Happy Halloween!

Today’s card is very simple but I love it!

The orange back ground paper was made using Cindy’s pumpkin digi stamp called "Pumpkin Cutie". I high lighted them by adding Stickles in Lime Green, Cinnamon, and Fruit punch to the leaves, stem, and cheeks. The sentiment stamp is from Peachy Keen and the border stamp is from Michael’s. I heat embossed both with white.

I hope you enjoyed my card and have a great day.

Whimsical Wednesday ~ No Tricks Just Treats

Welcome to our Whimsical Wednesday challenge.

Todays challenge is “No Tricks, Just Treats”. You will need to create a bag, box, or some fun way to wrap up treats.

This challenge was so much fun to do that I decided to make 2 projects. :)

For my first project I decided to make a gift for my daughter’s dance person, Miss Lisa. The milk carton is a cut file I got from “The Cutting Cafe” but instead of cutting out the image that came with it I decided to cover my milk carton with some Halloween scraps.

Here on the side you can see the I used my embossing pen again. I picked out the vampire to do the embossing on.

I also used the pen on the bat border. I love how the embossing made it pop. The twine I used is Trendy Twine from Annie's Paper Boutique .

Here is a close up of the front. The tag is also from “The Cutting Cafe” and popped up on foam tape. That cute little pumpkin is a Martha Stewart stamp that I heat embossed. Now on to my second project.

After seeing the milk carton my daughter asked if we could make some little purses of her friends in the nieborhood. The purses were cut fom the Cricut “Plantin Schoolbook” cartridge and filled with some cute little goodies. These were finished off with a sentiment tag also from “The Cutting Cafe” that I tied on with Tinsel Ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique .

Here is a close up of the tag.

I hope you enjoyed my project and can’t wait to see what fun projects you come what with.

Our fabulous sponsors for this challenge are:

The Cutting Cafe and Prairie Bird Boutique

Now please go to Whimsical Wednesday to see what the other DT members have created for this fun challenge.

Super Cute Halloween Card

Happy Monday everyone!

My DT sister, Cindy from Cindy's Little Creations has been creating some of the most adorable and fun digi stamps I have ever seen and she was kind enough to give us some to try out.

I can’t wait to show you what I made with it.

Isn’t this little pumpkin so darn cute!! I just love these stamps! I made, correction, I had my husband make the cute and fun back ground paper with the same pumpkin stamp. It took him quite some time but I think it was well worth it. The cute little pumpkin was colored with my Prisma colored pencils and Glossy Accents added to the tooth and eyes. The beautiful crinkle ribbon is from Prairie Bird Boutique

To make this card really pop I actually colored two of the same stamp and then cut out the leaves and cheeks of the second one and mounted them on foam tape.

Here you can see the dimension in the picture.

Here is the inside.

The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms Stamps and says: "The smallest Pumpkins have the biggest Grins."

Here is a close up of a button I made by punching out one of the little pumpkins with a 3/8in punch from the background and coloring it with Bic markers.

I love how this card turned out! I hope you enjoyed and have a great day.

~Whimsical Wednesday Halloween Blog Hop~

Welcome to our Whimsical Wednesday Halloween blog hop!

You should have come here from Shelly's blog but if not you should start at the beginning at the Whimsical Wednesday Blog so as not the miss any of the wonderful Halloween projects.

For the hop today I was asked to create a Halloween scrapbook layout. This layout was made for my then 3-year-old daughter's Halloween pictures and my then 5-year-old-son's Halloween pictures.

As is my usual size this double layout is 8.5x11

Here is the first page.

The title was cut from the Cricut "Birthday Bash" cartridge on white glitter cardstock. The spiderweb border is from Martha Stewart. I used tinsel ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique to add some bling to my photo mats. Down at the bottom the fence was cut from the Cricut "Paper Doll Dress Up" cartridge. My journaling pumpkin was cut from the Cricut "Create A Critter" cartridge. The extra pumpkin die cuts came from K & Company.

Here is the second page.

For this page the bats and moon came from K & Company, I added home made glitter spray to the moon to give it a nice sparkle and I added silver Stickles to the bats. The ghost are attached to a piece of cardstock that sides in and out as a jounaling tag and they were also cut from the Cricut "Paper Doll Dress Up" cartridge Their faces were stamped with Peachy Keen stamps.

Here are both pages of my 2 page layout.

