Elegant Spooky Dining Table

I have been setting my table with lots of fun accessories lately, trying out some new Halloween looks. I wanted to try something that was just black and white. Then I saw the inspiration photo on the Inspired By Blog. I love the white pumpkins in the photo, but wanted to make it a bit spookier. Once it was all done I thought I achieved that spooky feeling, yet it still seems elegant!

{the inspiration photo}

{My Elegant Spooky Dining Table}

I found lots of items around my house that I simply re~purposed and made new stuff with my craft supplies. Instead of pumpkins, I chose skulls as my centerpiece. I will share more with you later this week on how I "re-skulled" them!

The table setting came together with some blinged out chargers, plain white plates, black napkins and a handmade napkin ring. The ring is made from dry embossed cardstock, stitched ribbon and a Cricut  Artiste rose made from Moonlight paper.

My candle votives came from a metal holder I use throughout the year in the center of my table. I simply covered them in Silhouette paper. This paper is definitely elegant!

These frosted glass coasters come with an opening in the back for a picture. I stamped this awesome skull from the Thriller stamp set and sponged some grey ink to really make it pop!

If you would like to know where I found any of these items, please leave me a comment. I will show you another table setting I created with a fun pop of Halloween colors, stay tuned!!

Inspired By #26

Great photo this week on the Inspired By challenge blog. I love this trend of script in home decor. Here is what I came up with, you will see that I took the photo directly as it is for my card!

{Inspiration Photo}

I'm also so excited that my little apron tag was selected as the winner from last week's challenge!

Please play along with the challenge on Inspired By and hopefully you can get some inspiration too while your there!

Sweet Hope

I made this card for someone very special to me, who teaches me through her strength and faith. I am entering this card in two challenges this week.

Mojo Monday sketch~

and the "Anything Goes" challenge at Ribbon Carousel~

All products are Close To My Heart:

papers-silhouette, cherry-o, cardstock; creme brulee & smoothie

stamps-Treasures of the Heart, Universal Backgrounds

embellishments-smoothie button, color ready seam binding, baker's twine, black pearls

Inspiration on Heart 2 Heart

Here is this week's inspiration photo on Heart 2 Heart challenges. I like the calm neutral colors with just a splash of aqua blues! I was also intrigued by the framed chalkboard as you can see in the card I created.

I used the new colonial white die cut card. The stamp is from the Stella Workshop on the Go. The rug in the photo reminded me of the older Silhouette papers. {all product is CTMH}

To celebrate the end of February {the month of love} Heart 2 Heart wants to show their love to you! A surprise package of goodies will be heading to one lucky player, randomly chosen from ALL of the players in the month of February. The more you played along with the challenges, the more chances you have to win!

Be sure to get your entries added to the challenges by Saturday, Mar. 3rd at 10:00 pm EST to be eligible! This is also the final date to be eligible for February's Top Ten.

Be inspired by the Design Team's creations this week, and get your artwork posted soon!

Side by Side

I tend to save all sorts of items like containers and other packaging in hopes to recycle it. I held onto some nice sturdy cardboard pieces from a cookware set I purchased over a year ago. I finally got around to covering one of the larger circle pieces into this gorgeous wall hanging. What a great way to display a picture of my husband and I. We don't often get good pics of each other together, always focused on the kids or scenery.

I started with a pink card stock base stamped with flourish background stamp. I pulled out some older B&T papers for the next circular layer. This paper was glued to a card stock base as well, but I pleated some organdy black ribbon in between. I pulled out some various new and old stamps and also found some older felt pieces. You may remember the teeny tiny roses from earlier this week, well here are some larger roses with lots of glitter glitz on the petals. Check out all the close up pics. I am thrilled with the outcome and hope it inspires you to decorate and recycle!

I hope you enjoyed some of the blooms I've shown this week. Tomorrow is the card exchange and I will have those blooming cards posted very soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharing Some Love

It's almost Valentine's Day. A great time to get out all those hearts and "lovey dovey" stamps!

The background paper on this card is from the new Miracle level 2 papers. It's such an elegant paper. For the background behind the the stamped image I used the script stamp from the new Universal Backgrounds. The couple was stamped in Versamark and then heat embossed in black. Very simple and clean card. Check back all weekend for some more love.

Sentiments in a Pocket

Another card featuring a sentiment or two! This was an idea I thought of for my upcoming card exchange. What I like about it were the two pockets sewn into the card. Each pocket holds a tag that when pulled out reveals a little message and checklist. I thought the color combination was cute and somewhat shabby chic. I certainly can't resist the lollipop flower and pleated paper either. However, this was not my final choice, you'll see the card I ended up duplicating for the exchange soon. I am super excited to see what everyone else has created too!

Paper Roses & Pleasing Colors

More paper roses and cards inspired by Close To My Heart Consultant Tracey Mason. Once you start making these roses they sort of become addicting. I was able to play around with the sizes and even rolled some itty bitty ones. I was also inspired by the color combination of light blue, green, cream and black. I find them to be so pleasing to the eye.