Halloween Treat Bags

Happy Halloween!  Are you ready for the trick-or-treaters??  We have our luminaries out and a bowl full of candy, so bring on the kids!!

My sweetie and I have become pretty good friends with a couple of our neighbors who have 2 little ones.  I wanted to do something a little special for them for Halloween so I put together little treat bags for them.

I kept them pretty simple since they're going to kids.  I figure they'll be ripped off pretty quickly to get to the treats inside!  :-)

I'm going to link these up to a couple of challenges.  Over at My Craft Spot, the challenge is Too Cute to Spook - any cute Halloween Project.  And over at Fantabulous Cricut the challenge is Seeing Spots - any project using polka dots.

Thanks for coming by to take a look and I hope you enjoy your Halloween night!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern paper from The Paper Studio
Owl and bear from Create a Critter 2 cut at 2.75 inches
Sentiments from My Pink Stamper's Spook-alicious set
Black embossing powder
Black and white Sakura gel pen
Orange crystal gems
Glitter

Collegiate Crafts

Good evening!  I hope you are all having a great week so far.  Can you believe October ends tomorrow??  I am definitely not ready for the holidays, but they are right around the corner!!

As some of you may know, I am an Iowa State grad and my sweetie has been a Missouri Tigers fan for as long as he can remember.  We really enjoyed when our teams would meet for a football or basketball game but now Mizzou is in the SEC so our teams meeting will no longer happen during the regular season.

 A couple months ago I took up crocheting and have been working on a number of projects.  When I was at our local J's recently I saw yarn geared toward school teams.  I found some in black and gold for my sweetie and red and gold for me and made both of us hats.  We wore them to the football game we went to last weekend and they worked great!

I have been wanting to make an ISU-MU blanket for us to share for quite a while.  I found the MU fleece on sale at our local J's quite a while back but it took some searching to find coordinating ISU fleece on sale.  I finally found it and put together our blanket!  I made a simple no-sew blanket putting the wrong sides of the fleece together and trimming them so they were the same size.  I then cut 6-inch long slits about 1 1/2 inches wide around all 4 edges.  Tie the two sides together in knots and there you have it!

The blanket is MU on one side and ISU on the other.  Of course now we fight over who gets to use the blanket and which side is up!  LOL!!

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my collegiate crafts!!

If the Crown Fits.....

Good evening!  I hope you have all had a great weekend!  My sweetie and I went to Ames, IA to cheer on my Iowa State Cyclones as they played Baylor in their homecoming game.  We had a great time with some friends and were thankful that it wasn't too terribly cold for the game.  And the Cyclones won, so that was the icing on the cake!!

While we were gone, we missed a close friend's daughter's birthday party.  We stopped by a couple days early to drop off her birthday card and gift.  She had a Princess and the Pop Star themed birthday party.  I went to my Rock Princess handbook and started looking at images in an effort to find something that would work for her party.  This is what I selected:

Looks like a princess mixed with a pop star to me with the crown on her head!  LOL!!

I'm going to submit this card into the challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  The challenge this week is Glimmer, Shimmer, Gloss.  I added Stickles to the crown and stripes on the girl's top as well as Glossy Accents to her boots and the bow in her hair.

Thanks for coming by to take a look!!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern paper from DCWV
Girl from Rock Princess cut at 3.75 inches
Sentiment from Pink by Design's Rock On set
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
Twine from My Craft Spot
Button from my stash
White Sakura gel pen
Stickles and Glossy Accents

BOO!

Good evening!  I hope you are all having a wonderful week!  The weather here has been warmer than usual, so we've been enjoying some extra time outside - we have to take advantage of it before it turns cold for good!!

The project I have to share tonight is a Halloween decoration I made for my front door.

I started with letters that I bought from Hobby Lobby that are about 1 inch thick and 6 inches tall.  I painted the sides and backs of the letters with black acrylic paint.

Then I traced around the letters on the back side of pattern papers and cut them out by hand.  I used Mod Podge to adhere the pattern papers to the front of the letters.

Finally I cut out various images with my cricut, stuck them on the letters and tied the letters together with orange crinkle ribbon.  Pretty easy and now we have a fun Halloween decoration for the front door!

I'm going to enter this project into two challenges.  The first is over at Go Fish, where the challenge is to create a 3D Halloween project.  I'm also going to submit this into the Little Monsters challenge at My Craft Spot where you must include a monster on your project.

Thanks for coming by to take a look at my creation!!

Recipe:
BOO letters from Hobby Lobby
Black acrylic paint
Mod Podge
Pattern papers from The Paper Studio
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pumpkin from Create a Critter 2 cut at 3 inches
Spider from Doodlecharms cut at 3 inches
Ghost from Simply Charmed cut at 3.5 inches
Green monster from Create a Critter 2 cut at 3.5 inches
Bat from Simply Charmed cut at 2.5 inches
Orange monster from Mini Monsters cut at 3 inches
Faces from Peachy Keen Stamps Monster Mash Assortment

Halloween Jar Luminaries

Happy Friday eve!  Time is flying by - I can't believe Halloween is less than 2 weeks away.  Before we know it, Thanksgiving will be here, quickly followed by Christmas and New Year's!!

The project I have to share tonight is one I discovered on Pinterest.  With no kids, my sweetie and I just don't have the desire to carve pumpkins for Halloween.  At the same time, I love seeing jack-o-lanterns lit up in windows and on front porches when kids are out trick or treating.  So, I just needed to find a way to get the jack-o-lantern look without putting all the work into carving a pumpkin!

