Planning Halloween Style

Make some Halloween planner supplies for yourself or to give as Treats!  Make a trip to Dollar Tree to get all that you will need to make them.  Don't forget to check out Dollar Tree.com for planning all your Halloween and Fall activities too!  Shop Scary-Good $1 Halloween Deals at DollarTree.com

** I was compensated for this post.  This post also contains affiliate links and I will be compensated if you make a purchase after clicking on my links.

Here are some of the Planner Paper Clips I made to use in my own planning for October.

All you need can be bought at Dollar Tree or even better shop online for many Halloween supplies.

Glue is an important supply to make most of your Halloween crafts this year and is available online at DollarTree.com.

Ribbons and Paper Clips, all of which are available on DollarTree.com.

Lots of Halloween themed trims are also available, at DollarTree.com

With a little cutting ...

and gluing you can make many of these decorative paper clips in no time!

Thank you for stopping by, I hope that you are inspired to create for Halloween while saving some money!  Keep crafting!

Thankful Card with Gel Press®

Hello, today if you go visit the Gel Press blog you will see my card and the steps to make it.  Thanksgiving has come and gone here in Canada, but in the USA, my friends there will celebrate in a few weeks. Here is the card I made:

I want to wish everyone in the USA a Happy Thanksgiving and let's just be Thankful all year long.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Amazing Casting Products Designer Blog Hop

**not a sponsored post

Be Amazed by what the Designers of the Designer Crafts Connection have scavenged to mold and transform! (http://designercraftsconnection.blogspot.ca)
Today, I am sharing my own adventures with Amazing Casting Products (www.moldputty.com).

I scavenged through my studio and found a lot of objects and bits of ephemera to make molds off and to alter.  I love the idea of making more of some of the special items I have collected over the years and always find too precious to use.  Now I can make multiples of these loved pieces in my Mixed Media Art.  Here is one of the projects I completed just in time for Halloween.

To begin I used Amazing Mold Putty to make molds of a selection of items I gathered from my studio.  Some of my favorite items I wanted to replicate include vintage buttons I have collected over the years, an angel ornament from years ago, an old brass drawer handle, old jewelry passed down to me, a light bulb, and the cutest little owl button I already had in my stash.

To make molds using Amazing Mold Putty is so easy and fun.  If you go this site you can view a video that explains so much better than I can:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEs...

In addition to collecting various precious objects to mold, I also collected some pieces of ephemera and even a funky little branch that I wanted to try using the Amazing Resin on. (www.moldputty.com)

In the tray in the photo above you can see the pieces, I coated with the Amazing Clear Cast Resin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdk...) And the objects I made with the Amazing Mold Putty AND the Amazing Resin.  Note that I even colored some of the resin with pigment powders to make the colored pieces, including the owl.

I gathered some craft supplies I already had in my stash to make the project shown at the beginning.

To adhere the papers to the wood plaque and also to adhere the resin pieces I used Gel Mat Medium.

Before any gluing was done I used a file to smooth any uneven edges.

I used small scissors to trim off bits of resin.  To make this guy/gal I added a pinch of iridescent blue pigment powder into the resin during the stirring stage.  I poured just a bit of resin into the mold, and I added two tiny beads for his eyes before I completely filled the mold with the resin.

Here is the project all glued down waiting for a tree to hold the branch. LOL!

To complete the piece I used some vellum with a sticky back, ink, stamps, and glitter to make the speech bubble.

Here are the supplies I used to make Hooty!

Amazing Mold Putty

Amazing Clear Cast Resin 

From:

Amazing Casting Products blog: http://amazingmoldputty.blogspot.com

Other supplies: Wood plaque (Dollar Tree)

Scrapbook papers (from my stash)

Jute trim (Dollarama)

Ribbon (my stash)

Gel Mat Medium (Omer DeSerres)

Double sided tape (my stash)

Ink pad (Ranger)

Alphabet Stamps (Various in my stash)

Glitter glue (My stash)

Pigment powders (ColourArte)

Beads (my stash)

Thank you very much for stopping by, and please visit ALL of the Designers Blogs who are participating in the Amazing Casting Products hop.

Contest and Prize available

 Readers enter to win by commenting (on one or more blogs) then entering to win via the Rafflecopter widget which will be on the DCC blog. (see rules there) One entry for each comment. 

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Saying Goodbye to Summer...

Awww!  Parting is such sweet sorrow... Leaving the warmth of Summer behind and going head on into the brisk and crisp Fall air is challenging, but ohh what beautiful colours there are to see.
In my part of the world the seasons change dramatically and Mother Nature always presents a show.  The leaves on the trees have been slowly changing colours and the new blustery winds are knocking them down to the ground.  When I was offered to be on the new Design Team for Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station I jumped at the chance to be able to use some fabulous new stamps and digitals.  Here is the sample I made as inspiration for the first challenge: "Halloween Fall", over at the Challenge Blog.

I used a pre made scored card made of kraft paper available from the recollections brand at Michaels. The image is from the Digital collection at the  BMCCS,  Digi Digi Doodle Shop, which I printed onto cream card stock (Staples) .  I used card stocks in yellow and orange from the Papaya Puree Collection by  Prism .  the string is from my stash (most likely Dollarama), the maple leaf brad is also from my stash, and I used a Fiskars punch to make the paper maple leaves.

I hope that you enjoyed your stop here today and please remember to check out the new blog and products at Blue Moon Creation Crafting Station.

Thanks and see you soon.

My Fall Colours Card for Get Inky!

Hello everyone.  I am so glad you decided to stop by and see what I made for the Get Inky! Stamps from Blue Moon Creation blog.  We have a challenge going on where we invite our viewers to make a Fall Themed project, link to our challenge and have the chance to win some prizes.

The card above is a "Tent Card"that I made out of regular card stock from Staples.  I used two sets of stamps from Get Inky!; the Halloween 2013 set and the Love Bugs set.  I stamped each image onto white card stock using Memento black ink and I coloured with permanent ink markers(Bic), as my Copics were M.I.A (story for another day).  I often use dimensional foam adhesive in my projects and I thought this was a perfect time to do so.  I will also let you in on my little design secret:  that wood grain look on the front, is card stock embossed with a wood grain folder from Fiskars, and inked with Distress inks Vintage Photo and Black Soot from Ranger.  The butterfly is fluttering by on a piece of leftover extemely fine gauge jewelry wire.

I hope that you are inspired to try making some new projects for Fall.  Stay tuned as I am working on some card making technique classes (depending on the demand) for the near future.

Thanks for stopping by!

Tuesday Tags

Tally hoe!  Tootles! It's Tuesday time for some tips and techniques or tutorials with me, Ann from the All That Stickles Design Team.  Today I have two tags that I Stickled with my versions of Fall/Autumn colours.

Tags are fun and fast to make projects that are so versatile.  Tags are great as is for using as Gift Tags on presents, and I like to give them as Bookmarks as well.  I also like to add tags to cards and scrapbook projects.  I have also used them in my art journals and made larger ones to use as decorations.  Tags are great for trying new techniques too, and you can bind them together with a binder ring, a shower curtain ring or just some ribbon and string to take along with you to and from classes.

Over at the ATS Blog, today, I explain that it has   occurred  to me that what I perceive as THE fall colours is subjective, really.   That is why I made two versions of my tag, one with the muted fall tones and the other one with primary colours.