Archive for Halloween
House of Haunts…
Posted: Friday, October 10th, 2008 | CommentsThis spooky card’s ‘moon’ was made by using a 1 1/4 inch circle punched bond paper ‘mask’ and sponging first More Mustard and then Elegant Eggplant. The ‘tombstones’ are the tag punch and then I used the corner rounder on one to make the old fashioned ’rounded top’ with corners.
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Creepy Crawly Halloween Projects
Posted: Thursday, October 18th, 2007 | Comments
I had fun with these great Halloween projects and I just LOVE the Creepy Crawly Designer Series papers! These are two of the six “Stamp a Stack of Stuff’ projects this month.
I’ve seen altered “Pringle Cans’, but I was impressed enough to want to make my own when I saw Valerie White’s samples. I got the BOO box in my Convention 07 WOW swap (made by Terri Winkleman).
I am thinking of making up the BOO boxes for my neighbors, but I think that some of them *might* figure out who made them! What do you think? hmmmm…..
DOWNLOAD the BOO! box directions and also DOWNLOAD the BOO! box greeting (8/page).
Anyway, I am excited about the redesign of my blog and am on the verge of a huge overhaul of my ustamp4fun.com website!
Halloween Candy Holder
Posted: Monday, September 24th, 2007 | Comments
This fun little candy holder was one of my Stamp-A-Stack projects this past week. Don’t miss my monthly "Stamp a Stack of Stuff"! The inspiration came from a gift card holder that I’ve made in the past (the finished product is only 3 1/4 x 4 1/2). However the unique ‘closure’ uses the ‘Batty for You’ spider adhered with a black brad, allowing the top fold to hold itself closed was a great idea I got from a recent swap (forgot the gal’s name–I can’t find the swap!). Updating it for Halloween, I made the fold over ‘gusseted’ by adding a 1/4 inch wide panel in the middle of the 6 x 4 1/4 inch Mustard fold over. That way it could hold something 3D–in this case the fun 
sized candy! The cover is "Spooky Skyline" rolled in black on Wild Wasabi (green) and the spooky skyline was helped out by tearing and the addition of a torn strip of vellum cardstock. The witch (from ‘Home is Where the Haunt Is’) was stamped on Always Apricot, punched and then sponged again (in Apricot) for the whole "cloudy night sky" effect–I don’t know if you can tell! Oh yeah, I couldn’t resist the great boogly eyes added to the spider–I’m a sucker for that stuff!
Autumn Harvest Scrapbook Page
Posted: Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | Comments
Well, I broke down and mailed Stampin’ Up!© three cards (Holy Triptych, Thankful Season card & the ‘Elegant Baroque Motifs’ cards shown in earlier posts), a 3D project (the altered clipboard shown in an earlier post) and the hardest thing–a scrapbook page shown above. I am hoping to be chosen for a display helper for Leadership or Convention so wish me luck. I don’t love this page, but it did look better in person and I am really feeling ’scrap impaired’ lately.
This 12×12 page is Always Artichoke with the ‘Batty For You’ wheel rolled in Artichoke ink. The Autumn Harvest pumpkin set was stamped in black and colored in with my favorite things–watercolor crayons and the accent color is Pumpkin Pie but it does not photograph the right color and the coloring looks washed out to me, oh well!
The ‘date’ elements are from the ‘It’s a Date’ set, which I absolutely love. One layer is the month, one is the day and one is the year and I circled the days and dates.
The Autumn Harvest set is the stamp set that you will receive at our Team Rubber Stamp Festival… my customers may sign up here. Don’t delay the registration closes in less than a week!
I will be sharing more ideas with this set in the next week or so (I do tend to fixate, don’t I?) If you LOVE this set, remember to support the demo that supports YOU (but tell her when you buy it that she owes me 10% of her commission, LOL!).
