Free Halloween Download- A Witch, Her Little Monsters, One Handsome Devil

Okay.... I've decided.  I'm coming back. I've been gone away for waaaay too long from my craft blog having babies and doing lots of other stuff... but there has been some thing missing from my life. I miss making things and sharing them up here on my blog. I guess I have still been making things, but I just haven't been able to find the time to document it up here on the blog. It's such a great way to remember all the fun things we do together as a family.

A new thing that I've been dabbling in, has been digital scrapbooking & art. I've made a few Halloween printables and thought it would be fun to share them up here. (free printable no longer available) They should be able to print out at 16x20, but I've only printed them at 8x10. You can also print them at 4x6 if you wanted... (Maybe make them into a card??? I might have to try that one.) Anyways....They're all the same ratio, so it should work.

I made three variations....

All orange.

One that is Gray & Purple.

One that has Orange and Purple.

Happy Halloween!

Simply Scrappin' Cards

Here are some easy cards that you can make using a Stampin' Up Simply Scrappin' kit. The kit is usually used for scrapbooking. The kits comes with cardstock, patterned papers, die cut stickers and images. Instead of making a scrapbook page from the kit you can make cards, lots of cards. Add some ribbons, brads or other embellishments and you have beautiful cards that are easy, quick and simple.

Mother's Day Cards

Here are the mother's day cards that I made this year for my dear sweet mother, and mother in laws. I wanted to have some sparkle so I added some glitter to both the flowers and the butterfly. They are essentially the same card, only differnt color scheme.

Root Beer Reindeer

Here is the gift that the kids helped me make for their teachers as a Christmas present. These are root beer bottles and coke bottles turned into adorable little reindeers. The kids helped me put on the chenille stick (aka pipe cleaner) antlers. Plus they helped me put their collars and nametags on. We decided to make Rudolph special and gave him a bell on his collar. I covered the cardboard pack that the root beer comes in with paper and then printed out a pretty picture for the front and said Merry Christmas on it.

We hot glued on googly eyes and a red pompom for Rudolph and black or brown pompoms for the other 5 reindeer.
Here is a side shot of the reindeer pack. You can see here how there are root beer bottles in front and then we wanted the reindeer in the back to be seen so we took glass bottles of Coke and put them in the back.



Here is a printable so you can print it out and attach it to the front of the root beer bottle box. (click on the image until it is large then save the image and print it out.)

Plus if you click here you can see how to make that cute little red glittery ornament. It's super simple. All you need is a glass ornament, an ink refill and glitter. Another fun little gift idea.

Christmas Card Envelopes

Every year I enjoy making Christmas cards to send out.

This year I decided to do something a bit different. I designed my own Christmas card on the computer with a compilation of pictures,

then made a designer envelope to mail out all of my cards. It was a great way to use a variety of patterned papers that I had here in red, green, burgundy, copper and silver. I added a stamped image on the outside of the envelope and they were ready to mail!


So much fun.

Here are some of the tools I used.

Bone folder to make nice crisp edges... especially important when using cardstock.

Used SU 5 in 1 template... not a normal size of card, but it is the perfect size for a picture that is 4 x 6 since the envelope comes out at 4.5 inches by 6 or 7 inches... which made it the perfect choice for this Christmas Card.

Envelope glue... made it more real, worked really well. This dries and gives the envelope a normal envelope seal. Lick it and it seals.

Finally the other life saver was the adhesive eraser. It helped when my mono tombo tape went over the edge, I erased the excess adhesive so it didn't stick where it wasn't supposed to.