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Fourth Friday Challenge for September 2010

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Its Fourth Friday challenge time again – can you believe it!  Time sure flies!

This month, we want to see all your wonderful Halloween ideas! 

It can be any type of project:  card, scrap page, alerted item, treat pack – we want to see them all.  The only rule is that you link up a project newly created for this challenge, although feel free to combine it with other current challenges out there in blogland.  

Although we would love to see all the art you care to share, everyone will be entered in the prize drawing only once.  One winner will be drawn randomly to win the prize.  You have until midnight (EST) on Saturday, October 2nd to link up your project.  Just click the little froggy face at the bottom of this post to add your project.

Your prize this month is this wonderful Halloween sentiment cling stamp.  Can’t wait to see what you create!

 For my project, I created another treat box. 

I used the clear pillow box for my base.  I really like how thick and sturdy they are.  The Witch is from the Best Witches cling stamp set.  I colored her with copics and used a circle cutter to cut around her partially.  Then I cut the rest with scissors so part of her sticks outside the circle.  She is matted on a circle and scalloped circle cut with Spellbinder dies.

The tag is from the Bump in the Night clear set – the definition is too funny!  I used the same set to stamp the Trick or Treat on the purple strip in white.

The purple is cardstock punched on both sides with the Scalloped-scallop border punch.  I inked the tag and the Witch image background with Scattered Straw Distress Ink and a duster brush.

Here are all my project pieces:

For the ribbon. I just colored the plaid ribbon from the I Want it White collection with my Copic YG-25 marker.

Here is the back.

So that is my project – I hope you link up your projects (with the little froggy at the bottom of this post).  I’d love to see them! 

Need a little more inspiration?

How about this cute treat holder from Amber?  She used the Candy Corn clear stamp set with the pillow box for her creation.

Or maybe this wonderful project by Linda?  She used the Happy Halloweenie cling set (bet you didn’t know that skeletons could be cute!).

 

 

 

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Ever have one of those days??

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Sometimes things don’t go exactly as planned….

I’ve always LOVED this witch image  by Eat Cake Graphics.  I particularly love that the witch carries a cell phone – and that her shoes came off (I always do her with fancy red toe nails)!

I did the “out of the box” technique (where the image hangs outside the box sides).  I thought it would make the crash look – well, more “crash-y”.  In case inquiring minds want to know, here is what I used for this card.

As for things not going as planned… well it just that as usual,  I’m way behind and chasing my tail.  Too many ideas and not enough time. 

I think just about every Mom of young kids on the planet can relate.  We are still perfecting our back to school schedule (yeah… that’s what we’re doing…. perfecting.  It only looks like complete chaos trying to get lunches made, permission slips signed, homework packed and squealing the van out of the driveway to get DD #1 to band practice by 7:45.   Give me a week and this will all be smooth as silk…)

I have some new fall digi stamps in the works (and if I don’t make more progress – there will be snow on the ground before I can get them done!).  And I know I have not sent out a newsletter  in a while (that’s in the works too).

You still have time to join the Halloween Garden Walk Blog Hop.  There is another cute Eat Cake Graphics stamp set up for grabs as a prize. 

And don’t forget to pop over to the store and check out the new fall and winter goodies – there are some very cute Penny Black sets that I can’t wait to play with.

Oh… and Girl Scout camp was fun!  Part of it was training for adult leaders.  We did some campfire cooking and made corn bread muffins in a foil lined cardboard box.  How cool is that?

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A Little Summer Break

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We are taking a little family summer break.  :)

We are planning a few fun trips, a few family visits - and maybe tackle a few of those projects that have been hanging around the house forever!   Possibly a trip to the beach is in order.

I will be around to answer e-mail (and maybe sneak in a blog post or two…).

But…

Any orders placed in the store after Sunday, July 25 won’t be shipped until Monday, August 9th.

I hope this is not too much of an inconvenience.  I’ve found that running the store, while fun, can be very demanding.  Taking a break from it once a year keeps it fresh.  Its always exciting to dive back in after being away for a while.

Speaking of diving –  what do you think of Jack?  I think he is pretty cute in his retro swim suit.  I colored him with Copics – for some reason I was in the mood for orange.

For the blue background, I stamped the Cover-a-card Circle Swirl background stamp  in white ink.  Then I just added the sandcastle that comes with Jack as a little accent.

Speaking of Jack – Rachel H won the Jack at the beach stamp for sharing her opinions on digi stamps.  Rachel – I sent you an e-mail.

 

 

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