Now you are off to the wonderful Libby: http://psastampcamp.blogspot.com

Here are our fabulous sponsors for this hop:

1. Trendy Twine: trendytwine.bigcartel.com Original Sample Pack
2. Trade Fish Designs:tradefishdesigns.com Rest In Peace Stamp Set
3. Prairie Bird Boutique:www.etsy.com/shop/PrairieBirdBoutique one bundle of Shabby Crinkle Ribbon-you get to chose the bundle.

And for our Grand Prize:

The grand prize for the hop is from PSA Essentials. It is a stamp package valued at MSRP $75.00 and includes the Stamper Body, A Peal and Stick Stamp Set, and an Orange/Black Inker, and one customized stamp. In order to be eligible for the blog candy you must leave a comment on each blog and then go back to Whimsical Wednesday at the end of the hop and leave a comment.

Halloween Scrapbook Pages

Welcome back to another Scrapbook Whimsical Wednesday.

For the challenge today the Whimsical Wizards have created a Halloween scrapbook page and have incorporated a technique with instructions. Your challenge is to create a Halloween scrapbook page and incorporate one of the Whimsical Wizards techniques you have learned. Please include in your post who's technique you used. Our fellow DT member Chloe came up with this super fun idea.

First I will be showing you my layout and then I will show my technique. (This post is very picture heavy.)

Here is page 1 of my 8.5 x 11 double layout.

For this page I used the Cricut Cartridge "Happy Hauntings" to cut out the title, vampire, and bat. The blood was made using Martha Stewart's "Drippy Goo" punch and then I added "Glossy Accents" to make it stand out. The bat border came from "Ek Success". The coffin was cut from the Cricut "Paper Doll Dress Up" cartridge and will be used for journaling.

Here is page 2.

On this page the zombie,headstones, and title were also cut from the Cricut "Happy Hauntings". The moon was cut with a 2" circle punch and the bats are from the "Ek Success" punch and cut apart. To make the dirt I used crinkle ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique.

I love how fun and amazing this ribbon is to work with and she has so many wonderful bundles to choose from.

Here are both of my 2 page Layout. For my technique I chose to use heat embossing on my pattern paper.

The following pictures will show how I did that.

Here are the supplies you will need. (Not pictured is a dryer sheet or "embossing buddy".)

1.) Heat tool. You can get one Here. 2.) Embossing pen. You can Get one Here. 3.) Embossing Powder. You can get the kind I use Here. (color "Kaleidoscope Transparent") 4.) Dryer sheet Optional. I chose not to use one since I like the added sparkle on the page.

Step 1 - Rub dryer sheet over the page to get out static.

Step 2- With embossing pen color over the images you want to emboss.

(I chose the moons.)

Step 3- Dump embossing powder over the images you colored over with the embossing pen.

Step 4- Shake off the excess embossing powder and place back in the container.

Step 5- Use heat to to seal the embossing powder.

Here is the final product. As you can see in the photo if you don't use something to get the static out of the paper the embossing powder will cling to other parts then the ones you placed the embossing ink on but as I stated before for me, on this project, that was ok.

I hope you enjoyed my project.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is The Prairie Bird Boutique. One random winner will get to pick out their own bundle of Shabby Crinkle Ribbon.

To see the other wonderful projects the DT members have come up with please sing byWhimsical Wednesday.

Hey my crafty friends. It's been a crazy, busy, couple of weeks at our house. Birthday parties, sick kids, family in from out of town and the list can goes on but I'll spare you all that. :) Any way, I just wanted to let you know that things have started to go back to normal and I'll be able to get in my craft room once again. :) I am hoping to have a post up tomorrow.

Also, I wanted to remind all of you that my friend Stephanie over at Always Crafting is having her Halloween Party Blog Hop. She has some great projects to share with you and some really amazing prizes to giveaway So please head on over and check it out. :)

Fall Card

Welcome to another Whimsical Wednesday.

For today's challenge we are celebrating Fall. To play along you need to make a card or project with fall colors and a hand made embellishment.

For my card I kept it very basic and simple. The hand made embellishment is a tulle flower that my mom taught me how to make. I used tulle in orange, brown, and added a brad from Studio G. The paper is from my scraps and the beautiful crinkle ribbon is from "Prairie Bird Boutique".

I chose not to added a sentiment to this card as I'm not sure what I'll be using it for. :)

Our Sponsor today is the wonderful Creative Inspiration Paints. One lucky winner will be able to pick out 5 paints!!! :)

http://www.creativeinspirationspaint.com

I hope you enjoyed my card an I can't wait to see what you create.

Please stop by the Whimsical Wednesday blog to see what the other wonderful DT members have created.