Halloween Crow Altered Laughing Cow Cheese Box/Candle Holder

Hello lovely crafters.  Here is a project (as promised) that Nancy and I did at the CKC in Jacksonville last month.  Isn't this cool.  I took inspiration from many of the decorated crows I have seen on Pinterest and took it up several notches.  I am into these crows this year.  There are 100's of them at the Dollar Store and I want every one of them....lol

What the decorations are sitting on is an alter Laughing Cow cheese box....yeah I know I have a lot of them don't I.  But hey this is not just any Laughing Cow cheesebox-this is the DOUBLE ONE!!!  lol  Yes this will open if you want to put something  like "candy" in it.  Or better yet, a healthy thing to do would make a little mini to fit inside!

These beautiful roses were created with a Marvey Punch, painted with glue and glittered with "Paprika" colored glitter.  Aren't they vivid.  I place some purple shiny balls in-between the flower and some green glitter leaves in my floral arrangement.  I used cheesecloth around the decorations for a spooky-eerie effect!

Here is a close up of the crows necklace and hat.

Here's how the back side looks.

This skeleton is so cool with the spider on top of his head.  Yeah, I am liking skeletons this year too.  I don't even watch any scary movies or shows but they appeal to me this year....lol  I just think they are fun.  Thanks for stopping by.  Below is a video of my project and a little peep at the inside of my home with all my Halloween decorations.   On weekends I have them lit for most of the day.  It's so pretty.  Happy Crafting.  See you soon!

 

Entering these challenges

All Crafts Challenge  -  Anything but a card

Created with Love Challenge  -  Any Holiday

Haunted Design House Macabre Monday -  Halloween Dimensional

Sparkle and Sprinkle - Anything goes with glitter

Stamp and Create  -  Halloween



Anything but a Card Challenge  -  Colors of the Season Black & Orange

The Corrosive Challenge  -  Cute and Creepy

The Squirrel and the Fox  -  Things with Wings

Crazy 4 Challenges  - Halloween

PunkyouGirl  - Halloween

CKC Convention Nancy & I

 Have you ever had so much fun that you wished you could do it over and over again?  Here is my dear sweet friend Nancy who lives in Alabama.  This is us at the CKC Convention in Jacksonville Florida about a month ago.   I had the absolute pleasure of meeting Nancy in person along with her wonderful family.  Our dream came true to finally meet and craft together.  Gosh, I had the greatest time ever.  Let me tell you that Nancy is just as sweet in person as she is on her blog and at SCS and even more.  She's beautiful both inside and out.  It was like we've known each other all our lives-like I have never known life without Nancy in it.  We had so much fun crafting, talking, laughing, and visiting that I hoped it would never end.  It was so hard to bid farewell when it was over.   But, the good news is......we (my husband and I) are going to Alabama in February for a visit.....lol    The guys will hunt and we will "hunt" for scrapbooking stuff in the stores, and craft, and talk, and visit!!!   Yeah-I can't wait.

Here is the card we made at one of the classes we took.  We only did one class and a couple of make and takes.  But we did go to the crops for two nights and that was fun.  I'll be showing you in the next couple of days what we made at the crops.  You will love it.  Everyone at the crops did.  We even won a prize for what we were making.  It was such a blast that I wish we were doing it all over again this weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.  I really appreciate it.  See you soon and Happy Crafting.

Crystal and Joey's Wedding Album Part 1

Caution: this is an image heavy post!!!!  Hello dear friends and fellow crafters.  Today I want to share with you Part 1 of 2 not so mini albums that I made for Crystal and Joey who are my dearest friend Nancy's (What's on My Kitchen Counter) daughter and son-in-law.  I had the absolute pleasure of giving this to the Newlywed couple in September and meeting Nancy.  (I should have more pictures this week of that).  So here is the cover of the first album.

This is the first page.  If you remember the card that I made for them here back in May-it is what I took my inspiration from for this album.

Here is how this page opens for a type of waterfall element to hold lots of pictures.

Lace and Bling was used throughout the album.  This is a pocket page with three good sized tags for pictures and journaling.  The inspiration for this page came from my friend and fellow CottageCuz design team member:  Cheryl Walker (Sweeet Designs by Cheryl)

Close up of all the pretty flowers that I made for throughout the album.

 

A place to put pictures of each of their families.

 

This shows how that opens up and has pockets with tags.

 

This piece is at the top and opens up to hold 5 photos.  The tag part is under this.  This album happens to be very interactive.

 

A place for the wedding party photos.  You can see I used lots of dies and punching.

 

This is how this opens up to place the photos.

 

On this page for "Our Guest" is a booklet with velco closure.

 

It opens up to reveal more places for pictures and there are tags in the pockets.

On this page we have photo mats for the Reception and the first dance.

 

The piece with the envelopes opens up to this element that holds two large tags.

 

And the little envelopes open and hold these little tags.

 

The design of this booklet on this page matches the card I made the wedding couple to a "T".

 

It opens up to place more pictures.  Those lace die cuts are open so that the pictures will slide right down into them.

 

On the left is an envelope design feature that holds three tags.  On the right are photo mats for the ceremony and the kiss.

