Halloween Bookmarks

These are the bookmarks that I made for Sydney's class. I colored a few to show as an example of what they can do with them. Most of the bookmarks have a picture for them to color and then I'm including bat and spider and foam critter stickers for them to adhere to the bookmarks.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween Everyone!  It's a dark & spooky night. Hope you have lots of goblins & ghouls knocking at your door.

Witching You . . .

Here's another Mo's Digital stamp, Halloween Witch. I decided to go "purple" with her hat & witchy gown. I think the sparkle shows up in the photo. And I love the MS broken fence edge punch (pretty obvious since I think I used it on each & every Halloween card I made this year)!

And this is a photo of the inside:

Little Mummy

Stamps: Mummy (Recollections)
Paper: DP: (Bo Bunny Press and Recollections, CS: white, orange, black
Ink: Tsukineko Pigment Ink
Accessories: Glossy Accents, Stardust Gelly Roll pen (clear), buttons, gel dot, rafia, pop dots, scalloped circle punch, Martha Stewart EEK! punch and Spiderweb edge punch, Fiskars Paper Cutter, Scor-Pal, Glue Glider Pro
Size: 4-1/4 x 5 1/2 (A2)

This is a close up of the little mummy so you can see the Gelly Roll pen effects:

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I LOVE Halloween! 2010 Part 3

I spent yesterday putting out all my Halloween decorations. So many decorations - so little space!  Every year my husband walks around looking at the decorations after I set them out saying, "Is this new?  I don't remember this one." I gotta tell ya, my Halloween decorations and me are OLD friends. We go way back.  Well, a few of them I rescued from garage sales or second-hand stores. But I love them all the same. Anyway, here's my next Halloween card:

"Punch it . . . Broomzelda!" is by Sandi Gore Evans from Uptown Rubber Stamps. I stamped it using black pigment ink and clear embossing powder and painted the image with Radiant Pearls. I rounded the corners of the layering papers and the images, added a strip of Halloween Ribbon (Michaels) and some orange rhinestones. The sentiment stamp is from Northwoods Rubber Stamps and I popped it up on some pop dots. The flower is handmade (by me) using some double-sided, crinkled Gilded Papiers that I got on sale from Loose Ends. I love this paper. I sponged black dye ink on the edges of the main image and the sentiment. Additional tools:  Fiskars paper cutter; (Fiskars), Scor-pal; (Scor-Pal), Glue Glider Pro, (Glue Glider Pro).

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I LOVE Halloween! 2010 Part 2

Crows are one of my favorite birds (blackbirds? ravens? - I'll have to Google them to see "witch is witch" Cackle, Cackle). This is one of my favorite "not so cute" Halloween stamps.

Stamps: (Inkadinkado)

Paper: DP: Superstition - Seven Years Bad Luck, (Dream Street Papers, LLC), CS: white, black
Ink: Black Dye Ink, (Memories)
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, stump, (Glossy Accents), Martha Stewart Punch, Spellbinders Ovals (Nestabilities), 3 red gemstones, Fiskars paper cutter; (Fiskars), Scor-pal; (Scor-Pal), Glue Glider Pro, (Glue Glider Pro)
Size: 4-1/4 x 5 1/2 (A2)

And here's a close-up view of the stamped image:

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I LOVE Halloween! 2010 Part 1

Well, I've finally got all of my Halloween boxes out and I'm busy trying to find a place for everything. Such fun! I LOVE HALLOWEEN (and not just because it gives me such a valid excuse to buy CANDY!). I love all the little characters and creepy-crawlies who look so cute. Fun, fun, fun. And I've started my 2010 Halloween cards. Here's the first one:

Stamps: Crows on a Branch (Inkadinkado, Halloween (Hampton Arts))
Paper: DP: (Basic Grey), CS: white, black, Moss Green
Ink: Black Dye Ink, (Memories), Distress Inks (Ranger Industries)
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, Gamsol, stump, (Glossy Accents), Martha Stewart Spiderweb Edge Punch, Corner Punch, brads, corner punch, Fiskars paper cutter; (Fiskars), Scor-pal; (Scor-Pal), Glue Glider Pro, (Glue Glider Pro)
Size: 4-1/4 x 5 1/2 (A2)

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Ghosts of Halloweens Past Part II

Two more Halloween cards from Halloweens Past. On the first card, I stamped Dressed to Scare (Penny Black) and painted with Radiant Pearls. The image was layered over a black layer. A rectangle of DP was layered over a black layer over a white card base. I adhered 3 gelly stickers to the card.

I stamped Halloween Pumpkin Stack (Stampaviews) on white cs and painted with Radiant Pearls. The image was layered over black cs, layered at an angle to DP, layered over black cs and finally adhered to a white cardbase. A ghost was punched from white Fun Foam and a black cat from velvet paper. Brads were attached with colored plastic squares.

Ghosts of Halloweens Past Part I

I'm pulling out some Halloween cards from past years as I get ready to make this year's cards. I LOVE HALLOWEEN! Buying Halloween stamps, paper & ephemera; making and sending out Halloween cards; little kids running around so excited in their Halloween costumes - it's absolutely my favorite holiday. I also enjoy revisiting my old cards saved in my Halloween stash box.  Here is my very first Halloween card ever:

I stamped Small Square Background Edge (Hero Arts) six times on a white cs rectangle. I stamped the bats, cat & haunted house from the Halloween Stencil Stamp set (Hero Arts) on Golden Yellow Eloquent LaserKote SP and cut all three into odd shapes and adhered to 3 of the squares. I cut 3 squares from orange corrugated, black wavy corrugated and black velvet SP. Stickers were adhered to the squares. After wrapping an orange piece of wire around a wire spiral tool (no name on this cool tool) I straightened it out half way, added 3 seed beads, curled the ends and adhered it to the black velvet square (along with sticker eyes). The white rectangle was layered to a black rectangle and orange and black metalic threads (Sulky) were wrapped at right angles repeatedly around the layered rectangles. I tied an orange bow and wrapped spiraled black wire around the bow and attached everything to the white card base.

On the second card I used a stamp from The Peddler's Pack Stampworks stamped on vellum, painted with Radiant Pearls with a coating of glitter. The sentiment was computer generated, the dash-dot border was hand-drawn. The vellum was backed with a black layer, and then adhered to a deckle-edge cut rectangle of DP, layered to a black panel layered to an orange cardbase with a dash-dot-equals hand drawn border (black pen). I added a ghost, pumpkin and spider punch and tied a rafia bow to the corner of the main image layer.