Halloween Cards, Tags and Boxes

Hello Crafty Friends!  I'm posting more Halloween cards and projects I created.  I am still having issues uploading photos to Blogger.  I spent 2 hours today trying to figure out why Blogger was not allowing me to upload photos from my phone when it was previously allowing me to do so. I deleted all of my cookies and history hoping that was the fix but it still won't allow me to upload my photos to my blog.  I thought uploading from my phone was the fix because Google was taking over a week for my photos to show up in my Google Drive.  Now it won't allow me to upload from my phone.  The photos finally did upload on to my Google Drive and allow me to upload to Blogger from my computer but well, now I'm  behind on posting the cards and projects.  It's frustrating because I can't post daily on to my blog until the photos I've taken are uploaded to Google drive.  I'm not sure how to fix the issue.

I'm currently working on Thanksgiving/Fall and Christmas projects now that Halloween is over.  Most of the images on my Halloween cards and boxes are from my Echo Park Collection kits because I don't have too many Halloween stamps for some odd reason.  I have a million Christmas stamps but very little of Halloween and Fall/Thanksgiving.  I primarily purchase the Echo Park papers and stickers for my scrapbook albums but have had to use them on my cards.  I guess I will have to buy more Halloween and Fall stamps.

For the boxes, I actually traced  existing boxes I have and used them as templates.  I have a lot of box dies but I really liked the size and shape of these boxes.  I saved the templates for future use.

I had dyed a roll of seam binding in various colors.  It's become very handy to use as ribbons on my projects.  

I have so many ribbons, it's not funny.  I'm so glad I'm now able to use them up.  It adds another level of dimension to my projects and they are so pretty on cards.

As I was going through my craft containers today, I found another container full of wood mounted Stampin Up.  I could not believe it.  I thought I had already unmounted all of my Stampin Up stamp sets.  I now have another container to work on.  

I'm also making it a point to use my dies to add different elements to my cards.  In the past, I neglected to use them.  They literally sat in containers never being used.  I've decided that this time around I'll use them more often.  It makes me wonder why I buy them but don't use them.  I'm beginning to think I enjoy buying them as much or more so than actually making something with them.

Anyway, I really hope I can figure out how to fix my Blogger issue so I can post on my blog more often.  If you have any questions regarding the projects I post on my cards, feel free to message me.  The comment button is located below each of my posts.  Just to let you know, I am unable to provide information on some of the tutorials I've posted in the past.  I had saved them on the Scribd website but for some reason some of them have been removed.  Some of my tutorials are still there so just click on the links I provided to the left of my blog.  For the ones that have been removed, I am unable to provide the instructions to them.  For any future tutorials, I'll post the instructions directly on to Blogger so it'll always remain on my blog.

That's it for today.  Until next time. . .hope you have a wonderful week 💓

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Echo Park Halloween Cards

Hello my crafty friends.  I've been focusing on Halloween projects since Halloween is in a few days.  I don't have too many Halloween stamps so I've been primarily using my Echo Park stickers and papers.  I don't know why I don't have that many stamps considering how many stamps I have.  I need to purchase some so I have more variety of images to use for my projects.

I used my crinkly seam binding ribbon that I dyed with Stampin Up reinkers.  I need to buy another roll so I can dye the ribbons with Christmas and Fall colors.  I had primarily dyed them with pastel colors. I'm no sure why I didn't think to dye them with Christmas and Fall colors.  I had watched a video on You Tube on how to dye them with reinkers.

After being absent from the crafting world for almost a decade, I've come to notice a shift in many card makers using "cut outs" or ephemera for their cards.  Stamping is still popular but I do see a lot more of the digital images compared to back in the day.

I am using an old retired Stampin Up designer paper for the background.  I have always loved Stampin Up products.  They are still my favorites.  Honestly, I do miss the days when rubber stamping was so popular and blogging was a thing.  Many of the talented crafters have moved away from paper crafting and I miss them.  They were so talented.  It was so fun back then.  I notice Instagram is where most crafters share their work.  I do see some bloggers still out there but not as many as before.  I'm feeling a bit nostalgic about those days when everyone was blogging and sharing ideas in that format.

Anyway, this week is my last week of "going with the flow".  Starting next week, I'm going back on a life schedule and start using my planner again.  I actually stopped using my planner because I didn't want to focus on regimented life style but I feel it will benefit me more to do so.  Just feeling my way through this retirement.  It's new to me.😊  Have a wonderful day.  Until next time. 💓

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Halloween Mixed Media Tag and Maremi Small Art Collage Images

Hello Friends.  As I stated on my last post, I am experimenting with mixed media.  With this Halloween tag, I used alcohol ink on glossy card stock, then I used pearlescent acrylic paint to give the background a bit of shimmers and distress ink.  The image is by Maremi Small Art Books that are sold on Amazon.  She also has a YouTube Channel where she shares her techniques for collage art and junk journaling.  Just search Maremi.  She has a lot of cool technique and she gives you a peak of the images in her books. 

