Halloween Cards for the Grandbabies

Hello crafty people!

I love to make cards to send my grandbabies for

holidays.
Here are the cards I made for them this year for

Halloween.

I have a small stack of burlap paper and decided

it would be perfect to use for their cards

I cut out a pattern with scrap card stock

and traced it onto the back of the

burlap papers, then cut them out.

For the background on the pumpkin, I inked

some clouds for the sky and

cut green paper into grass.
I love googly eyes, so used them for the 

eyes on each card.

I stamped the background on the spider card

with a stamp from my stash and

black ink.  I hung the spider with some 

black thread glued to the card.

Inside the cards I used a simple 
Happy Halloween

greeting.

I think the kids will like receiving these cards

 in the mail.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you will stop in again soon.

Until then,

make a kid smile!

 

Halloween Cards

Welcome!

Halloween will be here before we know it,

so I decided I better get a few cards made.

Today I have 2 of those cards to share with you.

This one was very simple to make.  I sketched a

pumpkin and cut it out, then traced it onto the back of

this burlap "paper" and assembled the pieces into

a jack o lantern.
I found the background paper in my stash and thought

it would be perfect for the background.

I used the left over piece of the background paper inside the card,

stamped the web, spider and sentiment onto a piece of

white card stock, mounted them and I was all set.

This card was also very simple.

The color doesn't show up correctly for some reason,

it's actually a dark purple color.
I stamped the ghosts with white ink, then fussy cut one more 

and mounted it over one of the ghosts.

Stamped Happy Halloween and was all set with the front

of the card.

For the inside of the card, I stamped the spider web,

then the BOO over the top of it.

I cut around the BOO and adhered it inside the card.

These are very simple ways to make cards pretty quickly.

I really like how they turned out.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you've been inspired in some way.

Come again soon and I'll show you a couple more

Halloween cards.
Until then,

BOO!!!

 

Halloween Card for Marie

Hello and Happy Halloween!

Today I have the card I made for my 

Granddaughter, Marie, for Halloween.

She is very into pumpkins right now and

when I take her for a walk, she constantly

asks to see more pumpkins.  So we look in all

the yards trying to find as many pumpkins as

we can.
I thought a pumpkin on her card would be most

appropriate.

I cut the pumpkin with my Silhouette Cameo

out of orange card stock.
There are 2 layers and the top layer was inked

just a little bit with brown ink and then popped up

on foam tape to give a bit of dimension.

The Happy Halloween was also cut with my 

Silhouette using the LD Lightning font with a shadow.
The background piece is some adhesive cork that I had

in my stash.
It's all mounted on a white card base.
I think Marie will love this card!

Thanks for coming by today, 

I hope you have been inspired in some way.
Come again soon,

until then,

BOOOOOO!

 

Paint Your Own Pottery, back at it.

Hello and Welcome!

Many years ago I worked at a couple paint your own pottery

studios, basically a ceramics shop, and I loved painting

and creating there. Unfortunately, they closed.

Last week my daughter in law, Sara, invited us to

go to Clay Hands Pottery to paint.

Grandpa held and played with Marie and Sara

and I painted.

This is a switch plate that I made for 

Jaryd a long time ago, when his bedroom was

filled with Mickey stuff.  Now it's in

the kitchen of their apartment.

Sara painted this piece.  I think it turned out

adorable.  It was her first time painting too.

3 of us had a hand, or foot as the case may be,

in this piece.  Marie was asleep in Grandpa arms,

so we took advantage of that and painted her feet,

then pressed them to the plate.
Sara painted the faces and hair on,

wrote the words in pencil, then I painted the

words and we both worked on the rest of it.

Love how it turned out!

Now both pieces are in their apartment for Halloween.

Since one of the things in Marie's room is

the cute little Marie from Aristocats,

I painted this switch plate for her room.

Not perfect, but for having no plans to paint it

when I went, I think it came out pretty cute.

And Marie seems to like it too.

As is my usual practice, on the back of the piece,

I painted my lips and kissed it, so there is a print of my lips

on the back of the switch plate.  I also signed it and dated

it for her.

And here it is up on the wall in her room.

We had so much fun doing the painting,

that we're going back to have a little birthday

party for Sara and me.

We both celebrate birthdays in November.

Now to just decide what to paint when we go back.

Thanks for stopping by today,

come gain soon.

Until then,

try something you haven't done in a long time.

 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

I hope you are enjoying your Halloween.

My children are adults now, so I don't 

have the chance to dress them up anymore

and we don't get trick or treaters at our house

so I don't get a chance to enjoy the kids from our

area either, but I hope you are having some 

Halloween fun.

Here is what I did for some Halloween fun.

I got a wine glass at the Dollar Tree and

used some of my acrylic craft paints to paint this

cute tea light holder.

It took a few coats of each color or paint,

but it went on fairly easily.

I just needed to be sure the paint was really

dried between coats. If not the other layers

can pull up and create a mess.

Don't ask how I know this.

Live and learn!

The hardest part for me was deciding on 

what kind of face to paint on it.
I love how the little vines look like 

little wisps of hair.

Once it was painted and dried,

I coated it with a layer of Mod Podge to 

seal it.  If you don't the paint can scratch off

easily and who wants that when you've put 

time and effort into it.

And the Mod Podge gives it a nice finish.

This is a gift and I sure hope they like it as much

as I do.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope you'll try painting something a little

different.  I think there are a lot of cute things you could

do with glasses like this for Christmas, or any occasion

for that matter.

See you again soon!