattern paper and this is my favorite page from the album, I wonder why...hmmm could it be all that BLING?

Creating these mini albums are so much fun, you have just the right amount of space to be creative with stamps, chip board pieces and yes BLING.

Having coordinating paper and chip board pieces make creating each page fast and simple, let's not forget to add that BLING, it just makes your page pop.

Here is a close up of the skeleton chip board piece on the front of the album, I took two black rhinestone bling and made his eyes sparkle and pop. Well I hope you have found some helpful tips and go check out all the other amazing albums at Want2Scrap™. Crafty Smiles, Terre

I'm Gourd, How About You?

It's Friday, I'm Gourd how about you? I had several titles for this weeks post but I settled for this one. Today I have an elegant Fallish card to share with you. I used I-952 Gourds and I-986 Roaring 20's Placard stamps from The Rubber Cafe.I die cut Labels Twenty-Two from Spellbinders™ using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine, air brushed with my Copic Markers.

.Here is a close up of my elegant gourds, I used some pattern paper from My Minds Eye and topped it off with some decorative ribbon and Fall decorative straight pins. Thank you for stopping by my blog post  Have a great weekend.

2 Cute 4 Words

Wow, where did this week go? Today I have a 2 Cute 4 Words layout of my little Leahandra when she was only 10 months old, it was her first Halloween. For this layout I used the following products from The Rubber Cafe, Pumpkin Face Mix-N-Match, H-917 You Need To Dust and D-488 You Shake My Bones. I stamped the images all around the outer edge of my 9 x 9 layout. I then took two shades of Grey Copic Markers and air brushed the outer edge to give it that spooky feeling.

I used some chip board letters from Cosmo Cricket and air brushed them red as yellow just didn't look right. To adhere my pieces down I used Scrap Happy Glue.

Well thank you for stopping by my blog post today and I hope you take lots of photos of your little cutie and have fun scrapping them. Until next time...Crafty Smiles.

Quick & Easy Treat Holders

So are you ready for some quick and easy treat holders? I created a couple to share with you today so grab a cup of coffee and sit back and get your creative wheels turning. I started out by stamping several stamps from The Rubber Cafe onto white tissue paper (recycled by the way), I used H-917 You Need To Dust, D-488 You Shake My Bones and CL-002 Trick Or Treat.

Once I stamped all of my Halloween images, just in a random pattern, really no rhyme or reason on how I stamped them, I picked out a green Copic Marker and air brushed the tissue paper green.

After I was finished air brushing, I put some wrapped candy inside the end roll of the toilet paper and taped the stamped tissue paper to secure. Just roll around the end roll and secure. Tie ribbon on the ends to keep the candy inside. Quick & easy and a fun project for your kids to help with for those class parties.

The second quick & easy treat box is really made simple with Spellbinders™ new LF-010 Square Bracket Edge Box die template. Using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine, I cut both the box bottom and box lid at the same time. The box bottom was cut out of white card stock, I stamped the same cute stamps that I used in the first quick & easy treat holder from The Rubber Cafe..

I also used a green Copic Marker and air brushed the bottom of the box.......the lid I used some pattern paper from My Minds eye.

to finish my treat box off, I adhered some orange buttons and put some candy corns inside...yum..yum my favorite. Well I hope that you are inspired to create some quick & easy treat holders just like I have. Crafty Smiles.

Designer Connection Blog Hope......THINK PINK!!!!

October Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop

Sponsored by Westcott Brand Cutting Tools

Westcott Brand is proud to be the official sponsor the October Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop! 

. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, the theme of the project challenge was… PINK!

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For my banner of HOPE I used the following product from the manufacturers sponsoring this Blog Hop.

Westcott Brand® Titanium Bonded Non Stick Scissors

Westcott Brand® 12” Titanium Bonded Trimmer

The Duck Brand® Duct Tape Sheets

VELCRO® Brand Sticky Back Hook and Loop Fasteners

Also used in this Banner of HOPE is an amazing stamp set created by a 12 year old girl named Jillian, yes I said 12 years old, here is a link to her website, A Jillian Vance design. The stamp set used in this banner is all from Jillian.

The two side pennants have interchangeable messages that are backed in Velcro so they are easy to change.
Using the Duct Tape sheets of Hot Pink, I die cut them using S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles Large and stamped the messages on white card stock and die cut them out with S4-110 Standard Circles Small from Spellbinders™.

 In my banner I also used S5-028 Nested Pennants and S5-029 Nested Lacey Pennants from Spellbinders™, I die cut them using my Grand Calibur die cutting machine from Spellbinders™. What is banner of HOPE if it doesn't have that BLING, especially NESTABLING™ from Want2Scrap™

What is a blog hop is there isn't a prize well read on as you won't want to miss this amazing give away....

Online Promotion/Giveaway: Just follow the links and you will be direct to http://www.facebook.com/WestcottBrand and http://westcottbrand.blogspot.com/ for more information on how to win this amazing prize.  The giveaway winner will receive a Deluxe Assortment of Westcott Cutting Tools (assortment may vary). In order to be eligible to win, they must comment on the DCC Blog Hop Post on  http://westcottbrand.blogspot.com/  prior to November 1^st. Westcott Brand will promote the blog hop throughout the month of October and choose/announce the random giveaway winner on November 1<sup>st

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 actual assortment may vary slightly

                                   

Those of you new to one of the Designer Connection Blog Hops, see my side bar and look for the Designer Connection logo, you can either go forward or backwards through out the blog hop by simply clicking the arrows. I hope you have enjoyed my Banner of HOPE and I will be sending this banner to Charity Wings Organization to help earn money for a cure. Click Here to see all the amazing projects that have been donated
Crafty Smiles...Terre