My Rubber Therapy Blog

Thank you all

Hi Friends

Wow was I ever spoiled with beautiful wishes of my getting better soon.  Thank you all so much.  Bruises are getting paler and chin still the same but my body is not in shock anymore.  It sure shook me up like I wasn't expecting it.  I thought give me a few days and I'll be as good as new LOL, not so sure.  I am doing 75% better now.  I just wanted to make sure to thank everyone of you throughout your emails and comments for your best wishes to me. 

I will resume my card sharing tomorrow and be back on Monday and Wednesday to share more for you.

Sending you back all the love to you, with a huge smile on!

 

Short post

Hi Friends

I was expecting to post another card today, but a change of plans occured.  I have hurt myself in the same staircase I did last January, I had to go to urgent care to get my chin fixed up, so as soon as I can bring another card to you I will, don't worry I'm fine, just bruised up all over but nothing that can't be fixed within a few days.  No picture time for me for about a month LOL

But I promise I am fine, just to let you know.

Have a safe day, don't do like clumsy me

Happy Birthday card to Jo Anne

Hi friends,

I know my friend Jo Anne will have received her Birthday card when I am posting this.  I wanted to share her card with you.  Happy Birthday Jo Anne on November 28th...

Another Birthday a few days before Jo Anne's is Angela's Birthday on November 26th, so I wish you the best of Birthdays ever.  If you could send me a picture of your card, I was in a hurry to mail it to you since I know going across the pond is taking quite a while LOL, then I can share yours as well with almost the same recipe.

to both of you!

 

The color of the card is more like the one photo on top.  Changing the photo angle made it change color

 Recipe

One of the sets I had purchased on the last Rubberstamp show was one of flowers (by Heartfelt Creations), it is gorgeous once it is all done up with a chosen color of CS with some white embossing powder to add those lines to the flower.  Once this step is over, I move on to cupping the petals on a flower shaping pad with the use of a stylus to give it a shape.  I did the same with the leaves.  I used the trellis from Spellbinder, cut one out and then I cut a frame with the Spellbinder Matting basic rectangle by having two frames equally centered and taped together.  I ran it through the Ebosser and it gave me a nice frame to adhere my Trellis to and even embossed a small line in the frame to add more style to it.

Once the whole two pieces are together and dry.  I moved on to my shimmering CS in subtle yellow or cream, not sure what color that is, but I used an embossing folder and cut around the outside corners I thought it looked nicer that way.  I took the main base card in white and inked up the edges with a coordinating pink color, layed down my shimmering paper on top of the card, the trellis part was mounted on 3D foam tape and added more foam tape where I knew the vase would sit at in the end.

Vase, I cut this in a pattern paper with a vase paper punch, I inked up the edges of the vase with the same ink I used for the card outside edges.  Set it aside and without adhering the flowers and petals I first decided how it would be like at the end before starting to glue all the flowers to their final resting place on the vase.  Added a petal at the base of the vase, a Peel Off Happy Birthday sentiment a tthe bottom of the frame after making sure I inked up the edges in pink.  Added some purple pearls on each corner as well as on the middle of all the flowers.  To finish up the card I added more Peel Off stars and dots in strategic places on the trellis past of the card and stars in all of the 4 corners.

Voila!

I hope you have enjoyed what you have seen, thank you for dropping in, and sign up to follow me and sign up for email newsletters so you never miss a blog again, I love to see new followers all the time so be one of them.  Leave some comments as well that is always fun to read every day, it sure puts a smile on my face and that's fun!

Be happy, be crafty!

 

 

 

I call it "Operation Craft Sorting" here

Hi Friends

The title says it all, recently I have decided to re-sort everything I have for crafting for cardmaking.  I don't do scrapbooking because I save all of my photos on a separate portable hard drive so I feel it is safer there and I concentrate on making cards which is my first crafting passion.  No surprise there right?

So continuing my train of thoughts, I love to use inks, I have a getting older SU ink pad and re-inker collection as well as my new favorites of all times, my Tim Holtz Distress inks and re-inkers and last but not least, my collection of Memento ink pads and re-inkers. 

