Open if you Dare - Queen & Co.

Good morning!
Have you seen the Fright Fest Shaker Card Kit from Queen and Co.?  It is filled with the perfect shakers for cards and for layouts alike.  I knew the exact photos I was going to scrap when I received the coffin in the mail.  

The best way to show off the coffin, and the creepy zombie pictures, was to line them up like many zombies rose from the dead!  I changed the center papers that lined the coffins and created one shaker and stamped another.

For an additional creepy effect, I added spider webs with my own eerie spiders.  Made from Halos and Iridescent Bubbles.  I drew legs with a silver glitter pen.  

Easy Peasy.  So, even thought you may have already sent out your Halloween cards, don't forget to leave the Fright Fest Shaker Card Kit on your craft table, so you can document the fun memories you will be making next week.  

Thanks for stopping in.
Mary-Ann Maldonado

Supplies used:
Fright Fest Shaker KitHalos
Irridescent BubblesPop Toppings

Science Badge - Paper Issues

October has some fun challenges over at Paper Issues.  

I played along with Scrap Soup.  

All of the challenge for October can be found on the Paper Issues Friends and Fans FB page.  

I used Bella Blvd Pop Quiz for this Chemistry layout.  

My neighbor is a Chemist and we asked him to come over and teach the

 cub scouts how to do a few tricks.  

Trick Costume - Paper Issues

Playing along with the "I'm Here for the Boos!" 

I payed along earlier in the month and wanted to play along again.  

I used Goosebumps by Pretty Little Studio.  

My boy constantly changed his clothes.  

From costume to costume from mask to mask.  

He loved dressing up.  

Play along with us. 

Enter you Halloween protect to thePaper Issues PIFF page.  

Be entered to win a prize.

Use code Mary-Ann to grab what you need from the Paper Issues Store.  

Spider Fest - Queen & Co.

Good morning!

If you can read this then you are Blissfully UNAWARE of what is CREEPING UP behind you!  It could be a spider.  It could be a spider created with Lollies and Epoxy Dots.  If it is, you are lucky!  This Fright Fest Halloween Shaker  from Queen & Co., is so fun and creepy.  

A colorful background makes the black web and its tiny spiders pop off the page!  I used a mixture of toppings to include the ones included in kit.  I used a ruler to create the web that extends directly to my Epoxy Dot spiders.

For my second card, I wanted to create something girly with the web.  Using girl colors, pink and purple Toppings and Pom Poms, it is perfect for the the girl that loves Halloween.

I created my own spiders for this fun card too.  I used Bubbles and Pom Poms with a coordinating colored pen for the legs.  

Go grab the Fright Fest Halloween Kit.  Create your cards with ease, since everything is included in your kit.  Or you could add a few additional items like I did.  

Mary-Ann Maldonado
Supplies used:
Fright Fest Halloween Kit
Bubbles
Toppings
Pom Poms
Lollies
Epoxy Dots

From Sketch to Finish Vol 4 - Elle's Studio

Now available!  

From Sketch to Finish Vol 4

I participated in this super inspirational class and would love for you to check it out.  Click on the link at the bottom of the page to head over to the Elle's Studio site.  You will find the class and all of the items that I used in my layouts.  

From Sketch To Finish Vol 4 - digital class

Price: $19.99, (subscriber discount 20% for the first week!)

Simplify your scrapbooking process by starting with a sketch from this new, self-paced class, which will take the guesswork out of the process and will allow to you create layouts you love in no time!

Our seventy-page PDF class starts with 10 different sketches and 10 contributors, each sharing two layouts created from a sketch. You will get to read their tips and see how they interpreted each sketch to fit their unique and beautiful styles. Next, the class features 20 full-page sketches that will have you on your way to creating projects in no time! Then, our class ends with another 20 bonus sketches that were inspired by the final outcome of our contributors projects and you'll be amazed at how differently they turned out! It is a great example of how sketches can inspire you to get creative!

