Fright Night

I can't help thinking Of Edgar Allen Poe when I see a black raven. The graveyard scene was downloaded here....http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Search/?kw=gravestones;pg=2
It's such a neat site that has illustrations from old books. This one was from World's Best Music (1900).

The gray area was created by taking glossy white card stock and waving it above a candle. I then stamped Happy Halloween, which removed some of the soot. So cool but creepy all at the same time.

I just love my Jack Skellington cards.

Damask Thank You

I absolutely love the chocolate brown velvet ribbon on my card. I started with a plain white piece of cardstock. I sponged the card brown and pink. I then stamped and heat embossed the brown damask pattern all over the card. Stamped thank you and popped up with foam tape.

Heart to Heart Card Drive

To honor Carolyn King's grandmother and caregivers Of Alzheimer's Disease please create and send cards to a caregiver you know or to...

The Staff at the Artman Home
250 N. Bethlehem Pike
Ambler, PA 19002 end cards

Here is the Thank You card I am sending the staff.
Here is a link to Carolyn King's blog and the Heart to Heart Card Drive she has organized.

http://myblogbycammie.blogspot.com/2010/09/heart-to-heart-card-drive.html

There are so many generous companies that have donated items to support Carolyn and her quest to give back. Companies like Gina K Designs, Spellbinders, Scor-Pal, Card Maker Magazine, PaperCrafts Magazine, JustRite Stampers, Taylored Expressions, The Cat's Pajamas, Verve...the list goes on and on. Plus lots of generous people made cards including Jessica Fick, Theresa Momber, Kim Hughes, Melanie Muenchinger, Asela Hopkins and Rae Barthel (...that list goes on and on too!) This is a huge lot of blog candy valued over $1000 that will be given away to one lucky participant.

Cammie thank you for organizing this event to honor your grandmother and all the caregivers of Alzheimer's Disease!

Autumn Tissue Box House

Welp Here is my autumn tissue box house. I love making these little Kleenex box houses. It certainly looks prettier on my desk at work this way! lol

Lucky Me tribute to Jessica Fick

Back In August I was a lucky blog candy winner of Jessica Fick. She creates awesome card kits for Gina K Designs. Now I've finally gotten around to posting my tribute to her designs.

http://iembellish.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-candy-winners-announced.html

I chose to do a spin on Feel the Magic Card Kit. Here is the link to her card kits http://iembellish.blogspot.com/p/card-kits.html

Thanks again Jessica!

Caardvarks with Hero Arts Clean & Simple Challenge

I just love this this tulip stamp set. Tulips have a clean & simple elegance that I feel fits the Caardvarks with Hero Arts challenge. Check out the challenge for yourself :)

http://caardvarks.blogspot.com/2010/09/clean-simple.html

Parker's 4th Birthday

For my son Parker's 4th Birthday I made him two cakes. The first one I made and gave to him on his day you can see here ...

http://skulladay.blogspot.com/2010/07/bitrhday-skulls.html

The one you see above I made for his party. One of his presents was the Playmobil Ghost pirate ship and island. I baked a sheet cake and covered it it cream cheese icing that I tinted blue. I frosted it to look like choppy water. The sand was created my crushing vanilla Oreo cookies. I made the treasure chest with a mini Snickers bar. The X, fishes and octopus were made from Airheads candy. Then I decorated the rest of his cake with the skeleton pirate toys.

His birthday was at the end of May, but I decided to post these pictures because I was so tickled to see the other cake and treasure map card posted on http://skulladay.blogspot.com today. We did some shopping earlier in the day and saw a bunch of fall and Halloween decorations. So once we got settled at home we checked out their blog. Parker's favorite holiday is Halloween!

Magnetic Bookmark

I rarely get a chance to sit down and read a good book. I recently picked one up and every time I set it down my 4 year old little boy wanted to pick it up and take my book mark. Ugh! I've tried a couple different ones with ribbons and the basic one. Welp so far this one seems to be doing the trick! I made this by recycling 2 magnetic business cards. I pulled the business cards off the magnet part, then glued paper to them. I left about a 1/4 inch gap between them then artisan tape to "glue" them together. The gap makes it fold over nicely without extra bulk of paper. I added another strip of decorative tape for more interest and inked up the edges. Viola! This was a quick and easy project. I am now thinking I'll have to make some as gifts, perhaps monogrammed!

Congratulations

I think this little teddy bear is just precious!

For this card I used white cardstock as the base then used a brayer to make the front of the card yellow. For the "quilt" I cut up a bunch of one inch squares then glued them to a plain piece of copy paper. I then used the Top Note Stampin' Up! Bigz Die and liked both pieces so much I had to use both of them.

JustRite Friday Challenge 032: Color, Thank You Card

I love warmth of fall earth colors. Today I needed to make a masculine card and this challenge from JustRite Stampers seems to fit perfectly with the color combo. I randomly stamped a circle border from "Big Occasions Centers & Borders" to create the background. I layered a brown satin ribbon over a light olive grosgrain ribbon. the label was made with a punch, it consists of two layers, a brown layer and a wood sheet layer. I used a die to make the thank you. If you look closely you can see the shadow underneath the label from using foam tape to pop it up. Check out the challenge....http://justritestampers.typepad.com/justrite-inspiration/2010/08/justrite-friday-challenge-032-color.html