PARTY INVITATIONS

My oldest daughter Susan Liles (susiestampalot.blogspot.com) has two daughters in elementary school. Annually, there is a fund-raiser for various things at the school (I'll bet you never heard of that happening! :D ). Anyway, they try to come up with something to do in an auction every year, and this year Susan had a TERRIFIC idea --- make up baskets filled with party giving goodies to be auctioned off! All Moms have to give birthday parties for their little ones every year and who doesn't run around getting paper plates, cups, decorations, invitations, etc. to throw a party!?!? This was a great idea to have a basket full of these goodies already made up making this job soooooo much easier!! Of course, Grandma, had to contribute something, so I came up with these two invitations (boy and girl) with envelopes to add to the basket. I thought they turned out really cute! Hope you like them.

CRAFT ROOM

I am using my second bedroom as my craft room. A while ago, after cleaning it (as well as could be expected for a lot of stuff), I took some pictures of it to send to my Uncle Garner who lives in Dallas so he could see my "creative" space. In return he made this collage (is that how you spell it?). I thought it was TERRIFIC and speaks so well for his computer savvy!! So, I'm sharing it and his talents with you!!

FALL 2009

I'm in the middle of making a bunch of Halloween cards to take to my doctor's office for he and his staff to pick from for their families and friends. I'm also doing my usual duties - cleaning, dishes, laundry - that I do every week-end.

During the cleaning chores, I got down my fall decorations -- a swag of fall leaves for the front door and the table decorations for the dining room. The door swag I ordered online a really long time ago and pack it away every year. The table is made up of two gorgeous ceramic pumpkins and a black candle stand that my daughter, Susan, gave me for my birthday last year. All of the other things (fall leaves - actually 3 vines of them - pumpkins, goards, etc.) I purchased last year at the Dollar Store (and, yes, they were ACTUALLY a dollar).

This is my favorite time of the year -- the colors, foliage, and everything! We're having our first chill of the season. It's in the high 50's low 60"s outside and the leaves on my trees are falling in the yard. GREAT!!!!! Sooooooooo nice! I think it looks wonderful and will enjoy it for the next weeks before putting out the Christmas decorations.

Thank you for stopping my and I'll see you guys later.

WITCHIE WITCH

Here we are again with another Halloween card using the little witch from Stamping Bella. This layout was posted on Kristine B (Oregon) blog http://www.inksomething.blogspot.com/ . This was so much fun to make ... I had ALL the ingredients needed without going out to add to my already bulging stash of stamps, paper, embelishments. I love the way it turned out with all the just right layout (thank you, Kristine). I hope you like it, too! Come see me again.

TRICK OR TREAT HEDGIES

I found it!! I had stored away this Stampin Up set from waaayyyy back, but it's one of my favorite Halloween sets -- "Halloween Hedgehogs". This particular stamp is so much fun to color and to use on a card -- it says it all!!! I used my Copics to color. The old fence and tree images are from a more recent SU set - "Home is Where the Haunt is" -- and I embossed this image using black ep (thank you, Susan, for this suggestion). The little candy corns and stars in the sky are also from the Hedgehogs set colored with Copics. I punched the moon out using a CM punch. I accented the images and the punched out moon in Spica glitter pens in complementary colors. This is one of my favorite cards so far this Halloween season. Look for more in coming posts. Thank you for stopping by!

GHOULIES!!

I visited Sherrie at our neighborhood store (Scrapper's Boutique) yesterday and picked out this little stamp from some new ones she got in .... I'm so glad I went by as these seem to fly out the door before I even know they're there!! I'm on vacation this week, so, had I been working, I'm sure this cutie would have gone they way so many more have done -- GONE!! I colored this with my Copics (thank you Jen for the lessons) and mounted it on black cardstock. The sentiment "Have a BOO-tiful Halloween" I did on my computer and backed it with black and orange cardstock. they may not show up well in the photo, but I put in black eyelets to run the ribbon thru. I just LOVE this little card and know my grandkids will like it too.

ANOTHER LITTLE WITCHIE!

Here's another little witch card. I had an image in my mind about doing some "scribbles" with the colors that I used on the card -- gray, orange, black, light purple. That's what the background is in the middle of the card. I offset the little witch image (colored with Copics) and put a tag accented with Primas at the top corner. I added a black/white check ribbon to the orange ribbon in the bottom part of the card. I hope you enjoy it! Come back and see me again!