The amazing contributors - Nicole Nowosad, Maggie Massey, Jennifer McMurtrey, Jana Eubank, Victoria Calvin, Nathalie DeSousa, Meghann Andrew, Mary-Ann Maldonado, Rachel O'Neal, and Lorilei Murphy - will show you how you can work with the sketch and adapt it to work with your photos and supplies. Along the way, you’ll also learn tips on how you can customize each sketch to fit your style!

This class comes as a downloadable PDF file. Once you have purchased the class, you will receive a link, via email, to download the class. Please make sure you save the class to your computer.

WCMD Blog Hop with Technique Tuesday!

WCMD you ask?

It is World Card Making Day and I am playing along with a fun Blog Hop with Technique Tuesday.

Technique Tuesday will be giving away an incredible stamp set called...

"YOU'RE OWLSOME" to anyone who purchases $30 in product.  

To receive this fun gift, use coupon code: WCMD18.

For the hop toady, I worked with the Happy Thanksgiving Stamp Set 

that will be shipping 10/15/18.

Technique Tuesday is also giving away a gift certificate to a lucky winner that participates in the hop.

So, what you need to do is, stop by each blog on the hop and comment.  

This will enter you in the drawing for a prize!

Comments will be taken from now until October 8th, 2018.

The winner will be announced on the Technique Tuesday Blog on October 10th.

 

Technique Tuesday

Amy Kolling

Sandy Allnock

Daniela Dobson

Lisa Spangler

Heather Hoffman

Dana Kirby

Dana Joy

>>>Mary-Ann Maldonado  <<< YOU ARE HERE

>>>Emily Leiphart <<< NEXT STOP

Jill Dewey Hawkins

Tessa Buys

Kymona Tracey

Ana Anderson

Teri Anderson

Thanks for commenting and playing along!

Thriller - Paper issues

Morning!

Have you seen all of the new October challenges over at Paper Issues?  If not, when your done taking a peek at my layout, you need to head over there.  Some really fun ones have been added for this month.  If you know me at all, I love anything Halloween and fall.  So, bring it on!

Today, I played along with the I'm Here for the Boos challenge.  

Share anything Halloween, crying baby, booze (you know you have those photos!) or anything you can think of that would get a BOO!

I used Pretty Little Studio's Goosebumps collection created by Ashley Horton!

Also a FREE cut file from the PI Shop called Web Background and I used only a portion of it.  

Head over to the Paper Issues Store to grab anything you need for
20% off when you use code: Mary-Ann.

Holiday Cards - Queen & Co.

Hey there!
Welcome to October!  We wanted to start this month off with a twisted view of Queen & Co.'s,  Window Shaped Shaker Set.  I am here to share two cards that I created with the Window Kit and I really thought outside of the box for these!  Is it Halloween already, or winter? Nope, not yet!  Just wanted to get you inspired to think ahead for your holiday cards.

For my first card, I turned one of the window panes into a tombstone!  It did not take much effort, other than trimming out the panes of glass to have a clear view, and added my own typed sentiment inside two of the windows.  

After I completed my Tombstones, I recut them in black to create a shadow, to make things spookier!  The thread you see is meant to mimic spiderwebs.  

I filled my center tombstone with lots of Toppings.  Some that came with the kit and lots of Pops Toppings.

It was really fun to mix all the colors to create a fun shaker.

For my second card, I went more wintery.  I used just white and red and splattered paint on the entire card to replicate snow.  The placement of Starbursts, which look a lot like Pinwheels, also help convey the snowy theme.  

I thought it would be fun to use vellum for my glass, to get the fogged window look and added white Iridescent Bubble Toppings to replicate snow that has formed between the panes of glass.  If you come from New England, you know exactly what I am talking about!

I hope you will dig out your Windows Shaped Shaker Kit and think about the upcoming holidays or occasions.  They can literally be used for anything!  

Have Fun!
Mary-Ann