Happy Halloween!!

Good morning and Happy Halloween! Before I go on I just want to say that I am thinking and praying for ALL those affected by hurricane Sandy. Watching the news coverage, hearing the stories and seeing the images just totally makes my heart so sad!! We were fortunate and so very grateful for no damage here.

Today is 3~D Wednesday over at My Creative Time ~ it's all about 3~D cards. So head on over and check out all the inspiration from Emma and the design team!

Okay I will try to make this post short & sweet with all materials listed below. I have been busy the past few days wickedly try to make some treats for my son's class and ALL the staff that helps with his education on a daily basis. I try to leave no one out that he sees ~ so not only the teachers, the administration but his bus driver and Mr. Jim, the custodian, gets a little treat!

So with all that said I decided to make sour cream containers. I wanted to use up some old Halloween paper packs from last year ~ I got on clearance! So I pulled them out and just cut away! I cut the papers at 7 x 6 3/4. I wanted them big so I can stuff them with little candy bars. All stamps and die are from My Creative Time! I did use some Stampin Up and Martha Stewart punches. Added a little stickles and ribbon from the dollar bin! Sorry for the poor quality pictures but I was snapping them at 2 something in the morning!! Not like waiting to the last minute!!!



These treats are for the adults, some family and friends.

 

These are for my son's friends at school! I didn't go to crazy with these ~ kids only want the candy!! LOL!

 

  I am in charge the class craft for his rooms party! So I cut out ghosts with my Cricut! Yes ~ I used the Cricut! Hey it was already dusted off from last week! These are the samples I will show the kids of what I had in mind but they can do what they want with them!

 

They only have about 10 to 15 minutes to do their little craft, so I had to have everything prepped and ready to go! I did cut out over 200 bows just in case they want to go bow crazy. Obviously the middle one is a sample for the boys. I will have them draw a mouth on them if they choose to! I would like to see a Peachy Keen Stamp on them but there is not enough time for them to do that! Sad face!

 

This is how I will keep them organized for the party! I will have little helpers passing the cuts out. I did use Zots for the googly eyes!. They can use their glue sticks to apply the bows and sentiments!

 

Materials Used For the Sour Cream Containers

 

My Creative Time ~ "All Around Halloween" ~ circle sentiment and spider

My Creative Time ~ "Mixed Holiday Sentiments" ~ sentiment

My Creative Time ~ " Scallop and Stitched Circle Die" ~ for the top layer of my tags

My Creative Time ~ "Just Simply Live" ~ tag die for name tags

My Creative Time ~ " XL Label Borders" ~ the word from ~ forgot to take pictures

Paper ~ Paper Trey Ink, Martha Stewart, Recollections and K & Company

Punches ~ Stampin Up and Martha Stewart

Ink ~ Archival

Stickles, Sakura Pen and ribbon from dollar bin

 

Materials Used For the Ghost Craft:

 

My Creative Time ~ " Mixed Holiday Sentiments" ~ sentiment

Cricut Cartridge ~ Paper Doll Dress Up ~ ghost

Cricut Cartridge ~ Doodlecharms ~ bows ( ???)

Paper ~ Recollections

Stampin Up punches

Ink ~ Archival

Googly Eyes

Versa Marker

 

 

Okay that is it for today! I have been a little busy doing these but I promise to be around later to see what you all have been up too this week!

 



"Show Me Your Technique"

Hello! Welcome to another "Show Me Your Technique" ! Every Tuesday 3 or 4 My Creative Time design team members will have a little hop sharing some techniques with you.  You should have arrived from the talented Jeanne's blog. If not you can either head on over to Emma's blog, click here or click on the links below!

 

Mini blog hop line up:

 

Glora

 

Jeanne

 

Me

 

Warning picture heavy and long post!!!!

 

 



 So for my technique today I want to show you what you can do with a cheap & dollar fame you can get at any local crafting store! This is my first time trying it this way and to be honest I actually LOVE how this turned out!  First get a cheap frame.

 

 

Spray paint it with Krylon paint, this can be bought at M's. I used flat white paint for my frame. Wait for it to dry ~ you all no it was very hard for me to do this!

 

After the paint dries apply Tim Holtz Distress crackle paint. I chose to use the "clear" paint. Wait for that to dry! Lots of waiting right!

 

I took a look at my frame and thought this doesn't have enough cracks in it so I added another coat of the TH Distress crackle paint ~ clear. You can also use a heat gun once you see the cracks start but I chose to wait ~ believe it or not! Here is what you get.

