Spooky Memories!

So last week I showed you a quick walk through of the larger

of the Halloween Folios but this week I did a

tutorial showing how to make the smaller version.

I had two more to make so thought I would do

the tutorial so I will always have it lol.

Stamp sets I used

Tricks & Treats, Banner Year and Labels to Love

all Stampin' Up!

Papers are from The Works.

You can watch the tutorial here

or you can watch a quick walk through of finished folio here

Measurements needed to make one

Light weight card - two pieces at 11 1/4" x 3 1/2"

Score long side at 3 3/4", 7 1/2"

DSP to decorate

10 pieces at 3 1/2" x 3 1/4"

2 pieces in different pattern at 3 1/2" x 3 1/4"

Inner page is 4" x 3 1/2"

score on 4" side at 1/4"

Two side pockets

2" x 4 1/2"

score at 1/2" on three sides

Slanted pocket

card at 4 1/2" x 2 3/4"

score at 1/2" on three sides.

Follow video for cutting instructions.

I would like to enter this into

Pearly Sparkles - fantasy

Crafty Calendar - anything goes

Daisy Chain - Autumn and/or Halloween

Two Old Bats - anything Halloween

A Perfect Time to Craft - anything goes

Simply Create Too - Halloween or Halloween colours

The Outlawz - something with your first name letter

P - purple, pumpkin, photos. pompoms

Spooky Folio

I have a bit of spooky fun today with this mini Halloween folio.

It will hold 12 photos and I also included some

little booklets to record the Halloween fun games etc.

I did loads of stamping inside, creating some spooky scenes

and tags.

I didn't come up with this myself, it is from a tutorial

I found on YouTube which you can watch HERE.

I used papers from The Works, some Tutti Designs dies

and stamp sets from SU.

You can watch a quick walk through here

I would like to enter this into

Two Old Bats Halloween challenge - anything Halloween

Kreativtanten - ghosts

Crafts Galore Encore - anything goes

Double D Challenges - to spook or not

Allsorts - anything goes

Irish Thanksgiving

I was asked by a customer to make 20 of my coin boxes

for Thanksgiving with an Irish theme.

They will be on the Thanksgiving table as favours and the families

descendants are originally from Ireland.

So I stamped some shamrocks on the boxes along with

Happy Thanks giving and put a wee banner across the top

with Happy Thanksgiving and a little pilgrim turkey image.

Took me most of the weekend but I had to get them

done for her to post to America on the Monday!

I followed my own tutorial for the boxes here

The shamrocks are a little heart, stamped three times

and I used the letter 1 for the stalk.

I would like to enter these into

Paper a la mode - thankful

Double D - thankful, blessings, grateful

Crafty Gals Corner - thankful/thank you

Crafting Happiness - Thanksgiving/Fall

Incy Wincy - give thanks and/or encourage a friend

Trick or treaters?

It's the second week of Michele's theme

something spooky over at

TAG TUESDAY.

I pulled out another die set from Tutti Designs called

Trick or Treaters. I went horizontal this time to fit all the little

monsters in.

For the background I have used rich razzleberry ink,

marking where I needed to add colour for the stars and pumpkins.

I attempted to splatter some gesso but it wasn't playing ball lol.

The sentiment and webs were stamped using Banner Year stamp set,

then I added the die cut raised on some dimensionals.

I finished by added some eyes

and then mounting onto black card.

I hope you get time to join us.

I would like to enter this into

Tag Tuesday - something spooky

Two Old Bats Halloween challenge - anything Halloween

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Crafting Happiness - Halloween

Little Red Wagon - Spooky Halloween

Aud Sentiments - Halloween/Fall + sentiment

Sweet Stampers - Autumn or Halloween

Craft Rocket - Autumn/Halloween

It's getting really nippy and the layers of clothing are mounting lol.

Have put the heating on when a little but have

been lighting the log burner a lot!!

Hope it's warmer where you are!!

Spooky things!!

The lovely Michele has chosen the theme at

TAG TUESDAY

and she wants to see

SPOOKY THINGS!!!

I dug out an old die I had from Tutti Designs called

Grumpy Frankie!

I cut him out a few times and paper pieced the colours,

added some black ink here and there and then

backed him onto black card so I could cut him out.

The tag itself is purple card, stamped with the word BOO!

in black ink (Banner Year stamp set SU).

I used the same stamp set for the sentiment, this time in

granny apple green. I punched it and sliced the bottom off

and added some black ink.

I stamped a few bats here and there too for that extra

spooky effect!!

The tag was finished with a piece of black ribbon

stapled in place with a yellow staple.

I hope you can come and spook us out with your tags

this fortnight!!

I would like to enter this into

Tag Tuesday - spooky things

Dragonfly Dreams - Halloween/Autumn

Crafting Happiness - Halloween

Pearly Sparkles - Autumn and/or Halloween

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Two Old Bats - Halloween

 

Getting Spooky at Tag Tuesday

It's the second week of our challenge

All Hallows' Eve

over at

TAG TUESDAY.

This week I was finishing up some projects for my Grandsons

so decided to make them some tags to go on their little

bottles of sweets.

The bottles are recycled Beanie Coffee Jars :)

Here are the finished jars.

This is how I decorated the lids.

Bigger view.

