Halloween Spookies!!

Happy Thursday everyone! Only one more day until the weekend---yippee! This week has been extra long and the weather not so swell and I'm ready for some rest. I swear my "old" body is still recovering from the NKOTB concert last Thursday--amazing what 20 years will do to ya, ROFL!! We're going to take the kids for our annual Pumpkin Patch trip this weekend if the weather is nice. It's been a family tradition since they were babies and one of my favorite fall activities--we'll get a bunch of pumpkins, cornstalks, and mums for our front porch and drink lots of hot cider (my favorite). The kids like to run around on the bouncy house and we always do the corn maze (we have always done it in under 1 hour, yeah) and its HUGE!!

So, in gearing up for our fall field trip I have some Halloween goodies/treats to share with you today. First up is this cute pail (from Target $1 spot) filled with pixie stix treats. I always see those Peppermint Patty sandwiches (I hate peppermint, yucky) made as treats so I thought why not use pixie stix (which my kids love) instead. I used my new stamps from Penny Black's "Trick or Treat" set and chose a few to stamp out and color w/ Copics. I added a few stickles too ! Pretty quick and easy to assemble--I just used my circle/scalloped nestabilities to cut out the circles and sandwiched them together with tacky tape. The pail I decorated with a scalloped circle embossed w/ my Cuttlebug folder and then rubbed black ink over the raised image. The lil' tag is a CB die that I stamped using PTI's "Spooky Sweets II" set. Cutie-Patootie!

This second project is a card I made using CC Designs "Sugarplums Halloween" set--isn't this devil the cutest? I stamped everything out separately and cut out--I think its so much fun that you can make as many street signs with any sayings with this set, fun! The dp is from Cosmo Cricket's "Haunted" line. I used my Fiskars border punch to make the bottom border and corner brackets. I stamped "spooky" along the bottom in white palette ink. The bats were punched with a MS punch from vellum and then I inked them up with dk brown ink and attached with glue dots. Devlish fun I say!

Last project of the day is this cute lil' coffin treat box--it opens from the top so you can put candy inside. The template and directions are at the Penny Black website if you're interested. I layered some more of Cosmo Cricket's "Haunted" dp on top and inked around the edges with white ink. The lil ghosty and sentiment is from CC Designs again--isn't he a cute ghosty--that I attached with dimensionals for pop.

I know I promised to have the template/directions for the tea box up today and I will try and post it later, if not it will be up tomorrow. It seems one of my lovely kitties got my cord that I use to upload photo's from my camera to my computer and knocked it on the floor. Then my lovely puppy took it and chewed off the end---so....I have no way to upload everything until I get a new cord. But I've called Best Buy and they have it in stock, so off I go to get a new one...argghhhh...never ends, ya know!!

Have a great day! Hope you enjoyed the projects today!

Suzanne

Bubbly Fun!

Hello everyone! I am still on vacay until Tuesday, but I wanted to post at least once while I was gone. We are having a great time here in Snowshoe, WV--the weather has been perfect with no humidity which is wonderful. We spent the day yesterday at the mountain for their annual Chili Cookoff which was fun--although my dh and brother had some really hot chili that was making people puke--that's not food just torture!! We took the ski lift down to the base of the mountain and went paddleboating on the lake (actually my dh took the kids while I relaxed in the shade--lol) and went on a walk on the trail! The first pic is of my dh with our kids and our niece Jenna at the top of the mountain. The views here are spectacular and yesterday was so clear. My dh and brother are taking the kids to a park in a gorge to see some Civil War battle sites today--my SIL and I are chillin' with the baby (that's my dh with my niece Taylor above--isn't she a cutie). Anyhow, I'll share more with you on Tuesday when I'm home in my craft room (which I miss, miss)!