I am new to mixed media so I've been watching a lot of reels on Instagram that shows all the different techniques.  I love it because the goal is not perfection.  It's just playing around with different mediums and creating a colorful background using rubber stamps, stencils, inks, paints and images.  It's been fun experimenting.

My plan is to create a journaling book/scrapbook with these projects.  I need to work on a bunch of them so I can start adhering them to my journaling book.  I noticed that some artist add them to their journal as they complete a tag or directly create the art directly in their book.  I guess it's similar to journaling but with art work that you created.  I don't want a journaling book of only my creations, I actually want to use them to supplement my written journals and scrapbooks.  

You can find the Maremi small art books on Amazon as I stated earlier.  This image came from the Spooky Persona book.   Maremi Small Art Books

I actually created a few of these cards but Google is still slow in uploading the pictures so I could not include them in this post.  I'll share the others next time.  Thank you visiting my blog.  Until next time, hope you all have a wonderful weekend. 💓

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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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Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C111

Hello Friends! It's that time again! Crazy 4 Challenges time! I'm sorry I haven't been blogging. . .do I say this every week? I think I do. . .but yeah. I've been in crafting hibernation and I don't know how to get my mojo back. I do have my moments from time to time but I can't seem to make it last long enough to actually work on a project. Thank goodness for Crazy 4 Challenges . . .I can honestly say, if it weren't for the weekly challenges, I don't think I would step in my craft room at all. I'm hoping the new year will bring back the spark and I'll find it all exciting again. It's been a rough crafty year for me. . .maybe, I need to take a step back and do other things, clean out my craft room, and maybe, just maybe, I'll be back to make crafty self again. We'll see.

Anyway. ..I digressed. . .yes, it's Crazy 4 Challenges time and this week Tammy has come up with a fabulous challenge. The challenge is to incorporate some sort of candy to your card design! Before I go on. . .we'd like to bid Tammy farewell. . .she is stepping down from the design team to focus more on life and her family. We'll miss her beautiful cards on C4C but she'll still be in blog land so not to worry!!


My card is rather simple. . .just a printed vintage image with lace, ribbon, and crochet flowers added to the mix. Although I haven't been crafting much, I do still crochet when I'm sitting down watching television and I've been making the 1 inch crochet flowers that you see on my card. I crochet to keep myself from falling asleep while watching television with my family. . .it's either that or eat . . .which I don't want to do. I actually need to lose weight and I am having a great deal of problems with that. Ugggh! That's a whole other story. . .I could write a book about my countless attempts to lose weight.

Anyway. . .stop by C4C and check out the lovely cards the crazy gals created this week or stop by their individual blogs!

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett

Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

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Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C106 Halloween Card

Hello Friends!  Happy Saturday!  Gosh, I'm sorry I haven't been blogging. . .I've gotten really lazy lately.  Actually, I've been really focusing on my photography.  I'll post a few photos that I took recently. . .maybe tomorrow.  Today. . .it's all about crafting. . .it's Crazy 4 Challenges time again!  Yipee!  This week Barbara came up with a fabulous challenge. . .create a Halloween card!  I can do that!!

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett
 

Well. . .I decided to color an image. I haven't been coloring much lately.   I think I almost forgot how to color.   I need to practice coloring with my Copic Markers again.  I'm surprised my markers are still juicy considering they've been sitting on my shelf gathering dust.  I've had my Copic Markers for over 3 years and my goodness, they are all still quite juicy and I've made good use of them in the past.

I decided to use my Magnolia stamp.  They are so cute and fun to color.  Other than coloring the image, the rest of my card is basically routine. . .designer paper, ribbon, and embellishments.  That's about it!

Before I go, I wanted to let you know that I started a 365 Project account.  It's a website where you take a photo on a daily basis and upload it to the website.  I thought it was interesting to do something like that.  Because I have a lot photos from the past that I wanted to add, I've been basically retro-dating or retro-uploading my photos.  My plan is to catch up and start taking photos daily and uploading them to the website.  If you have an account with them, let me know or follow me and I'll in return follow you.  If you don't have an account with them (it's free) and are curious about it, here is the website:  365 Project 

Here is my 365 Project


Anyway. . .hope you'll play along with us this week!!  Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!


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Doodle Bug Designs Digital Stamp Store Grand Opening

Hello Friends! Hey. . .I wanted to let you know that Melissa of Doodle Bug Designs is having a grand opening of her new digital stamp store. The images are adorable and affordable too! Stop by her store and check out the cute Halloween, Thanksgiving and other adorable images!! I want to wish Melissa all the success in the world. . .she took her love of drawing and applied it to start her own business. . .how wonderful is that? Let's support the new businesses out there. . .especially, home makers and stay at home moms! The more success they have, the opportunities we all have to follow our own dreams!!