I put a black cat on the back.

The backing papers and images are from Nitwits

and the backgrounds of my tags are all stamped using

Banner Year Stamp set.

I would like to enter these into

Tag Tuesday - All Hallows' Eve

Kreativtanten - Trick or Treat

Two Old Bats - Halloween theme

User your stuff - Hallowe'en or Pumpkins

Cupcake Inspirations - Halloween Fun

Double Trouble - cheerful and cute Halloween

Another busy week ahead of me with trip

to Doctor for flu injection, visitors coming on Thursday,

trip to Belfast Hospital with son and Halloween fun

for the Grandkids!

Catch you on the other side hopefully 👿😂

 

All Hallows' Eve

Our challenge theme this time at

TAG TUESDAY

 has been chosen by Michele and it's

All Hallows' Eve!

Lots of fun to be had with this theme!!

For my tag I used a tree stencil, filling in the sky

and ground using watercolour pencils, then adding pumpkins and webs.

I finished with a sentiment and some bats of course!

Come and creep us out with your All Hallow's Eve tags!

I would like to enter this into

Tag Tuesday - All Hallows Eve

The Crafter's Cafe - use a stencil

Try it on Tuesday - Halloween time

Simon Monday challenge - Spooky/Halloween

Crafty Calendar - Halloween

Two Old Bats Halloween challenge 

My son is moving house this week

so it's going to be busy here from Thursday!

Hope you are all well and thanks for taking time

to leave me some love!!

Banner Year Photopolymer Stamp Set (English)

[153464]

£16.00

Basic Pattern Decorative Masks

[150697]

£7.50

Watercolor Pencils Assortment 2

[149014]

£11.75

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad

[132708]

£5.50

Early Espresso Classic Stampin' Pad

[147114]

£7.00

Old Olive Classic Stampin' Pad

[147090]

£7.00

Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad

[147086]

£7.00

Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock

[106550]

£9.00

Tailored Tag Punch

[145667]

£17.00

Add All to Cart

 

Boo! - sketch 14

 

                                                                      

YES another Halloween card this time using sketch 14 from

Kendra's Card Challenge 3.

Again the colours just shouted Halloween so

I dug out an old stamp set from Tim Holtz for the cat and embossing folder.

Everything else came from Banner Year stamp set.

I tied the two papers with pumpkin pie card

and the sentiment was stamped in Blackberry Bliss ink.

The embossed background was ink using Granny Apple Green ink.

You can watch my quick video here

You can join in here.

Remember you have 3 whole months to complete 16 cards!!

Link to Kendra's Card Challenge 3 Link to Facebook Group where you can share your cards Link to Kendra's YouTube Channel Tag your cards on social media - #kendrascardchallenge3

I would like to enter this into

Two Old Bats - anything Halloween

Crafty Calendar - anything goes

The Paper Funday - anything option cute critters

Little Red Wagon - animal antics

We ventured out this morning to a large furniture shop.

Just about 200 yards from shop the road was closed so we

had a 15 minute detour to circle right around to get to the shop lol.

Sadly nothing purchased this time but interesting drive!

Have a great weekend everyone.

 

Happy Haunting - sketch 13!!

 

                                                                   

Happy Monday!!

No it's not October just yet but when I went to do my card sketch 13

from Kendra's Card Challenge 3 the colours just cried out

HALLOWEEN!!

I have used Banner Year stamp set with

pumpkin pie ink and card

The embossing folder is one of my oldies.

You can watch my quick video here

You can join in here.

Remember you have 3 whole months to complete 16 cards!!

Link to Kendra's Card Challenge 3 Link to Facebook Group where you can share your cards Link to Kendra's YouTube Channel Tag your cards on social media - #kendrascardchallenge3

I would like to enter this into

Two Old Bats - photo inspiration

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - anything goes

Crafting Happiness - anything goes

Lil Patch of crafty friends - anything goes

Ally's Angels - anything goes

My second son's house is now sold so it's

all systems go again lol.

It's been a year full of changes for us all this year!

I just noticed I have two lovely new followers!

Thanks for joining me

Ann Lindsey and Dotty Jo!!

 

Quick and easy Lollipop holders

I have a quick tutorial today

showing how I made these quick and easy

lollipop holders.

You can watch my video here

Item used:

Mini Curvy Keepsake Boxes

Banner Year stamp set

Pool Party sheer ribbon

Real red ink pad and Pool Party ink pad

Subtles paper pack

I would like to enter these into

Classic design challenge - anything goes July

Fab 'n' Funky - anything goes

Crafting Happiness - anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore - anything goes

My son is getting a new roof on his house next door

and of boy, the mess coming over the top of us is

something else. We have a deep layer of grinded stone

everywhere and having to keep the windows closed

even though it's sooooo warm.

Needs must, the roof needs fixed,

and we will hose everything down

when they are done!

Craft room it is today!

 

Scrapbook Thursday

I have a double page layout for Sean's

Halloween fun!

The inspiration for my layout came from this sketch over at

Stick It Down

I have used retired papers and inked them up for that spooky look.

The little bats etc came from Banner Year.

The star of the pages is of course Grandson Sean!

I would like to enter this into

Stick it Down - November double page

Two Old Bats - anything Halloween

Aud Sentiments - anything + a sentiment