Haunted Mansion

Happy Wednesday! Late blogging start to the week, but I have still been scrapping! Here's a fun one using plenty of retired product, ha! 

A lonnng time ago, Stampin' Up! sold stacks of colored embossing powder. The stamped images here are all embossed in "green" embossing powder, which matched beautifully with the long-retired Emerald Envy card stock, altho they were not available at the same time. 

Haunted Mansion 1
Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits (retired!)
Ink: Versamark
Paper: Gray Granite, Perfect Plum (retired!), Emerald Envy (retired!) card stocks

Accessories: Heat Tool, Green Embossing Powder (retired!), Regals Candy Dots (retired!), 2016-18 In Color Enamel Shapes (retired!)

Font: Ravenscroft

and here's a little close up to the embossing.

Halloween Cards 1

Happy Monday!
Saturday was World Card Making Day. I have other things going on the first Saturday of October, so I did not participate. However, Stampin' Up! has declared this week World Card Sending Week. They have set a goal that 50,000 cards will be sent this week. I try to send out cards fairly regularly, do you? I have many people in my life that I can't help out in the ways they probably need the most, due to distance, but I can send them something happy in the mail to find among the bills and tediousness of day to day life. And I try to make an effort to do that. Plus- I can't store all the cards I make! May as well put them to good use! You could send out some too! And if you do, let me know and I'll add your sent cards to the count!

Do you send Halloween cards? I really don't. However, I grew up receiving them in the mail! My grandmother was a big fan of Halloween. She dressed up every year, and for us that lived at state away she would call us to cackle like a witch. There were lots of decorations and she sent out Halloween cards to her grandkids every year. Her sister sends them too. My mom sends Halloween cards out to her grandkids, and when her mother passed away, my mom started sending them to her siblings and nieces and nephews too. Now I have a little one who loves Halloween just as much as her grandmother and great-grandmother!

Personally, I like the dressing up. I like trick or treating. I'm a big fan of candy, haha. I love to watch The Great Pumpkin. And that's plenty for me, haha. (I like other fall things like pumpkin patches and apple cider and hay rides and leaves...) But there's a little one in the house so this year we've decorated anyway. And we don't know which costume we're going to wear this year, haha! When you get hand-me-downs from several older kids that all fit at the same time, the choices are just too much!

My mom has been sick rather a lot this summer, so for a fun day we decided to stamp a bunch of Halloween cards. She had some in her stash already, but we made more. And maybe some of these will carry over to next year too! Get comfy because we made a lot! However, you should probably know that almost all the supplies we used are retired!
In fact, I just decided to make this the first of three installments... Just in case you're looking for ideas too! So here are some of the quickest cards to make...

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits

Stamps: Tee-Hee-Hee

Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits

Stamps: Bitty Boos, Spooky Bingo Bits, really old Paper Pumpkin

Catch-up Scrapbooking!

I actually got all these pages done last week, I just haven't had time to blog it!
This was the best scrapping day in a long time, haha. All of these pages were done yeeears ago. All I had to do was find pictures to go on the pages, glue them down and a bit of journaling! That means I got all four pages done in half an hour! So exciting, haha!

This page came from a Stampin' Up! Regional conference in 2007. It was one of our make & takes, and it has literally been in a scrapbook pile since then. YIKES! I glued down these two pics of my youngest and bam- she's got another page done! I dont' remember the names of these stamp sets, tho I did own (maybe still do?) the doodly one on the circles.

This page was one I put together for a class I held I believe in 2010. We used two punches and the glimmer paper, which was a new thing then. I did an 8x11 and a 12x12 version to accommodate my customers. I used the 8x11 at my class, but never glued pics down on this one. I just found out today that my son got both pages, hahaha...but they're like a decade apart in his books so it's just fine. Right? hahaha....

And finally, I had made this fun layout for a class I held in 2011. This Bingo board and Halloween bits were so fun! Well, I had printed pictures of last Halloween for my youngest, and she is a big fan of Halloween so that was a perfect match! She got two more pages, lucky girl! haha!

So see? Make sure you look thru your stash and double check that things are used the way you intended! You never know what's hiding, waiting for your attention. haha......!

Halloween is coming!

Today I used Susan's sketch for October and created these fun little cards to stick in my kids' lunches! I havent' done that yet this year and I really ought to! I cut the greeting all wonky because for some reason, Halloween strikes me as perfect for wonky-ness! haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Basic Black, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie
Paper: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Daffodil Delight thin ribbon, 1 inch circle punch, 1 3/8 inch circle punch

Happy Halloween!!

Today, for the first time all school year, I managed to send cute notes in the kids' lunches! I know, who'd have thunk now that both of them take their lunches it would be *that* hard?? Well I didn't expect that. So today I planned a head and stuck these little 3x3 cards in some lunch boxes:

Supplies:
Stamps: Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie, Wisteria Wonder, Basic Black, More Mustard, Lucky Limeade, Crumb Cake, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Pumpkin Pie textured card stock, Whisper White card stock

And just for kicks, this is how I sent them on their day!


