It counts!!!!

Regardless of your political party we all need to do our part and get out and vote. I have done my father proud and done my duty, have you??

Demolay Halloween Ball

Oasis Chapter of Demolay put on this amazing dance last night. The decorations are just wonderfully spooky and I love their graveyard. Everyone had a tombstone including Ub. I will have to upload the tombstones later. Mitch will be 12 on Wed the 3rd and can join Demolay so this was his second function and he had a ball. Josh ran the lights and had wired up the sound for them as well as danced with the girls in hopes of getting the other boys to ask girls to dance (which they did not...uggg) Jared at the end scared everyone out of the ballroom with a chainsaw skit with a real chainsaw. Talk about clearing out a room he even scared Mitch to death...lol...it was a priceless moment and I think all that attended had a great time. I took lots of pics but only put a few up to show off what a good job they did.

Happy Scary Halloween!

Decor pumpkins, spooky frame and cute deco blocks

I got crafty yesterday. I have been sick and these projects have been sitting neglected. I wanted them all done before Halloween and I did all but one. Maybe today I can crank out my haunted house, we'll see.
The pumpkins we saw at convention and I fell in love with them. I bought the white pumpkins at Michaels. The "trick or treat" is our decor elements Spooky Things (#122296) and the Black Flourish (#120987) and raven lace ribbon (#120988) This was super easy and took 20 minutes to make.

The Frame was a standard frame I bought at Walmart for $3.00 and using that same sheet of decor elements (#12296) I put the Happy Halloween on the glass and then used our Nite Owls designer series paper, DSP for short (#123012) and the Dark & Dreary stamp set(#121151) for the owl and spiders and the BaroqueMotifs (#113490), the colors I used were Pear Pizazz and Pumpkin pie as well as basic black. also a really quick project to do...less then 30 minutes

Last but not least, the cute little decor blocks(#116829), I used the Nite Owl DSP (#123012) and sponged the edges in basic black ink, "BOO" was made using Serif Essentials alphas die(#113464) and they were spritzed with silver foil Smooch spritz (#118771) on the B and the spiders I used our new rhinestones(#119246) the spiders were stamped from Dark & Dreary(#121151) and I used our circles punches. On the last block the 2-3/8 scallop punch(#118874) was used to punch a scrap of black CS, then punch a white CS scrap with the 1-3/4 circle punch (#119850) then emboss with the square lattice folder(#119976), the "2U" is cut using the Timeless Type die cut (#115951) in pumpkin pie.
The really fun thing about these blocks is that I have 5 other sides I can decorate for the different holidays. For Thanksgiving I have "Give Thanks" mostly done and as soon as I turn them I will get them loaded here. A little more time consuming but that's because there are 6 sides to decorate. Really fun!!!


If you see something and would like to order please leave me a comment and I will get my demo website hooked up and we will get your order placed. Those blocks will make a cute Christmas gift. The other sides are give thanks, fall, Noel, love and boo 2U. We have all kinds of fun things to decorate them with.

Have a great day everyone,

Susan

Trunk or Treat

Trunk or treat was so much fun last night. This is most likely Mitchell's last year getting to participate in trunk or treat because he will be one of the young men who will help out all the little kids(I'm not even teary eyed as I write this...YET...ha ha ha) The church always does the best trunk or treat. Next year I promised Mitchell we would decorate our trunk and he can pass out the candy, that might make the transition a little easier for him.

Tonight is regular trick or treating and I wish you all a Happy and safe Halloween!

Winning Halloween card...

I went to a Stampin Up regionals back in Sept and I just haven't had the umph to post anything to my blog lately. Anyway I made this card to swap with other demonstrators and I submitted this card to SU to be voted on. It was one of 3 winners... I was so excited, I got a $50.00 shopping spree of anything I wanted from SU. Needless to say I spent it the minute I got the ok.

Supplies-
Stamps set- Dark and Dreary (from holiday mini)

paper- Basic black, old olive, whisper white, and wicked fun DSP

ink-stazon black (for spider) basic black (house)

Accessories-Spider web embossing folder, vanilla shimmer smooch spritz, rhinestones(on spider), raven lace and twine, circle punches

Thanks for stopping by my blog and have a Happy SAFE Halloween!!!

I made some pages

I decided it was time to get some crafty stuff back on my blog, that it was way past time. This is a mixture of Stampin Up stuff and some regular scrappy stuff. I need to start using more of my stash and get the endless pile of paper in my books and off the shelf. I also have a TON of premade pages from swaps and stamp clubs and classes that are calling for some pictures to be added to them.

The Halloween pages are of Mitchell, my only kid trick or treating this year. Yes I did cry...my babies are all going in different directions. Even Mitch noticed and missed the others.

The Christmas page is of one of my older sons Steven, he is usually gone and never in our tree decorating pics. He doesn't really get into like he did when he was little. I was lucky to get these pics AND he's smiling. Such a handsome guy.

Thanks for looking today. Have a great Labor Day.

Susan

Sept. 1st!!! It's here

There is nothing better then the release of new products (at least to me) and this new holiday mini from Stampin Up is amazing. Just when I think they can't get any better they do and I am LOVING everything. I will be putting this in my sidebar and when you click on it you will be able to see all the new fun things they have inside.

One thing I LOVE is the new spider wed embossing folder. I know Cuddle Bug has had one but Stampin Ups embossing folders are larger( they still fit in the Cuddle Bug, I have one) and the designs go all the way to the ends which is a huge plus. If you are a Halloween nut like I am then be sure to see the beginning of the catalog, starting on page 6, because they have a crazy cute set that I got a week ago. As a demonstrator we get to order a month earlier and we get an amazing discount.

In the back of the catalog there are these new Letter Press plates that I ordered last night (being a convention attendee we got a special deal) I can't wait until they come and I can play around with them and see what they are all about. My son has told me he would help me do a video so be on the lookout for that and I will feature the new letterpress plates on a project.

I do not have my demo website hooked up but please if anyone sees something they really want then by all means leave me a note here and it only takes seconds to activate it. PLUS if you place an order for $30.00 I will give you the new raven lace trim on pg 8 for free. This lace will look so cute and spooky on our Halloween pages and cards.

Have a great day everyone and thanks for visiting my blog.