Halloween Make a Wish

Happy Monday and welcome to this week's

You may have heard the sad news that EAD Designs will

be closing at the end of the month, so our design team is

savoring each week as we wind down our blog hops.

Hopefully, you joined me from

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

If not, I invite you to join us from the beginning at the

EAD Designs Blog

I have had so much fun this season creating Halloween cards

and EAD is a BIG reason . . . just LOOK at this guy ! ! !

To create this card, I focused on the fun Stickerz set called

'Halloween Owls'

I just love that star hanging and thought it would be great to

add dimension by adding star gems and tiny rhinestones.

The sparkling stars next to the owl magician are from the

'Hocus Pocus' Stickerz set.

The sentiment is from the 'Birthday Sentiments' Stickerz set.

The final day to place orders is October 21st

so make sure you get your order in quickly!

Remember . . .

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's Paper Loft

I hope you enjoyed your visit today and

I look forward to seeing you again soon !

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs

Embellishments: Hocus Pocus, Halloween Owls & Birthday Sentiments Stickerz 

all by EAD Designs

star gems from White Blossom

Hocus Pocus!

For some very *JUICY* news
scroll on down !

Happy Monday!

It's time for our usual get-together with the designers of

If you've come by way of

Judith's blog Jay Gee's Nook

then you are in the perfect spot.

If not, we'd love to have you go back to the

EAD Designs blog

and get started there.

I haven't made many Halloween cards yet and it's one of my

favorite things to make during the season.

I love the colors and the fun themes and for this card, I mixed

two sets of 'Stickerz' from EAD . . .

'Hocus Pocus' and 'Your Birthday'

The only additions to the card is everyone's favorite

 'Drippy Goo' punch from Martha Stewart and a

few tiny rhinestones.

Here are the sets I used . . . 

It's time to send you on your way to

Liz's blog Liz's Paper Loft

Hope you enjoyed your visit.

It was lovely to see you.

Make sure you leave a little love before you move on

and you could be this week's winner !

Project Recipe:

Embellishments: Hocus Pocus & Your Birthday Stickerz by EAD Designs

gems from Recollections

Tools: Drippy Goo border punch by Martha Stewart

The Best Day Ever

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It's the final day of our New Release Previews from

We have two final fabulous sets to share with you today
one of which is our FREE GIFT w/$50 purchase.


The first set was designed by Kaitlyn Ord
and I decided to go total *spooky* with it . . .

The banners & sentiment come from this fabulous set called 'Good Times'
The paper, tag & brads collection is brand new from My Mind's Eye called
'Lost and Found Halloween'.  I love this BIG spider punch from EK Success!
It was the perfect fit for the spider web.

Now for something completely different . . .

The beautiful new set designed by Karen Baker
'Golden Days'

This is our September Gift w/$50 purchase.

I love the sentiments that Karen designs and this set
contains a variety that will be perfect for your autumn cards.
I created the wreath using a Sizzix EF and simply adorned it with
pearl flourishes from Want2Scrap and topped it off with
a sweet pumpkin from yesterday's featured set 'Fall Blessings'.

Make sure you pop by

 The Craft's Meow Blog

and check out the fabulous-ness

from all of the designers.

TCM is giving away each new release

each day, so make sure you leave a comment

on the blog for a chance to win!

Project Recipe:

Cardstock: Gina K Designs & Bazzill
Patterned Paper: Lost & Found Halloween by My Mind's Eye
from StopandScrap.com 
Stamps: Good Times & Golden Days
both by The Craft's Meow 

Embellishments: tags & brads from My Mind's Eye
pearl flourish by Want2Scrap
Tools: spider punch from EK Success, Big Shot
Wreath EF by Sizzix

Fall with Fibi & Lilly

It is Day #3 of New Release Previews over at

and today we have TWO fabulous sets
we are featuring designed by the
talented Mabele R-O
and I had a blast playing with both of these sets.

The first is called 'Fall Blessings'

As you can see, all I did was choose the images I wanted to include,
stamped, colored and layered each one.
The clouds were cut using my die from Lil' Inker Designs

The next set is called 'Fall with Fibi & Lilly'

Again...such a simple CAS card!
I just cut & colored the image, layered it on a frame created
with oval dies from Spellbinders and added Stardust Stickles

Make sure you pop by

 The Craft's Meow Blog

and check out the fabulous-ness

from all of the designers.

TCM is giving away each new release

each day, so make sure you leave a comment

on the blog for a chance to win!

Project Recipe:

Stamps: Fall Blessing & Fall with Fibi & Lilly
both by The Craft's Meow 

Embellishments: Stardust Stickles by Ranger
Tools: cloud die by Lil' Inker Designs, Big Shot
Standard Ovals die by Spellbinders, Copic Markers

Happy Anniversary Market Street Stamps!

Happy Monday!

I am here with a quick project from one of the 

newest releases from Market Street Stamps.

Today is their FIRST ANNIVERSARY and there

are all sorts of activities happening to celebrate.

free stamps!!!

And that's just a start...so make sure you stop by!

 The new My Mind's Eye 'Mischevous' paper was the 

perfect fit for this fun 'Happy Pumpkin' set.

It's these colors and paper designs that make

me wish Halloween season could be a bit longer!

So glad you could stop by today and don't forget to

get on over to MSS and check out all the festivities!

