Movie Time and Weekly Deals

I am crazy busy for the next two days preparing for my December Technique classes which are also my Stamp Club Christmas Celebration and Customer Appreciation Night! We're going to have a blast with some cute Make & Takes that I'll post tomorrow, including some fancy tags, Christmas goodies, snacks, hilarious games and lots of prizes! I've spent all day working on my Stamp Club Christmas gifts and I can't show you yet what they are, so I have nothing to show you today. But I can't leave you without some inspiration, so it's time to get out the popcorn and pillows.  It's Stampin' Up! Movie time!!

Here's something that you can do with your leftover Spider Web Doilies:


          

If you haven't been able to make any of my Project Life classes, here's a good overview of this awesome Memory Keeping System:


          


Although the person making this Stampin' Up! Video is a little nervous, she does a marvelous job of showing you some great tips and tricks for Project Life:


         

Hope you enjoyed learning more about Project Life!

Did you manage to take advantage of Stampin' Up!'s Online Extravaganza? Wasn't that awesome? But even if you didn't, don't worry, there are still deals to be had. Here is this week's Weekly Deals!

Click here to email me your order! Or pop on over to my On-Line Store, and shop on line!

Happy Halloween!

Well, tomorrow is Halloween, and all the little spooks and goblins will be dressing up and getting sackfuls of treats which they will consume in great quantities over the next week and leave their parents and teachers to deal with the sugar highs and lows. There is also the last full supermoon around now! Parents and teachers - take cover! I love seeing the costumes the little ones wear. The older ones, with the evil and gore - not so much. I love clever costumes that are home made. My little grandson, Parker, wanted to be an astronaut so my daughter put one together using a silver batman costume with the batman logo covered up, a hockey helmet covered in tinfoil and duct tape and a jet pack made out of pop bottles!

Clever Costumes

Think about it!

               



When I was growing up, as soon as we were old enough, we had to make our own costumes, and we had such a fun and creative time doing that. No one went out and bought costumes. If you couldn't do anything else, you got an old sheet, cut two holes in it and went as a ghost. We would burn corks and use them to draw beards and mustaches and dirt on us and Mom's lipstick added some colour. We also roamed the neighbourhoods in a group and there were no parents along for the night. We went out, got our loot and came home again in the dark and no one worried at all. That would never fly these days, but that taste of independence AND responsibility was heady! We had to look out for each other.

Since today is Friday, it's another As You See It Challenge for this week:

Amanda has come up with another great sketch for us to play with, and since it's my last chance to get a Halloween design in, that's the direction I took for my card.

• One last chance to use my Happy Haunted Designer Series Paper. The two designs are actually the reverse sides of each other, so I just cut out one 4" x 5 1/4" sheet, cut 1 1/2" off one end and turned it over to get these two to fit perfectly, side by side. I used one of my last pieces of Black Glimmer Paper to cover the transition.
• I took one of the Spider Web Doilies and cut the mini doily out of the center to add to the middle of my Deco Label die cut, and used the outed part separately, peeking out under the Glimmer Paper.
• The sentiment is from the Six Sayings stamp set, which you may have gotten the impression that I love! You'd be right, but your time is running out to get this one. You can't just order it. It is a host set, so can only be earned with Stampin' Rewards. You may want to book a party or private class, get your friends together for a night of stampin' fun, and earn some Stampin' Up! enhanced rewards up until Nov. 9. Email me to set your date.
• Who can tell me how I made the ends on the sentiment panel? Leave me a comment with the answer below and I will email you a free tutorial if you get it right.

Have a great weekend!

Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Six Sayings Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139849]	Six Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139852]	Happy Haunting Designer Series Paper [139584]	Black Glimmer Paper [139605]	Elegant Eggplant 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105126]
Tangelo Twist 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133677]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Regals Stampin' Write Markers [131262]	Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker [100082]	2014-2016 In Color Stampin' Write Markers [133654]
Blender Pens [102845]	Spider Web Doilies [139622]	Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments [119246]	Deco Labels Framelits Die [130102]	Big Shot [113439]
Paper Snips Scissors [103579]	Fast Fuse Adhesive [129026]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]	Glue Dots [103683]

An Unspooky Halloween Card for As You See It Challenges

As I've said before, I'm not super-stoked about Halloween, but I do like to play around with the colours and some of the more fun, light-hearted images. This week, for As You See It Challenges, we have a colour challenge, and I made an "unspooky" Halloween card, using the Spider Web Doilies and the Woodland Embossing Folder and some punch art:

This is the banner for the challenge, and though the contest for our special challenge for Lola last week has chosen the winners, the response wasn't what we had hoped for Lola's sake. We have left the linky open for the next month, so we hope more people will participate. Her recovery from the stem cell transplant continues to be rocky, so she could really use the extra encouragement and love these cards will bring to her. I hope you'll consider entering your card. Lola is looking at all the cards on the challenge. She can't have the actual hard copy due to infection issues. If you want to see the card that I made for her, check it out here.

Here's this week's card:

• Black, orange and blue make an interesting combination, but one that I really like. I used lots of Pumpkin Pie and Basic Black ink and cardstock, but the Lost Lagoon worked really well with the Woodland Embossing Folder and the stem and vines for the pumpkins.
• I sponged the inside top of the Woodland Embossing Folder with Lost Lagoon in, then inserted the Very Vanilla cardstock in it and ran it through the Big Shot. It is helpful to do this with this particular embossing folder because it helps the trees really show up.
• The pumpkins were made by punching three each of the Extra Large Oval Punch and the retired Small Oval Punch. I kept that one because it was so useful with punch art figures. I sponged the edges of each oval with Pumpkin Pie ink and overlapped them as you see in the photo. The vines are punched using the Bird Builder Punch and the stems were just cut freehand.
• Guess how I made the bats? It uses another punch in a unique way. Answer at the bottom of this post!!
• I finally got my Spider Web Doilies, so I had to make another Halloween card just to use them, but if I turn them over, they are white on the back so I will use them for other projects at different times in the year. You can actually ink them up using a brayer and make them any colour you want.
• The sentiment is from the Happy Scenes stamp set and the spiders around it are from the A Little Something stamp set.

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Click on the links below to take you to my On-Line Store, where you can read about, look at, and purchase if you wish, the products used to make this card today!

Product List

Happy Scenes Photopolymer Stamp Set [139821]	A Little Something Wood-Mount Stamp Set [139827]	A Little Something Clear-Mount Stamp Set [139830]	Basic Black 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [121045]	Pumpkin Pie 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [105117]
Lost Lagoon 8-1/2" X 11" Cardstock [133679]	Very Vanilla 8-1/2" X 11" Card Stock [101650]	Basic Black Archival Stampin’ Pad [140931]	Pumpkin Pie Classic Stampin' Pad [126945]	Lost Lagoon Classic Stampin' Pad [133644]
Spider Web Doilies [139622]	Stamping Sponges [101610]	Extra-Large Oval Punch [119859]	Small Oval Punch [120908]	Builder Bird Punch [117191]
Bitty Butterfly Punch [129406]	Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755]	SNAIL Permanent Adhesive [104332]	Glue Dots [103683]	Stampin' Dimensionals [104430]

** You may have guessed that I punched the bats using the Bitty Butterfly Punch. You just punch the butterfly, then used temporary adhesive to attach it to a long  thin strip of cardstock which you use to insert the butterfly in the punch again and use the top edge of the punch to punch again further down the butterfly to remove the bottom wings. It works like a charm!