Today the Magnolia-licious DT has a fabulous "Bats & Brooms" Blog Hop for you and all the projects will be Halloween or Fall themed! You can stop by the Magnolia-licious Highlites Blog for all the hop details! Make sure to make it to the end for the next stop on the hop and maybe some candy for your trick-or-treating bad, hee hee!
I used a couple fabulous Halloween Stamps from the "So Spooky" Collection at Magnolia-licious--see both the category for So Spooky and Halloween for all the Halloween Mag stamps. I used "Halloween Edwin" and the "Spider Web" for the scene part of this card. The fun branches and tombstones are older CC Designs stamps I've had forevah, but check out the Magnolia branches/tree here (I couldn't find mine to use, sobbb)! I handmade a cloud template and then sponged the spooky sky with different gray inks. A few sparkly bats flying through the air and lil' Edwin finds himself in a spooky graveyard.
The cool gate is the large MS Halloween gate punch which I punched out of black cs and then stamped the sentiment on the front (sentiment from a M.Frances set). I also sponged the gate (and bats) with white ink--I scored the fence on both sides and attached it to the back of my card/scene so that it rounded out in the front. This is what makes the card free-standing! I also spritzed it with Vanilla Smooch Spritz so it all has a subtle sparkle to it.
I'll have the girly-spooky version for you later this week so check back in! Blog Candy Alert: But for now how would you like to win a set of MS punches (corner and border) cobweb punches, a pack of Cosmo Cricket Halloween paper and 2 stamps from Magnolia-licious of your choice? Tell me what your favorite Halloween costume was or you created for someone (don't celebrate Halloween, tell me your fave fall food)? Leave a comment on this post only by Wednesday to win!
Morning Suzanne...When mine were so tiny they only wanted to be ghosts and the best costume was just two sheets with holes for eyes I can see them now holding hands walking down the street...best eva...Great card love the fence
ReplyDeleteLove your Edwin in this wonderful scene! What a great idea to use the fence like that!!! Terrific card Suzanne, can't wait to see the girl-spooky version too!
ReplyDeleteA favorite costume I made for my son when he was about 9 was the Joker (from Batman) costume. Even after 20 years, he has saved it!
Mine was a homemade Raggedy Annie costume for my daughter. I thought she was so cute in it!!!! What a beautiful card Edwin is so cute!!!!
ReplyDeleteGreat to see an Edwin on the hop. love what you've done with the fence on the card.
ReplyDeleteDon't do a lot of dree-up but love it when you see little babies dressed as pumpkins, lol.
** Kate **
Great idea you had there! Love Edwin out on a spoooooky autumn night!!
ReplyDeleteIt was so fun the year I dressed as an old man. It was just a "few" years ago when I was a 23 year old new teacher!
About 30 years ago I made a leopard costume for my daughter, the costume passed around to all of my nieces and nephews and was returned to me a few years ago in perfect condition. This Halloween my one year old grandson will wear his mother's leopard costume made 30 years ago. He will look adorable in it! And I will cry my eyes out (happy happy tears).
ReplyDeleteReally neat card Suzanne, awesome! My favorite costume would have to be about 20+ years ago when I made my son at the age of 2 into a Christmas present & put a tag on it that said "to Santa from Mommy". It was so hard to pick him up to get up the stairs for trick or treating by the end of the night the box was a bit beat up but too fun :)
ReplyDeleteOh Suzanne, I just love this vampire Edwin card and how you rounded that gate. Awesome Halloween card! Hugs, Cami
ReplyDeleteGreat Edwin! Can't wait to see the girly version.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was when I went as a tube of Colgate toothpaste. I wore a red pail on my head for the cap. I'm not sure Colgate ever had a red cap, but I loved the costume!!
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was when i was about 10 or so My Mom took giant pieces of cardboard and made a very elaborate queen of hearts card for me. It was very hard to walk in however! Thanks for such an amazing card Suzanne!!!
ReplyDeleteWonderful card Suzanne.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite costume would have to be the year that I dressed up and called myself a witch's pet. Black cape, Black skirt, Yellow and Black body suit and a homemade mask with lots of markings on a yellow background with feathers out the top. I had people asking me what I was all night.
One year when 2 of my 3 daughters were 2 and 4, I made them matching lion costumes. My 2 year old wouldn't let go of the tail for any of the pictures we took and now those snapshots are just too precious! Thanks for all the inspiration...I love visiting your blog!
ReplyDeleteThe fave costume over here was for my son, he is autistic and we made him a spooky costume just from an old shied. Nobody could see who was under the costume so he felt great in his own world.