 

A close up! I am very sorry for the poor quality pictures but my lighting issues continue!!

 

Oh wait the sun came out before the next step! So after everything is dried and the desired crackle look ~ here is where the fun begins. I used the Tim Holtz distress inks and just inked away!!

 

 

Here it is with ALL the inking! Now I will say this, if you use black or white you will probably have to use Modge Podge to seal it. But for some reason with the clear I didn't have too.

 

Here is the finished project. I am sure you are saying that tree scene looks familiar. Well it is sort of because I did something similar a few posts back. Click here for the details on how to create this scene ~ scroll down to the bottom of the post. My sister loved the card I made and said she wanted it for Christmas. Well I decided to make a new one so it fits in the frame better. I hope you enjoyed Glora's, Jeanne's and my techniques for today and inspired you to try one or all of them! Thanks for your patience for this SUPER picture heavy and long post!!

 

 

I did add a piece of acetate to protect the little scene so the picture was very hard to take without a glare! My sentiment is from the My Creative Time stamp set  "Gift Card Sentiments" using the "Stitched Oval Die" on Balsa wood. Added a some ribbon from my stash.

 

 

 



Scrappy Monday with My Creative Time

Good morning! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Today is My Creative Time's Scrappy Monday with Emma and the design Team! This is in hopes we get caught up on our layouts and to encourage you all to do the same! I still LOVE this idea!!

This week we were asked to create a layout based on a letter! For example I chose the letter "P" . So my "P" words that I chose to add to my layout is pictures ( lots of them), the Polaroid die, pumpkin patch( that is where these pictures were taken back in 2006), pumpkin paper & pumpkins, plaid paper, I matted one of the pictures on wood "planks", I used the pocket die for a "pile" of leaves, trimmed my pictures with "purple" hemp and punched out this cute little picket fence.  Also some of my stamps I used started with the letter "P" too! I know these picture are looking familiar to you all but I have about another 30 more to scrap from this day because this was such a "perfect" day to capture our "precious" little boy! Sorry can't stop with the letter "P" ! LOL

You may have noticed my little layout out holder. Well my sweet friend and fellow design team sister Shar is selling these in her Etsy shop! Click here to check it out! They hold up to 12 x 12 layouts. I have to say not only is this wonderful to take pictures of you layouts but it is a FABULOUS display too! My son is TOTALLY enjoying this too because I will leave this LO hanging on here until I do my next one. I totally love it because he asks questions about the picture and why, where and what we were doing!

 

Materials Used:

 

My Creative Time ~ "Piles Of Smile" ~ all sentiments & stamps used, pumpkins, leaves

My Creative Time ~ "Fun Pockets" ~ pocket die

My Creative Time ~ "Just Simply Live" ~ Polaroid die & tag

My Creative Time ~ "Just Tags" ~ die

My Creative Time "Teeny Tag Greetings" ~ teeny tag dies

My Creative Time ~ "Scallop & Stitched Circle" ~ die

Liz's Paper Loft Boutique ~ hemp

Paper ~ Paper Trey Ink, K & Company & Recollections

Martha Stewart picket fence punch and rhinestones

Distressed Wood Embossing folder

Ink ~ Stampin Up, Memento and Archival

Copics

Ribbon from my stash

 

My Creative Time 3~ D Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! Today is 3~D Wednesday with Emma and the design team over at My Creative Time! This week were were asked to create a 3~D project but it must be an ornament! Easy right! I actually had a few ideas and hopefully I can do some of them around Christmas time ~ fingers crossed!

So I decided to use these glass ornaments I purchased on sale last year at Michael's. I have a ton of them because they were on sale! LOL! So I punched out 2 circles with my Stampin Up 2 1/2 circle punch! I used the ADORABLE  snowman image from the "All Around Accessories" . I just colored him with my Copics and did a little sakura jelly pen. On the other circle I stamped the sentiment from "It's A Magical Season"  and added a little stitching! Then I adhered these 2 circles together. I then rolled the circles with my sakura pen and slipped it through the opening of the glass ornament. Now mind you I used PTI white paper! It is thick by it's self but add two pieces together ~ WOW!! Talk about a challenge!! I wanted to do 2 circles just in case the ornament happens to turn ~ I didn't want to see the Copic bleed thru the back. After you get the image inside you have to CAREFULLY use tweezers to unfold the roll. I was sweating doing this part!  You may have some wrinkles but that is okay ~ there are no mistakes in paper crafting Right?? LOVE when Emma says that. Anyway I  added some Martha Stewart tinsel glitter to give the snow affect! My ornament is one of the flat ones too! I used my May Arts ribbon for my bow! I must say taking this picture proved to be VERY challenging! Not only because of the clear glass but the ornament kept moving! After I took about 70 pictures ( no lie here) I realized my ribbon on the second picture  was messed up. No worries I did change it!

