Friendship's Garden Halloween Tag

Hello again! I had a great time this last weekend at my friend Holly's all-day crop. It was a great time to relax, catch up with some friends and get some work done! The first thing I got to work on was our next in between weeks challenge with Friendship's Garden!!
This week's challenge with Friendship's Garden is to create a Halloween tag with the following formula: 3 bling, 2 ric rac, and 1 image. Here's what I came up with:

I had a lot of fun with this little recipe of a project. Hope you enjoyed it, too!









Can't wait to see your 3-2-1 creations!!
You can post them here

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Fall Owls

This was a fun little project to make. I was able to use some scrap paper (that, when it was given to me, I though I'd never use!) to make all of the layered elements: the moon, owls, and tree branch.

I started with a piece of solid navy cardstock and cut it to the shape of my $0.50 thrift-store-find picture frame. I cut the owls and branch using the Pumpkin Carving Cricut cartridge. This cut the branch and an owl in a frame of it's own, and I pieced out the parts I wanted (they were cut at 8" and 4").

I used my walnut ink and a sponge dauber to tint the paper in varying shades of brown and I used my Daffodil Delight Stampin' Spot to color the moon (I cut that freehand).

I used a Q-tip to put tiny dots of my shimmer paint onto the navy background as stars.

Everything was adhered with my permanent Glue Dots® dispenser (I love that thing!)

What a quick and easy (and cheap!) homemade Fall decoration!!

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 I wrote this blog post while participating on the Glue Dots® design team

Vintage Halloween - Friendship's Garden Challenge

Welcome to another great challenge from Friendship’s Garden. If this is your first stop along the hop, click here to start back at the beginning.

Our theme this week is Vintage Halloween. Vintage I like, but vintage Halloween is something I’ve never attempted before! Through the magic of Google, I found this vintage Halloween postcard that caught my eye:

The Mystic Light of Hallowe'en

First, I love the colors this postcard has: not your typical black and orange scheme, but more of an aged, weathered look, adding in blues and greens to the mix, too.

My favorite element from this inspiration piece is the pumpkin, so I used that as my guide to create this:

"all hallows eve may fear and fright for tricks & ghouls come out that night"

I hand drew the pumpkin and its face, used grungeboard stars and pumpkin stem, and sculpted the metal gate from crafting wire. To get the faded background, I used a piece of medical gauze and transitionally inked it from lightest to darkest with varying shades of blue. 

All of my elements were adhered with Glue Dots®. I love how the micro dots are small enough to invisibly hold the wire down, yet strong enough to not let it move an inch!

Another element I love is the packing of the dots. I was able to use the size guide on the outside of the package to get the perfect sized circle for my stars.

Hope this helps you think outside of your comfort zone...it sure pulled me out of mine!!
 

Make sure you stop over at our blog sponsor, Altered Angel!! 

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Ghoultide Blog Hop

Welcome to the Ghoultide Blog Hop!! If this is your first stop on the hop, click here to get back to the beginning at Angela’s blog (don’t worry, you’ll end up back here eventually!) 

I love these little guys!! I’ve been mildly obsessed with owls for the last few years (I’d like to think that I was the beginning of the current owl trend). I’ve posted before about my daughter’s first birthday party with an owl theme and my little collection at home is growing.

I’m usually not one to buy punches. As a scrapbooker, first and foremost, a single image at a specific size gets a bit repetitive throughout an entire scrapbook, and I can’t justify spending the money on a punch when my Cricut is so much more flexible.

The exception is this:

Stampin' Up! Owl Punch

I love this thing.

When I first got it, everyone in the office knew it, because everyone got two or three little owls to hang around their area (I mean, since I love owls so much, they must, too, right??)

I’ve been looking for more ways to utilize it, and this seemed like a perfect opportunity to punch away!

These were so fun to make. It was like playing dress up with my favorite doll and almost as fun as torturing a poor little dog with baby clothes and a hair bow. 

The possibilities, and themes, are endless for these little guys! Not only Halloween, but Christmas, Easter, President’s Day (could you imagine these things on Mt. Rushmore?!)

Here's your chance to win!! Follow my blog and leave me a comment on this post of which H-owl-o-ween tag is your favorite! Three of you will each be getting two of these little lovelies just in time for your October decorating. I'll be using Random.org to choose the winners, and they'll be announced here on Monday, October 3rd, so be sure to stop back!!

Hope you enjoyed my project, and now you’re off to see what your nineteenth stop (Debbie Wilson) created (I’m sure it’s amazing!!).

Debbie’s Blog

Happy H-owl-o-ween!!