Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!  Here is a card I made using the Thanks2fall set from The Stamps Of Life.  I also used some papers from echo park's, Happy Halloween collection and some baker's twine from The Twinery.

Busy, busy day with Halloween school parties and then Trick Or Treat tonight. I always hate when Halloween falls on a school night (especially Monday).  I feel oh, so sorry for the teachers at school the next day! LOL!  Here are some photos of the boys and my hubs from pumpkin carving on Friday night.  I also have a photo of my boys and my nieces from a Halloween party at Nana's house.

Hope you have a great evening!

Emily

Mischievious, Little Pumpkins....

Hello!  Can I just start out by saying, "GO BUCKS!"  They beat Wisconsin in a barn burner of a game last night.  I was squealing and jumping off the couch with excitement! HOORAY!
Okay...now to my card.   I cased Michelle's layout on her card HERE. I pulled out my Little Trick Or Treat stamps from Unity for this one and my My Mind's Eye Mischievous patterned papers.  I love the blacks, orange, and blues. Very vintage and fun!  I paper pieced the pumpkins and the little square "trick or treat" sign.  I distressed the edges of my DP and used distress inks around the edges.  I created a loopy, burlap, twine bow and added some blue scallops to the upper and bottom panels to pull the blue in from the background DP and the little blue sign.  I just love Halloween!  I have already sent out my cards, so this one may have to go into my card vault until next year!

Hope you weekend was wonderful!  Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

FWF-All Things Are Possible...

Happy Friday!  I am soooooo ready for the weekend.  It has been one heck of a week!  Today's card uses the sentiment from the ippity set, All Things Are Possible.  I bought mine from Noelle.  She ships super fast, for FREE and gives you twine with every order.  Can't beat that deal.
I layered some scrunched up, texty, scallop circles after inking them with pink ink.  I added some glossy accents to the center and sprinkled on some pink glitter.  The leaves are also cut from text and sponged with green inks.  The strip of DP is from Memory Box Pixie collection.  I added some bling around the verse.  I created the flourish with glossy accents and sprinkled that with pink glitter, too. 
I have been having fun with my glitter.  I have oodles but never really use it because of the mess, but I decided what the heck...mess or no mess, I want to do something fun and different!

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Tradefish Designs-From The Bottom of My Heart

Hello, there!  Today I have a post that was supposed to post yesterday, but I scheduled it for the wrong time.  This set was made with a sentiment from Tradefish Designs set, Attitude of Gratitude.  So many wonderful sentiments in this set.  I love the different fonts, too.  I ran the red horizontal strip through my Cuttlebug with the swiss dots embossing folder.  The die cut is from PTI.  I added a little rhinestone to the center of each heart and stamped my sentiment in black.  You can see the set in it's entirety below:

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Emily

Thanksgiving Pumpkins and a sketch....

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Hello!  I made the card above for the sketch challenge over on SCS HERE.  I used a set from Kitchen Sink Stamps called Turkey Trot.  This set is so much fun to layer all of the images.  I love the look you get.  I decided to emboss the green panel with a Sizzix folder that mimics the vine swirls behind my pumpkins.  You can see the sketch below:

Hope you can play along with the sketch over on SCS!
Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog....

Hello!  Today I have a Halloween card for you.  I wasn't going to make anymore, but I decided I needed a few more for goodie bags for the neighbors.  I used a sketch from the CAS challenge over on SCS.  You can find the deets HERE.  The strips of paper are from echo park's Halloween collection from last year.  The die cut is K&Company.  I stamped the sentiment(The Stamps Of Life) in black.  It is from the solids4Halloween collection.  I used orange and green copic markers to add a couple strokes of color under the sentiment.  I added some rhinestone "bubbles" over the cauldron.

Thanks for stopping by!

Emily

Get Well Penguin....

Hi!  Today I am sharing a card I made for my cousin's little boy.  He recently spent a week or so at Children's Hospital for osteomyelitis of his arm (nasty infection of the bone).  He is at home now, but will receive several weeks of IV antibiotic infusions.  He loves penguins, so I thought this might cheer him up.  I used the sets search4words and penguins4Christmas from The Stamps Of Life.  I just highlighted the "how are you" with the same copic marker I used to color his beak and feet.  I love that word search background and the fact that there are so many sentiments hidden in there for all occasions.

My boys football playoffs start today, so we will be traveling back and forth to games.  My oldest son's team is super good and have a great chance to win it all.  Luke (age 5) is glad the season is coming to an end. LOL!  He has decided that he would rather watch football on TV, and not be part of the game.  We made him tough it out since it is his first team sport, but man...it has been a battle!  Quote: "Mommy, I would really love football if those guys just would quit knocking me down". Yeah.  It hasn't been pretty!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Emily

FWF-A Christmas goodie bag and tag....

Hi there! Happy Friday.  Last night, it was a cold, rainy, blustery kind of fall night, so I busted out some of my ippity stamps and came up with the goodie bag and matching tag above.  I love to have lots of little things like this ready to go for the holidays.  It is perfect for adding a small gift or some homemade cookies and candies.

I know I have shown my little goodie bags before, but for those who may be new, I just used an oval punch to punch a handle into the paper sack.  Easy peasy!!!  I stamped the large and small snowflake from Gingham Christmas Greetings in Fired Brick distress ink onto the front and back of the paper sack.  I used the same snowflakes and the emboss resist technique on my tag.  After the clear embossing cooled, I sponged some Antique Linen distress ink over the entire tag.  The edges are inked with Walnut Stain ink for contrast.  I used two of the little pennants from The Best set, and on the smaller pennant added some clear Tiny Type Cosmo letters.  The felt star and the vintage button are from my stash and I used some glossy accents to draw my flourish and added some copper micro glitter from PK Glitz.  I hung my tag with some seam binding and a burlap string bow.

If you are loving the ippity I used on this project, you can buy some from my friend Noelle. She has great prices, free shipping and free twine with every order!!!!!

edit:  I buy these mini lunch bags at Hobby Lobby.  They come 10 to a pack and are found in the aisle with all of the envelopes, tags, ATC's and what nots. HTH!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Emily

Tradefish Designs-Holiday Mix

Hi, there!  I have another wreath card for you.  Today's card uses stamps from Tradefish Designs set, Holiday Mix.  I heat embossed the wreath image and then colored it with copics.  I stamped the sentiment in black and added a baker's twine bow toward the bottom.  Not sure what my base is, but I think it is Garden Green cardstock from Stampin Up.

Make sure you check out the sale going on at Tradefish!

Thanks for stopping by,

Emily

Lots of Wreaths....

Hello! I have several cards with wreaths for your viewing pleasure today.  All of them a bit different.  The above card uses the wreath and a sentiment from The Stamps Of Life set, Wreath4me.  I stamped the wreath and sentiment in black and colored it with copics.  I added a bit of read border on the bottom to anchor it.

This next card uses stamps from the Wreath4me set, too.  I went with more of a vintage look on this card.  It looks much better IRL!  I colored the wreath with dye inks and a blender pen.  I carefully coated it with Rock Candy Crackle paint.  After it dried, I sponged distress inks over the entire thing so that they got down into the crackled parts.  It really makes it look like it has been sitting in a box in an attic for the past 70 years!  I added some green burlap string to finish it off.

This next card uses a sentiment from penguins4Christmas and the large spiros from spiros2stamp.  I simply added red rhinestones in various sizes for the berries and a bow on top.  More of a modern looking wreath, with classic Christmas colors.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Emily