Glue Arts Would Like to Boo You!!!!

Take a visit to Glue Arts and see the fun Boo Game that they are wanting us to participate in. You can't fail with Glue Arts I love their products and if you haven't ever try it, I would if I were you.

Autumn/Princess Ariel

Never to early to think about Halloween layouts. I did this one a few years ago using the Basic Grey Color Me Silly paper and embellishments. Autumn was dressed as Ariel and she is just to pretty for words. Her momma even went as far as to color her hair. I love poems, brads, ribbon so this layout went together very quickly.

"When Autumn comes and the days of crisp October then comes a night weird things are seen. Witches on broomsticks and glowing Jack-o-Lanterns peer through the windows on Halloween"

Wee Memories Giveaway

A HUGE giveaway - This giveaway will include stamps from Hero Arts and more, patterned paper including ones from Bo Bunny and American Crafts, some of Wee Memories favorite paper-crafting tools, Cuttlebug embossing folders, Embellishments including buttons from Papertrey Ink and more!! WE ALL NEED TO PARTICIPATE? We need to run right over and visit Wee Memories Blog for all the information on what to do to win... See everyone there. Let them know that Pam sent you.

My Minds Eye Blog Challenge #16 is on a sketch designed by Anam Stubbington. We were to do it in black, not the easiest to come up with but I used the Meadowlark Dawn Collection and two different cardstock to bring the blues out of my photo and I think it turned out to be an awesome layout. I called it "The Wharf" because we went to the wharf in Portland ME to get lobsters for supper. It was the most beautiful place with all of the boats in their slips.

Notice how I fussy cut the Damask paper to make my flowers and around the circle of the bird. It is a simple way to add great dimension to the page.

Supplies:

Meadowlark "Dawn" Toile, Damask, Wrought Iron, Baroque, Cards

Cardstock: Slash, Pauly Poo

Glue Dots, Glue Arts and Blue gemstones.

Our Cottage Christmas-Imaginisce Sketch Challenge

This is Cindy Stevens sketch that is being featured over on the Imagininsce blog. If you enter you have a chance to win a $75.00 prize from Imagininsce - you have until Oct 25th to link up your entry. I have tried many, many times but so far I have not won but the most important thing is the sketches - they are always fabulous. I love this one that Cindy sketched and selected a photo of my husband and I in front our Christmas tree. I used the Cottage Christmas Collection and a couple of pieces from the Lucy Bird collection to design my layout. I also used my Cricut Expression and 2 different cartridges to make my border strips that I added to the page. I wanted to mimic the trees that are on Cottage Collection Winter Woods, so the trees became my strips. I fussy cut the ornaments from one of the papers. I made sure that I had two of each so I could glue one down at the end of each branch I freehand and cut to place on one of my large trees. I then put its mate on top with a pop dot so that the ornaments would have dimension, added a very small ribbon and some glossy accent to each. I used my zig pen to do all my stitch and line work on my pieces.

On my tree that looks like a large leaf I added small red gemstones on the holly leaves. The tall Daisy May pink tree has holes in it and is layer on top of the Flower Power brown dot. I filled my holes with glossy accent. If you don't have this cartridge just draw triangles and punch some holes in your tree with some different size hole punches. My star on top of my tree is from the Snowflakes Quickutz die, but again you can use any star.

I used the strips from Christmas Countdown for my journaling, and added some brown Magic Mesh to my layout. I hand cut my flower pot for my tall pink tree and made some holly for the top of the pot; place the pot on page with pop dots.

I cut an extra house and placed it on top of the strip with pop dots to go along with my stamped Santa. I colored him in with Copic Markers and added some stickles to the roof of the house and the snow on the ground. He is also on pop dots.

SUPPLIES:
Cottage Christmas Collection:
Swirly Snowflakes
Peppermint Stick
Christmas Countdown
Happy Holiday
Gingerbread Village
A Than Glitter
Lucy Bird Collection:
Flower Power
Daisy May
Bazzil Cardstock: Redhot & Brown
Doddlebug:White Glitter Paper
Cottage Christmas Stamp
Memento Tuxedo Ink
Copic Markers: W10, G14,G17, R24, R27, R59, R81, E21
Brown Magic Mesh
Paper Studio Red Gemstones
Sheer 1/8" red ribbon
Brown Zig Pen
Stickles: Frosted Lace
Cricut Cake Cartridge: Holiday
Cricut Cartridge: Accent
Quickutz Snowflake Die

Mini Candy Bar Bag

I place 4 different little mini candy bars in a cellophane bag, added some Basic Grey paper to the top of the bag that I had taken an EK Success Bubble Punch and made a border withand I sealed it together with Glue Arts. I added some of the SRM Halloween Sticker Stripe to the bottom part of the orange paper and made a tag from the SRM Candy Time sticker. I added some random stickers and ribbon to finish dressing up my bag. A very simple but wonderful way to make a candy bag.

Helmar is Having a BlogHop and a giveaway!

Helmar is hosting a blog hop today with 17 hop stops and 15 projects. There is a guest designer blog stop (hint: she happens to be my favorite blogger(chops) tee...hee). Hop along and check out some of the great projects. Start here!