ReplyDeleteI really love your card as always
Hugs Moon
Wow! I just wanted to reach in and grab your card. I love the fence. I am now going to check out the rest of your blog. thanks
ReplyDeleteGorgeous card Suzanne! Can't wait to see the girl version and hear about your trip/classes. Let me know when Gina lets you use her store to teach a class here in southern WI.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween costume, well I actually have a couple that I made for my oldest daughter. Around here middle school years she was a big fan of the Flinstones and wanted to be Fred. The other costume that I made for her was a bubblegum machine.
Now my younger daughter won't let me make her costume...she has to have a store bought costume!
This is a great Halloween card! I love how you did the fog and that MS punch is so perfectly done!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite costume I made was for my daughter when she was 3.I made her a package of M & M's! I just took the package and copied it to a T!
I love this card, with all amazing details.
ReplyDeleteWe don't celebrate hallowen, but my favorite food in the fall is applepie. I know it is not food, more dessert, but it is good.
Have a really nice day,
Hugs Anna A in Sweden
What a fantastic card Suzanne. I love all the details and can't wait to see the girl version.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costumes are from when my kids were little. We got them both these big plush animal costumes (we got to keep them warm here in Colorado). My daughter was an elephant and my son was a lion. They were both just too stinkin cute.
Thanks for the chance to win such a great candy prize.
What a fabulous design bet the girly one is bootiful too!!! The colours are just awesome and the fence is just perfect!!!
ReplyDeleteLooked through your blog and wow your colouring is out of this world!!! Love it!!
When I was little I always had the biggest pumpkin as it was always a special treat as it's also my birthday I had a super witches outfit (well I always thought it was super a homemade one from a black bag) boy how things change over the years!!! I now have a granddaughter and have been on the lookout for a special outfit (not homemade) for a baby!!!! Just need someone to scrap!!
Thanks for sharing I just love this Blog Hop and the theme is just perfect!!!! Love Chanelle xx
Suzanne what a great card I love the idea of the punch being used as a stand...great job, love that Edwin got some attention also ;)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume well there was 2 of them had to be when my son (16) the oldest one we dressed him up as a girl with all my goodies as he decided at the last minute that he wanted to do a costume, wigs you name it well he went to his work and lo and behold some of the guys he worked with, even the boss were chatting away hehehe with him did not even know it was a guy...he would kill me if I was telling this RONFLMBO ! I think that was probably the last year we could have pulled that off.
The other one was when my youngest was like 2 I made him a Kermit the frog costume he was adorable.
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One year I was a gypsy. My mom made me a colorful skirt and had a bright colored shirt. I had all the jewelry and makeup. I loved it. Love your idea.
ReplyDeleteLove the card..Edwin is just so cute, more stamps to buy.
ReplyDeleteThe year my son dressed as a woman and my daughter as a man. I still laugh everytime I see the picture.
My favorite costume was my daughter pirate costume that we made a couple of years ago! We had so much fun finding all the pieces and putting it together!
ReplyDeleteLove your Edwin card - he is colored beautifully! Love the background also!
Love Love Love the card! I haven't been about Halloween in years and this year I've started loving it again!
ReplyDeleteFor Halloween one year, I was in elementary, my mom dressed me up as the lady in "Hee Haw" the lady with the robe, clock and blacked out teeth and hair curlers! I felt like such a dork but to this day, its a fond memory.
Hope you had a safe trip and catching up on your rest. I about to date myself...my favorite Halloween costume was the year my mom helped me become Topo Gigio (the little mouse) from The Ed Sullivan Show. My mom made the costume from things around the house with the exception of a mouse mask we got at Ben Franklin's for 10 cents. The tail was a wire hanger wrapped with masking tape. I won the school best costume that year.
ReplyDeleteEdwin is so cute in his costume.
Thanks for the memory.
In the 80's my roommate and I went as punk runkers. We wore purple tights, red platform shoes, had our hair in multiple ponytails and work trashbags as our dress complete with belts. What a cheap costume....sponsored by Hefty!!!!
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Such a cute card, love all the details. Nice to see Edwin out and about!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween costume was about 15 years at work when I dressed up as a witch. I had long frosted hair at the time that I teased all over to look wild under the witches hat, long black finger nails, black cape, boots, green face and I use some black jack gum (remember that gum) on some of my teeth to look as if they were missing. None of my co-worker knew who I was. So much fun...have not though about that night in awhile, thanks for the wonderful memories!
I made my daughter's costume when she was little, she was Snow White! I made the costume a little big so she wore it two years in a row. Such a fun memory of her in her costume next to the pumpkin we carved! Thanks for the chance to win, your card is awesome as always.
