Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop - Week Twelve

Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop has finally come to an end after 12 fun filled weeks. Shirley sure puts on a good party and I'm glad I played along. Here's my last card and

a little crow that I whipped up just for fun.  Hope you enjoy.  I'll be back to fill in the details later on. .

He's got some attitude. 

Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop - Week Eleven

                                      Only two more posts to go until the big day!  Wow I've actually made it through this far in Shirley Pumpkin's awesome Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop. 

Today I'm posting a few things since I thought I better step up the process a bit here and make up for the two weeks I wasn't able to post.

To begin with I'm sharing a card I actually made for Mojo Monday 211, however when making it I had this blog hop in mind.  You can see my previous post for all the details and more pictures.  For now though here are a few views of my card.

I just love these ghoulish sneaks as they make their way through the graveyard on the way to collect their Halloween Treats!  This image is from the Haunting Wheel that is for sale on Stampin' Up's Clearance Rack.  What a bargain and what a hoot for Halloween!

Here's my full card using the sketch challenge from Mojo 211.  I really like the bow and the layers on this card.

I couldn't resist showing this spooky scene one more time.  I've used one of the gorgeous papers from the Pick Your Poison Designer Papers series for the background.  It's a perfect scrapbook page for those scary shots and also for highlighting this spooky card! 

I've been busy making treats for company and friends for the upcoming festivities.  Can you guess what this is? 

Right now I'm in love with making these Lollies and have been putting them on everything, including my treats! 

These two beautiful little gifts are quite simply dressed up Cadbury Chocolate bars.  No kidding! They're fun to make and certainly don't look like plain old chocolate bars when they're dressed up in this finery.  For something that takes very little time and supplies treats like these make a big impact.

I thought I'd show you just how simple they are to make.  To begin with just remove the outside wrapper from your chocolate bar and measure it to get the width of paper you will need.  Once you've got your measurement just cut out pieces of DSP to use for the wrappers.

 Before wrapping the bars, score lines to make it easier to wrap the designer paper around the bar and then secure by overlapping ends with sticky strip.

 Here's what they should look like before you add your embellisments. They look really pretty just as they are!

And voila the finished product on display.  I love the way these turned out and my plan is to make a  whole bunch of them for the grownups............... providing my husband and I don't eat the chocolate bars first! 

So that's it for this week of Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down.  Have you decided to play along yet?  There's still time to get your name in Shirley's draw for $25.00 in free product from the Holiday Mini catalogue.  Here's some rules for you to make your playing along easier........... hope to see you in this week's postings.

Here are the rules:
1. Whatever your entry is it has to be Halloween - either a card or 3D item.
2. It does not have to be 100% SU 80% is ok.
3. Yes using Retired is OK...
4. Use Shirley’s Monster Mash Badge/Graphic in your post and a link back to her blog.
5. Add your card to the blog hop then put the code on your post.
6. You can enter as many times as you like, it just has to be a new card and post.

The Blog Hop started a few months ago and is now in week eleven.  Shirley picks a favourite every week during the 12 weeks and then out of the 12 weekly winners will pick a Grand Prize winner. The Prize is $25.00 in new cool stuff from the new Holiday Mini, and the lucky winner will be announced on Halloween.  How cool is that!

When you post Shirley’s badge please add a few words about the blog hop on your blog. Shirley had to delete a few entries a while back because they didn’t follow any of rules.  Might be wise to mention there are rules or copy them to your post like I did.  Okay so now I’m excited to see your entry.

Monday Monster Mash Blog Hop Week Ten With Haunting and Ala Card Monday Sketch 78

Can you believe how fast October is zooming by?  Counting today there are only 3 more Mondays until the big event............. Halloween!  Almost every blog you visit these days has some kind of Halloween post, whether it's a blog hop or a project someone's made for the occasion. 

For this week's entry in Shirley Pumpkin's  Monday Monster Mash Blog Hop Week Ten I decided to use the wonderful sketch from A La  Card Monkey 78.  What a Spooky Sketch.  Here's my take on it.   

I used Peach Parfait In Colour Card Stock for my base and layered it with DSP from the "Pick Your Poison" Designer Series paper (124001 Holiday Mini), mounted on Basic Black Cardstock.

