Scrapbook.com October Card Sketch Challenge

Isn't this card cute! I love the haunted house but can you guess where it came from? "Holiday Cakes!!!" Yep, I got a new Cartridge and I love it. Actually I got 2 - Holiday Cakes & Paisley (both around $16.00 each, gotta love Ebay)! They both have some great stuff on them, so you will be seeing them used on my blog in the future! Stay Tuned!

For now I made this great Halloween Card for a Card Lift Challenge on Scrapbook.com and entered it in all  of these great challenges too!

• Crazy 4 Challenges - Halloween
• Ellephantastic - Halloween
• Corrosive Challenges - #87 Halloween or Orange & Black
• Cowgirl's Sunday Challenge - Halloween
• Kaboodle Doodles - bats
• Paper Playtime - Halloween
• Penny's Paper Crafty - purple, orange & black
• The Wild Flower Patch - Halloween

Just click on the links to see all the beautiful cards entered in their contest!

Here is the list of Supplies used:

• Bat, House & "Happy Halloween" Words were all cut with Cri-cut "Holiday Cakes" Cartridge
• My Mind's Eye Tiny Tales Vellum Quotes "Halloween"
• Fiskars Cloud 9 Design Double sided card stock "Bubble, Bubble Toil & Trouble"
• 2 Different "black" Rick Rack (don't know brands)
• Paper Studio Orange, Black & Yellow Card stock
• Paper Studio Purple Card Stock cut in 1/2 to make an A2 size card
• Staz-on "Black" ink

Hopefully I am going to clean up my Scrap area and work on a few layouts this weekend. I will post them on Monday if all goes well.  

Thanks for stopping by! HAPPY SCRAPPING!

Friday Photo Inspiration Challenge at Scrappily Ever After

Today's inspiration photo at Scrappily Ever After is a photo of a Witch Flying through the sky!

Here is my design team submission! 

This card was made from scraps, yippee!

• The witch is from Soft Spoken's Ellen Trick or Treat (there is 4 other embellishments in the package to use on other cards)
• The paper is Paper Studio from Hobby Lobby.
• The little spider stickers in the corners are Mrs. Grossman.

Now it is your turn to make something that the photo inspires you to create. Be sure to post your project on Scrappily Ever After's Blog when finished, to enter her drawing.

Paper Secrets Spooky Blog Haunt

We (my Daughter and I) are super excited to be joining Paper Secrets 1st Annual Spooky Blog Haunt. For this event we will be Blog hopping to 31 participants Blog post to leave comments and check out what project they choose to display for the event.

We are stop # 22!
Your Next Stop will be Viki W @
Scrapbooking Creations by Vicki

Don't forget to stop by all 31 blogs to earn you chance at a great prize from Paper Secrets!
In case you get lost, you can find a complete blog list here...
http://papersecrets.friendhood.net/blog-candy-blog-hops-f5/2010-paper-secrets-spooky-blog-haunt-oct-15-18th-t1014.htm 

Ewww... Prizes We love Prizes!!

Here on our post we will be giving away a randomly chosen prize to those that become followers of our Blog. If you are currently a follower please mention it in your comment so we don't leave you out of the drawing. Our prize will be a $20 gift certificate to our online scrapbooking store "Circle B Enterprises Scrapbooking and More"!

Project Time!!

My Daughter and I contemplated what we wanted to do as our project. I am an avid card maker and my daughter enjoys making home decor and doing alterations so we decided to combine our love and do a "How to" project. Scroll on down to see what we came up with...

"How To Use Up Your Sticker Stash"

      Nearly every scrapbooker has a stash of stickers or embellishments that they just can't decide what they want to use them on, or have a jar full of left overs from previous projects.
      My Daughter called me after we decided to join the Haunt and said " Mom why don't we show a few projects that would be quick and easy to do and would use up that ever building stash!" After discussing it for a few minutes we decided we would do just that, and together we came up with 3 great ways to use up our ever growing pile of unused scraps.

Project #1: Cupcake Decorations

My Daughter is a cupcake making fiend, and loves to find new ways to decorate them.
You could also use this same idea to make cute planter decorations as well!!

Recipe for Cupcake Toppers

1. Cut scalloped circles on the Cricut using the George Basics Cartridge.
2. Add a sticker or two with some doodles for an added touch.
3. Adhere to toothpick or skewer cut in half.
4. Place in Cupcake to make a fun treat for everyone!

Project #2: Bookmarks
What better way to mark your page then with your very own handmade bookmark!

Recipe for Bookmarks

1. Cut out bookmark from card stock to desired shape and size.
2. Add stickers and doodles and you have a great handmade bookmark!

Project # 3: Collage Greeting Cards

I am an avid card maker for Operation Write Home and have found that the collage card is a great way to use your stash and make tons of great looking cards.

Recipe for Collage Greeting Cards

1.Cut one 8 1/2 x 11 Card Stock sheet in half, so you get two cards from one sheet.
2.Cut three 1 1 /2" x 3 1/2" strips from your scrap pattern paper and place evenly on card.
3.Cut one 4" x 2 3/4" rectangle from White Card cardstock, ink edges.
4. Place a collage of stickers on rectangle and pop dot it onto the stips. (I acutally used foam underneath instead of pop dots as you still get the effect and I can use up my scrap foam sheets too.

I hope you enjoyed visiting our blog... Happy Blog Haunting!!

Today I made a Halloween Card for several challenges!