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Shell
Very spooky project! My favorite fall food is apple fritters and apple cider.
ReplyDeleteI bet you are exhausted! Rest up well, cause I can't wait to meet you and learn from you when you come to Long Island!
ReplyDeleteI love the Edwin card. As always, you are so creative.
My favorite costumes were when my kids were in grade school and we went to a school party dressed as The Ninja Turtles. My two boys and I wore all green with appropriate colored head bands and shells on our backs. I wore a sign on my back saying, "Donatello was crime fighting and would be arriving later." Donatello was, of course, my husband who was stuck at work and couldn't make it in time for the party. Everyone got a kick out of it, so my kiddos didn't feel too badly.
Love your card Suzanne...especially the idea of using the punch to make the card free standing. You did a wonderful job on the card. Edwin is so cute.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume I created was for my hubby a few years ago when I dressed him as Old Hobo Man for a dance we went too. The highlight of the night was nobody could guess who he was and some were starting to get a little creeped out because they couldn't figure out who he was and he won best costume too.
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Corinne
Suzanne, ok - I LOVE everything about your card - from the clouds you created - those are so fun, to the punched fence. How adorable (and I don't even LIKE Halloween - for the most part).
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child, my favorite costume was dressing up like a princess - I STILL want to dress up like a princess - someday I want to wear a Tiara!! JUst because!! HeeHee
Love your little Edwin card, just to darn cute !!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was my great granddaughters when she was 1 she was in her stroller as a octopus with all her testicles sticking out around her in her stroller, cutest little trick or tr eater I've ever seen
Nadine Cunha
Oh wow! I love this card! I love that it is freestanding - what a great idea! My favorite costume was a Dorothy costume that I made for my daughter. I'm not a big sewing person but she really wanted it and so I forged head and it turned out really good.
ReplyDeleteI love this card, soooo cute!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in College my mom made a 1920's Flapper costume it was amazing. I felt like I had woke up in the 20's it was awesome! And of course my grandma loved it, LOL.
oooooooo spoooooky fantastic project!
ReplyDeleteOk here where I live we don't celabrate Halloween, but I do love it!
But my favorite Fall food is mmmmmmmmmmm yummy roasted pumpkin and chestnuts.
Long time ago, when I was kido, my Mama will take me to the market , there was an old men who was selling roasted pumpkin and chestnut.........was so romantic and yummy
Here is foto of the roasted pumpkin
http://bulpete.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/elinpelin/
Sorry, the story is very intersting but it's in my language :)
Hope you will enjoy it!
Have a wonderful day!
Hug's
Renkata
Suzanne, you are so creative! I love the gate!!! This Edwin is adorable, Love the bats and web. Beautiful coloring I love all the shadows. Another amazing creation!
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Suzanne you always make these hops so fun LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteYour card is adorable and great idea on the fence. LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! GF you need to rest the day away LOl!
OK LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY HOMEMADE COSTUME lmbo! I did Cleopatra for myself when i was like 16yo.I made my baby now teen into CHUCKY,"Childs Play" LMBO!!! This year my 2yo will be chucky shhhhh! I will share once i have Haloween pictures LOL!! OK CHICA TAKE CARE AND REST,RubyM:)
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ReplyDeleteI just found your blog a few days ago because I wanted to learn how to color with Copic markers. I had been searching on YouTube and began to watch your videos and got hooked! I haven't been able to stop watching and reading through your blog! Your cards are great and I love all the ideas. I'm a novice to blogs and blog candy but I wanted to "jump on the wagon"! so to speak. I love Magnolia's and have quite a collection. I am just beginning my collection of Copics and your lists are so helpful. I think your Halloween Edwin card is adorable! I love the fence idea too!
When I was about 14-15 yrs old, I was invited to a Halloween party and I wanted to come up with something unique as a costume. I went as a bag of jellybeans. I got a clear trashbag, got some balloons, filled them up with helium so they would stay inflated for the night. I had put holes on the sealed bottom part of the bag for my legs, filled up the bag with the balloons and got in as many as would fit. I had holes on the sides of the bags for my arms and then tied the bag with a big ribbon around my neck. Well, I thought I looked great and everyone commented that it looked so cute. BUT I had 1problem........I couldn't sit down! I had to stand up all night! I won't do that again!
Your card is FABULOUS! I love the rounded fence. How clever.
ReplyDeleteFav: Food - Every year my 8 gal pals and I go pick apples, spend the entire evening making apple pies, with home made dough, while sipping on caramel apple martinis, when the pies are done we have wonderful treat of hot apple pie ala mode; drizzled in caramel......... yummmmmmmmmy!
Last year we knocked out 25 pies!
