Not Christmas Yet

I know the Stamp of the Month was all Christmas and everything and I love it, but I'm still in a Halloween mode!

I had to use the coffin we made to deck out my office.  These are a few of the decorations in my office.  Our local Ben Franklin's (like Hobby Lobby or Michaels) had some very interesting Halloween decorations!  Even my granddaughters are in the Halloween (scary) mode--both of them being silly:

Besides, I still have some Halloween creativity left in me.  I wanted to make some of the Hooligans WOTG (workshop on the go) cards and use the TroubleMaker set.  The one I choose was cute but the card base was white.  I ask you, how Halloween is that?  Well, I love black base cards any time of year but especially at Halloween so this is what I turned it into:

Recipe:  TroubleMaker stamp set; Hooligans Paper Pack; Sunset embelishment pack; Gypsy, Lagoon, Pear and Black inks; black  and white daisy CS; prisma glitter.

Well according to my Halloween Countdown there are 22 days, 15 hours and 31 minutes till Halloween!  What will you turn into this year?????

Halloween Workshop

Fall is  my favorite time of year and one of the things I love about it (besides the beautiful Montana weather) is Halloween.  My intent was actually to do a little more but I was sick for the last week with a horrible cold so I didn't get as much done as I wanted and the creativity has to be credited to Annette Green--a fellow consultant who is extremely talented!!  Below is a picture of all the projects --  3 cards, a candy bar treat holder and a  coffin.  The template for the coffin was from Martha Stewart's downloads.  Even if you are not a fan of Martha Stewart, her video is a hoot!

Colors used for the projects was Indian Corn Blue, Goldrush and Black CS and Inks.

Recipe:  The Boo Crew Stamp Set various other stamp sets for random stamped area; Sunset Exclusive Ink (EI) pad and marker; Moonlight White Brilliance pad (for polkadots); Black waxy flax; black polka dot organza ribbon.

Recipe:  Spellbound Stamp Set; Pewter brads; black ribbon; sizzix top note die.

Recipe:  Captured Moments and Beware Stamp Sets; Vellum for punched out ghost; wooden ghost charm; pewter brads; Cuttlebug Embossing Folder; White Daisy Pigment (EI) ink and clear embossing powder; Pearl Opaques; black gingham ribbon; staples.

Recipe:  Spellbound and Party Animal stamp sets; colonial white and Grey Flannel papers; cranberry and sunset EI; retired CTMH cloud stencil; Martha Stewart Fence punch; Licorice Opaques; Liquid Glass

I just LOVE this little party animal guy!  Isn't he the cutest?

Recipe:  Thriller and Beware Stamp Sets, Hooligans Paper Pack; Brilliance Cosmic Copper Ink; Liquid Glass; Sparkles; twine



Now "Gramma" is off to help the granddaughters make their own Halloween creations!

Happy All Hallow's Eve

My little Callie (Black Lab) has been a little jealous with all the attention being focused on all the little Iry pictures.  So today from my Bat Dog Callie, we are wishing everyone a very happy All Hallow's Eve.  Callie to the rescue!

Treat containers

I went to an SU party the other night and came home with some darling containers and a Christmas card so I thought I would post:

This is treat holder the size of small paper bag--completely punches and Sizzix dies.  Fun!  The next one is a little Sizzix treat box filled with candy corn and has a little sign that goes boing when you open it and says, "Good to the last Bite"

This little treat box also made of puches is like a nugget box.  The last thing we made was a Christmas card with pop-ups.

This was a resist technique.  We sponged on olive and red inks.  The diamond in the center is CTMH.  It just needed that little extra touch.  Below is the inside of the card.  The finish is like it has create-a-shade over it.

It was a very fun evening.  I wasn't the mystery hostess, but two other lovely ladies were.  Oh well.....  :-)

And here is Iry (Iree) who wanted to join us so much.  She really thought she was missing out on something!