Well that is it for me today so head on over to My Creative Time and see what the other talented design team did too! I am sure you will LOVE  what you see!

Show Me Your Technique

Today is Tuesday and what does that mean?? It's "Show Me Your Technique" over at My Creative Time! Every Tuesday Emma has a few members of the design team share a technique! It is sorta a little blog hop! Some of these techniques you may have heard of, some may be new or some might just be a different way to do it!

 

 

The three AMAZING and super talented ladies up today are:

 

Cheryl

 

Cindy B

 

Cindy L

 

 

Happy Monday!!! Today is "Scrapping The Little Things" over at Emma's blog at My Creative Time . This is were they will be doing Project Life kind of layouts or Smashbooks. Head on over and get some inspiration and awesome ideas!

So I have been wanting to make this little birdie/ghost for ages! I have seen so many of you make him or her and I just couldn't take it anymore! I have NEVER used this cartridge before but I have to say it really has some CUTE images on it! I knew what sentiments I wanted to use before I even cut him out! I LOVE Emma from My Creative Time new stamp set "Treats For My Sweet" . This stamp set has such WONDERFUL images and sentiments on it! So my little ghost had to say "Just say BOO". Then I looked at my little bag and it needed some cute little phrase. So I looked thru all of my MCT stamps set and realized I really needed to use the "All Around Halloween" stamps set. So I masked off each word so it would fit on his little treat bag! I think it turned out CUTE!! My paper is from DCWV ~ Bewitched and Paper Trey Ink. My ribbon is either from Joann's or Michael's! The obsession with ribbon continues!!!

 

Something really simple and quick to make!

Halloween Blog Hop with My Creative Time ~ Day #1

Welcome to My Creative Time  Halloween 2 Day Blog Hop!! This is day #1. Not only are you going to see some amazing creations but Emma is having a SALE ~ yes I said sale!! Yeah! You should have arrived from the very talented Katie's blog. I am last up for today but just in case you just stumbled on over you may want to start from the beginning over at Emma's blog. Click here. I promise to make this short and sweet for you all today!

For my project I wanted to alter my topiary tree I have had since the beginning of this year! My intentions was to make something for my sisters bedroom but that never happened! Sorry Nicolle! So after knocking off some spider webs (seriously it was already for Halloween) I decided to spray paint it! I used some Krylon spray paint (Thanks Shar) I got at Micheal's! Originally this topiary tree was green but I wanted to make it Halloweenish so I painted it black! While waiting for the paint to dry ~ hehehe we all know that almost drove me nuts ~ I just started die cutting Emma's "Rolled Flower Dies" .  I only used the one style but either one would have worked ~ your choice. I did this seriously in about 20 minutes tops! Once the tree is dry ~ I just hot glued the flowers on the tree. Easy right! My paper is from Paper Trey Ink. I then decided I wanted to use the "Just Tag Stamp & Dies" and  "Just For You" stamp set. I just LOVE this Halloween sentiment! I decided to heat emboss it to give it a little shine too! Added some seam ribbon to the tag, buttons to my little pot and a big ole bow! That's it for me! Quick, simple and not over the top hard at all!

***GIVEAWAY***

This wouldn't be a party without a FANTASTIC prize .... right? Random.org will pick ONE winner each day to win ALL OF THIS! All you have to do is leave your comments for a chance to win ALL of this! DON'T FORGET to leave us you contact information just in case YOU are one of the LUCKY winners! You have until Sunday at midnight to leave your comments! GOOD LUCK!:)

 

 

**SALE INFO**

We are ALSO having a sale going on RIGHT NOW that will end on Sunday, Oct 21st @ midnight!  Use the code SPOOKY & start shopping here!

 

Just in case you get lost along the way here is the complete list for today! Make sure check out the other design team tomorrow! I just LOVE Halloween!!!

 

Emma

Amy

Cassandra

Cathryn

Cheryl

Cindy B

Cindy L

Glora

Jeanne

Katie

Me


Friday line up for the My Creative Time Halloween Blog Hop:

Emma
Leanne
Liz
Micia
Nancy
Nikki
Rosy
Ruthie
Shar
Tracy
Veronica