Love how you made the 3-D gate in the front. So many ideas and so little time to try them all!
ReplyDeleteThe favorite costume I remember was one I created for my daughters when they were preschool. They were matching pumpkins with the "stem" being a hat they wore. They took second place in the city halloween costume contest...only because the judges thought it would be easier for them to share $2.00 LOL.
Love the card, beautiful job as usual.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing my kiddos all dressed up at Halloween. I have many favourites, but the best was the Winnie the Pooh costume - all 3 of my kids wore it and looked adorable.
When my oldest daughter was little I sewed a mermaid costume for her out a a sparkly fabric. My little ones use it for dress up now.
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Love your card. A couple years ago, I dressed up as my g-ma. So many people took a second if not third look to see just who it was.
ReplyDeleteFinally at the end of the night, I revealed and what a shock to all.
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Love your project! What a great idea. One of my favorite costumes growing up was Pac-Man. My dad made it out of cardboard. He actually made one for me and my friend. We painted it and wore black tights with it. It turned out really good.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne, that is just so cute. Wish you were coming to my town, I would so love to do one of your classes.. I am not doing well with the online, having trouble finding time to do it. Wondering how much time I have left before I can't do the lessons?
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Awesome project Suzanne, and how very creative. The fence is super and I just love your clouds.
ReplyDeleteWe don't celebrate Halloween 'down under' but at that time of the year I love Caesar Salad, Fruit Salad and icy cold Watermelon Juice. yummmm
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This is adorable Suzanne! I don't know how you can possibly be so creative in the wee small hours of the morning. Love all the highlights and glitz you added!
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oh very fab card Suzanne I love it and fab coloring !!!
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Suzanne...your card is so very cute
ReplyDeletelove how it stands up with the gate
in front as always great card.
I think that my favotite costume was one that my Mother made for her
self.....she always enjoyed all the hloidays....and always decorated for all of them....she dressed up as Ragdy Ann with her face painted white....she look like a big doll
and she was 65 at the time....she gave me such great memories
Hugs Linda
I love to put this cute creation on my mantel for display for Halloween. Cool & awesome project Suzanne :o)
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Great project Suzanne!! I love that you used Edwin!! Can't wait to see the girlie version too. I don't normally do Halloween now that I'm older, but one year I actually dressed up as a pirate girl. It was a lot of fun and my niece loved that I dressed up and went Trick-or-Treating with her. It was lots of fun and of course I had to get Pirate Tilda so I could you her when I get to scrapbooking those pages I'm behind on, LOL!
ReplyDeleteGreat project Suzanne!! I love that you used Edwin!! Can't wait to see the girlie version too. I don't normally do Halloween now that I'm older, but one year I actually dressed up as a pirate girl. It was a lot of fun and my niece loved that I dressed up and went Trick-or-Treating with her. It was lots of fun and of course I had to get Pirate Tilda so I could you her when I get to scrapbooking those pages I'm behind on, LOL!
ReplyDeleteYou're cards are always so beautiful!!! I wish that you came to my corner of the world and follow some of your classes. When I was little, my mom made me a I dream of Gynny costume. I loved it so much that I wore it for a few Halloween.
ReplyDeleteHi Suzanne - I love the rounded gate and how the card can stand up - brilliant!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was only just a few years ago. I competed in a costume contest dressed as a voodoo doll complete with (giant!) pins.I had one in my back and another through my "heart." It was really challenging to walk around and not whack people with my pins! :) I placed 2nd! I have a pic of it on my blog: http://landofencraftment.blogspot.com/2010/09/just-little-voo-doo.html
I love how you color Edwin! My first "candy" that I received was from you and it was Edwin on a little candy bag and it was uber adorable, just as cute as this one! Very awesome card! Love it!
ReplyDeleteAwww, Edwin is adorable! Does he sparkle if he goes into the sunlight (ala Edward in Twilight)? The way you did the fence is so clever. I love how clean the image looks. Super duper, Suzanne! You "dun good!"
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Hi! Suzanne, I am so happy to see Edwin! How gorgeous he looks. Wonderful "mise en scene". Love the fence !
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Danielle
Wow this is wonderful! Edwin is great as Dracula and the card is such a beautiful creation.
