Halloween Card and Tag

Hello Friends!  Happy Tuesday.  I resumed unmounting my Stampin Up rubber stamps.  I ended up unmounting at least 175 stamp sets.  I'm almost done unmounting all of my wood mounted Stampin Up sets.  The stamps bring back some good memories of when I first started rubber stamping and card making.  I was so obsessed with making cards when I first started.  I needed to buy everything.  I remember when cards were made with all sorts of embellishments and ribbons.  Now cards are no longer designed with bulky embellishments.  Unfortunately, I still have all of my embellishments.  Luckily, I can still use the ribbons, stickers and embellishments on my scrapbook projects.

After I'm done with the remaining Stampin Up stamp sets, I'll start unmounting loose stamps which I have many of.  I still love the stamps so I'm not going to get rid of them.  I eventually will sell them but I'd like to still use them.  I really need to work on more cards and projects.  

I worked on a few cards with matching tags and boxes.  This set is a Halloween and tag set.  Most of the images on this set are Stampin Up.  The word stamp background was stamped then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  

My goal this week is to put up some of the Halloween decorations in my foyer and work on pruning the plants in my yard.  Sadly, with the intense summer heat, some of the leaves on several of my plants burned to a crisp.  It bothers me because the plants were so lush and pretty during Spring and the heat wave ended up damaging some of them.  

Well that's it for today.  Hope you all have a wonderful day. 💓

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Fall Card and Box Project

Hello Friends!  Happy Friday!  I worked on a few Halloween and Fall/Thanksgiving projects last night.  I even tried a few stamping techniques.  It was fun.  The temperatures are finally cooling down a bit.  I'm thinking of maybe driving out somewhere today.  For the past week I rarely stepped out of the house because it was over 100 degrees.  It was intolerable.  Luckily, it's dry heat but it feels like I'm stepping into an oven.  It seems it's been one of the hottest summers for as long as I can remember.  

I actually made this box and card set last week.  I used a retired Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin Kit for the box and mini card.  The regular size card is not part of the kit but I did use the accessories from the kit.  I have a bunch of retired Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin Kit.  I won't buy any more of them until I use up all the ones I already have.  I am in a craft buying freeze.  I have so many stuff that my craft room is beginning to look cluttered and I'm having difficulties dealing with it.  

Anyway, back to my project.  I embossed the card and smudged ink on the embossed parts.  Other than that, I used the die cuts, stamps, and embellishments from the kit.  

That's it for today.  Hope you all have a wonderful Friday. 💓

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Halloween Tags

Hello Friends.  Wow, a week has already gone by since my last post.  I've been really busy this past week.  I decided to start working on organizing my garage.  The first thing I decided to tackle was to reorganize some of my craft stuff.  I managed to unmount 3 containers of wood mounted rubber stamps, including about 70 wood mounted Stampin Up sets.  I still have about 5 storage containers left to go.  It's been a tedious job to unmount the stamps and put them on clear sheets and plastic storage envelopes.  I ran out of the plastic storage envelopes and had to buy more of them.  They'll be delivered in about a week.   I decided to take a break from unmounting stamps until the envelopes arrive.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to really sit down and craft this week.  I did make a few Halloween tags the previous weekend.  I really had fun making these tags.  I used a bit of embossing powder and used my embossing folders for the design elements on my tags.  My future goal is to learn to make pop up and fun fold cards.  I always loved pop up cards and have made a few way back in the past but I have to relearn how to make them again.  I've seen quite a few that I would like to try to make.

With these tags, I used a few random stamps from different brands.  I'm not really a "brand" sort of person.  I just use images that I like.  It doesn't matter who makes them.  I've never been the type to buy stamps from specific brands.  That's part of the reason I sometimes don't list the brand on my post because I sometimes use different stamps from different brands all on one card and I can't remember who made them.  A lot of the images on my cards, I had stamped and colored quite some time ago but never made cards for them.  I did this a lot, especially when I sit down and listen to music or watch TV. I would just stamp away and color images.  It was very therapeutic.

 

I also made a Thanksgiving box and card set that I'll share next time.  I'm hoping I can find time this week to make a few projects.  It's crazy because now that I'm retired, I've been so busy that it feels like the days have been flying by so quickly.  I'm glad I've been able to work on home projects that I've put on the back burner for so long.  It's going to get busier because the holidays are right around the corner.  

While we're on the subject about the holidays, I'm going to have to start decorating for Halloween soon.  I'm going to start early.  I've never decorated the inside of my house for Halloween, just the outside.  I decided I'll do some decorating on the inside this year.  I want to try something new.  I bought a few indoor Halloween decor recently so it'll be fun to decorate the inside this year.  Nothing crazy, just a few decorations here and there.

Anyway, that's all for today.  Hope you all have a wonderful week.  Until next time.  💖

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Halloween Treat Box and Cards

Hello Friends.  I haven't posted anything in a week.  I was meaning to post a few of the projects I created but I got side tracked a bit.  I've been working on a few organization projects and I sort of got caught up doing that last week.  

I did work on a few Halloween projects the past few days.  I'll work on a few more Halloween projects then I'll start moving on to Autumn/Thanksgiving projects.  I had to dig trough my stamps to look for Halloween images.  I need to organize my stamps.  I've organized them several times through the years.  I've tried organizing them by stamp brands/style then by themes then back to brands.  I think organizing by theme is better.  They are easier to sort through when I need to create a card or project.

I decided to work on treat boxes and cards.  I also created Halloween tags but I'll share them in my next post.  The Halloween treat box is a crayon box style treat box.  I actually traced a Stampin Up box template from a Stampin Up Paper Pumpkin kit.  I trace a lot of my treat boxes from already cut boxes then use them as templates.  I create a master template that I use for various projects.  I calculate the measurements then cut them to create the boxes.

For this set I used an old retired Stampin Up stamp set.  They have always been my favorite.  I also used a few retired Stampin Up designer papers.  I have so many older retired designer papers that I tend to ration knowing that I can no longer purchase them because they are retired.  It makes me sad when I finally run out of my favorites.  

Currently, I'm organizing my garage.  I finished organizing my pantry and kitchen cupboards.  I would like to redesign my pantry but the current organization is pretty well organized so it's nothing pressing that I have to work on right now.  Maybe in the future when I have nothing else to organize.  Organizing is a constant thing in my life.  My daughter said that I organize things just because I like to organize even when it's not needed.  I believe she's right.  🤣

Last week I decided to change things up a bit and headed to Laguna Beach.  It was sort of spontaneous.  I wanted to find a place that I could read a book and decided that the beach would be a good place to go but when I got there, I didn't realize it was going to be so hot and humid.  I didn't last very long sitting in the hot sun so I decided to sit at a French Cafe for a bit to cool down and eat lunch.  I'll probably go back to the beach once the weather cools down a bit.  

Anyway, hope you all are having a wonderful week so far.  Until next time 😀

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