Halloween Hustle, Day 2

Welcome to our 5 days of "Halloween Hustle"! 

Yep, we will have 5 days worth of last minute ideas to trick your treats!  

You will ALSO see 3-D projects, home decor & even cards!  I hope you are ALL ready for some HALLOWEEN HUSTLE "FUN"! There will be giveaways all week! Check Emma's blog to see what it will be!  Also, if you missed out on our sale last week! Well....for this weekend ONLY, starting this Friday 10/25/2013 @ 12:01am PST  thru Sunday 10/27/2013 @ 11:59pm PST you can use the code OCT2013 to get 20% off your entire order in my store HERE!  Remember I told you about making a "Teeny Tag Holiday" stamp set? WELL....wait no longer, it will be available this Friday, 10/25/2013  in my store HERE!

Welcome to the second day of our Halloween Hustle. I truly enjoy crafting for Halloween, probably at least as much as I enjoy Christmas. But now I'm getting ahead of myself, so let's proceed with the projects, shall we. :)

My project for today is two tag cards that can be done quickly with stamps and a few dies, or you can go into a little more detail as I did and do some paper piecing, coloring, and embellishing.

This hat, that fits her perfectly, is a 2x2 die from Quickutz. I think this is my most favorite use of it since it joined my collection years ago! The broom is also a die (Cottage Cutz, I believe but don't quote me). I added stickles to her ginger hair and orange pebbles to her hat.

The base tag is by My Creative Time. I used both dies when I made my cut so I could get the scallop edge on the top and the arrow edge on the bottom. I added mesh tape for visual interest and texture, as well as more pebbles to her dress and a button for fun above the sentiment flag.

The adorable pumpkins are dies from My Creative Time....can you guess what they are? The Christmas ornaments die from the Warm Holiday Fun stamp and die set! I cut the pumpkin stems by hand and added leaves from My Creative Time, Piles of Smiles, which is also where you will find the sentiment. The swirly flourishes are a Quickutz 4x4 die.

For this one, I used a different Prima doll stamp also with a Halloween theme. I've paper pieced her dress as well, and used several dies, stamps and paper scraps to embellish.

I added a feather and bling to her hat because it's cool! The black bling was a gift from bff, Nikki. It's perfecto as a belt!

Sentiment and flag by My Creative Time, as well as the background stamps and leaves. Pumpkin dies by Peachy Keen.

Arrow die, label die and sentiment by My Creative Time. Bats stamp also by MCT.

Again, you don't have to get all fancy or time consuming if you need a quick project. You can use dimensional stickers instead of die cuts, pre-made tags, your cricut cartridge for the doll, and whatever sentiment you like! Just have fun! Thanks for coming by today, and be sure to check out more last minute Halloween projects by my DT Sisters too.

Product List:
Tag 1:
My Creative Time, Christmas Ornaments die
My Creative Time, Piles of Smiles sentiment stamp and leaf dies
My Creative Time, Chocolate Greetings flag die
My Creative Time, Large tag dies

Prima Mixed Media Doll stamp
Quickutz witch hat and flourish dies
My Mind's Eye, Mischievous 6x6 paper pad
Mesh tape, button, twine, glass pebbles, copic markers, stickles, broom die, foam tape

Tag 2:
My Creative Time, Fright Night stamp set
My Creative Time, Mixed Holiday Sentiments
My Creative Time, Build a Post Card
My Creative Time, Post Card add-ons

My Creative Time, Chocolate Greetings flag die
My Creative Time, Chunky Jar Accessories label die

My Creative Time, Mini frame and arrow die
My Creative Time, Piles of Smiles leaf
My Creative Time, All Around Holidays mini leaf die
Prima Mixed Media Doll stamp
Quickutz flourishes die

Cottage Cutz broom, hat, lantern, potion bottle

Peachy Keen pumpkin trio die

Paper scraps, tulle, button, twine, bling, black string pearls, washi tape, copic markers, stickles, foam tape

Halloween Hustle - Day 1~

Welcome to our 5 days of "Halloween Hustle"! 

Yep, we will have 5 days worth of last minute ideas to trick your treats!  

You will ALSO see 3-D projects, home decor & even cards!  I hope you are ALL ready for some HALLOWEEN HUSTLE "FUN"! There will be giveaways all week! Check Emma's blog to see what it will be!  Also, if you missed out on our sale last week! Well....for this weekend ONLY, starting this Friday 10/25/2013 @ 12:01am PST  thru Sunday 10/27/2013 @ 11:59pm PST you can use the code OCT2013 to get 20% off your entire order in my store HERE!  Remember I told you about making a "Teeny Tag Holiday" stamp set? WELL....wait no longer, it will be available this Friday, 10/25/2013  in my store HERE!