ReplyDeleteHi Suzanne-Love your card; I've never seen that punch, how cool is that? My favorite costume has always been the old hillbilly woman; baggy jeans, rope belt, baggy flannel shirt with a huge bra stuffed with fabric, blacked out teeth, corn cob pipe and a ratty looking hat. Hope you're resting and had a safe trip home. :o)
ReplyDeleteWonderful card for Halloween! My favorite costume was one I made for my youngest son--a teenage mutant ninja turtle outfit complete with shaped quilted shell. He wore it to play in for years.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was one my best friend and I came up with for my youngest daughter when she was three. She was a flapper with a pink satin dress with fringe. We rouged up her cheeks and put lip gloss on her...she had a head piece and boa to match. She loved it...she blew kisses to everyone she saw!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome card, your coloring on Edwin is beautifully done.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween costume is a pirate costume I made for my son when he was very young. I so miss making his costumes every year.
My fav costume was my son at 6-months old - little taiko drummer with a cloth around his head, a little taiko drum and a drawn moustache. Of course he couldn't object to it since he was too small, LOL. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI made a bird costume for my son when he was 3 - it had wings, a comb and a beak and he was so cute. All the neighbors just loved it.
ReplyDeleteI love your card and your blog is such an inspiration. Thanks for sharing your ideas!
Oh I just love that cute Edwin spooky card, Suzanne! How cute & clever of you to make the fence curved so it stands alone. You're one smart cookie....I tell ya! LOL
ReplyDeleteI remember having a gypsy face mask when I was young. I'm old as dirt....hahaha.....so the mask was really kind of creepy looking now that I think back on it with it's big red lips & bright cheeks. Like something a bank robber would wear. LOL Anywho....I wore my mom's clothes & bangles & thought I was really stylin'. lol Thanks for the funny memories.
Huggies ~ Sharron♥
I love the fence!! How cool. The favorite costume award goes to the one my Mom made for my little girl when she was 3. She was the spittin' image of Alice (from Wonderland). She was so cute. She was Alice's twin right down to the black velvet shoes. She even had the straight blond hair with a black headband. She was so stinkin cute. I still have the costume. It looks very tiny. Thanks for the cute card peek. Sandy C. sczcec@yahoo.com
ReplyDeleteGreat job once again Suzanne. Love the Edwin.
ReplyDeleteAround here our favorite things to dress up as for Halloween would have to Star Wars Characters. My son has been Darth Vadar (twice), a Storm Trooper, Anakin Skywalker, and this year he is going as Emperor Palpatine. LOL
Love your little Dracula guy LOL great idea for the fence area!!! Oh the ideas are a churning !!LOL My Favorite costume was one I made out of a large sheet, cut,sewed dyed orange and stuffed with newspaper to make me a very large pumpkin with a top hat over my entire head,face and all. Very hard to see out of but I was the "Great Pumpkin" from Charlie Brown and went around the hospital I was training at and was I ever the hit with the kids!!Made lots of noise walking LOL LOL with the newspaper filling plus hard to get through doors LOL BUT the smiles on the kids faces WOW never will forget that!!!!!!
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Love your card! My favorite personal Halloween costume of all time was the year I dressed up as a gypsy in my mom's hand made skirt and a bandana. I looked cool! I made my oldest daughter a pumpkin costume when she was about 5 that was just adorable but my husband took her out and they lost the little stem hat...
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea! So cool!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely love your card Suzanne.. so adorable.. great idea for your gate!!
ReplyDeleteThe costume that I made was my favorite was for my two oldest grandchildren when they were youngest they wanted to be power rangers, my grandson the black one, my granddaughter in pink.. I worked hard, but they did look great and I had 4 scrab book pages 12X12 of them... I really did have fun doing it... I did many more, but those were the hardest and the most appreciated...
Hugs, Jean
Well, don't really remember my trick or treating days it was so long ago, but for my first grandaughter I sewed her a pumpkin outfit that was super cute. Also had a little hat that was the top of the pumpkin..When she was born she was our little Punkin!!
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bobbi
Just love the Halloween Edwin project...can't wait to see Tilda!!! I am not much of a sewer so my MIL made most of my daughters costumes...I did try one year to make a cowgirl outfit for Nat...it turned out ok... :)
ReplyDeleteOne Halloween, my brother asked me if I wanted to come trick or treating with him, his wife, and two of their daughters. SO, I said sure. I dressed up as a giant chicken. Then I dressed up my dog Gidget (a Yorkie) in a matching chicken suit. When we trick or treating, people drving by were beeping, and everyone was laughing to see a big chicken walking a little chicken down the street! Lots of people came out to give Gidget dog bone treats. My mother says the poor dog will therapy for life now!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing card! I love it's 3-d-ness! Is that a word? LOL! When mt kids were younger we were really into Halloween. Not so much now that the kids are older. My favorite costume that I made was for my daughter as Oscar the Grouch. I painted her face and hands green. I covered a frisbee with aluminum foil and attached it to a green duncel hat. She wore a green shirt and pants. It was so cute. But my personal favorite Halloween experience was the time my husband wanted a hair cut on Halloween night. So I took the chair out on the front porch and put on a pair of scrubs and dripped ketchup off my hands. The kids were so freaked out when I asked if they needed their hair cut. the neighbors even took videos. It was great fun!
