Have a Safe and Happy Halloween

More Stamping Up Cards

Earlier this month Mom and I did a Stamping Up card class at Denise's house, along with my friends Marissa and Ria. It was sooooo much fun!!!!!! One can't help but have fun when the Divas are in the house :) We made three fabulous cards and had a great day!!!!

I love the cupcakes on this one. You can't tell from the picture, but they are pop dotted. I love the colour combination on this one too.

This one was fun to do. I am in love with the punch we used and now have it on my wish list. Bunching up the ribbon was ... well ... tedious ... but now I know how to do it so I hope to use that technique again.

I love all the folds on this card. It looks great folded up and great unfolded. Love it!!!!

Thanks ladies!!!! We're looking forward to doing it again in November :)

Please take a moment to check out Denise's website here. I know she'd be delighted to help you out with all of your Stamping Up needs :)

October Stamper's Club

I recently began discovering the wonderful world of Stamping Up, thanks to my friend Denise who is a demonstrator. My Mom and I have taken several classes with Denise so far and plan on taking them on a regular basis. I'm really enjoying being able to spend several hours at Denise's house creating some fabulous cards and socializing without any pressure. I still have to photograph some of the cards that we've made with Denise (from the monthly card class), but I do have the most recent ones we made photographed and ready to post.

Last Wednesday we went for our first Stamper's Club. We made three cards while we were there and had a wonderful time visiting with Denise. 

We made this cute little candy holder, complete with M&M's (Yummy!!!). Denise taught us how to use the Round Tab punch to create the bats. I fell in love with the Batty For You stamp set and had to add it to my collection.

As part of the Stamper's Club we learn a new technique each month. This month we had a lot of fun with the Marbles Technique to create this fabulous background for our Halloween card. Denise also taught us how to create the mats for the stamps with a punch. I love how this card looks -- and it uses the cute Batty For You stamp set too!!!

We used a beautiful snowflake stamp to stamp the background for this Merry Christmas card. The white snowflakes look so pretty with the Elegant Eggplant cardstock. We used the Patterned Pines stamp for the trees -- love how elegant they look stamped in white.

I'm already looking forward to our next class with Denise. Check out her website here.

Economic Stimulus Challenge Week 7

Carolyn posted another wonderful challenge for the Economic Stimulus Challenge this week on the Scrapping Turtle forum. I had a lot of fun doing this one!!!!

Our requirements this week were:

1. Daisy Bucket patterned paper

2. 3 or more buttons

3. ribbon

4. letter stickers

5. stamped item

I used the A Wondrous Word line from Daisy Bucket. I love this line, but I hadn't yet gotten around to using it. Thanks to this challenge I found the inspiration I needed to put it to good use. I used five buttons on the border strip at the bottom. I made a ribbon bow for the tree. The letter stickers were used to do Sara and Sam's names under the photo. For the stamped item I used the Daisy Bucket Dainty Swirl stamp on either side of my title piece. The fabulous photo was taken by Kim Munro (love it!!!!).

Here is the card I created with my scraps:

Thanks for another fabulous challenge Carolyn!!!!

Halloween Layout Challenge

This is my week for posting a challenge on the Scrapping Turtle forum. I had to do a layout challenge and since it is almost Halloween I thought what better than a Halloween inspired layout challenge.

I found this fabulous Halloween image from B.J. WebArt to use as inspiration for my challenge. The layout doesn't have to be of Halloween, but it does have to include the colour orange and at least one photo turn. The photo turn is for my friend Wendy who won a fabulous American Crafts giveaway at the Scrapping Turtle, which including 416 photo turns LOL.

Here is the layout I created for my challenge:

I used Bazzill cardstock, American Crafts Thickers, Ranger Stickles, photo turns from the bulk wall at the store, an owl cut from a paper in the Dream Street Sam line, and Quickutz dies (Tree border, Tombstone and Cat, Haunted House, and two different Pumpkin dies).

I hope you will give my challenge a try and let me know where I can see your layouts.

House Mouse Christmas Cards

Last Saturday I had the pleasure of taking one of Bev's fabulous House Mouse card classes at the Scrapping Turtle. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work, but so worth it. I love the cards I made :) I learned a lot about colouring with my Copic markers, got to do some heat embossing, made six fabulous cards, and spent time with some wonderful people. I'm looking forward to taking another one of Bev's card classes in November --- after I recover from this one LOL. Thanks Bev!!!! I had a great time :)

Aren't they fabulous?

Spooky

Each month Two Scrapbook Friends puts together a Product Challenge Kit. Participants are required to take the products in the kit, create a layout and post it in the gallery. At the end of the month one layout is chosen to win a gift certificate. 

This month we were given some papers from the Eerie line by Basic Grey, ribbon, black cardstock, an embossed spider and embossed bats. Here is the layout I created with those products:

I cut out the spider and the bats, and sanded the spider. I added the spider webs in the corners using white ink and an Inkadinkado stamp. I added some highlighting dots to the title. The photo is of Sara Trick or Treating last year.

Can't wait to get photos this year :)