***Blog Candy Alert*** I've gotten over 5,000 hits so that means blog candy this week when I get home. I'll let you know what's going to be in it soon, but I can tell you there will be lots of Magnolia images and a brand spankin' new Sweet Ebony/Sugar Nellie Stamp, so stay tuned!***

Ok, my card I made before I left uses the Penny Black "Bubbly" acrylic stamp set and the images in this set are super cute! I just love this kitty drinking champagne in the tubby with his mouse friend (don't we all wish for time like that, oh yeah :)) I used a different Cuttlebug embossing folder this time (shocker I know) to emboss all of the circles. I embossed a piece of acetate and placed it over the stamped image to give the illusion of a gel/water card with floating bubbles--the less messy way to do it I guess-lol! I also used more embossed circles that I popped up with dimensionals for a "bubbly" look. And this dp from Memory Box "summer" just fit the bill perfectly with all of the circles on it. I love the color scheme of this card (PTI's spring moss paired w/ SU's soft sky) it just reminds me of soapy fun for some reason--calming and soft. I will definitely use this color combo again--luv it! I love the sentiment that comes with this set too--perfecto! I finished it off with some dew drops scattered about and that's it. Hope ya like it!

Alright, I'm signing off until Tuesday. I hope everyone is having a great weekend so far!

See ya--Suzanne

Penny Black "bubbly" stamp set, Memory Box dp, PTI spring moss cs & SU soft sky cs, cuttlebug embossing folder, Copics, dimensionals, stickles, nestabilities, acetate, dew drops

Me-Self

Hi everyone! Hope you all are doing well out there where you are. I'm feeling much better today, not as fatigued as I'd been and only a little sore. I completed a few cards today and got 1 other project done (plus caught up on laundry & those other things that pile up while you're sick or away). I see that my blog counter is only a few away from 2,000 hits, so that means major **BLOG CANDY** to give away tomorrow. I'm not going to take a picture of the "loot" you can win, but will tell you that it's a few of my favorite things (some bellas, some bling, some cute dp, a cuttlebug somethin' & a couple of other great things)!! So don't forget to visit tomorrow afternoon to enter--you don't want to miss out!!

Today's cards are all about me!! I made these cards with myself in mind (how selfish, huh). The first card is another Stamping Bella card (I know, I know--there will be no more bellas tomorrow I promise). This is Ohsoprettybella and I think its adorable. Not that I'm stating that I'm "oh so pretty" but this is how I hope to feel in a few more days when I have my normal color back in my face and my mind all together - haha! I got a few sentiment stamps from Rosie's Roadshow that I just loved--she has the cutest sayings on her website, I wanted them all! This one in particular reminded me of how I feel most days--slap some color on your face and you can get it done, Suzanne. I never leave the house (mostly) w/o some lipgloss and some eyeliner or else I'd look like the walking dead--lol! Of course I included my favorite zebra print, the dp is from Glitz Designs, the brads are from Gina K and bella is colored with Copics (had to make her shirt zebra print too). I'll eventually give this card away, but for now she'll be on my favorite's board!

The second card is just a simple kitty, fun-laugh-out-loud kinda card. I had seen this stamp on my fellow blogger and bellaholics friend, Susan's blog--I immediately emailed her and asked where her friend had gotten it. The stamps are from Penny Black (mine I got from Addictedtorubberstamping.com) and this one's name is "Difficult" and I got another cat named "Cat-titude"--they make me laugh. If you know me well, you know I have 4 cats & 2 dogs. My one cat, Poncho is all gray (used to be fat, but he dieted & is now slim) and he's a grump. He really only likes me and hisses at anyone that tries to pick him up or tell him what to do--he's a real prima donna I tell ya, but I love him to death & this stamp is all him! I had to use this sentiment from Rosie's Roadshow for this card--My motto in life is to do it your way and be yourself while you're at it, life's too short to try and be like someone else!! So this card will also get posted on my board for me to get a good laugh at everytime I see it--hope it makes you laugh too!

Alrighty, I'm outta here to go heat up one of those yummy dinners my friends gave me. See ya tomorrow--don't forget about the blog candy~!

Suzanne

Stamping Bella card-Stamping bella "ohsoprettybella", Rosie's Roadshow sentiment, Glitz Designs dp, Gina K brads, Copics & stickles

Cat-titude card-Penny Black cat stamp, Rosie's Roadshow sentiment, mm brads, Copics, SU cs