Halloween Party 2009 - Invitations

For the last couple of years DH and I have let the girls have a Halloween Party. They each invite a couple/few friends to spend the night and we play games, eat snacks and watch Halloween movies. It is now a tradition. One which their friends actually ask about right about this time of the year.

This year I had envisioned a really creepy invitation. I wanted to put a candy finger with a string tied around with a tag attached with the party info and the message "Don't forget". It got shot down. Complete with disgusted sigh and eye roll. From each one of my daughters. I don't get it. Isn't it a great idea?!

Isn't Halloween supposed to be creepy?!

Anyway, I came up with plan "B". Matchbox invitations.

I let each girl choose two papers, then I stamped, punched and glued. Yes, I did it. I LOVE playing with glue and papers.

Once the boxes were assembled, they were missing something. So I gave the stamped spiders googly eyes and then glued a spider inside each box. Yay! I got my creepy factor in.

Spider is hidden under the candy. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I think candy corn is the winner, but I would rather have the M&M's anyday.

Looks innocent enough, doesn't it. ;-}

Yup. We are inviting 16 girls to add to my 3.

Talk about a scary Halloween.






Now all I have to do is print off the information, cut into rectangles, fold in half and staple to the bags of candy. Guess I should go buy more candy corn. It's pretty much gone. I have an unusually high level of candy-evaporitis-in-no-timis in my house. It is a supernatural phenomenon with no known cure.





Then I will have to make goodie bags and decorate. Fun-ness for me.

Opus Gluei Challenge #26 - Bling it on...

Opus Gluei has it's 26th Challenge up.

I can't believe it has already been 26 weeks. Half a year. 6 months.

I am so happy that we have stuck it out for so long. Sometimes we got the challenges up a little late, and sometimes we got the challenge up without our projects included, BUT, we did it.

Anyway, on to this weeks' fun...

Sometimes you get inspiration for a project from your product. As I did with my glittery Glitter box.

(Not a colorful euphemism Rosemary.)

The challenge was to make it blingy, shiny, glittery. I didn't have a clue, so i pulled out my stash of glitters and realized that the container was UGLY. I think that I will start using glitter more than before. Yup, just because it is in a prettier box. I AM that shallow. At least in this instance.

Glitter and embossing powder and Stickles. Oh my!!

It's just a plain paper mache' box that I covered with glitter sticker paper. And then decorated with the scraps.

Now to figure out something in which to put my flowers and dies and glues and .....

Surprise

I found this on the SD card in my camera. I don't know which girl took it. Or why. Or what it is?!?!?!?!?!?

Just think it is funny.

I guess there are worse pics I could have found.

Friday Fill-Ins #143

And...here we go!

1. One week ago I was a week younger.

2. I never had to worry about anything when I was young.

3. Mama told me not to write down anything you didn't want anyone to read.

4. We're not spring chickens you and me.

5. Take your time rushing through life.

6. Those chili beans will pass!

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to DUH! pizza and survivor, tomorrow my plans include stamping, scrapping and taking care of a sick hubby and Sunday, I want to shop and clean. Okay. So I don't really WANT to clean, but it must be done!

Caardvarks - 7 Days 24 Hour Challenge

For all the details and rules visit Caardvarks.

Join Caardvarks September 20 - 27th for seven, 24 hour challenges and prizes!

Grand Prize = A spot on the Caardvarks Crew Design Team!

Here's the sketch from today. Day 1.

Here's my first card. I just got the Studio G stamp today and was excited to use it.

You can't tell from the pictures, but the ink, also Studio G, has a sparkle to it. It's great.

The lace was a cream color. I inked it to get it darker.

I made this next based on a very, very, very loose interpretation of the sketch.

The chipboard reminds me of an ancient rune. It just has the right feel.

The color is off, the buttons are green, orange and purple. Same as the skulls eyes.

Here's the inside of the card. I love this bone paper. I think it's K & Co. I could be wrong.



Thanks for looking.

Fairies are worth the wait.

I promised you more. We waited for an hour to meet the fairies in Toontown.

This was the longest line we waited for at Disney for anything.

It was worth it for the smile on my little girls face.
She was in heaven.

I think Tinkerbell sprinkled pixie dust on her because she was floating the rest of the day.

Morgan in an animal talent fairy for sure.

Fawn didn't stop talking the entire time we were there.

Surely that is one of the traits of the animal talent fairies.

(pages are digital quick pages from Digital Freebies. Autumnal Taste is the name of the collection. Font on journaling is Walt Script. And there are a couple of elements added in from Seebee's Freebies.)

Halloween Blog Candy - Haunted House Mini Album Kit

Die Cut Diva's blog is giving away blog candy on September 18th.

Check out this cool kit.

That makes this really cool album. Just go here and follow the directions to enter.

I would say good luck. But, I really like this little album and want it for myself.

BWAHAHAHA