I also like to use a lot of embossing powders, as it adds so much more interest on any card when the need for it is there.  So I had to sort out my many different GOLD embossing powder one day as I wasn't sure which one would suit my purpose.  I had to stamp with embossing ink and cover the inked area with all the powders I had in gold, individually so, which I had collected in the passed 10 years.  So once I realized I had 10+ in gold, I decided to make a chart with space for the embossed images for each color so here is the photo for it so you can visualize better what I explained. 

This is not the final product but it will give you an idea if you have many powders you can do the same and add the name to the color so when you are needing a specific color search no more, you have your tidy little list ready, so you know if you need to buy a new one or you are lucky to find the exact one that will suit the need of the moment.

Just a few jars shown, but you can see what I have done with the embossing a bunny for each gold jar I have on hand, there is another side to this sheet.  Once I get all my inventory sorted out I will type a list with extra empty slots for the future jars I get.  All of the sorting goes into a small 1 inch thick binder in plastic covers for quick viewing when needed.  I have all the jars numbered so when I need a specific color I can look for say jar #12, time saved.

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Next photo is about inked sponge dauber kits, some photos will be self explanatory and you will get some idea on how to re-sort all of your accumulated anything you have for your craft making anything.  I have to look for ways to save me a great deal of time when I make cards and sometimes when I search for too long, I get side tracked and the search gets lost into some other future project you may want to get into next, but not solving the orginal search hee hee

At the show last March, I saw they were selling some plastic see through cases with or without the sponge daubers which is a much different price between the two, but I got curious enough to get a full case and another empty one because I knew I had enough to use to fill up an empty case.  So I came home and filled the empty one so quickly that I thought I should had gotten an extra one.  So this passed show at the beginning of November 2012, I went and got 2 more cases to finally be able to sort all of my inks and sponge daubers in my possession.  My problem is finally solved.  Here comes the pictures for visuals alike.

Items needed for my project were, a square paper punch of 3/4 inch (important) as this is the exact size of the inside of each sponge dauber housing.  Ruler, software to type your colors and make tables, paper to print with and some laminating sheets, laminating machine, (optional as you can always just use the paper form instead of lamination) Cutting tool, all of your ink supply on hand, patience.

Introducing you to the sponge dauber system

Contains 40 slots for 40 ink daubers, first view is shut case and second opened case.

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Next photo is my visual system to insert in my binder, this one is Memento inks

 This photo is for the Tim Holtz Distress inks I have on hand.  I am a visual type of gal so everything has to be easily found and if it means the use of colors on a paper, well it saves me time as I don't need to stamp all the greens before I decide which one will be suited best for my project.  So it's all there in front of me.  Pick the name and get the pad and stamp.  Keeping extra table for future ink colors to add.  Voila

My next intention is to do SU ink pads and re-inkers in a similar way. 

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Next, I explain how to get the sponge dauber system together

This is what it looks like after the steps shown below
After typing all of the color names to fit inside a 3/4 inch size paper punch, I printed it out on regular paper.  Then I laminated the cut outs placed separately inside the laminating sheet (very static) I would do one row then close the laminating sheet of that row so it wouldn't move anymore and so on, until I had it all in place ready to laminate.  A paper on each side will prevent the little squares from sliding when you are using the laminating machine.

After coming out of the laminating machine, I had to punch out the squares individually to then insert it all in alphabetical order in my sponge dauber case as shown below.

It fits perfectly and I didn't use any adhesive to stick the squares to the bottom with since it won't be needed if you always have a sponge dauber in its place when moving the case around.
Looks so clean and so organized now, but I didn't want to stop there.  I thought ok, once the daubers are all in place, you can't see the name of the color below it right?  So the pictures below will show you what I did next....

Covering the color names as per explained above.
I also typed all the ink names on one liner type and individually done them all applying some magic 3M scotch tape so it will not come undone.  Yes, time consuming but once you are done, it is done and will last you for years, but always allow more room for addition.  So in my Tim Holtz collection I will have to add an extra case to it as I proceed in getting the newest colors they add to it.

