Itsie Bitsie Spider

I've had a little bit of time this weekend to make a few cards.  Yay!!  I decided to make a few Halloween cards.  This is the first one using one of my favorite stamps, Jar of Love.  My sister would not like this card as she hates spiders!!  Can't you just imagine all these itty bitty spiders crawling out of the little jar??!! 

After taking the picture of the card, I decided it needed just a little bit of color.  So, I pulled out my dauber and put a little red ink on the brick wall.

I used Jar of Love and Goulish Grounge for this card.  When it came to the spiders though, I was stumped.  I didn't buy Jar of Haunts (should have!) which has a little spider so I went in search of a spider.  I finally found one in a retired set, Happy Scenes (from last year) and used it.  But, if you have Jar of Haunts, Mr. Funny Bones, OR Spooky Fun, you are in luck!  All three have a spider in them!  I don't usually do many Halloween cards so only bought one set, Cookie Cutter Halloween and mainly for the scarecrow.

Sonny and I went to the movies yesterday and saw Deepwater Horizon.  It was really good.  It is a dramatization of the April 2010 disaster when the offshore drilling rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.  If you get a chance, go see it.

Sunday was football Sunday and we went to Big Al's in Mooresville to watch the Steelers beat the NY Jets.  I think this might have been our last time to watch football at Big Al's.  We have been going there for 10+ years on Sunday.  They moved this summer to a bigger and much nicer facility but it is like pulling teeth to get them to put the Steeler game on a TV that is easy for us to see.  There are 5 TVs on the wall that our table faces.  Today 2 of them were on the Steeler game.  When we got there, they had 3 of the TVs tuned to the game.  When we asked them to put it on the larger screen, they did but took the game off the other two TVs (that no one cared about watching!)   When you look around the bar, there may be a couple of table who do not have Steeler gear on but the rest of the restaurant is in black and gold.  They advertise themselves as a Steelers bar and have big signs inside and outside for the Steelers, but they aren't willing to accommodate the fans who come in there.

Well, gonna tune in to the debate and see what crazy things come out of Hilary and Donald's mouths tonight!  Should be interesting.

Paper Pumpkin BOGO

This is the September Paper Pumpkin kit.  It was a great one!  The kit included:

Supplies for 16 treat tubes
• 3 sheets of adhesive banners
• 3 sheets of printed die-cut labels
• 16 plastic food-safe tubes
• 5 yds of linen thread
• 35 adhesive dots

PLUS a photopolymer stamp set that not only has Halloween images but also that cute sunflower image seen in the card below.

The refill kit has already gone on sale so by purchasing it (includes all the above except the stamp set), you would have supplies for 32 treats!
 
For the FIRST time ever, FIRST-time subscribers can buy their FIRST month and get their second month FREE!  This BOGO sale is only available until Oct. 10.  You would pay for the October kit and get the November kit for free.  If you are interested in subscribing, click on Paper Pumpkin at the top of my blog.

Stampin' Up SALE!

 


To celebrate World Card Making Day (which was yesterday, Oct. 1) Stampin' Up is putting a few items on sale - BUT for just 5 days!  That's right - this sale will only be available from Oct. 1 - 5.

Item #	Description	Discount	Retail Price	Sale Price
138339	2015-2017 In Color Card stock	15%	$8 USD	$6.80 USD
141413	2016-2018 In Color Card stock	15%	$8 USD	$6.80 USD
141697	2015-2017 In Color Envelope Paper	25%	$11 USD	$8.25 USD
141698	2016-2018 In Color Envelope Paper	25%	$11 USD	$8.25 USD
133774	Envelope Punch Board	25%	$20 USD	$15 USD
141651	Designer Tin of Cards Project Kit	25%	$27 USD	$20.25 USD
129027	Fast Fuse Adhesive Refill – Buy a Fast Fuse Adhesive (item 129026) and get a Refill for FREE!		$7.50 USD	FREE with purchase of Fast Fuse Adhesive

THE HOSTESS CODE FOR OCTOBER IS     6G7GE4YW

Please use this code in placing your online order.

Another sale that is going on for the whole month of October is the Designer Series Paper SALE!  Specialty Designer Series Paper and Designer Series Paper Stacks do not qualify for this promotion and cannot be redeemed through this offer.

What Happened?

Just to let you know I do not know what happened to the blog listings that were on the left side.  I am looking into it and will either start a new blog or re-create the links!

UPDATE:  Google took over Blogger which is the forum I use for my blog.  Anyway, in an update, they deleted everyone's blog lists.  Supposedly, they are working on it.  We'll see!  So, it wasn't anything I did!

I have started adding a few blogs back but I can't remember them all.  If you have a favorite that you want me to add, just let me know!

Fall Scarecrow

I just got the Cookie Cutter Halloween (and Christmas bundle) last Friday so I had to use the cute little scarecrow.  He is the main reason I purchased this particular stamp set!  I sponged the background in Soft Sky on the top and Daffodil Delight and Delightful Dijon on the bottom.  The grass is from Wetlands stamped in Dijon and Sahara Sand.  I colored the scarecrow with markers and used the punch to punch him out and adhered to the card with dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Tin of Cards stamped in Dijon.