Here's a closeup of the Halloween image I used from the retired Jumbo Wheel "Haunting" (which I recently purchased from the Clearance Rack #112480 $4.19CDN).  This jumbo wheel has witches, bats and monsters and I thought this little Grim Reaper image was really "Spooky". 

 On a background of Peach Parfait cardstock I stamped the Grim Reaper in Versa Mark and Basic Black inks and then over-embossed him with Black Embossing powder.  By holding the heat gun a little closer and for a tad longer time the image "bubbles" over giving it a really rough and scary looking finish, which I call "over-embossing". This layer was punched out with the 1 3/4" circle punch and distressed with black ink around the edges.  To complete the motif  I layered the Peach Parfait piece on a 1 3/8" circle punched from Rich Razzleberry, and finally mounted it on a 2 3/8" scalloped circle in basic black.  A trim of basic rhinestones coloured with purple ink from an alcohol based marker pen.  This was mounted onto the fence using dimensionals.  

For the Graveyard Fence I punched out images from the Jewelry Tag Punch (117190) and evenly spaced them across a strip of Basic Black Cardstock. I wove a thin strip of Basic Black cardstock through the "fence posts" for some added dimension. The tab above the fence is made by layering a piece of Peach Parfait and Rich Razzleberry from the end of the Decorative Label Punch and mounting these pieces onto a piece of Basic Black cardstock that has been punched out using the retired Designer LabelPunch. The image "Wicked" from the Wicked Cool set was inked up with BB Marker and stamped onto the Peach Parfait piece. I embossed it for some extra colour and texture.

The sparkly strip along the bottom of the graveyard fence is done by applying a thin strip of sticky strip in a straight line and then sprinkling it with black glitter. If you don't have any black glitter you can make your own by adding a tiny drop of black reinker to dazzling diamonds and mix it up.   

The inside of my card is very basic.  I used the Two Tags punch on Basic Black Cardstock and mounted the tag sideways on the inside of the card.  I then added a 1/38" Peach Parfait Circle punched from the images on the Haunting Wheel.  I added a "Wicked" tab on the side. 

Here's a last look at my card.  Hope you enjoyed it.  It really looks better in real life but then don't we all!  LOL!  Happy Stamping and I hope you join in this blog hop today. 



"Haunting" Jumbo Wheel # 112480.  This retired wheel is currently featured on the CLEARANCE RACK for $4.19 CDN.  This is a fun wheel and great for gift bags, cards and other projects where you want a host of scary characters.  Visit my on-line store to check it out.  Click here for Online Store.

Jewlery Tag Punch #117190, pg 210 Idea Book and Catalogue.

Here are the rules:

1. It has to be Halloween, card or 3D item.
2. It does not have to be 100% SU 80% is ok.
3. Yes using Retired is OK...
4. Use Shirley’s Monster Mash Badge/Graphic (posted below) in your post and a link back to her blog copy this URL:  http://www.lookatmycutestuff.blogspot.com/
5. Add your card to the blog hop then see instructions for putting the code on your post.
6. You can enter as many times as you like, it just has to be a new card and post.

The Blog Hop is every Monday for 12 weeks. Shirley picks a favourite every week for 12 weeks and then out of the 12 picks a Grand Prize winner. The Prize is $25.00 in new cool stuff from the new Holiday Mini, and the lucky winner will be announced on Halloween.

When you post Shirley’s badge please add a few words about about the blog hop on your blog. Shirley had to Delete a few entries a while back because they didn’t follow any of rules.  Might we wise to mention there are rules or copy them to my post like I did.  Okay so now I’m excited to see your entry.

Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop - Week Nine

It's week number nine of Shirley Sumption's Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down.  I'm running about two weeks behind on this one and am trying to play catchup.  This past two weeks has been hectic with so many doctor appointments and family things happening.  Sometimes life gets in the way of fun!
Speaking of fun when you have time hop on over to Shirley's blog and check out Frankie White's fabulous entry for week eight.

Her card is just too funny!  Frankie designed this
card at the last minute, using the Howl-o-ween Creeps stampset (123827w/123829c) from the Holiday Mini. These little Halloween monsters are having such a great time doing the Monster Mash. Love the light bulbs!  Oh and listen carefully because  you can almost hear the music playing in the background!  No wonder Frankie was the winner!!!! What an awesome card.

While you're visiting the site make sure you check out the other entries because they're simply awesome too and leave some comments for these great projects, they're all very deserving!  