You see here that once the "Paris Dusk" sponge dauber returns to the case you will see where instantly.  You can also see if you have a sponge dauber missing in our case.  Very Visual and I love it.
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Next Photos will show you the cover just like when we open a chocolate box and we see all the chocolate names, I had to use that concept as it was very very suitable in this storing story. hee hee

  On a piece of white cardstock, after measuring the inside of the case I had to fit all the same squares I had previously typed and printed for the bottom of the case right?  Well you need to do it again, this time you punch out all the names, and quickly glue the back of each square onto the measured cardstock and also lined up with a lead pencil so you can line them up perfectly before once again putting through the laminating machine.  Trim round corners with scissors and insert your stay clean forever, laminated sheet inside the cover for a fast color find.  It should fit perfectly without buckling in the cover.
When I get my embossing powders all sorted out, I will show you what it looks like, when my copy is all typed up and clean to put in the binder I have for my Operation Craft Sorting purpose.

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Next blog, I will have another card to share with you.  I hope you have enjoyed my version of Sorting what I have on hand practical.  You may be tempted to do similar with what you have a lot of in your craft room.  I would love to see pictures of what you did, once you are done.  I would love to post them on here so I can start a new folder called Organizing our craft products.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting, never be afraid to leave your comments before exiting, I would love to know what you think about my ideas....

Happy Crafting Week!

 

 

In between card sharing days information

Hi Friends

Just a quick note to let you know that I have been busy adding close to a hundred cards under the Nicole G folder located at the right hand side on the blog.  It is listed alphabetically so go almost all the way down to Nicole and click on that folder it will take you to my hundreds of card pictures if the above link doesn't work for you.

I must also mention that I have added more card photos to some albums, such as Malena's, Angela, Trish A, Colleen B, Jo Anne H, Gloria L, etc... and many more. Please note that if you are new here, welcome, you may want to visit all of the card libraries I have here with so many talented ladies who have contributed to, and allowed me to post their cards here.  If you are in search of ideas and/or inspiration for your next card, here is the place to get some. Enjoy!

We have decoupage cards, tea bag folding, iris folding, cards with hand made flowers, Peel off use with glitter, 3 step fold cards and so much more.  Browse at will as I am sure you will get inspired quickly for your future projects. 

One more note...if you have a photobucket album and are able to get the link to work on your album please let me know in the comment box, I will email you to find out how you managed to have it to work.  I have a ticket going with photobucket but they can't help me figuring out why I can't let you see my album via the use of a password.  So as soon as I get any help from a smart one out there, I will make the decoupage sheets I have in my album available to you again.  Working hard on this issue.

Have a fun and creative weekend!

 

A pumpkin card

This is the pumpkin card.  This stamp set is from a set from StampTV.com
The paper is from StampTV.com as well

Here is a close up to show you I turned this stamp into my own 3D layered image.

Recipe

As you already know, the Pattern paper was from StampTV.com Gina K designs I also used subtle orange with my Spellbinder die cut circle scallop and white for the circle die cut for the pumpkin mat.  Used a sentiment from my stamp stash saying Happy Birthday.  The main card is of white CS then to mat the pattern paper I used a green card stock, this is how easy this card was made.  Try using different shapes of die cuts with different designs if you are looking for a simple Christmas card you need to mass produce this is an idea you can turn it from a pumpkin theme to a Christmas look just by changing the image.  If you are not a fan of coloring images I suggest you take an image that could look gorgeous in one color like a pumpkin or apple, you get the idea or get a simple image that you don't need to add much but a little red here and some green there.  But I know you will get some idea of your own and make it look great!

Have a fun weekend

Be Creative and own it!

Phew!!!!!! So sorry

Hi Friends

Well, if you didn't receive any email from me on November 21st you are on my email list.  I needed to write this to you because I want to make sure you understand what happened.  My email was spammed today, which means there was a software for better words, that was put into my email account and took over my email list of friends and started to send random links to everyone on my list.  My apologies for this incident.  I had it happened often from friends on my list too but if you know how to deal with this spammed email event, you know to never open any email sent to you that bares "NO SUBJECT" or only contains a link into the body of the email.  I never send anything like that.  If I ever send you a link I would tell you it is from me and tell you what it is for.  But not to worry, I don't send anything unless I am asked and you will know it is from me because you expect it.

In no way, ever, would I ever do something like that to anyone on my email list or otherwise, because just in case you were not sure, I value everyone on my list and everyone who comes here to enjoy my cards and blog content.  So that being said, I am moving on.  We ran scans through my computer 4 times today before I would send you a report of what had happened so we are convinced we have removed the culprit spammed object using my friends for deceitful purpose. 

Thank you for understand and sorry for causing you any inconvenience because of this.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to everyone in the USA on the 22nd of November.  Will be back over the weekend with more cards to share along with their receipes.