Today my Halloween Card used:

• Card Patterns Sketch #85
• Some left over stickers & pattern paper in my stash
• Stretch your Imagination Cricut Cartridge "Sunflower Shadow" in glitter Orange
• George Basics Cricut Cartridge for Circle in Purple
• Ribbon from Michael's (don't know brand)
• Purple Staz-on ink

I am entering this card in all these great challenges (Just click on the links to enter your card too!):

• Card Patterns Sketch #85 
• Cricut Cardz Challenge - Anything Goes 
• Fussy & Fancy Friday Challenge - Halloween 
• The Creative Cottage Challenge #25 - Halloween 
• Glitterbabe's Challenge #16 - Halloween 
• Stampin Royalty Challenge #41 - Halloween 
• Freshly Brewed Challenge #19 - Purple & Black 
• Inktegrity Design Team Challenge #18 - Fall or Halloween Card

Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays - Halloween Challenge

Saturday's challenge at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays is a Halloween card! The challenge is being sponsored by Delicious Doodles!

This is my Design Team Card!

• The spider is from Soft Spoken's Ellen Trick or Treat. (There is 4 other embellishments too that I can use on other cards)
• The Boo Frame was cut from black Paper Studio Card Stock on my Cricut Machine using the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.
• The Ribbon I got from Target for $1.00. You get 4 different 2 yd ribbons in a package! Great huh!
• The Green card is just an 8 1/2 x 11 Paper Studio Card Stock cut in half, so you get two cards for one sheet.
• Inked the outside edges with my Black Staz-on Ink Pad.

Now it is your turn to make something Halloween! Be sure to post your project on Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays Blog when finished, to enter the drawing.

Scrappily Ever After's Wednesday Scrap challenge!

Scrappily Ever After is starting her Wednesday Scrap challenge again. I am sooo glad, as it inspires me to reduce my stash. Since it is almost Halloween and I need to clean out my drawer, here is my Scrappy idea!

I used paper left over from a Halloween Layout and matted with black card stock. I attached a fall flower I bought in a bouquet for $1.00 at Wal-marts a while back, it had 8 flowers on it. I pop dotted a little black spider button I have had for a couple of years to the flower. I then glued it all on a yellow card stock card and inked the edges with my black stazon ink.

It turned out really cute, so I made 3 of them and finished off my spider buttons. Yeah!!!!

Okay it is your turn! Go through your scraps and make something wonderful then post a link to it on Scrappily Ever After's Blog by Midnight (EST) on Monday, October, 11, 2010 to be entered into a drawing.

OWH Stars & Stamps Midweek Throwdown Halloween Challenge!

This is my card I created for the S&S Midweek Throwdown.  they wanted a HALLOWEEN themed  card with no sentiment on the front. 

This was an easy card to do with this basic design, in fact you could change this up by using Christmas, Birthday, Flowers or just about any themed paper. I was able to make 4 of them with my left over scraps from other Halloween cards and a flower. I added a spider shaped button too, just because I had them available and it looked cute!

OWH Stars & Stamps Sketch #31 Challenge

For this weeks challenge, I used my Beary Patch Frank n' Friends little mini stickers and some Provo craft Hallo Palooza pattern paper to make. This is done on a pre-made white card. Also used some black Rick Rac and my Purple Stazon to ink the edges.

I was only able to make two of this card too for OWH! Wish I could have made more but that is all my sticker sheets would make. I understand the company Beary Patch is out of business now. 

Card Positioning Systems Sketch #181 Challenge!

Card Positioning Systems #181 Sketch Challenge

Here is the card I made for this weeks challenge!

Being the sticker Queen, I used the Beary Patch Frank n' Friends Titles and Little Mini's sticker sheets for this one. Also used lime green & black card stock, Provo Craft Hallo Palooza Pattern Paper & Orange buttons with purple sparkly thread. All the edges are inked with my purple stazon!

I was only able to make 2 cards like this for OWH, but hey that is 2 more cards towards my 30 a month goal.

OWH Sketch Challenge #30

S&S Sketch Challenge #30

Wow, this weeks challenge is another great sketch from OWH! I love the easy designs as it enables me to make several cards in a short amount of time.

You probably know by now, if you have looked at my other posts, that I love stickers! So, I went through my stash and found 6 sheets of the Frances Meyer Haunted House ones. Perfect for this sketch!

I cut 6 - 1" x 5 1/2" strips from one sheet of  8 1/2 x 11 Paper Studio Spooky Dots paper to use as the background border. I cut 6 - 3 1/4" x 3 1/2" from 2 sheets of orange card stock for mats. I Inked everything up with my black stazon. Then I tape glued everything on my white A2 cards. I also pop dotted the Happy Halloween word with EK sucess pop dots for the 3D look.

6 Cards in less then 1 hour!!! Yipee!!!! 

I think I will try this design for Thanksgiving and Christmas too!

A Spooktatcular OWH Card Challenge

It's that time of year again when busy holidays sneak right up on us when we aren't looking!

The Operation Write Home deadline for Halloween cards is right around the corner! We are challenging you to make 6 Halloween cards and send them to OWH for our Heroes.

For every set of 6 cards you complete and pledge to summit, you will earn one entry in a Super Prize Drawing donated by Circle B Enterprises. For an added bonus, if you take a picture of your creations and post a link on here you will get 2 extra entries in the drawing.

On September 1st we will announce the winner!

Here are a few examples I created using my Scrap Collage Card Design:

Have a Bewitching time card making!!
I can't wait to see your Ghoulishly great creations!!

Card Positioning System 178 Part 1

Card Positioning System 178 Part 1 

This is my card I created for the Card Positioning System 178 Part 1 Challenge.  I love this layout,  it was easy to make a few Halloween cards for OWH!

I used some scrap paper, some leftover stickers from a Halloween layout and my Stazon Purple ink on Orange Cardstock! I even dressed up the inside with a Boo! Sticker!