Halloween 2009

I captured this picture when my boys were crossing the street to their Grandma's house to show off their costumes. It was such a cute moment! I love all things Halloween and found the paper used at Michael's in the clearance aisle! I was pretty excited, lol It is My Mind's Eye The Spider's Web collection. They had about 5 different papers that had print front and back for like 39 cents a piece so I was pretty happy about that! My cricut got a workout on this layout too. I used the Storybook cartridge to cut the journaling block and the polka dot frames. I used the plantin schoolbook cartridge to cut the tags. The ribbon is from Wal-Mart and was $1.00. Oh and I used the gypsy with the storybook font and welded the word sweet to the accent frame. Hope you like it, I was pretty pleased with this one I decided to frame it and use it as a decoration this year. :)

michelle

My first Halloween project for 2010!!

I've been holding myself back from decorating my house for Halloween until Oct 1st.  It has been very hard since I love Halloween! Not the super scary stuff, just the playful,imaginative and all the awesome decorations! I made this card from a prompt from the Fabulous website www.moxiefabworld.com! I love paper crafts magazine so I love the blogs too! On September 9th they challenged everyone to make a card,layout,giftbag,home decor...ok basically anything using offset scallops. Officially it's the MOXIE WORLD CHALLENGE OFFSET SCALLOP GALLOP...(their cute names crack me up) you can still enter if you want or dare {insert diabolical laugh here} you have until Oct 4th at midnight to enter...so here's my take a spooky house..the roof made of offset scallops..I love my little felt pumpkin! The spider and sentiment are studio g stamps..awesome since they are wood and only a buck!! Tfl and I hope you play along!

michelle

Little Artist

I came across these pictures last night as I was going through my files. It's amazing how many emotions you can go through while looking through photos. I saw these and immediately had to scrap them! Shane has always been the one that is so quirky...he cracks me up! This basic grey paper seemed so fitting...The journaling reads: Shane, my dear son have kept us on our toes & have kept us laughing! From your backwards mismatched shoes to your crazy curls on your head! September 7,2008.  Tfl!

michelle

Sketchy Thursday Challenge!

I used to be part of Julie Bonner's 52 sketches, 52 weeks and I used to get some awesome inspiration from her sketches. When she "retired" that website I didn't use sketches anymore. Well I've been in card making land for awhile and plus my printer was out of ink...booooo...so I hadn't done any layouts in awhile. Well I stumbled across the Sketchy Thursdays website and bookmarked it but hadn't done any of them but I decided this week the time was now...and well I got ink for my printer..lol....so I had the perfect picture for the sketch for this week and jumped in! So, here is the sketch (you can find this at http://sketchythursdays.blogspot.com/)

Here is my rendition of the sketch.....(as you can see I flipped it)

and Look! I layered.....Layering has been a challenge for me and here I took some advice and started small.


So there it is......TFL!!!
Don't forget to stop by Sketchey Thursdays for some awesome inspiration!!

(supplies: All PP is making memories,chipboard is Making Memories, number 3 and half circle is basic grey,ink is harmony colored and white staz on,stickers and star embellies are colorbok,circle is cut with cricut graphically speaking)

The 80's are back!

They are back and very much alive in my soon to be 13 year old niece. She came to visit me this summer along with her brother after not seeing them for 6 years. I had such a blast with both of them and giggled with her at the mall when she pointed out neon clothes and accessories she liked. I swear one of the stores had the exact earrings I wore myself when I was ten! I still think its funny when trends come back. So this card is her 100% my niece...in all its neon glory! Tfl!

michelle