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:

 Free Pretty Things For You

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.

(click to see details larger)

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!)

(back cover)

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.

Prima Pumpkins!

Well, pumpking carving time has arrived, but I don’t like the disgusting task of carving a pumpking…..so I decided to make bedazzled pumpkins instead! 

I bought 3 mini pumpkins at the grocery store and used my Prima brand (Say It With Crystals) self-adhesive jeweled flourishes to pretty them up.  Very simple.  I just stuck them on starting at the stem (I wanted to curl one end around the stems) and smoothed them down onto the pumpkin until I reached the end.  

(click any photo to see larger)

(I used this American Crafts ribbon from my shop)

Aren’t they purty punkins?

They’re featured today over at the Practical Scrappers blog with some other awesome altered Halloween projects.  Click here to go see the other cool stuff!

I’m gonna share this at these awesome sites:

Skip to my Lou

 Craftomaniac

 Night Owl Crafting

 Blue Cricket Design

Skip to My Lou

Lines photos.

This week (last Sunday) Edie and I continued with our theme of LINES on our photography challenge blog.  I must say that Edie’s photo is absolutely fantastic.  I’m not even kidding.  AWESOME.  Go check it out!

Here’s mine:

I was actually hanging out on a country road waiting for the sunrise so I could get photos of THAT, but there was a lot of fog going on and I think I was a bit too late also and instead I noticed the fog hanging over this field of beans was making these cool looking lines, so I took photos of that instead! 

Okay, so seriously go see Edie’s photo on the blog here.

Pet Photo Contest at Pets Jubilee!

My etsy shop is a member of the Pets Jubilee team and this month they’re having a fun contest.  Submit a photo of your pet dressed in their Halloween costume.  How cute!  There are 3 entries so far and they’re so creative!  There is actually a marionette!  ha ha   Here are the details:

This month’s theme is “Halloween”. Show us your pet in costume, or in a Halloween setting. Send in your photo, slide show, or video of your pet. Add some words to be posted with their pic to go along with the theme, and don’t forget to include their name(s). We’ll be accepting entries from now through the 31st noon EST. See the right side bar for more information.

We welcome all pets: dogs, cats, birds, gerbils, hamsters, geckos, chickens, frogs, turtles, snakes, pigs, horses, just to name a few.

Sometime on the 1st, we’ll choose a winner using random.org and announce the results here. So comment as often as you like for as many furbabies as you like.

You can go here to get the e-mail address to enter.  It would be fun to have one of my blog readers win, so let me know if you enter!