Halloween Treat Holder

I have to admit, if there was one, I would have to say I am the Halloween Scrooge. This is mainly because where I grew up, Halloween isn't considered a Christmas-like holiday... It is observed rather solemnly as opposed to the very festive, fun holiday it is here in the US. I have been here four years and not one Halloween in all of my four years here have I participated in trick or treat. Not that I hate Halloween, it's the fact that I couldn't get into it as I do the other holidays.However, this year I have vowed that I will be giving away treats to my friends' kids because they are soooooooo cute and I will be giving away treat bags to my husband's students both in the grade school and high school also. 

Anyway, for Cuttlebugspot this week, I made these two treat holders:

This first one is made out of almond cans. My husband and I love almonds and I buy them a lot in these cans. I have been saving the cans and decorate them just like I did this treat holder to make into pen/pencil holders, i store odds and ends of ribbons in them too. But as of right now, there's a dozen of these Halloween decorated cans all over my house with a handful of treats in them and my husband is loving it! : )

For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the paper collection that I used in this project. It has been in my stash for a while and I can't remember where all these things came from or where I got them. I used Divine Swirls to emboss the orange cardstock behind the jack-o-lantern. And I heat embossed the sentiments in both tags I used. 

While I was finishing up my halloween can, I found a brand new, unopened thing of brown lunch bags in my pantry. And since I had some left over paper, I went ahead and made a treat holder out of it too. I am thinking it will be great to just hand these out on trick or treat night to my much favored kids! : )

I used the Skeleton Scroll embossing folder to emboss an antiqued piece of paper. Then I dabbed some black ink to make the skulls show up a bit more. The papers I used on this came from that same unidentified stack I had... For all we know, they probably don't all belong to the same collection. LOL I added googley eyes to my spider there and a yellow bow on her head. : ) I heat embossed the word BOO on black cardstock.

It's your turn, go back to the Cuttlebugspot and play along! : )

Believe in the Magic of Christmas -- My entry for Stamping Bazaar's First Christmas Challenge (for Operation Write Home)

This is my entry for The Stamping Bazaar's First Christmas Challenge for Operation Write Home. I used the emboss-resist technique for the image, I used Ranger's Broken China to color in the background. I also embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder. The card base is Poppy Red from Paper Trey Ink and it measures 5.5 in x 4.25 in. 

My First Project for the Cuttlebugspot -- Fight Like A Girl

I have had the hardest time trying to figure out what to make for my first project for Cuttlebugspot... One, because my very young Aunt beat her battle with breast cancer about a year ago. Second, I have had so many things go through my mind when I saw this week's theme it was difficult to condense all of them into one A2 card. As a matter of fact, I have made 5 cards using every technique I know. Until I found the image that I used on my card. Today's winner at the CuttlebugSpot will win a gift card from Custom Crops!

I know that we were only supposed to to make one project for the challenge but I didn't want to waste the second image I accidentally printed out. The sentiment and the image are digitally printed.

Both cards are standard size (5.5 in by 4.25 in). Both kraft and dark chocolate cardstocks (I used for card base) are from Paper Trey Ink. I used Bird Call Cuttlebug Folder to emboss the green paper I used to mat the image on the first card. I embossed it sideways so only the grass blades would show, to give it some dimension. Then I used some dimensional adhesive to mount the image on to the card. 

I used Stylized Flowers Cuttlebug Folder and embossed the whole front of the second card with it. I used some pink Core'dinations cardstock to frame the window and used my We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper to round the corners on both cards. I also used my white gel pen to make faux stitching lines. 

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Happy Crafting Everyone!

My Blog

I am currently working on new pages/tabs for my blog so I can make it better. Maybe start making youtube video tutorials? We will see. I can't talk while I craft so let's see if I can make doing both work. : ) 
I am also very excited about working with the Cuttlebugspot's Design Team. I will work on posting everyone's link on here, too. Got lots to do! So I better get to work! 

Thinking of You

The Hubs is watching his Monday Night Football, so I thought I'd sneak in a second post for today. Monday and Wednesday nights are all he has to himself pretty much since marching band season started so I kind of just let him do whatever on those two nights he has. I am not a big NFL or any sport fan, so I either bake something or craft while he watches his game. Tonight, however, I am pooped from cleaning up my pantry, so I thought I would work on the photos I took earlier and Photoshop them! 


So here's the second card:

I made this today because it has kind of been a tough couple of weeks for the family. Brandi, John's cousin, a very very good friend of mine, (one of those that I consider the sister I never had) has been taken to the hospital once again and we found out that one of her lungs are getting ready to totally shut down and she is now pretty much dependent on one lung, which wasn't a good lung to start with. Most CF patients are given at least nine years to live after the transplant and Brandi's almost on her 11th if I am not mistaken. She is a trooper! So this card is for her.

I made this card out of DCWV's Citrus Stack. The card base is Vintage Cream cardstock from Paper Trey Ink. It is a standard size card. No embossing on this one. However, I loaded this card with dimensions! This card is inspired by one of Kristina Werner's cards. I was pop dot happy today!