Last year, I made paper bag luminaries to set out on the front porch.  You can see that post HERE if you missed it.  A few weeks ago I saw Halloween luminaries made from glass jars on Pinterest.  You can check that project out HERE.

First, I cleaned up a couple of spaghetti sauce jars.  Then I mixed some orange acryllic paint with basic white glue (about half and half) and painted the inside of the jars.  Yes - the inside.  It was a little tricky, but I did a little searching online and people tend to say it looks better if you paint the inside of the jars.  I cut out a couple of Cricut images in black vinyl and used transfer tape to put them on the jars then added some Halloween ribbon to the top to finish them off.  Add tealights and we're done!

And with the lights turned out:

We'll be keeping these luminaries inside - I'm worried they'll get knocked over and then we'll have broken glass on our front porch.  So these will likely sit in the front windows and the paper luminaries will probably make their appearance on the front steps again.

I'm going to submit this project into this week's challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  The challenge this week is to use a pumpkin.  I used a pumpkin in an effort to replace a pumpkin!!  :)

Recipe:
Glass jars
Black vinyl
Pumpkin from October 31st cut at 3 inches
Face from Pumpkin Carvings cut at 3 inches
Ribbon from my stash
Tealights

Thanksgiving Cornucopia

Good evening!  I have another quick Thanksgiving card to share this evening.  I created this card to send to Madison for her I Feel the Love project.  As I mentioned in my last post, Madison is collecting Thanksgiving cards this month.  The cards are going to be given to residents of Surrey Place Care Center, an elderly care facility, in November.  Be sure to visit Madison's blog HERE for more information - like the address to send some Thanksgiving cards to!!  :)

Here is the card I came up with - it's pretty similar to the card in my last post.  I used a couple different images from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge that I got not too long ago.  I absolutely love that cartridge - it has so many great images on it!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern paper from The Paper Studio
Cornucopia from Create a Critter 2 cut at 2 inches
Pumpkin from Create a Critter 2 cut at 2.5 inches
Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set
Brown and white chalk
Orange gel pen
Ribbon from The Paper Studio
Crystal gems

Thanksgiving Card

Happy Sunday!  I hope you have all had a great weekend!  We had a very rainy Saturday, but I still got my morning run in with a couple of great friends.  My sweetie and I went to play golf this morning, but it was so windy we decided to stop after 9 holes.  Fall is officially here and we're running out of nice days to get out and play!

I got some crafting in this afternoon and got a lot of progress made on a number of projects.  One project I got finished was a Thanksgiving card.  I'm going to submit this card in the challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  Their challenge this week is Fall Colors and we're asked to create a project using our 3 favorite fall colors.  My 3 favorite fall colors are red, orange and brown.  I love the earthy colors and they remind me of the trees changing colors.

I am going to send this card to Madison's I Feel the Love project.  For the month of October, Madison is collecting Thanksgiving cards that will be given to residents of Surrey Place Care Center in November.  Surrey Place Care Center is an elderly care facility in Florida.  For more information on Madison's project, visit her blog HERE.

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Pattern paper from The Paper Studio

Turkey from Create a Critter 2 cut at 3 inches

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Happiest Moments set

Ribbon from The Paper Studio

Crystal gems

White Sakura gel pen

Thanks to Ewe

Happy Friday!  It feels like forever since I've posted here, and I'm trying to catch up on what's been going on in blogland this past week or so (and get caught up with work, emails, etc too!).  I was out in southern Utah for a marathon and some sightseeing.  We went to Snow Canyon State Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Zion National Park and Valley of Fire State Park - 4 parks in 4 days!  We were busy and couldn't see everything in all the parks, but we sure saw and experienced a lot!!  If you haven't been out to southern Utah to go to these parks I highly recommend it; it was absolutely beautiful!!

On to my project for today......I needed another thank you card and recently picked up the Amusing Animals stamp set from Scrappy Moms Stamps.  As I was looking at the stamps, this sentiment popped out at me so I decided to pair it with the little sheep image from the Create a Critter cartridge, which I think is so cute.

I hope all has been going well for you and that you have a fabulous weekend in store!!  Thanks for coming by to take a look at my creation!

Recipe:
Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections
Pattern cardstock from DCWV
Sheep from Create a Critter cut at 3.5 inches
Sentiment from Scrappy Moms Stamps Amusing Animals set
Ribbon from American Crafts
Fiskars Threading Water border punch
Tiny Bubbles embossing folder
i-rock gems
White Sakura gel pen

Thank You

Good evening!  This week has been going by fast for me - perhaps because I'm excited for the weekend!  :)  My sweetie worked a little late today, so I was able to do some crafting before he got home.

This is one of the cards I made this evening.  I need a few more thank you cards and I was inspired by this week's challenge over at Die Cuttin Divas.  They're having a sketch challenge this week and I think those are so fun!  I tend to fall into patterns with my cards and they all tend to look similar, but following a sketch spices things up a bit for me!

Here is the sketch from the Die Cuttin Divas challenge:

And here is my creation:

Thanks for coming by to take a look!  I hope you are all having a great week!!

Recipe:

Solid cardstock from Bazzill and Recollections

Pattern papers from DCWV

Branch and flowers from Pagoda cut at 1.1 inches

Oval from Plantin Schoolbook

Sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Sweet Baby set

i-rock gems
Stickles

Pop dots