ReplyDeleteI love your card! my favorite costume was a scary green witch! I even had the black pointy shoes. Thanks
ReplyDeleteOh I loved Halloween growing up! My sisters and I (all 4 of us) planned for weeks what we were going to wear when trick or treating. It never failed, however, that the weather was always so cold that we had to put a coat over top of our costumes anyway! My favorite costume was probably the clown outfit my mom sewed. I was able to wear my coat underneath and put make up on!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for using the boy. As a mother of 4 boys it is nice to see the boys!!! I love it and what a neat idea using the punch to make it stand.
ReplyDeleteI loved it when my granddaughters wore little bumble bee costumes last year. They are twins and they were so cute buzzing around for candy.
ReplyDeleteI love how my first baby looked with her Tinkerbell costume... she was 10 month old..... she looked so lovely!!! now she is 18!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was a witch, complete with a tall spiked hat, and green food colored makeup. I remember winning second place in the school contest.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most adorable Halloween card/decoration evah! That fence tops it off! :)
ReplyDeleteOh I will NEVER forget one particular Halloween long before I married. I happen to have been dating a guy that had his own band which was playing in one of the local clubs. I told him I really didn't feel like dressing up so I was just gonna stay in for the night. NOT!!!! Oh no... I found the best rubber mask of an old man with wrinkles and warts all over his face and had this stringy grey hair attached! Oh it was good! Well I borrowed some overalls, an old flannel shirt, a dirty ole John Deer hat and these worn out old boots and I went to the club! I made sure to also wear work gloves so no one would recognize my hands. This was a small club and everyone knew me, but NO ONE knew me that night! Honey, I ordered my drink by writing it on a napkin, which was not my usual drink BTW, and I sat there without saying one word the entire evening! I think the hardest part for me was not talking, and I almost gave myself away several times for holding my laughs in! LOL. Well come closing time, I am still sitting there as they turn the lights on and push everyone out the door. I refuse to leave and start making a scene, still not talking though! My cousin was working security and he approached me threatening to put me in cuffs. Well at that point he was really POed so he yanked my mask off! Talk about surprised!!! Hahahahahaha That was THE BEST Halloween EVER!!! LOL
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Freida
I can see I'll have to invest in some Halloween Magnolia's for sure ... not sure if I'll get them in time for this year, tho. Lovely job, once again!
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes, this is AWESOME!!! That fence is pure genius!! Absolutely amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was when I was about 8 years old and decided I was too OLD to go trick or treating-I was going to stay home with my Mom and hand out candy! Well, when all my sisters and my brother headed out and were gone about 45 minutes... regret set in BIG time!! So my Mom gathered up some lace curtains, plastic flowers and lots of pretty lipstick and voila, I was a beautiful bride!!! Dad took me out and everyone would say, why are you just starting out?? I'd give my little poor me face and say, I was home helping my Mom..." and wow, I was getting doubles and triples of everything from everyone!! I ended up with tons more candy than the rest of the kids.. it was cool!!! LOL!! Such memories!!!!
Hugs,Teri
What a great project! That punched fence is incredible! My favorite costume is from when I was about 7. I was a gum ball machine. My mom took a large box and wrapped it with gum ball wrapping paper. Then she cut out a small hole in front and taped a bag of gum balls on the inside. You could poke your finger in and a gum ball would come out. Of course I was small and couldn't reach the gum balls around the box so my sister would have to give me one every so often. It was torturous! I still remember how fun I thought that costume was!
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awesome card, love love love that fence.
ReplyDeletewell I guess my favourite costumes would have to be fairy costumes for my girls. I loved when they let me match them all LOL.
So are ya awake yet??? :) This is sooooo AWESOME!!! I love the way you constructed this and Edwin look amazing!! Love, love, love it!!!!!
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Welcome Back Suzanne! I love your Edwin project! You know I am all about those Maggies! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was a Micky Mouse I made for my daughter when she was not quite 2 years old. It was darling on her until I painted her little nose black and she started screaming and crying! We had to take off the costume and go trick or treating in our street clothes! Thanks for a chance to win the MS punches!
Big Hugs!
Lisa
Hi Suzanne - My favorite Halloween costume was a headless horseman costume that I made for my daughter the year she was on the mounted drill team. I built up the top of her head to be shoulders for the the horseman. It looked really cool on the horse.