Touches of Texture for Fall

We are getting some much needed rain here today.  I love to hear the rain coming down on the roof at night.  I'm headed to a luncheon and tour of Daveste Winery so I do hope the rain lets up by lunch time!  Plus, Sonny plans on playing golf today with a friend.  He tells me thought that it never rains on the golf course!  He may be right.  He had a tee time yesterday with another friend and his friend canceled.  Sonny went by himself and played - with no rain to stop him.  His buddy just missed out.

The limited time stamp, Thoughtful Branches Bundle, is still available while supplies last.  If you are interested in this bundle, check it out HERE.  Once the inventory is depleted, it will no longer be available.

Another attempt at a fall card was to use Touches of Texture.  This is a great stamp set for backgrounds, two step stamping, and flowers.  I stamped the flower in Early Espresso and then filled them in with Delightful Dijon, Pumpkin Pie, and Cajun Craze.  I stamped the "filler" part of the flower twice turning it just a bit each time.  It's hard to tell but I put Wink of Stella on the dragonfly and the center of the flowers.  Again another hidden element on this card is that I used the background stamp, Watercolor Wash in Crumb Cake on the background along with the splatter stamp from Touches of Texture (stamped in Cajun Craze.)  The Watercolor Wash is pretty subtle but just adds a little background color to the Vanilla card.

Fall Leaves

This post was written for the NC Blog Hop for this month.  But the gal in charge did not get my link to join so I won't be participating in the hop.  But I've already made the projects so I will be sharing them with you.

I am ready for fall!  Leaves are starting to fall off our trees but it is still in the 80s here so not sweater weather yet!   I even made a new blog header for fall - how do you like it??

This card was an experiment.  I'm not so sure about it and would like to hear your responses.  I used the Pretty Petals embossing folder and inked it up (the side that has Sizzix on it and the background is raised).  Next I put a piece of card stock inside and ran it through the Big Shot.  (I should have run the Embossing Buddy over the card first.)  Next I sprinkled Copper Embossing Powder over the whole piece. Some of it stuck to the petals where I didn't want it so I used a dry paint brush to clean them off (this is where the emb. buddy may have helped.)  After using the Heat Gun on the piece, I used my daubers and rubbed Rich Razzleberry, Crushed Curry, Old Olive and Pumpkin Pie over the petals.  I cut out some leaves with the Leaflets Framelits - one in Razzleberry and 2 in white that I sponged with ink.  The next step was to run the leaves through the crimper and attach them to the card.  I die cut "hope" from Sunshine Sayings and adhered it to the large leaf.

 I forgot to share that I reached my Weight Watcher goal the week after I returned from Hawaii!  So happy.  But I am having a hard time maintaining!!  Especially since it is football season and we go to a local bar to watch the game and I usually have a couple of beers.  It is hard to find any healthy food on the bar menu - everything seems to be fried!! 

Stamp Club for September

No rest for the weary!  After Quarterly (and football Sunday), I had to get myself in gear to prep for my Stamp Club this week.  I had several new ladies join us and I hope they decide to join our group in the future.  Here are the cards we made this month:

Using Botanical Blooms and Sunshine Wishes thinlits.

•  Use Botanical Blooms leaf thinlit to cut out leaf on Sahara Sand CS.
• Stamp leaf on scrap of white (or you can line it up and stamp directly on the Mint Macaron card) with Wild Wasabi.  Stamp veins of leaf w/Always Artichoke.
• Stamp fern all over Mint Macaron card using Mint Mac. Ink 
•  Line up leaf behind the cut out and adhere to card.
• Adhere piece of Washi Tape to bottom of Sahara Sand.
•  Cut “hope” out using Sunshine Wishes Thinlits.  Adhere to middle of Sahara Sand piece.
•  Stamp “sending / & hugs” to Sahara Sand piece
• Adhere Sahara Sand cs to card with dimensionals.
• Tie ribbon or Bakers Twine into bow & adhere with Glue Dots.

• Rub Embossing Buddy all over Very Vanilla card stock.
• Stamp Floral with Versamark; pour embossing powder (copper or gold) on it & heat w/Heat Gun.
• Use Blender Pens to color flowers & leaves. (I used Flirty Flamingo on one and Sweet Sugarplum on the other)
• Stamp sentiment (leave room for ribbon)
• Adhere ribbon around Very Vanilla piece.
• Put layers together.
• Tie copper or gold bow beneath the flower stem.

This one was super easy!  Use the Aqua Brush and paint stripes onto watercolor paper.  I used Sweet Sugarplum, Daffodil Delight, Emerald Envy, Dapper Denim and Watermelon.  When the color dries, stamp the sentiment using black ink.  Adhere to your choice of colored card stock.

• Die cut large circle from Framelits
• Lightly stamp Texture Stamp onto white circle &
• Stamp floral stamp onto white circle – leaving top flower cut off.
• Stamp & cut out the top flower & adhere to card making it go off the edge.
• Use Blender Pens and color flowers & leaves with ink that is in the top of the stamp pad lid. 
•  Adhere Circle to card with dimensionals.
• Stamp sentiment onto scrap and “flag” the end.
• Adhere Washi Tape onto scrap of white cardstock & adhere with dimensionals below the flower.
• Tie bow & adhere with Glue Dots.