Happy Fall Crow Card.

Here’s a cute card I made for someone last week.  I used a crow digital stamp from Scrappin Doodles (they provide free stamps every Friday). 

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I used a black patterned paper scrap for my background and a yellow leaf paper doily from the Dollar Tree store.  He’s holding the little flag that I made by using a sewing straight pin with a yellow head and attaching the flag I wrote on with a glue dot.  I also used Stickles on the lines of the pumpkins and the crow’s beak and feet to add a bit of sparkle.

Oh!  I also glued on a couple googly eyes (with eyelashes!) just for fun.  What do you think?

I’m sharing this project here:

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Pansy anniversary card.

Back in August I showed you a card I made for my hubby after his surgery.  He was in a lot of pain and kept calling himself a pansy because he couldn’t take it, so I made him a pansy get well card.  You can see that here if you missed it.  I had actually intended to make him another later, but never got around to it and then decided after I looked at it closer that these 2 birds could be lovebirds and I used it for an anniversary card last month!

Of course, my favorite thing Stickles makes it sparkly.  Here’s another angle.

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See?  I love what you can do with a tiny little bottle of glittery glue!

Breast cancer awareness pumpkin.

Recently when I was making my jeweled Prima pumpkins, I decided to also make a breast cancer pumpkin in honor of Anita and Aunt Teresa.  I took the same route as the pink bra I made in 2008.  Here is the pumpkin before:

I bought a $2 pumpkin at the dollar store, tore all the stuff off of it, painted it pink with acrylic paint, and then covered it with pink Prima flowers. I stuck them on using Mod Podge.

 And here’s what it looks like now:

I used mostly all the same color pink but threw in a few lighter colored flowers here and there.  I rolled up a piece of dark green vellum and stuck it on the top for the stem.

Cute, huh?

I’m sharing my project here:

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Googly eyes picture frame.

I saw an awesome idea on this blog for making a picture frame covered in googly eyes, so I made my own.  I got a picture frame at Goodwill (for a whopping 50 cents) a long time ago with the thought that I would alter it someday, so I dug that out of my cabinets and got to work.  I remembered to take a before photo after I had started painting already, but you can see a bit of what it looked like before here:

I painted it black with cheap acrylic paint from Hobby Lobby.  Then I just covered the frame bit by bit with Mod Podge and google eyes (from Dollar Tree for a buck).  I love that they’re all different sizes.  I got 4 bags because I wasnn’t sure how many it would take, but I only used 3.

Here’s my finished project!

What do you think?  Isn’t it CUTE?

Butterfly birthday card.

My hubby needed a birthday card for an old friend, so I went through my scraps and found this pretty polka dot paper.  I stamped the butterfly onto a white paper doily (it’s a Jenni Bowlin stamp) with ink to match as best as I could get it.

I love that ribbon from Little Red Cottage on etsy.  I took a glitter pen and outlined all of the butterfly’s lines with it.  Can you see the sparkle?

On a side note, there is a post at Practical Scrappers with some great pet layouts and cards.  You can check that out here if you’re interested.

Mummy candy bar Halloween treat

What do you get when you take this…..

(package of gauze from the dollar store)

AND put it with this?

You get THIS:

I wish I could afford to buy 30 full size Hershey bars, I would totally make these for Summer’s class Halloween party…but geesh candy bars ain’t cheap nowadays!  ha ha

Isn’t he cute?

I’m sharing him here:

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Fall and leaf layout and card inspiration

Practical Scrappers featured more fall projects on Thursday and my latest page for their design team was included.  Here it is:

I actually changed a couple things but am too lazy at this moment to take another photo for you.  ha ha

You can go over to the Practical Scrappers site and see some more fall inspiration here.

Halloween layout and card inspiration.

Over at Practical Scrappers we have recently featured lots of awesome Halloween layouts and Halloween cards.  There is some great talent showcased here for layouts and here for cards.  Go over and check them out!

Sympathy card.

Here’s another recent card I made.  This time I again used a cover from a catalog.  The rose and leaves are a stamp from Papertrey Ink and I stamped the flower onto sparkly My Minds Eye paper. 

See the sparkle?

Fright Night Halloween mini scrapbook.

 This was a mini book I made as part of the design team over at Practical Scrappers for their post featuring Halloween projects.  You can see all the other cool stuff here.

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I recently made a cute little mini Halloween book with Summer’s trick or treating photos from back in 2006.  She was Little Bo Peep that year, and that was the last time she let me pick out her costume.  ha ha!

Here’s a closer view of the inside pages.  I used a lot of Stickles to make the candies and some of the pumpkins sparkly.  I also added googly eyes to the pumpkins and owl just to make it more fun.  Click on the photos to see the details better!

(check out her best friend’s costume…she was the bride of frankenstein and she looked AWESOME!)

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What do you think?  Isn’t it cute?  I saw a really cute idea the other day of a mini album showing all of your kid’s costumes through the years, and I’m gonna make one of those really soon.  Love that idea.