OH SO DARK AND DREARY HALLOWEEN CARD

REMARKABLE HALLOWEEN CARD BY HSIAO-HUI

I love this card that Hsiao-hui demonstrated for us.  Pat wanted us to demo a Halloween card and since Hsiao-hui loves Halloween she volunteered to demo this one.  It is absolutely stunning!  Hsiao-hui used the stamp set dark and dreary and she also made her own spider from punches and the vampire bat is the owl punch with some additions. I love how she embossed her window sheeting with the spider web embossing folder.  What a great idea!  The bat eyes are so super spooky!  Everyone really enjoyed making this card.

I love the inside of the card stamped with craft white ink and look at the envelope flap.  Hsiao-hui embossed it with the spider web embossing folder.  She also used the distressing kit (new to SU!) on the clear window sheeting to make it really look spooky and like a true cobweb.

RemARKable Holiday Madness Blog Tour - Post 6

Today is Day 6 of the tour!  I'm going to steer off of the Christmas holidays for today and show you parts of my house display for the most recent RemARKables meeting.  I was in charge of making the Halloween House.  I used the new mini house kit and I sprayed the house with glossy black spray paint.  I used charcoal stone spray paint (yes, there is such a thing) for the roof.  Then I used brand new Nite Owl holiday paper from the new mini and stamps from dark and dreary (candelabra stamped with black staz on ink on vellum windows) to decorate the house.  The ghost is the owl punch upside down and modified a bit. He sure does look like a spook, doesn't he?  The words from the poem by Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven - are perfect additions to my house.  They look like "do not cross tape."  Do you like my witch coming out of the chimney and my bats in air? They are attached to strips of window sheeting and look free flying (Linda Kincaid gave me the idea to attach the bats that way!  so very wicked!).  I've also used some of the new Halloween rubons called spooky night.

In the scene below you can actually see in the upper right hand corner that there are some glow lights on in the house.  I also used the milk carton die for the Big Shot and the new spiderweb embossing folder to make a favor and I also used the embossing folder on the card below.  The card with the spooky tree and the Yorick skull for the tall candle was made with the Nite Owl dsp.  oh, that adorable pumpkin at the door below the spook is from the stamp set Fangtastic.

Do you see the tombstones in the photo?  The stamped ones are from graveyard gala.  I stamped the stone and then wheeled the Haunting wheel with trick or treaters over it.  These would really be cool on your Halloween table or invitations or scrapbook pages.  The little halloween witch girl is from Greeting Card Kids.  I think that stamp set is so stinkin cute!

Above you can see my spider spinning her web on my milk carton treat and the treat on the right was made by Linda Kincaid.  It uses the 2 tagz die for the Big Shot, the flocked Halloween paper called Wicked Fun, black striped grosgrain cut in half and the stamp set Wicked Cool which I bought specifically because of the witches feet.  Linda CASED this treat holder (see the hershey bars coming out of the side? Immm!) from Kimberly Van Diepen. I love the wispy pieces of ribbon coming off of the treat package.

Here are some more cards, sliding box treat holder (see this post), and a candy jar that I adhered a Holiday Decor Element to.  The Decor Element is Spooky Bats.  I also used it on my candle. 

This is the jar.  Now there is a lot of candy corn in there.  Should I ask someone to guess how many pieces I put in there?  I probably will need to do that locally so I can give the jar away.  I love this decor element.  Really cool looking for the holidays!

Here is the candle on the Yorick candle pedestal.  It was really easy to apply the decor elements to a candle, just in case you are wondering.

This is the Halloween Frame that Linda, Hsiao-hui and I cased from the new Holiday Mini catalog.  We modified ours with a few extra touches.  The frame was from the local craft store regularly $20 but I got it on sale for only $11.  It is really a well made shadow box that allows for some 3 dimension and I love how the decor elements leave a shadow on the Nite Owl dsp.  The tree is that same spooky tree that I used in the card above.  The swirls are from the stamp set Baroque Motifs.  The spiders, the raven, and the owl are from Dark and Dreary stamp set and the trick or treating spooks are from a stamp wheel called Haunting.

The front of the frame has the spider and the Happy Halloween 31 from brand new Decor Elements called Spooky Things.  This is a great set.  It has bats and spiders and trick or treat and a large raven (oooh, Baltimore Ravens Football fans - you need this decor element for your Football decor or for your car!) and comes in black or dark gray.  My decor elements are dark gray but you can barely tell that they differ from black.  They are just different enough to give my frame some contrast.  I also added some  Black Flourish designer jewels (also in the mini catalog).  That was Linda Kincaid's idea.  We loved the way this frame turned out and it will become a cherished holiday piece to hang up for years to come.  I can't wait to make a Christmas or Thanksgiving Holiday one.  That will be next on my agenda for crafting!

MAKE AND TAKES

These are the make and takes from our REMARKABLE TEAM MEETING last week.  I love them all!
There were actually 5 make and takes but I only have 4 shown here.

This one might actually be my favorite one of all.  It uses the new spiderweb embossing folder for SU!  I've seen another folder with a web on it - in fact I may also own it - but this one really has more depth to it.  I would love to use this card as my Halloween card.  I love these Greeting Card Kids stamps.  They remind me of the campbell soup kids and are so cute.  We used peach parfait twill ribbon, new brads, new punch (happy halloween is punched on a new punch coming out with the web on Sept. 1st, and new dsp, yeah!

This is another one of our make and takes and it features the spider web embossing folder, the bat punch (so cool and available now), wide striped grosgrain ribbon, and a new stamp set coming out Sept. 1st called Dark and Dreary.  Oh, I can't wait to own this stamp set.

This is a really neat invitation.  We put two pieces of dsp together from the summer mini catalog to make this pinwheel.  It is super easy.  We used tropical dsp which is retiring August 31st, so if you want a pack of this paper order it before then.  The stamp set is called Inviting.  I love the font used and although we didn't use it on this invite, the stamp set has a really cool pin tack that you can stamp and can be used for scrapbooking, card making and a variety of different crafts.  The umbrella paper is part of the tropical dsp.

This is a really great card that Jan presented for us.  It uses an exclusive Shelli Gardner favorite (Shelli is the cofounder and CEO of SU!) stamp called French Filigree.  It is really a neat background stamp.  The Remember when is from the set Word Play.  We added some new crochet ribbon lace (so cool, you have to see this up close and personal) and a new sticky back pearl - which is a fabulous accent for the card.  The dsp is brand new and is called Elegant Soiree.