One More Day!

One more day until we have one of the most fun filled days! Halloween!  I'll be with the grandkids so that will be fun for me.  We went to the Trunk and Treat on Sunday and I didn't get the best pictures but here are a couple of the kids.  My daughter made the little ghost onesie with a tutu for Taylor and David was Captain Hook.  I'm hoping to get better pictures tomorrow.

 Let me tell you....that little 16 month old totally got the concept of getting candy!  And of course her big brother is a pro at this now!

 I made a couple of cards to give to them tomorrow.  These are designs from the Silhouette store by Jamie Koay (Totally Jamie).  I just thought they were so cute and not as "dark" as the Tim Holtz stamps I've been using.  Anyway, I just did an offset (one was slightly more offset than the other...I love that you can just manipulate things the way you want them and each creation can be just a bit different!) and created a shaped card and then cut the designs from some Authentique papers.  I added a little Stickles and that was it.  Quick and easy...both cards were done in about 15 minutes which included buying the shapes from the store!

I've entered this in the following challenges:
Party Time Tuesdays: PTT #92 Anything Goes
Die Cuttin Divas: Challenge #89 Anything Goes 
And the fabulous Cameo Spotlight Challenge #6: Halloween

I hope all the folks in the northeast are safe and with power.  We have had lots of wind gusts here in Georgia...nothing like hurricane force winds but windy nonetheless....the wind advisory will be lifted at 6pm which is great because I have a tennis match at 7 and the wind is NOT a friend to the tennis player!

Happy Crafting!

Halloween!

I love Halloween! I think it's a great holiday for young and old alike.  We took the little ones to a Trunk and Treat yesterday where some folks decorated the trunks of their cars or vehicles and gave out candy to the children.  David loved it and Taylor "got" that whole idea quickly and really seemed to enjoy taking her little pumpkin bucket around and filling it up!
I made a few Halloween cards and here is one with a Tim Holtz stamp and Authentique paper.  I love these blueprint stamps he's done.  This set came with four stamps and is sold online at Archivers Annex for $21.99 but I found this set at Overstock.com which has the larger stamps PLUS the fall ones for just $23.99.  And if you go through my favorite rebate place, EBATES you can get a 5% cash back!  If you're not an Ebates member check it out HERE.
OK, so I got all excited about that buy but I already have all those stamps! LOL!
Anyway, here is the card:

 I love that spooky bat.  Looks like something Dr. Frankenstein would be drawing...
I used a Martha Stewart border punch and added a little sparkly Stickles and a few gems and just a tad of inking.  I used a We R Memory Keepers Corner Chomper, as well. That's it!  (And Cyndi....I almost got to the point where the Stickles were dry before I touched it!)
This card with a $20 bill inside it brought a huge smile to my son's face.  LOL!

Happy Crafting!  And may those of you along the east coast with Frankenstorm bearing down on you....I hope and pray you stay safe!

Halloween Treat Bags

I made a few Halloween treat bags for my son, his girlfriend and the grand-pup.  The pattern is one where you take 2 pieces of 6x9 inch paper, score it with a few lines, cut and fold.  No fancy cutting here...just a trimmer, paper, scissors, and adhesive.  Easy and fast (unless you mess up your score lines....then it takes longer.)
The papers are K&Co and My Mind's Eye that I had bought last year.  (Note to self:  YOU HAVE ENOUGH HALLOWEEN PAPER TO LAST THE NEXT 14 YEARS!)
I filled them with some treats and hope they will bring a smile to their faces and a wag to the tail!

Happy Crafting!

Family and Friends

Times with family and friends are the best, right?  I'm happy to be crafting alone a good bit of the time but I do look forward to the time with family and if friends are also there...well, that's even better.
We went to a marriage celebration recently and there was a lot of family present and a few friends, too.  We had a fun visit and the little ones had a great time with their cousins.
I did a couple of layouts of the event using my Silhouette Cameo once again.  Go, Cameo, Go!

That's my cute son in the top right picture with his oh so cute girlfriend.  The papers are My Mind's Eye papers.  I cut the title out with the Black Jack font which is a great cursive font (you can download it for free HERE) and welds so well on the Cameo (or the Cricut with SCAL).    Sorry about the blue tape on the left of the layout....that was my reminder for which album this page was to go in! LOL!  It is gone, now!
Here  is the backside of that layout:

The wildflower was a design from the Hero Arts portfolio in the Silhouette Store.

Hope you all have a wonderful day...it's a bit cooler in Georgia today!  Fall has officially arrived.  I do hope those of you in the path of the huge storm stay safe!

Happy Crafting!

Simple Stories Make it a Sn@p!

Simple Stories, which make great paper kits, has a new line out called "Sn@p".  There are a couple of themes...one being "Life" which I recently picked up at Archiver's.  It's a cute and very happy line and works well for quick pages!  Of course, for me that means half the time I usually take which is still a long time!
Here are some layouts with the Sn@p papers and embellishments:

Hope you have a fun day today and find time for some Happy Crafting!

More Silhouette Layouts

As I mentioned before I went to a crop this past weekend and at the last minute decided to take my laptop and Silhouette.  I wasn't sure I wanted to fool with it but I certainly glad I did.  I practically burned it up I used it so much!
Here are two simple layouts I did with Silhouette images.  The first is a train frame I found in the Silhouette store:

 I popped it up with some foam tape to give a little more dimension.  And I made a journal block out of the coal car.  :)  I considered doing some stitching or dressing it up some but I decided to leave it the way it was.  But now I think I'll go back and add a little twine looped out of the smokestack so it will look like smoke. Good idea, huh?

 Secondly I found some leaf patterns in the Silhouette store and cut them out in some various sizes.

I embossed some of them and inked them and just scattered them on the page at the top...some were popped up with foam tape.  Nothing extraordinary here but it does look better and cute IRL (in real life)! :)

Papers were from DCWV.

And that's it for today....
Happy Crafting!

Fall Festival

My daughter, her husband and their little kiddos live in a great family oriented community.  They have lots of family events each year and one they have annually is the Fall Festival.  The kids love it...this year there were jump houses, games, food, animals to pet and see, classic cars and more.

I took my camera and got a few shots although those children move so quickly I seem to never get a good one anymore! HAHA!

I used DCWV papers and my Silhouette to cut the title:

I printed the pumpkin from a free digital stamp but can't recall where I got it right now.  

I colored it in with Copics and then used Spellbinder dies to cut the flag pole and rectangle to use for journaling.

Off to see the little ones today...

Hope you all have a wonderful day with some time for some crafting!