On the last page, just wanted to share with you how pretty these tags are.  I purchase this mini album at Michaels. It had 10 chipboard pages of 10 x 11. Because I have so many embellishments and interactive pages this album turned into two albums because it is really thick. For the two albums I worked on this for a good six weeks. It made me use my brain....lol I actually bound it with duct tape. I found that the duct tape was really sturdy and I feel confident that it will withstand the test of time. This was so fun to create and even a greater sense of joy to present this to the Wedding couple. I will be back soon with the second album. If you would like more detail information, please watch the attached video. Thanks for stopping by. Happy Crafting and see you soon!

Winterland Village Tag Holder Gift Box

 Hello everyone and welcome to my CottageCutz Design Team project.  What I have here is a four matchbox drawer tag holder.  For the focal point, I used the Winterland Village Die, for the bottom lace, Fancy Lace Border, and for the accent under the pointsettia, Crystal Flurry Snowflake.

 The Winterland Village was distressed with Tea Dye Distress ink and then glitter with a pretty shiny glitter.

 The poinsettia are from the Michael's Dollar bin from last year.  I put a little extra stickles on them.  The Pearl bling is from Want2Scrap.

 This measures 9-3/4" x 3-1/2 inches.  For the top and bottom use some light chipboard such as cereal boxes to give a bit of strength to your project.  Be sure to cover both the bottom of the top cover and the bottom of the project.  This box was inspired by one that I pinned from this site.

 The drawers are filled with tags from the Homemade Christmas Giftset.  Here are the Gingerbread, distressed with Tea Dye Distress Ink and holding a little Recollection HoHoHo sign.  Aren't they cute!

 In this drawer there is a set of mittens with a little Holly accent.  The mittens were cut with red cardstock and then little scraps were cut again to make the cuffs.

 In this drawer are the snowman.  They have been accented with little Recollection Snowflakes.  The hats were cut with scrap black cardstock and adhered.

 

In this drawer are the sweet Christmas Trees.  They have a little seam binding bow tied at the top.  In each drawer there is a set of 4 tags, but it could easily fit more.

  Don't you think this would make a fantastic gift to a special friend.  Fill it with these adorable tags and she will love you for taking care of her gift wrapping needs.   The tags are housed in such a pretty container that can be used over and over again.  Thanks so much for viewing my project.  I really appreciate it.  See you soon.

Here are the dies used:

Colorless Mini Album Swap-My Scrap Room

 Hello Everyone!!!  Here is a project I want to share for the swap I did over at "My Scrap Room".  It was called a "Colorless" Mini Album.  We were to make an album 4 x 6 with six pieces of chipboard using only white, cream, tan, and beige along with tea dye distress ink and black ink for stamping.   My album is 4 x 6 x 4-yeah it is really thick and I made it twice trying to reduce the size of it-but no it came out thick too the second time.  Oh well, I have another mini for me.  I will show that one to you soon too.   The first photo is of the album cover.

 Here is the first and second page.  On the left is a page with a couple of tags and all metal embellishments are from Recollection.  On the right is one of my hand crocheted flowers with a bird die cut from CottageCutz.  I used the Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch Around the page for the photo mats.

 Page 3 & 4 is tag pockets using lace and a crochet flower.  The leaves are a CottageCutz die and so is that beautiful Birdcage on the tag on the right. 

 Page 5 and 6 are elements that open to hold photos.  The flowers are Prima and some that I won at the Crop at CKC in Jacksonville.  The wreath is a CottageCutz die.  The stamps are Cloud 9 and something I got a JoAnn's on clearance a while back.

 Page 7 & 8  include a little CottageCutz envelope that opens to include a little mini inside.  The photo mat on the right is spellbinders dies with "Want2Scrap bling.  There are a couple of Marvey Punch glittered hearts behind the crochet flower.

 

For page 9 & 10 I have another page that opens to place a couple photos inside.  The tags on the right are again the pretty CottageCutz Birdcage.  The doilies throughout are Cheery Lynn.  This was a blast to make.  I really enjoyed it and hope to do it again-just think how cool this would be for Halloween.  Thanks for visiting today.  Below is a video in case you want to see more of the album.  Please excuse the lens cap in the lower left hand corner.  I video recorded this at work so I could send the album off to my swappie and didn't notice the boo boo until it was too late.  Thanks for watching.  Happy Crafting.

Sunflower, Smiles, and Sunshine

 There's lots here happening at Chocolate Crafts and Bears, Oh My!  I know,  I know, my blog has had post few and far between of late-it doesn't mean I haven't been crafting away.  As a matter of fact, I feel like a Scrapper on Steriods-I have done so many projects I haven't shared!!!! lol  Wait until you see what's been cooking.  I will be posting a bunch this week.

 I made this card for the "Queen for the Day" over at Splitcoast Stampers.  Trish had asked me to be the guest designer, so I couldn't refuse.  I love Sunflowers.  Gosh they are so pretty.  So I had colored this PSX stamp and had it ready to go for a card.  I cut and layered it three times.  I LOVE the dimension I was able to achieve.  I used stickles on the flower and glossy accents for the center.

 The butterflies are Martha Stewart along with the punch-around-the page design element.  The center is a Spellbinders die.  The lacy corners are a Cheery Lynn die.

Are you in fall mode?  I know I am.  I am putting up my fall/Halloween decorations and cleaning.  I haven't put my decorations up for about 4 years minimum I think.  I am always sick at this time with my Asthma.  I finally found out what is happening, how to control it, and am able to breath.  It feels great.  The doctor said that asthma is the only disease that people don't realize how sick they are.  They just learn to live with it.  Boy, when he said that, it described me to a "T".   So I will share some pictures of my vignettes soon too.  Happy Crafting!!!