Halloween Wreath

Well, this was a last minute project that I made on Halloween! I was feverishly working in the afternoon because I had bought the wreath base and didn't want to hold onto it for a whole year before using it! 

So while it's now past Halloween, I thought you might still enjoy it!

I saw something similar to this wreath SOMEWHERE on the internet! I have NO idea where, but it had the same black wreath base and had rosettes. That's all I could remember about this when I was making it! But I had already bought the black background prior to seeing the inspiration. So anyway if any of you out there in bloggy world know where I saw my inspiration, please let me know so I can give due credit! Thanks! 

I made this for the Echo Park's Dots and Stripes Contest! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Happy Hauntings™ (Trick Or Treat)
• Patterned Paper:
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Tuxedo Large Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Tuxedo Small Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Leaf Large Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Dots and Stripes: Metropolitan "Leaf Small Dot"™
• Echo Park Paper: Apothecary Emporium Collection and Stickers™
• i-bond by Imaginisce™
• Stickles in Orange™

Have a Witchy Day

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

My parents, husband, and myself will be jointing my co-family (in laws) in Saint Francis Wood in San Francisco for a Halloween celebration! Last year was their first Halloween in that community and the community told them it was a "hot spot" for trick-or-treaters... well, that was an understatement... We used a counter and clicked for every person that came to the door. After an hour and a half we had given candy out to 1280 children... yes, you read that number right.... 1280!!!! So this year we are going to be prepared! We are very excited about it. So I hope you are doing something fun tonight too! I am personally looking forward to the Hot Apple Cider! 

Over at Imaginisce we are giving you some last minute Halloween inspiration! So definitely go over there and check it out! 

This card is going to my grammy in Ohio! I designed the whole thing around her and having her in mind and this is just PERfect for her! She is as spunky as this shoe and I get some of that from her. :) I know she'll love it! 

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Happy Hauntings™
• Patterned Paper: Imaginisce: Happy Camper "Fresh Air"™ (orange polka dots)
• Foam: Imaginisce: Colored Foam Tape in Black™
• Solid  Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink
• Glitter: Martha Stewart (thanks Edna!)
• Glossy Accents
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Spook-alicious™
• Ribbon: Kris Swain's Etsy Store in Lime (please tell her I sent you if you pick some up!)
• White embossing powder
• i-rock™
• Hot Rock Compact with Pink, Black, and Clear™

Have a safe and happy Halloween!!!

Trick or Treat

Today for Imaginisce we are showing you the new colored foam tape! It is SUPER cool! At first I thought, "interesting... but how is it going to look in practice?" Well, hopefully these pics will show you how well it really works! For once I don't have the white showing out from underneath! I LOVE it! 

You know I wouldn't promote anything I didn't LOVE and this - let me just say - has NOT left my craft room table!!! Okay, enough gushing and onto my project.

A VERY sweet friend sent me Happy Hauntings (THANK YOU! You know who you are!!!), so I really wanted to use the cartridge for this Halloween!!! 

Trick or Treat

This first picture I pulled off the backing of the tape on the top of the pic -where the bats are- but then I realized you might want to see the before and after... The reason for the funny sizes is that the tape comes in both rolls sand big and little squares - all in one package! I'm sure you're familiar with the squares so I just took a picture of the roll below. Best part - it didn't stick to my scissors! 

 After! - look how it practically disappears! It's a bit shiny so I used the light to bounce off it so that you could see it a little better. 

The roll of red from the side. I know that the red would look good enough against the orange top to hide it.

 Check it out!!! :) I LOVED that it practically disappeared!

Recipe:

• Cartridge: Happy Hauntings™
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Love is In The Air Set™ (chandelier)
• Sentiment: My Pink Stamper: Spook-alicious™
• Patterned Paper:
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest: Caramel Apples™ (red polka dot)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest: Apple Crisp™ (green polka dot)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest: I Love Fall™ (orange polka dot)
• Imaginisce: Happy Harvest: Fall Into Fun™ (stripes)
• Solid colors: PTI
• Foam Tape:
• Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape in Black™
• Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape in Red™
• Imaginisce Colored Foam Tape in White™
• Glitter: Martha Stewart Glitter and Glue Set in black (thanks Edna!)
• Glossy Accents
• Twine from The Twinery in Charcoal™

Go and check out what the other ladies made with the foam at the Imaginisce Blog!!! It's pretty rad and it's one of those things like the i-rock, once you play with it, you LOVE it!!!