Halloween - Pretty Little Studios

 Hey friends. 

Today I am on the Pretty Little Studio Blog and would love for you to swing over and see what items I used from their shop.  They have some pretty great printable!

Free Cut file from Paper Issues - Halloween Titles!

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. 

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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

Applecrest - Paper Issues

Join the Paper Issues team as we celebrate my favorite month, October, with a little challenge called Rocktober.  We are giving you prompts for the season, an reasons to document your fun family times.  

I played along using Pebbles Midnight Haunting. 

The collection is a little spooky and a little cute!

Haunted - Paper Issues

Morning!

it is Pinspire Me Mood Board day over on the Paper Issue Blog.   

I created a spooky board and a spooky layout to match!  

Other DT members played along too. 

If you need the collection I used, grab it from the Paper Issues store for 

20% off with code: Mary-Ann.

I used Pink Pailsee Spellcast and I love IT!!!

Brace Face - Paper Issues

I am hoping you have a little time tonight, to sit down with some of your kids candy and shop for the perfect paper collection to use for your photos from tonight.  When I was a kid, my dad used to eat some of our candy and tell us he had to test it, to make sure it was safe for us to eat.  So, I tell my boy that to this day, if he has my favorite candy in his bag!  On the Paper Issues Blog, the design team is showing you three different collections.  One is bound to be the right one for you.  Mix them up if you want!

For my project, I used Bella Blvd - Spooktacular!

Every year we carve.  I think they do it for me.  I just love it.  Roman got braces, right before Halloween.  I decide to try to do a pumpkin that had braces.  I think it came out great.  I just adore his face when I told him to smile and show the braces!  I hate that pumpkins don't last long.  I wish they could last for a month.  

October Planning - mambi

This is this the first year that we are going ALL OUT with activities for Halloween.  We had a date night last week with an 'adults only' haunted house.  I am quite surprised that I survived being chased my a man with a chainsaw.  Anyway, for family fun, we had booked tickets to a trolley ride in Salem, MA (where the witches are)!  We also got tickets for a local park's Screamfest, last night we went to the Rise of The Jack-o-lanterns and Trick or Treat is on Halloween itself this year.  This CRAZY amount of fun requires diligent planning!  My layout looks busy, but there is still plenty of space for more tasks.

I have shared my planning layout on the me & my BIG ideas blog today with links to all the items that I used.  

Happy Halloween - Paper Issues

Its is that time of the month again!  

The exclusive Swag Bags are available over in the Paper Issues Store.  

I ADORE creating with them since they all coordinate so nicely.  

All you have to add is a large sheet of paper and sometimes a title.  This time I added white enamels and doodled with a white gel pen.  

A few other DT members scrapped along with me this month.  Head over to the PI blog to see.

Grab a SB or anything in the store for 20% off using code: Mary-Ann

Last year, Bub was a killer clown and his dog a dancer.  We stayed in our neighbor and had fun with our neighbors.  

Pumpkin Carving - Paper Issues

It is that time again where I create a mood board from inspiration on Pinterest.  It is called Pinspire Me Mood Board.  It is so fun.  Draw inspiration from anything in the board and create a project.  Upload it to the PIFF FB page and be entered to win a gift card to the Paper Issues Store.  Win win!  You can see more of the team designs on the BLOG today.  

Every year, we carve pumpkins.  This was our first year carving without our chums.  My friend Kathy seriously should offer carving classes or carve professionally.  Although our carvings are not perfect or exciting, we have so much fun making the mess.  Some of us take it seriously while others pretend to eat it for the camera.  Sigh.

I used Simple Stories Simple Kit for my papers.  A touch of mambi washi and Tim Holtz rub-ons.  I couldn't help but add black gemstones to the spider bodies from Queen & Company.  

Here is a peek at the mood board itself.  

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BOO - A Flair for Buttons

I swear this is my last layout with Crate Paper After Dark.  I have used every single bit of it.  Today, I have this layout on the A Flair for Buttons blog.  Doesn't this halloween flair look like it was made perfectly for this collection?  Head over to the blog or to the A Flair for Buttons ETSY store to grab some flair of your own.  She does custom flair too!

Jacks - Paper Issues

So, over at Paper Issues, every month the offer a sketch (Sketchy Saturday) to help inspire and get the mojo flowing.  This month, they have based their sketch off of a super amazingly talented layout by  Becki Adams' Turkey Dinner LO for Bella as inspiration

Lets first take a look at my layout. 

I used Crate Paper's After Dark.  I think you may have read that I love love love it!!!

Alex, Emily and Roman pumpkin carving last year.  Our last year together:o(

GO HERE to link up.  There will be prizes!

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 off any order from the Paper Issues store!

BOO - mambi

Good morning.  With halloween fast approaching, I thought I would share with you my most recent homemade project.  I have collected tons and tons of decoration over the years because I absolutely love this season!  My favorite decor is anything that contains the color orange, spiders, webs, cats, mice, rats and mums.  Maybe even a few skeletons.  I don't have many ghosts or witches.  Just keeping it real with everything else.  I pinky swore to myself that this year, I would not buy anything additional.  So, technically,  I stuck with that right?  When I came across this super cool frame for $2.48, it was not in the Halloween isle, nor is it specific to any holiday, so, it don't count! 

If you would like more information about my project, or what items I used, you can head to the mambi blog  to see.