Halloween Treats and Stamp Treats!

I made these simple and fun covers for mini-M&M treats for all of my Workshop attendees last night. They were very simple to put together and I got the idea from Patty Bennett. She used a different paper and a different shape for her mini Hershey Bars, but the bat, "boo" and moon with a golden bow were the same. I love how that moon looks!

I fussy cut those bats and the "boo" was cut using a 3/4" Circle Punch. My ink colors were Basic Black and Tangelo Twist. The Designer Paper is Typeset Specialty. I didn't really put folds into it, just use Tear & Tape to adhere it to the bag and then to itself. The pieces were cut 4" x 6".

I just got back in town from a long vacation, so this is the first opportunity to tell you about our Stamp Sale! Please take advantage of it TODAY, as it ends TOMORROW!!

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Hello Autumn--I'm Still Waiting!

Here on the West Coast, we are still in summer mode. Yes, leaves are falling, but the temperatures are NOT! At least we got some rain recently, which is very unusual for September. Last night my favorite stamping buddies joined me for a workshop and this is one of the cards we made.

Here is a closeup of the card element. My 2" banner was cut using the Banner Triple Punch, as well as the Corrugated Paper banner (1") underneath it. On the side, I stamped the large acorn image from Cheer All Year in Early Espresso onto the Kraft Card Stock. I used paper snips to cut it out and popped it on dimensionals over the Tangelo Twist Striped Cotton Ribbon. The ribbon was tied using Old Olive Baker's Twine. My card base is Crumb Cake.

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Boo! For September Pals Blog Hop

Welcome to the Pals Blog Hop for September! This month we are showing off favorite new products from the new Stampin' Up! Holiday Catalog. We hope you enjoy our projects!

You may just be staring the blog hop or may have come from Jennifer Michalski at Stampin' Serenity, #2 on the Pals Hop. If you get off track any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog to see all of the projects.

Created by Patti MacLeith for September Pals Blog Hop

 

Here are the two items I created. It is VERY hard to pick favorite products. I want them all and I have acquired a lot of them! I chose to make my very first Square Pillow Box for the challenge and I cannot believe how smooth the dies are to use!!

Matchbook Style Gift Card Holder or Treat Holder

Cheer All Year 139839 $25

I made this matchbook style favor from Very Vanilla card stock that is embossed with black spiders from the Cheer All Year stamp set. (Sorry you can't tell from the photo how shiny my spiders are). This project could be a gift card holder or you could insert a small piece of wrapped candy, such as a Ghirardelli Chocolate Square. The "BOO" sentiment is also from Cheer All Year and I used Crystal Effects to make it shiny. It looks like a button, also, because I layered a bunch of 1" circles to give it depth. Just make sure you cut out the circle BEFORE you use Crystal Effects. It won't fit into your punch afterwards. Those teeny pumpkins come from the Square Pillow Box Framelits. There are all kinds of ways to decorate your Square Pillow Box once you easily cut and assembled it.

Square Pillow Box Treat or Gift Holder

"Happy Haunting" is also a sentiment from Cheer All Year. You can see how versatile and diverse this set it. The bat image is inked in Basic Black and stamped onto Tangelo Twist card stock. I fussy cut it using my Paper Snips. It's anchored over the stripes from Typeset Specialty DSP and I threw in some very thin, hand-cut strips that I kinked up by hand. There are Christmas and Thanksgiving sentiments and images as well (see below).

Square Pillow Box Thinlits 139657 $33.00

The next stop is Hop is Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin', #4 on the Pals Hop. Thanks for visiting. I hope to see you next month on the Pals Hop!

PALS HOP LINE-UP:

1. Peggy Noe at prettypapercards.com
2. Jennifer Michalski at Stampin’ Serenity
3. Patti MacLeith at Papercrafts by Patti
4. Wendy Klein at Doggone Delightful Stampin’
5. Nicole Watt at Pixel Maven’s Retreat
6. Ronna Butt at www.cardstockcastle.com
7. Kalyn Shubnell at The Stamping Chronicles
8. Susan Itell at Simple Stampin
9. Mary Fish at Stampin’ Pretty
10. Shawn de Oliveira at ShawnStamps
11. Lisa Pretto at InkBIg Academy Stamps!
12. Tricia Chuba at ButterDish Designs
13. Brian King at Stamp with Brian
14. Michelle Gleeson at StampinMojo
15. Dawn Tidd at Tiddbits From Dawn
16. Jackie Diediker at Stampin’ Jackie
17. Becky Volpp at InkBlossomwithBecky
18. Sue Becker at www.rnrstamping.com
19. Jennifer Spiller at Westside Paper Creations
20. Lynn Kolcun at Avery’s Owlery
21. Pamela Sadler at Stampin Pink Rose
22. Beth McCullough at Stamping Mom
23. Karen Hallam at Karen’s Stampin’ Habit!

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One More Day!!

 It's really never too early to start making holiday cards. This time of year, everyone is going back to school, and sometimes that means a little more time for making things while those kiddos are gone all day.

Stampin' Up! is debuting their Holiday Catalog on September 1st, which is right around the corner--I mean TOMORROW!! It's so exciting! I don't make a lot of Halloween cards, but with the Happy Scenes stamp set (sentiment) and the Hearth and Home Framelits (Basic Black Window Frame), it's easy to have a little fun at this time of year. 

 

 I CASEd this card from Nicole Tugrul. I didn't have the spider web stamp (from new set Witches' Night) so I just drew my own spider web with my Basic Black Stampin' Write Marker. I used a Window Sheet to make a shaker window and put some In Color and retired silver sequins (from last year's Holiday Catalog) that will shake and move around inside my window. The black stars are from the Confetti Stars Border Punch and the background is embossed using the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder.  My little spider is from the Cheer All Year stamp set, also available tomorrow in the new Holiday Catalog. (If you need a copy and don't already have a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, please email me and I will send you a free Holiday Catalog)

Happy Scenes Photopolymer Stamp Set 139821 $21.00

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Too Cool 4 School

I made two of these cards to carry gift cards to my niece and nephew as they begin a new school year. They are 17 and 20, so in high school and college. I loved playing with the new stamp set Cheer All Year, which is where I got the feathers. The feathers are fussy cut using Paper Snips. I added some a piece of folded Mossy Meadow Striped Cotton Ribbon and a bow of Very Vanilla Thick Twine to anchor my flag. (Cherr All Year and Very Vanilla Thick Twine will be available September 1st in the Holiday Catalog). 

On my flag, I wrote: "You're Too Cool 4 School" using Basic Black and Delightful Dijon ink and the Alphabet Rotary stamp. The Whisper White flag is just about 7/8" wide and I centered it into the smallest "ditch" in the Banner Triple punch. My background is from Chocolate Chip card stock that I embossed using the Woodgrain Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. I hardly ever use Chocolate Chip anymore, so I really had to look around for some!

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Sneak Preview of 2015 Holiday Catalog

 I'm not normally a fan of starting Christmas before Thanksgiving, and certainly NOT in the summer, but when I received my preview items from the Holiday Catalog, which goes live in September, I just HAD to sit down and make a card. The idea to put one of the Home for Christmas Enamel Dots onto the new Reindeer Paper Clips came to me as soon as I had them side by side out of the box! I paired them with a simple sentiment from the versatile Cheer All Year stamp set and a print from the Merry Moments Designer Series Paper Stack for a fun, easy and quick card. My card base is my first use of the Heavy Whisper White Card Stock that Stampin' Up! began offering this summer.

I hope you enjoy my sample and that I haven't brought a chill to your summer! It's hot where I am, and today is definitely a pool day!

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