ReplyDeleteOh Suzanne, your card is fabulous! I love your scene and that fence is awesome! My favorite costume was a Dracula one that my son wore many many moons ago--your Edwin brings back memories, lol!
ReplyDeleteWhat a fantastic project! You've colored it so beautifully, too!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween costume would probably be my daughter's Tootsie Roll costume. I made it out of felt, it was pretty easy, but cute! She was thrilled, and that was all that counted :)
Great card, Suzanne. LOVED the blog hop :o)
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Welcome Back, Suzanne...we missed you!!! Love your spooky little Edwin, he's just adorable.
ReplyDeleteWith kids, I did a lot of costumes while they were growing up, but I think my favorite was for the boys one year we made them and their two friends who were brothers as well, up as the group KISS. The makeup was to perfection, and the guitars were out of cardboard. They even wore our high heels!!! They looked outstanding if I must say so....
And oddly enough, my daughter's favorite costume was being a silver Hershey's Kiss!! So easy to sew and stuff with tissue paper!! Those were the days....
I love the way you made this free standing card. I also so.... appreciate your detailed directions for making the card. Your directions are always so helpful.
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I forgot to tell you about my favorite costume ever. My Mom made me into the favored "Purple People Eater" when I was a kid. I was all in purple and had 3 sets of arms. Sounds rather gruesome as I write this down. But that was a favorite song back then and the costume was a joy to wear as my Mom so enjoyed creating costumes! She truely enjoyed this holiday. I personally do not celebrate now as the concept of tricker-treating has lost its fun from the 50's, but my favorite Fall food is a Winter Stew that my daughter makes.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume ever was a ghost for my younger son. I attached sheer white fabric to a long sleeve t-shirt, covering his head & arms. I just stiched it lightly to the neck & sleeves of the shirt & cut long drapes to cover the shirt. He wore dark black pants to blend in & look like he was floating.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Halloween costume was probably a paper mache pumpkin head/masks that my Dad helped my sister and I make back when I was about seven years old. My sister and I thought that we had the best costumes in the neighborhood. It was such a fond memory that when our daughter was around the very same age, I thought it would be a great craft project for the two of us, so we made a similar pumpkin head/mask for her that she was just as proud of.
ReplyDeleteLove that fence idea! You are so creative and I so enjoy reading your blog. My favorite halloween costume was for my little Bichon Frise, Rosie! She was a sweet little butterfly waiting at the door for all the two legged trick or treaters. Thanks for sharing your creativity with all of us.
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Love your card!! My favorite costume was my oldest daughters first one. She was a little bumble bee and the cutest thing you ever saw!! I still have that photo up on my bedside dresser.
ReplyDeleteAwww, this is such a cute card. Love the details and the free standing fence around!
ReplyDeleteOK, I made my son a spider web costume way back when. He is now 21 and we still have it. took forever to figure it out, because he is so picky! We had fun and he joined in the coloring of the web. thanks for "hopping"
Jody
GGOOODDD MMORNING Suzanne~~Wow I sure hope you had a Great Class in Michigan!!!
ReplyDeleteI love your graveyard card~~sooo clever!!
I just have to share about a Halloween costume~~
My son and I have Oct b-days so years past we had ONE big Birthday/Halloween dress up family party!!
Everyone came in costume even grams and gramps:)
I chose to be a M&M~~so to keep soft material round on me I used coat hangers to help keep my round form (Hee Hee) Only thing is they kept poking me whenever I would move. Trying to be resourceful at the time
Blessings
Oh my Goodness, it just gets better and better. You girls are amazing, this is one stunning project. I love Edwin, never seen him like this before. Thank you so much for a wonderful Hop.
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Suzi x
What a fabulous idea! I love the way you used the fence punch. My favorite costume was when i was in the sixth grade and my best friend and I spent hours labouring over boxes making a set of dice. We wore black legging and painted our faces black and wondered the neighborhood as a pair of dice. Thanks for helping me remember good things today. :)
ReplyDeleteI love Edwin on this card! Wow what a scene and you colored it so well!! Sooo talented!!I made my grandson a ghost costume and embroidered spiders all over it. It was truley a very scary ghost!
ReplyDeleteOh I adore what you did with this spooky scene. Can not wait to see the girl version!
ReplyDeleteI have twin girls and when they were little they wanted to be Pipi Longstockings. Sprayed hair with wire in them and the cutest little dresses and of course the patches and stockings. I can see them now!!! Wow I can not believe how time flies!!! They just turned 32.
KymKreates
this is fabulous, love it.
