Stamp Club Halloween cards

These are two of the cards we made at our stamp club.  The first one uses Moxxie papers, as well as SU.  The image and sentiment come from a SU set and absolutely escapes me what the name could be. 

The second is made with the SU web embossing folder (I think retired), the wide oval and 1" circle punches.  We drew in the legs and used black twine poked through the middle of the web and taped behind the spider and the legs are hand drawn.  Last, are a couple of googlie eyes.  The colors are Whisper White and Basic Black.  Very quick and easy to make.
I will also be posting the other cards we made in tomorrow's post.  Thanks for looking!  April
 

Halloween '08

Still playing catch up with the kids scrapbooks.  This is my son as Optimus Prime from the Transformers.  Layout is based on a pagemap.  Colors are Only Orange with layers of Moxxie and Recollections violet.  Accents are the coordinating Moxxie stickers, brads, and SMASH label maker.  I used the drippy goo punch for the border strip.  Quick and easy.  Thanks for looking!  April

Altered Beanie Baby Box

This box used to house beanie babies and now that they have been disbursed to the kids, I have several of these just sitting around. I decided to use it to gift some cookies to the kids TaeKwonDo teacher.

The paper is Moxxie and the border punch is Martha Stewart. The inner border punch is EK Success. The image is Karate Ian from the Greeting Farm. I printed the sentiment on cardstock using Creating Keepsakes Kimono font. The sides are 4" each, so the paper only covered three sides. I wanted to avoid it looking bulky with trying to wrap extra layers around, so I left the back bare. I used tacky tape to secure the paper and the ribbon at the lid. Super simple and so cute! Thanks for looking. April

Paramore Halloween

My daughter loves Paramore. I know, she's 10, but loves all kinds of music and Hayley Williams is a surprisingly decent role model, so I can't fault her adoration. She was Hayley for Halloween...too bad most didn't know who she was, even though she was wearing a Paramore shirt.

So the papers are Moxxie and the cardstock is SU retired Bold Brights - Only Orange and Lovely Lilac. I printed the words to Maggie's favorite song Brick by Boring Brick on Only Orange and tore the edge and layered with Moxxie paper. The stripes and skulls are the flip side of the same page. I used a coordinating Moxxie sticker for the Halloween. It said Happy Halloween, but I cut it between the two words and moved it so the "Happy was hidden behind the Halloween, so it looks like a complete sticker, unless you look really close, then you can see the seam. I used basic grey self-adhesive chipboard and ebony cats eye chalk ink to color the letters. I made the medallion on the photo from layered circles 3/4" to 1 1/4".

To finish, I added three SU Brights Glimmer brads to the bottom corner. Can I say while they are pretty, they are a pain in the butt? The glitter is all over the brad and makes it near impossible to separate the tongs! Gah...took me three times as long and lots of bending and prying with tweezers to get them apart. Bah!

Thanks for looking! April

Figure Skating

Yep, still catching up...here is my daughter from last December's skating competition.

Papers are Moxxie Twizzle, Sports Mania, and cardstock from Michael's. The LO is inspired from January 2011 pagemaps. The blue photo border is using SU's scallop punch, then EK Success's bubble border punch. The journalling is done in Creative Keepsakes's Curly font. The title is a Karen Foster rub-on and mounted on 3x5 white cardstock, then scraps of blue scallop. The slivers of blue on the title actually are leftovers created by the SU scallop punch. I added a black brad to each corner, then mounted with dimensionals.

TIP: it is super easy to attach tiny or thin pieces like the strips. I use a Xyron X Sticker maker. If you haven't seen it, it's the X-shaped holder with the other Xyron adhesive products. It's less than $10 and the refills are around $5 and come in permanant or repositionable.

Thanks for looking! April

ATA Belt Rank scrap frame

Here is another framed LO I did for my daughter's friend. They are in tae kwon do together. I did one for her brother for his birthday and she has been asking for one since. I wanted it to be girly, but still reflect her sport, so I looked back at some of the other LOs I have done for my kids. I used the lavender and dark blue I used on Maggie's and the LO is from pageMaps. The printed papers are from Moxxie. The title is stamped in CTMH's "giggle lowercase" in Stampin' Up's Whisper White. I tied a bit of Whisper White grosgrain on the tag. The image is Karate Anya digi from the Greeting Farm.

Okay, and for some bizarre reason, Blogger insists on flipping the image...yea, sorry about that! Thanks for looking! April

Mod Podge Frame

I am working on Christmas gifts for the kids friends. Alex asked for a frame of a pic of him and his buddy, Sam. They are both in tae kwon do, so here it is.

It is just bits and pieces I had left from some pages I have done. The cardstock is Brilliant Blue and Real Red from Stampin' Up. The printed papers are Moxxie. The frame is one I got from the clearance isle at Walmart. The coins are from Oriental Trading Company and match the coin-like design on the end paper. Cute, right?

Thanks for looking! April

Sleuth-tacular Halloween

Yea, so I am still somewhere around two years behind on the kids scrapbooks, so here is some catch up work.

This is my daughter's page for Halloween 2008. She is Darby from the show "My Friends Tigger & Pooh" on Playhouse Disney. My youngest loved the show and I got his costume cheap, so Maggie, bless her little heart, agreed to match him. Papers are Moxxie. I cut the bats at 4.5 inches, then layered a strip from a coordinating sheet of stripes. I journalled a sheet of white cardstock at 4.5 inches wide and used Waltograph font for the title (from dafont.com). The strip at the base of the journalling is the reverse side of the bat paper and using the drippy goo punch from Martha Stewart. Moxxie made the coordinating stickers and I added a bit of leftover ribbon between the photos. There you have it. Thanks for looking! April