Are you ready to do the hustle? Well, the Halloween hustle, that is. We are sharing with you some last minute Halloween cards, decor, treats and party ideas each and every day this week! We hope some of these ideas will make your party the best on the block!!! :) Here we go.....

My first project for this week is a super cute little mini book. Each page is an envelope and each envelope contains a tag which you can use for a photo on one side and journaling on the other. Or pics on both sides, however you wish to use it! Without further adieu, I present my mini book. Surprisingly, this mini did not take much time at all. The envelopes make the perfect pocket pages, and pattern papers from a coordinating paper stack make it easy. Add embellishments if you like, or not! Either way, a simple little keepsake for pics of the kids' in their costumes!

Just for fun

Today I'm sharing a card I made using my newest stamp loves, Prima Mixed Media Dolls. They're so much fun to 'dress up' and they are so girly, I can't stop playing with them. I never did have enough paper dolls as a little girl--now I can have as many dolls as I want, and fill their pretend closets with awesome fashions! LOL

I used this adorable doll on a 'let's do lunch' card. Nothing special or fancy, but such fun to make. I pieced random paper scraps for the background and added a few distressed rubons and flourish die cuts. The fancy label for the sentiment is by Spellbinders. 

I added stickles highlights to her strawberry blonde hair, and a pretty flower that matches her outfit. The super cute teensy bling flowers I used for her hair clip and necklace are by Heidi Swapp. Pattern papers for her outfit are scraps from MME, Mischievous 6x6 paper pad.

 Sentiment by My Creative Time from the You're Brilliant stamp set. Arrow die is also MCT.

That's it for today. Just playing around with my paper dolls. :) Hope you're having a great weekend! See you back here tomorrow with the first of My Creative Time's Halloween Hustle. Five days of tricked out ideas for last minute treats!!!

Flip card

Today I'm sharing a new technique I haven't done before. I'm so excited about this, I don't know why I haven't looked up how to do this before now! It was not at all difficult, and this version does not require any special dies. I used dies I already have. Bonus!!! :) The tutorial I followed is by Alma de la Rosa of The Cat's Pajamas team. Her video is very easy to follow. You can find it HERE.

Here is the front of my card. I used papers from the October Afternoon, Witch Hazel 8x8 paper pad. The basket is a die by Cottage Cutz, leaves by My Creative Time, and flip cut-out is Spellbinders.

Here you see how the design on the flip piece opens as you pull the front. 

This is the flip side - the card opened all the way and flipped back. Tag, leaf and sentiment are by My Creative Time. This is a great way to send a "special" card by mail without all the extra bulk of embellishments. 

Product List:
October Afternoon, Witch Hazel 8x8 paper pad
Spellbinders nesting label dies
My Creative Time, Chunky Jar Accessories
My Creative Time, Piles of Smiles
Cottage Cutz bushel basket die
Scoring tool

Threads n' Scraps final day

First, I want to thank Joy for a wonderfully fun week guest designing on the Threads n' Scraps blog!!! I hope everyone has enjoyed my projects featuring the popular Peachy Keen Stamps. It has been a blast!

Where ever possible, I have linked the product to the store for easy access. The kitchen and baking release is so much fun, and who wouldn't want a pink polka dot fridge, I ask you?? LOL This sweet background paper - oh! wouldn't it make cute wallpaper?! - is by October Afternoon from the Modern Homemaker 8x8 paper pad. Couldn't be any more perfect for this Peachy release. I tried to make my little tags resemble fridge magnets, but I'm not sure I succeeded in that endeavor. They're still cute though. 

My sentiment is a combination of three different Peachy sets. I used the whisk and 'whippin' up' sentiment from In The Kitchen, while the 'birthday' is from the Recess Jumping Rope girl, and the 'wishes' is from the igloo set.  I really want this fridge in real life. It's so cute! ;)

I never like good-byes, so I'm not going to say it....just yet. ;) I made a little bonus project for the last day. Christmas gift tags. So quick and easy and with Peachy stamps they are just so darned cute to boot!

Igloo die and coordinating stamp set. Also, the holly and the to & from are from the November 2012 stamp of the month set.

Cutie patootie fishes are from the June 2013 stamp of the month set; to & from are the November 2012 stamp of the month set, and sentiment from the igloo set.

And for my final gift tag, I used the November 2012 stamp of the month set. Simple and so sweet!

Thank you so much for joining me this week at Threads n' Scraps! It's been such fun working with Joy and sharing a little of my creativity with her followers. I hope I've inspired you in some way to try something new or different. You can join me on my own blog anytime by becoming a follower at Scrapendipity Studio.