Rapunzel & Luke Skywalker

(actually, I took them to school, and stayed for the school costume parade..and then had them change into normal clothes for the rest of the day....because our school is insane...LOL!)

a project.

I am still trying to decide if I am insane, dedicated or ambitious. hee hee! First of all, I signed up to be my son's class room mother - a decision I wonder about frequently, LOL! Secondly, that made me in charge of class parties, which you'd THINK wouldn't be stressful, but...turns out...you'd be wrong. It is quite stressful for me, LOL! Plus, this is the first Halloween I've sewn a costume (just part of one...second time using a pattern...wow, stress!) and I'm working on Christmas card classes and working on getting a job, and my house has had three colds, pneumonia (coupled with pleurisy) and a sinus infection for me. ..its kinda been crazy 'round here this month!

So, me being me, decided to make Bingo boards for this class party. See that? That would be 30 boards, completely randomly spaced images, ready to go.

I'll share my process in case anyone else wants to do this too. (Altho to be honest, I would suggest something smaller, like a Halloween -or other holiday- party at home, haha!)
First, I stamped 30 Bingo Boards. Two fit on a 8x11 sheet without worry of overlapping. I chose the ink colors I own and laid them out, and then stuck a stamp (or two!) with each color. Then there's the trick of how to play the game, since this isn't letters and numbers...after a lot of thinking on my part, my brilliant husband came up with the plan to stamp each image 5 times and on the back write a B or an I, etc. That's how I used up the scraps of paper that I had stamped the boards onto. Worked out quite nicely!

the various boards... I tried hard to make it super random. Like I'd take the stamp and fit it on a B square, I square, etc, and also tried to keep the similar colors apart to make the boards prettier. Because I am *sure* these kids will appreciate the way it looks! hahaha!

After I wrote the letters on the backs of the squares to draw, I had my helper sort thru and make sure I had stamped each image. I was sure I would have missed at least one!

and here we are, ready to go! Each kid will get a handful of candy corn to use as markers and we'll see how it goes!

Supplies:
Stamps: Bingo Card, Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink: Peach Parfait, Basic Gray, Certainly Celery, More Mustard, Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Crumb Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Classic Basic Black, Craft Basic Black, Lucky Limeade, So Saffron, Wild Wasabi, Pear Pizazz, Rich Razzelberry, Daffodil Delight, Wisteria Wonder, Early Espresso, Tangerine Tango inks!
Paper: Whisper White

Halloween pages!

I don't usually post incomplete projects but somehow, with all my huge photo orders, I have NO Halloween photos printed!! I also don't have very many scrapped so I guess I just don't print them very much... But this layout was part of my class yesterday and festive and fun for today, so I am sharing it anyway! ....someday I'll print photos, I promise!
This was kind of fun, even tho it was sort of a lot of work. I started by choosing my selection of inks; all my shades of oranges, greens, purples, yellows, browns and gray and black. Then I laid out my stamps with whichever color I felt would work best. I stamped it on the board and then on the border strips, and voila- a fun, quick Halloween page!

Supplies:
Stamps: Bingo card, Spooky Bingo Bits
Ink: Old Olive, Wild Wasabi, Always Artichoke, Pear Pizazz, Lucky Limeade, Certainly Celery, Rich Razzleberry, Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant, Concord Crush, Pumpkin Pie, Tangerine Tango, Peach Parfait, More Mustard, So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip, Early Espresso, Soft Suede, Basic Black, Basic Gray
Paper: Old Olive textured card stock, Whisper White card stock
Accessories: Peach Parfait ribbon, Basic Black grosgrain ribbon

'Tis the Season...!

Nooo, not that season, a season to play with new toys to make fun Halloween projects! I got a fun box this week and last night I finally got a chance to use what was in it.
Today's sample uses two new stamp sets and an embossing folder!

Aren't mom's great?? My mom places orders, lets them come to my house and lets me play with her new toys before she even gets to see her things! When this spider web embossing folder came out in last years holiday mini catalog she wondered how she could use it without the Big Shot. Very recently, Splitcoaststampers.com showed me exactly how we could use it without purchasing the machine. Of course my mom ordered it immediately! If you follow that link you will see this awesome idea and fun new (to me at least!) technique! I don't have a brayer (my mom does...and its at her house) so instead I used an easy direct to paper technique, where I simply laid the ink pad down on the card stock and scrubbed back and forth until the color was as even as I liked. Then you just buff it with a tissue and voila! So striking and fun!
And then you see I got the bingo board background stamp, and filled this section with a variety of Halloween bits in all kinds of colors! I have a lot of plans for those two stamp sets, so just get comfy! haha!

Supplies:
Stamps: Bingo Board, Spooky Bingo Bits, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Tangerine Tango, Basic Black, Early Espresso, Daffodil Delight, Crumb Cake, Pear Pizazz, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip, Rich Razzleberry, Basic Gray, Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Wild Wasabi, Wisteria Wonder, More Mustard
Paper: Always Artichoke & Whisper White card stocks
Accessories: Black Grosgrain Ribbon

Are you ready for this season? We'll be decorating the house tomorrow, and then figuring out how to make my son the costume he very much wants....tricky, tricky!