Fan-tasche-tic Halloween Projects

At the Craft Envy Halloween Crop last week, I had several design team projects to make, so I donned my moustached and prepared to have a "fan-tasche-tic" time creating! 
The paper I was given to design with was a great line I had already purchased to make a Disney Halloween Mini Book.  It is called Frightful by My Mind's Eye. 

We were all given pumpkins to decorate, so I tried to make mine look like one of the pumpkins in the collection.  I also used the mustache from one of the 8x10 prints and the banner is made using a Tim Holtz Ribbon Flags die. After I took this picture I found some black and white striped straws and I used those to cover the sticks holding the banner.  It was much cuter!

Then it was on to treat bags.  These little bags are made with the Tim Holtz In the Bag Die. Then to decorate it I used the Tim Holtz Snowflake Rosette Die.  The top edge is the smaller rosette die that I used as a border instead of making it into a rosette.  I used it around the Be Scary chipboard as well. 

 I really love how the snowflake rosettes look for Halloween!  Not snowflakey at all.

 Lastly, I made two cards using the Tim Holtz Headstone Die.  I folded the cardstock and then placed it just inside the top of the headstone to create the two-sided card. Then I used the different embellishments from the collection to decorate them.

The fronts of the cards are on the left and the insides are on the right.

 This card has some glitter bats cut from glitter cardstock using the 

Tim Holtz Sizzlets Halloween Die. The glitter curls coming from under the chipboard 

is a glitter mustache cut in half. Rusty Hinge Distress Stickles were added.

 The inside has more mustache paper and a die cut.  This paper made for a fun card!

 Again I added the bats, but I also added the Tim Holtz Bats and Crossbones Die along the bottom.  The orange and black twine is Tim Holtz Ideaology Paper String Stripes Twine.

That's it for the fun, extras I made with the collection.  I really enjoyed spending the day creating with this frightful line of papers.

Thoughts on Heaven - Mini Tag Book

As I have said, I had a LOT of left over paper and embellishments with the Bo Bunny Madeleine collection.  So I decided to make a little tag book.
Once I gathered all the leftovers I realized it was going to be beautiful!  So I thought about what photos I wanted to put in it.  The more I thought, the more I felt strongly that this should be a little faith journal.  I haven't done any faith journaling, so this was my first attempt at it. 

 I had all of these frames left over, so I started out cutting them out, which took me through a couple of old episodes of "Castle."  Then I use Ranger Texture Paste and the Tim Holtz Gothic layering stencil, to add this raised pattern to the front of the tags, and I LOVE IT!

Once the texture paste was dry I went over all the tags with Antique Linen Distress Stain.  Then I added a little color on each tag with Wild Honey Distress Ink and Victorian Velvet Distress Ink and went around the outside edge of each tag with Pumice Stone Distress Ink.

 I adore the tags.  Absolutely love how they turned out.  I think they are so beautiful! This is by far my favorite stencil of all of Tim's designs.
My next step was to make the covers.  I cut extra pink paper out with the Tim Holtz Tag and Bookplate Die, then added some fussy cut birds and stickers from the paper pack as well as a Prima flower and Prima Say It In Pearls.

 My inspiration for this book is chronicled here.  After my sister died, I started studying Heaven and it was so incredibly comforting! I even made a Heaven board on Pinterest and started putting things in there like quotes, Bible verses, verses from hymns etc.  So I went through that and pulled some that I really loved and put them in here.

I chose to use my own handwriting on the pages with frames, 

because this is a very personal mini book for me and I wanted it to feel personal.

 The back sides of all of the tags have left over patterned paper from the Bo Bunny collection, and have some of the quotes and things that I pinned into my Pinterest board. They don't all match perfectly, but if you read them, and take in their meaning as a whole, the mini book flows together beautifully.

This was a last minute project in an attempt to use up the rest of the paper I was given in the collection. I was so surprised when it was done that I loved it so much.  It is small, but it is full of meaning and blesses my heart.

Create Banner

 

I made this banner with leftover supplies from the Bo Bunny Madeleine line.  There is a LOT that goes with that line.  I got four (4) projects out of it and still had some left over for cards or tags.

I just got this banner die set from Pebbles Jen Hadfield Home + Made, so of course I had to put it to good use right? I also used the Tim Holtz stencil and circle die.

 The cute bows between each banner are Margie Romney-Aslett junk bows.  You use paper, trims and ribbons and tie them together to make little junk bows to adorn things.  I love them!!

Plaza Inn Chicken Dinner

This layout uses the Bo Bunny Madeleine collection and was for the design team at my LSS.

It is based on Susan Stringfellow sketch done for Basic Grey.

I felt this part of the paper line went really well with the beautiful Plaza Inn in Disneyland. The colors and birdcages worked perfectly. 

I did do some fussy cutting of birds for the second page and I added some leaves cut from a Tim Holtz greenery die.

This was a very simple layout. No techniques, sorry.

Haunted Mansion - True Love

A design team assignment to make a layout using Bo Bunny Madeleine Collection.

For some reason I was feeling the Haunted Mansion from part of this collection, so I went with it.  Sometimes you can't fight it and just have to go with it.

I based this on a favorite Sketch Savvy Sketch #15

 The A True Love Story Never Ends sticker with this theme totally cracked me up! For those of you who don't know, there are kind of two stories going on in the Haunted Mansion and one of them included Constance Hatchaway.  She is the black widow bride who kills off all her husbands. She haunts the attic with wedding pictures of herself with all her different husbands.

 I've shown this flower technique on my blog many times.  this was just a variation so I could use an acrylic flower center.

 Fill a mini mister with water.  I punched several flowers from grey cardstock.  Then spritz the cardstock.  You want it moist, but not soaking wet.

 Crinkle the flowers up as much as you can. Really scrunch em up!

 Uncrinkle and dry with a heat gun.  This really crinckles them again. I also use this time to kind of shape them and crinkle any spots I missed.

 Layer and attach them together.  I attached the smallest flower to the back of the acrylic flower.

 Then I smooshed it up around the edges.  This is a very technical tutorial. LOL!

 Finally attach it to the center.  Then I lightly spritzed again and reshaped the petals one last time as I dried it for added shape and texture.

That's it!  Easy, right?