OUT ON A LIMB - NEW HALLOWEEN SET FROM SU!

I made this card for the Remarkables Swap that Susan Adams is hosting.   We needed to choose a new SU! set in the Holiday Mini Catalog.  As soon as I got sight of the catalog and saw Out on A Limb I knew that I had to have it.  It's so stinkin cute!  The witch and the cat, the owl, the upside down bats, so adorable!  I think the set also has the cool moon and the witches broom is neat!  There is also a tree branch the pieces of the set can either sit on or hang from - how cool is that?

 For my card, I wanted to use a non traditional Halloween background color, so I chose Real Red.  It coordinated well with this NEW SU! dsp Frightful sight.  I also used the NEW SU! Lace Border Punch on the edges and complimented the card with lucky limeade card stock and ruffled ribbon.  The witch, the spider, and the moon are highlighted with brand new dazzling details (124117 $2.50).

Here's what the stamp set looks like:

I also love the cute pumpkins in the set.  Notice how they have cool mustaches.  And I see a lot of possibilities with the cloud, even beyond Halloween cards and projects. 

Lastly, the word SPOOKY was stamped in basic black ink.  It's from the stamp set Wicked Cool which is in the main SU! idea book.

HALLOWEEN IS IN ONE WEEK AND I'M CHARMED

SIMPLY ADORNED CHARMS BY SU!

I can't believe that Halloween is a week away!  Am I ready?  Just about.  The candy and treats are all ready to go.  I'm decorated for the most part.  I've taken out all the shirts I own that have something to do with Halloween and I think I have my costume.  But ....I'm truly ready because I have my simply adorned charms to wear.  I made the larger one at my upline Jan Wakeland's home at a diva day.  It uses the Wicked Cool set.  The smaller charm is just as adorable. The second photo shows the back side of the larger one.  I forgot to flip the smaller one around but the smaller one has a pumpkin on it.

Do you like my scary skeleton gloves?

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!

SO WICKED COOL

This past weekend I had the opportunity to play with some new SU! stamps, papers, inks, and more. I was at the Remarkable Team Meeting in York, Pa and my upline's home in Spring Grove, Pa.  I had a lot of fun crafting with team mates.  I CASED both of these cards to some degree, but I either changed the colors or the papers on the cards.  This stamp set is so neat.  It is called Wicked Cool.  I also love the new Halloween papers in the SU! idea book and the new Bat punch.  Did you see how I added our new sticky back rhinestones to the witches boots and to the bat for eyes?

I think the spiderweb is really cool. Look how I used it in each of the cards!