Treat Bags:)

So I'd been to an Embellished Memories technique Friday and learned how to do what I call a crayon box and I knew right then that was what I was going to use for my Halloween treats. I did a few variations (10 in total) and then I did 30 bag toppers.

So here they are. My bag topper was super simple just a 3x3 card with the Mummy stamped on white card stock and then quickly stapled to the black card.

The crayon box was an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper, scored and cut in the right spots. Super simple to do and I would have done more but I ran out of Halloween colours and I'm trying to use up a lot of my paper stash because really don't we all just have too much! LOL!

And Halloween just continued for me

Well it seems like a just couldn't stop after I got my groove on with those cards for my DH. I continued on with a ton more.... There were even ones that I did and then just didn't care for and then I remembered my Stickles and boom off I went. A couple of them even got made into Birthday cards because they were so dang cute and close to Halloween.

The first one is a 41/4x3 and I made it specially for one of my friends far away because Halloween is not really her thing, so I just slipped it into a Thinking of you card.

The next two photos were before and after Stickles. (who doesn't love Stickles?!)

Don't you just love those monsters! I do:) and I thought with the EEK that it made a really funny b-day card for my girlfriend. (at least I thought it was funny ;)

The last card here is for my cousin, his birthday is the day before Halloween and I did a little burnished velvet technique here.


So once I got all the cards I needed out of the way then there was the question.... What to do for treat bags? :) hmmm

I'm not to good at this blog thing:)

So I think I'm pretty bad at this whole blog thing. I mean I love making cards and would love to share them with everyone but just never seem able to get around to putting them on my blog....hmmm.

I was on a big Halloween kick this year for making cards and such:) because my DH ordered up 5 speciality cards, he'd been on a business trip and some how got on to the topic of me scrapin' . (I believe the conversation was something along the line that he tried to get me hooked on drugs (not really) because it was cheaper! He thinks he's a funny guy... and sometimes he is.) So these cards couldn't be just regular cards they had to be SUPER special at least on my part! So I started off with my new little Mummy... when I found him at Michaels in the $1.50 bin I just had to have him:) I couldn't decide how to best use him though, I tried a couple of different things before I decided on doing some black embossing powder and white flock. I think he turned out pretty cute....even if I do say so myself:) The next one is a pretty simple card but usually gets a great WOW affect:) It's a 5x5 card that is just too simple once you know how. Then I needed a third design when my DH came home from work with my order from CTMH I'd been waiting on my new ink colours and completely forgotten that I'd ordered these little monsters! I LOVE them:) So this kicked off a Halloween spree for me and even though it's now over I thought I'd share them with you.

This is an image that I picked up a while back. I couldn't resist! I'm a card maker so this to me is a great image for birthday cards:) This is also just a basic layout for a card.

My first publication:)

Wow I never thought that I would ever publish anything that I've ever done myself! This is a card that I made for one of my best friends for her birthday. You could also use this for Thanks Giving. It is one of my all time favourites:)

Here's to a new year:)

Well school started a little earlier for the boys this year than normal but so far so good:) I can't believe they're both in Middle school now~WOW~ I'm hoping that this will be a great year for them and for our family. The power of positive thinking!!