Ooh, I had fun working with this cute Vampire Boy image. I had the coffin embellishment by Jolee's Boutique for a long time and I thought it was the perfect time to use it. I thought it would go well with the Doodle Bug Designs Vampire Boy image. I colored the image with my Copic Markers. I bought the bats/bead trimming at Joanns. . .their Halloween items were 40% off so it was a great time to grab a few Halloween goodies!

This cute image is called "Haunted Love". . .they are definitely adorable. Again, I colored the image with my Copic Markers and used my K&Co embellishments to dress up the card a bit.


Okay, people! Be sure to stop by Doodle Bug Designs and check out all the adorable images that Melissa created!!

That's it for today. . .I have a few more projects to work on . . .hope you all have a beautiful Thursday!!!

My Scrap Chick Halloween Treat Box - Dracula

Hello Friends! Happy Monday!! Boy, I had a lot of fun creating this Halloween treat set! I actually started on the weekend but sort of lost my crafting mojo and decided to chill out. I finally finished the set this morning!

I used myscrapchick.com "Halloween Treat Box" set. There are different characters with this set such Frankenstein, Ghost, Pumpkin. . .etc. so maybe if I have the time, I'll work on a few more treat sets!

I did have a lot fun creating the set. . .initially, I was only going to work on just a box but decided to add a card. What's a treat box without a card? Well, that's what I think anyway!

Here is the box. I decided to add a handle using a ribbon. I stiffened the ribbon using fabric stiffener so it holds its shape.

The designer paper is by DCWV, the ribbon by Basic Basic, the spider came with the web . . .you know, the ones that you normally decorate your house with. They work fabulously with cards and treat boxes! It just makes the design much more fun. . .:)

Yesterday, we decided to watch a spooky movie and we chose "the Orphanage" . . .a film by Guillermo Del Toro. . the same director that created "Pan's Labyrinth. If you like scary, mystery, haunting, with a surprise ending. . .well "the Orphanage" is the movie to watch. It's subtitled because it's a foreign film. It's not really scary . . .just eerie with a great story line. I really enjoyed the movie. I added the trailer below. Our next scary movie to watch is "Let the Right One in". . .it's the original of the remake "Let It in" which is currently in theaters. The original is a Swedish film so again, it's subtitled. I love foreign films because they are very creative with their storyline and have a different take on life. In my opinion, they have more of a creepy factor because many of the elements in the films are unfamiliar to us in the US. Anyway, check out the trailer.




Okay, that's it for today. I'll work on a few more Halloween stuff this week! Can't wait to play around a bit!

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!

Doodle Bug Memories Halloween Witch Freebie

Hello Friends! Hey. . .Melissa of Doodle Bug Memories is sharing this cute "Halloween Witch" for free for one week. Go grab the image while it's available for free. Such a cute, cute image. It was such a fun image to color!

I went to Joanns yesterday and bought a few Halloween embellishments. .. the Halloween border and sticker were 40% off. . .gotta love those sales that suck you in to buying stuff! I just can't resist sales. . .unfortunately, my pocket book is screaming "stop"!! LOL! Did I listen? Nope.


I colored the image with my Copic Markers and the rest of the card was basically adding the different embellishments and bow. I used my SU designer paper. . .which I purchased 2 years ago and I still have a few left. It's a retired designer paper unfortunately. When I use it up, it'll all be gone. . .:(

Anyway. . .be sure to stop by Doodle Bug Memories and grab your image!

That's it for today. I'm working on a crochet beret. . .wanna get that done. . .:)

Hope y'all have a beautiful Thursday!

Myscrapchick.com Halloween Decorative Plaque

Hello Friends!! I worked on this decorative plaque last night using myscrapchick.com cutting files again. The same ones that I used for yesterday's projects: Mr & Mrs. Spiders and Haunted House!! Fun, fun, fun!

I actually bought this wood plaque at a garage sale. It was still new with a label and I believe it was only 50 cents. I hate altering stuff that are new. . .and expensive. It's pointless to pay a lot of mula for it if you're going to cover it up so I buy these things at garage sales! LOL!

I Mod Podged the designer paper on to the wood plaque but I think it's too fragile to be hung outdoors for a long period of time so for now, I hung it on my craft room door. I'll probably move it to our front door closer to Halloween.

I basically decorated the plaque like I would a card. . .that's all I know to do but I like how it turned out!!

I used those webs that you decorate your house with on Halloween! Fun!!

I added googley eyes to the ghost. . .thought it would be cute.

Okay. ..I'm having a blast making my Halloween projects! I'll work on more today! Can't wait!

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!