ReplyDeleteMy fave costume was a devil costume. It was a red lace bodysuit with black hotpants which had a tail sown on. There was a curly red wig and thigh high red boots. Obviously this was well before I had any children and had the figure to carry it off lol!
What a cute Edwin card. I love that it stands up all by itself. Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteMy fav costume was when five of my girlfriends and I went as the California raisins. We all had different color high-tops and came in dancing to "I heard it through the grapevine." You may be too young to remember those commercials, but it was fun!
my favorite halloween costume was when i went as punky brewster. Punky power :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea with the fence! Love the card! My favorite costume was my son dressed up as a vampire when he was five-he looked so adorably spooky standing next to his baby sister dressed up as a witch.
ReplyDeleteOooh what a fab spooky card and love the dimension. Thanks for the tip on using grey inks for the sky, I would never have thought of that!
ReplyDeleteWe didn't really dress up at halloween when I was younger, but my Mum's apple pie always was to die for (and still is!)
Lovin this card! What a great idea for the fence! My fav costume was when my kids where little and my baby girl was a crayon and I made my son a crayola box of crayons...it was adorable!!! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYour artwork is amazing! This is so adorable! My favorite fall food is apple pie!
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ReplyDeleteAwesome inspiring DT creation! This is so cool. I have been watching all your fantastic tutorials. Maybe in a bajillion years my copic coloring will improve..lol This is simply another gorgaliciously awesome creation. Thanks for sharing your awesome talent.
Hugs, Marjo
I am just in awe every time I see one of your cards....my jaw about hits the floor.AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger my sister always dressed me up as a battered pregrant woman. It was funny when I was little. Not so much now after haveing been pregrant myself.
ReplyDeleteI am just getting into stamping and would love to win these supplies. :)
I made 4 raisin coxstumes for a halloween party we went to. We dressed up like the California raisins and danced on in to the party. It was hilarious! I love the card you made and look forward to the girly version.
ReplyDeleteLove the card brilliant use of the MS fence punch, can't wait to see the Tilda version, and hope you get a good nights sleep after that long drive home..you must have been exhausted.
ReplyDeleteWell one year i dressed my son as an old time gangster and he used my violin case as his trick or treat bag. Everyone got such a kick out of it he got lots of extra candy..
Actually, there are 2 favs of mine. One Halloween night, hubby and I were in Georgetown and came across a guy with blue wavy lines drawn across his forehead. His T-shirt looked like the front page of a daily newspaper and said "head-lines"! Yup - it was silly - but we had a good laugh. The second one was Halloween night in Honolulu and as I was waiting for hubby at the bottom of the stairs, next to the green hedge......part of the hedge moved towards me and startled me! Turns out that some creative person had made a costume out of a hedge. He had cut a hole for his head and legs but you would never know that there was a person inside! It was so weird watching this hedge with legs walking down the sidewalk! I betcha his costume was itchy! Lucky for him poison ivy doesn't grow in Hawaii. LOL.
ReplyDeleteLove your cute Halloween card - you are such a talented lady and I love seeing your creations!
I love this project! I don't remember too many costumes but I do remember a bunny costume that my Mom sewed for me.
ReplyDeleteOh my this is so beautiful. I love it... Coloring is always SUPER!
ReplyDeleteMy favorite costume was dressing up as PHYLLIS DILLER for a party one year. It was FUN! My hair was WILD! LOL
My favorite halloween was the time in college that my friend Becky teased my hair out REALLY big for a party I went to as a witch.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite halloween costume was when my girlfriend and I went as salt and pepper shakers. We had boxes that we painted. She was salt(blond) and I was pepper(black hair.)
ReplyDeleteHey Suzanne! I made my son a mummy costume when he was about two years old. It fit him perfectly since he was just starting to walk he wobled all over the place, it really looked like he was a mummy! I used white strips of fabric and with my distress inks i inked them all up. I then covered his black sweat pants and shirt with the fabric and applied them with safety pins. I also covered his black beany! all you could see was his cute litte face! this has been my favorite! Hugs Alicia :o)
ReplyDeleteHi Suzanne I love the card I'm looking forward to seeing the girl version love Linda
ReplyDeleteDANG IT! I missed the blog candy alert! I LVOE THOSE spiderweb punches!! Uh!! O well, I'll just gawk over your creation! Scary-sational! LOVE that the gate is curved around the card! How ingenious is that! Love Edwin all spooked up! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI missed the blog candy but I hope I can still be in the blog hop :-)
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Hi Suzanne
ReplyDeleteStunning creation, love the fence and such a cute Edwin.
Hugs Ali x
What a fun card! I love the fence.
ReplyDeleteLove your idea!
ReplyDeleteSo great, love halloween :)
Hugs Anneke