Okay so on to Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop Week Nine.  Shirley hasn't even posted yet so I'm sure to make the time line this week.....lol! 

For this week's challenge I chose the A La Card Monkey Challenge sketch #76 from September 30th.

This is a great sketch that lends itself to easy interpretation, and while my entry is a Halloween card, I can envision this sketch being used for just about any occasion.  Wow that sounded a bit heavy and dramatic!

Speaking of dramatic how'd you like this Crow?  I think he's the epitomy of FRIGHT!!!  Although this stamp set featured in last year's catalogue has retired, I know he'll be in my Halloween stash for sometime.............. just can't part with him!

My card base is Very Vanilla layered with a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Pumpkin Pie cardstock that was texturized using the new Houndstooth Embossing Folder.  I've added a Top Note Die Cut from the Pick Your Poison (124001 pg 10 Holiday Mini) that has been jazzed up by adding Basic Black Top Note die cuts on either side.  The edges of the Pick Your Poison paper have been distressed using both Basic Black and Pumpkin Pie inks. 

Bat images were stamped using Basic Black Ink, Versa Mark and Black Embossing Powder to the top section of the DSP.  A second piece of cardstock that was texturized using the Stripes Embossing folder, was run through the Big Shot on the short side of the Top Note Die cut.  See how it fits perfectly across the center of the card.  I've added 3 basic pearls coloured black with a Sharpie Marker. 

For this Lollie base I used a 1 1/2" x 12" strip of Pick Your Poison DSP that was scored every 1/4" on my brand new Simply Scored Scoring Tool (#122334 pg. 7 Holiday Mini).  What fun that was.  A scalloped oval layer was adhered to the top of the Lollie and then the SPOOKY image from the Wicked Cool stamp set (118738w/120600c pg 24 IB&C 2011/12) was stamped and embossed over top of an orange spider image from the reverse side of the Lollie DSP. 

And here's the inside of the card with it's beautiful spooky crow.

Well that's it for this week.  Remember there's still time to participate.  I hope to see your entry this week!  
Here are the rules:
1. It has to be Halloween, card or 3D item.
2. It does not have to be 100% SU 80% is ok.
3. Yes using Retired is OK...
4. Use this Monster Mash Badge/Graphic in your post and a link back to Shirley Pumpkin's blog: http://lookatmycutestuff.blogspot.com/
5. Add your card to the blog hop then put the code on your post.
6. You can enter as many times as you like, but each entry has to be a new card and a new post.

Monday Monster Mash Halloween Count Down Blog Hop - Week Three

Today I'm joining in all the fun over at Shirley Pumpkin's blog "Look At My Cute Stuff" for week three of her twelve week Halloween Blog Hop!  What fun!  Shirley is picking a winner from all the entries submitted each week and then at the end of 12 weeks she'll draw a winner who'll receive $25.00 in prizes from the Holiday Mini.  It's not too late to join in.  All the details on how you play along are on Shirley's blog and it's so easy,  so come along and join in the fun too! 

Week Three

For my entry I decided to combine this Shirley's challenge with this week's Mojo Monday Sketch 206 challenge.  I really liked this sketch and chose to do the square one.  Here's what I came up with

I'd decided to use my "Wicked Cool" stamp set for this week's card but couldn't decide how to do the witch.  I had her hat and her legs but what to do with the body?  I thought about this for quite a while and then the "light came on" while I was doing another project using the "Aviary" set.  You guessed it!  I decided to convert one of those fancy bird cages into my witch.  And here's the result.

  I used Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Concord Crush, Basic Black and Crumb Cake cardstocks.  Concord Crush ink was used for the bird carge and sentiment. The Tangerine Tango was embossed with the Spider Web Embossing folder. 

The witches shoes were stamped in versamark and basic black ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The same technique was used on the hat but in Concord Crush and I repeated the embossing to give a little bit more shine to the hat.  I also embossed the sentiment using versamark and Concord Crush inks.  The "bird cage" dress was stamped on a small piece of "Cottage Wall" a retired DSP and a few green rhinestones were added at the neck and bottom of the dress.  The leggings were stamped on and old olive piece of the same DSP.  Dimensionals were used to give some elevation to the hat and the two squares and sentiment. 

  

Hope you enjoyed my "Wicked Cool Witch".  Have a great day!