Project Recipe: 
Designer Paper: 'Mischevous' from My Mind's Eye
Stamps:  'Happy Pumpkin' by Market Street Stamps
Ink:  'Potter's Clay &Tuxedo Black' by Memento
Tools:  Labels One by Spellbinders, Big Shot,
Fiskars Bracket border punch

Embellishments:  gems by Recollections

Spooky....

I am so enjoying playing with Halloween images

and am so glad to find a little time to do so.

This project was created for the next

challenge over at CAS-ual Fridays.

Now don't let the title fool you because this

challenge calls for Clean & Simple Halloween projects

that use no orange...not even a speck!

The lighting out in my front garden was just right,

so the 'orange' mulch just doesn't count!

This is one CAS card...using the Martha

Spider Wed border punch, Standard Circle dies

from Spellbinders and the little die cut focal point

from last year's 'Haunted' by My Mind's Eye.
Sentiment from SRM Designs.

I hope you'll join us by playing along.

Make sure you pop by CAS-ual Fridays

and take a look at the inspiration from our 

uber-talented design team.

In the meantime, I will see you in just a little

while when I share the results of the

Operation Julie's Smile Benefit, including the

amount of money that was raised along with

the list of prize winners.

Project Recipe: 
Designer Paper: 'Haunted' from My Mind's Eye 
Tools:  Standard Circles by Spellbinders, Big Shot,

Web Border punch from Martha Stewart
Embellishments:  Sticker sentiment from SRM Designs

Doin' a Drive by.....

Doin' what I call a quick

'drive by'

to share a couple cards I've made

using the newest releases from

Typically, I am making Halloween 

cards by the dozens, but I've not been

able to do that as much this season.

So I appreciate that I can do some great

CAS cards using this set from 

The Craft's Meow

I love to do paper-piecing on my projects

and this one was a no-brainer!

The stamp set is called

'Happy H'owl'oween'!

This totally fits the challenge over at the
CAS-ual Fridays Challenge.

Now for something

completely different!

I love Nina Brackett's style and this

Fun'tache'tic Stamp set is by her.

I then used the letters from the

'It's a Banner Day' &

'Life is a Carnival'

to create the sentiment.

So glad you could stop by!

I'd love to know you were here, so please

leave a quick note and if there is a link, 
I'll pop by your blog

and do the same.

Comments are the lifeblood of our blogs,
aren't they?!

Project Recipe: 

Stamps:  'Happy H'owl'oween'
'It's a Banner Day'
'Life is a Carnival'
'Fun'tache'tic Stamp Set
all by The Craft's Meow
Inks:   Tuxedo Black by Memento, Copic Markers

Tools:  Fiskars corner rounder punch

Embellishments: gem from Recollections

A Haunting We Will Go

Thought I would share this quick little Halloween

creation with you.  I've had it ready to go for awhile,

but forgot about it.  I am pretty sure that one of my

three grandsons will be receiving this one, which 

reminds me that I now have two more to make!

I recently picked up these fun die cuts from K&Company

knowing that my 7 year old grandson CJ, would love to

make things with them...Now I have to explain that I

had fun before he did!

Believe it or not, I did actually stamp something on this card.

That little bat...that's it!

It's hard to tell in the photo, but the sentiment is actually all

'glittery and fun'.  I added the purple rhinestones, which I

think are really fun for Halloween cards.

So that's it....simple and spooky.

Hey...a special thanks to two challenge blogs

that gave me a shout out this past week.

 

for the first fun tag here

and

for the second tag here

Don't forget, we have a really fun week

of celebration going on over at

The Play Date Cafe.

We are celebrating a year of challenges

with the girls of The Unity Design Team.

Every day of this week's challenge brings 

NEW INSPIRATION 

from their talented designers.

So make a point to stop by each day to be

inspired, but more importantly....

come play along!!!

Screaming Color!

For H{ippity} Hop Monday, just click here

Before I share the rest of this little project I have got

to share what's been happening since I got my new laptop.

Skype!

Need I say more?????

It began with a simple cross-town chat with my daughter

who then proceeded to Skype me each time one of my

grandsons came in the door so they could give it a try.

How fun!

Then, I was able to spend some time with my team mate

from The Play Date Cafe, Savannah O'Gwynn

over the weekend.  We quickly decided to conduct our

own 'personal' play dates via Skype.

 All in the name of creativity, right?!

Then today, my bestie Sarah, who most of you know

is from the UK and is my PDCC partner made her

very first Skype connection....with me!

So I am pretty sure there is no stopping us now!

I had a lot of fun putting the elements together for this

spooky little scene.  My friend Michele at Studio MSG

is a designer over at the DeNami Designs and is the host

for the current challenge, which happens to a color challenge.

I love a good 'color splash' and this one

ScReaMeD HalloweeN !!!!!

(get it.....?)

I purchased a new stamp set from Martha Stewart

that I loved SO much, I paid full price!

I put it to work immediately and came up with this

simply layered design.

You may recognize the border as a 'Martha' as well.

It was really fun once I started adding the bits of

'bling'

to the chandelier, the chair and the spider's line.

(bad photo...but it really sparkles.....)

Always happy to support new challenges and I can't

resist a good 'color challenge'!

I also know that Paige is asking for 100% stamped
cards this week over at the CARDS blog.
This one sure qualifies, so I am going to give this
a go over there as well.

I was wondering...

(since you're here and you were going to leave a comment anyway, right?)

What are your favorite colors to use for Halloween projects?

Do you still kinda like the black and orange look?

Or how about something with deep purple?

Sure appreciate you taking a moment to share!