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Happy Sunday, players!  Nance is our hostess today at the Paper Players and she has a fun Halloween challenge for us:

At my manager’s retreat recently, my sideline Pam Joel gifted us with a little Ghiradelli chocolate holder, which had been given to her by our upline, Pennie!  She gave me permission to share them with you, and I’ve made them into Halloween candy holders:

Spooky Bingo Bits is one of my favorite Halloween sets and I know it is retired, but it is still available through MDS!  So I am using it here today, along with some retired DP:

This one uses a hexagon from Six-Sided Sampler, along with some heat embossing and a scary bat!

This uses a big glimmer paper moon and a sentiment from Googly Ghouls:

And this uses some more heat embossing along with some googly eyes from last year’s Halloween kit:

And in here, you can see how the candy fits in:

Since this is picture-heavy, I will be sharing a quick tutorial on my blog on Wednesday, so be sure to come back!!!

And my little trio also uses the colors at the Fab Friday 28 challenge:

We picked out some pumpkins at our little local farm this past week:

But I think she liked putting the money in the box the best!!!

Enjoy your day!

Halloween Thank You Cards

After a morning of no phone, internet or TV, we are finally back online!  I did some errands and made a batch of cookies, cleaned out my flower bed and went to Curves!  I hope I haven’t shared these cards with you already….my sweet friends gave me some cute little goodies lately, so I thought I would make some thank you cards!  Especially since one of the goodies was a container of these cute Halloween brads:

These both use my go-to sketch with Scaringbone & Howlstooth DP and the Googly Ghouls set, framed by the oval Designer Frames embossing folder.  Some of the little brads are sparkly….sooooo cute!  The sentiment is from Kindness Matters.

Cassidy really tried hard to put her shoes & socks on all by herself:

Just look at that frustrated expression on her face!!!

We’ll keep working on it!  Enjoy your afternoon!

Repurposed Halloween

It seems like I have only been stamping cards, cards, cards….I haven’t done a 3D project in a long time!  So I wanted to share with you what I finally made for my two club hostesses this month.  I always save my little punchouts or bits & pieces of ribbon or embellishments that don’t make it on to my projects, and I like to make some sort of holder for them and “gift” them to my hostesses!  Silly, but they like it (or maybe they’re just being polite!).  For my first one, I repurposed the envelope that contained one of the framelit dies from SU.  I keep my dies with my stamp set; I put them on magnet strips on the inside of the plastic box, so I don’t need the envelopes.  I covered this one with some Orchard Harvest DP (sticky strip works great here) and added a Perfectly Preserved embellishment and a cotton ribbon tie:

I used some plaid for the flap:

You could use this for a nice little set of cards as well!

My second one repurposed an acetate box from something….can’t even remember what it was!  I used a Halloween theme on this one with some characters from Googly Ghouls, a tag from Two Tags die using the Howlstooth & Scaringbone DP, and some retired ribbon:

I even made my own “seal” with a clear address label and circle punch! 

The only kind of spider I like!!!  I had fun making these and I hope my girls liked them!

Ahhhh…..imagine the sound of a metal ice cream scraper being banged on a bit metal lid!!!!

My eardrums are ringing!  Enjoy your day!