"Candy" Corn!

Another project owed to Pinterest! I unfortunately don't have any one particular person to thank for this idea. I saw similar variations of it on several boards. So sorry that I don't know the true originator of this fabulous idea.

Making the tasty chocolate covered popcorn was the simple part. {The kids and I will finish a whole jar of this before we get to the middle of the Nightmare Before Christmas movie!!} The fun and creative process was decorating the canning jars. I pulled in some Dotty For You papers, black & white grosgrain ribbon, black and sunset twine, a fun dotted scallop from the Perfect Fit Frames stamp set and the "candy corn" label from an older Halloween Word stamp set. They turned out so cute, almost too cute to eat! {That's not going to happen!}

Birthday Numbers ~ H2H Challenge

Heart 2 Heart Blog has a fun challenge this week! Create a Birthday card using "numbers" on it. I made a few of these already this year, but just happened to need a "boy" card. I decided on a clean card using some nuetral colors and a pop of Twilight. For my number I chose to ink up some cork with black ink that fit perfectly in the Perfect Fit Frames stamp set!!

All product used is Close To My Heart; except the dots embossing folder.

You must check out the H2H designs this week! They have some amazing cards to inspire you!

Make a Card Today!

Hey Bloggers! Today is World Card Making Day! There are several blogs out there today celebrating too, inspiration is everywhere! I did a little research yesterday to figure out which cards are the most popular greeting cards. Birthday cards were number one, followed by Christmas. None of the sites I researched really gave the third most popular. Mostly they indicated that major Holidays such as Halloween, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Father's Day were all close runner up's.

So to celebrate today I created all brand new cards for Birthday, Christmas and a general everyday greeting card that I felt showcased a very hot trend in card making this year!

My first card is a Birthday card. Birthday's can't be sweeter than some colorful ice cream. Here I used the Fanfare stamp set and a fun shape cut on the Artiste cartridge.

For this Christmas card I steered away from the traditional colors and pulled in some beautiful blue papers from the Avonlea papers. I used the Perfect-Fit Holidays stamp set and added some bling to my snowflakes.

Finally, my everyday greeting card. Who doesn't love the surprise of happy mail!! I loved the trend of rainbow colors in artwork this year and those who know me best saw it in many of my projects! and of course I had to throw in a little bicycle {heart them}!!

I hope you get some time to make a card or two today. Better yet, send it to someone you love and let them know you care! Happy Day Everybody!

Mojo 259 {Happy Halloween}

Another sketch for you today, brought to you by Mojo Monday! Are you decorating for Halloween yet? I am hoping to pull out my Halloween decor this weekend, it's sort of become tradition to decorate on my Birthday weekend! My house just warms up and becomes more fun with skeletons and pumpkins everywhere.

So using the sketch on Mojo Monday and a mix of CTMH papers I came up with this very traditional black & orange card.

Go Big & Mojo Halloween Card

Today's card combines two challenges. First, I used the sketch over at Mojo Monday, with a slight twist! Second, Heart 2 Heart challenges blog asks us to Go Big! How funny! Last week we went small and I designed some cute 3x3 fall cards. This week our creations must be larger than the standard 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card. So I went 5x7, which makes a great big space for design and I can still find an envelope to mail it in!

As you can see I just slightly turned the sketch for my card~

I'm super excited for Halloween...and yes we already have a bowl of candy corn in the house. Hope you'll play along with these challenges this week!

Perfect Fit Holiday Cards

I love when you find a group of items that all work really well together. The cards I'm sharing today is a "perfect" example of those products. The Perfect Fit Frames MyAcrylix stamp {D1527} works well with the Perfect Fit Halloween stamp {B1413} and the Perfect Fit Holidays stamp {B1412}. Plus, all the shapes contained on these stamps can be cut easily on the Close To My Heart Art Philosophy and Artiste cartridges.

Halloween~

Holiday~

 

 

Perfect match wouldn't you say! Card designs were inspired by the new Make It from Your Heart How-to Book. These stamps, how-to books and cartridges can be ordered here.



Color Challenge {Halloween}

The color challenge at Heart 2 Heart had me stumped at first. Then it occurred to me how wonderful these colors would be in a Halloween theme!

The color challenge: Lagoon, Pear and Sunset~

The card design comes from the new How-to book, Make It from Your Heart. I've used a couple new stamps; Perfect Fit-Frames & Perfect Fit- Halloween. If you look closely you'll see some of the new black Tulle Ribbon peeking out from under the pleated Lagoon cardstock.

With a black, white and gray base, these colors "scream" Happy Halloween!