Be merry, be festive, be creative!

 

 

Moving on to another card to share

Hi Friends,

Here is my card for today:

Recipe

Silhouette stamp and Sentiment rubberstamp, white and blue CS, coordinating satin ribbon, pearls, Black embossing powder, VersaMark ink pad, Embossing folder, Tim Holtz blue ink and Spellbinders oval shape.

THe card base is of white CS I then matted it with some beautiful blue CS, embossed in the white CS the design you see.  Before adhering the matted layers I wrapped around the satin blue ribbon.  Next I stamped my silhouette stamp with VersaMark ink and stamped on white CS after running through the oval shape which the design was on and heat embossed I used a sponge dauber to add some blue shadow around the shape, matted it on blue and placed the focal image to the card.  I stamped the Sentiment stamp and cut out and embossed with a Spellbinder tag die cut of the shape you see My last detail was to add pearls on each intersection of the embossed design on the card.

Easy and really pretty, if I may say so myself

Happy crafting everyone 

Photobucket known issues

Hi Friends,

Well, I am sad and happy about the news.  I had spent so many hours to refurbish my accounts blending them into one last week.  Well, after being all done with it and finally was able to work through the newest Photobucket software which I like a lot, I wasn't able to simply copy the link and post it like I wanted to.  They are aware of a BUG in their system that doesn't digest the use of passwords at this time.  So it is after all this time really trying so hard to fix this I am so sorry you all tried to go back and get more images but at this time my hands are tied in letting you inside my album.  But I have asked them to let me know when they have fixed the Bug and in case they don't tell me, I will continue to try relentlessly, on my own, until I see it is working.  I guess this problem has been going on for quite some time, from what the technician told me today.

The only other solution would be to move what I have in there to another photo album out there and that my friends, would require time and weeks I don't have at this time.  The amount of files in there is definitely not something I would want to move even if I had time to kill and needed to get this humongous task this would be.  So for now we hang tight and thank you for your patience.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  I sure have tried to make this work for you.

Well I better get back to my getting up to date with cardmaking and Birthdays to come cards....

Happy Crafting

Back again with another card to share with you

Hi Friends,

I hope you had a fantastic weekend.  We spent time Winterizing the patios and umbrellas, cleaning up the leftover of the veggetable garden he had going and raking some leaves.  Then we had another fun event happening.  Our garage door was jamming mid-way into opening so we have to look after that before we are forced to stay home. LOL  The joys of home ownership hee hee  At the end of this month we will have been in this house for a year already.  I have no idea where the time went since that first day we moved in.  It has proven to be a very busy year for us since we had so many water issues and still do.  Sigh, but come Spring again, we will have to irrigate all water drip system and contain the big leak.  But first let's enjoy Winter and the peace it brings from not having to work outside as much.

Here is my card for today:

This card was a fun experience re-visiting an old technique I had enjoyed in the past
Recipe

The image is matted twice, once on white and once on this beautiful blue CS.  Needed for this art work was a simple stamped distressed image, embossing ink and embossing powder in blue.  Stamped my image first with embossing ink on white CS and covered my image with embossing powder.  I used my heat tool to melt the powder until the image was lustered.  Too long and your embossing powder can start smoking and burning quickly, I speak from first hand experience LOL.  Once my image was embossed, came the time to add color to the spots that were still white.  I used 3 colors of ink pads as well as sponge daubers to apply the ink in circular motion to the spots I had chosen to color.  Then I trimmed my image as close to the edge of the image as I could with my paper cutter, then proceeded with adhering the mats together.

The rest of the card was made with a greyish with a slight hue of green in it, card base.  A sentiment stamp from my stash with the coordinating blue to go with the ribbon and embossing powder used for the focal image.  The ribbon was easy to make as I have to keep my cards flat so, I wrapped my ribbon all around the front of the card first and secured it with some double sided adhesive Scor-pal tape is ideal.  Then I cut about 2 1/2 inch of the same ribbon and stapled it together which would be glued to the opposite side so we don't see the staple.  Then took a long enough ribbon piece to wrap around the loop I had flattened onto the ribbon strip by using the same strong ahdesive tape to close the loop securily.  It flattens up when in the envelope and pops back up once it is out of the envelope. 

I hope this card was inspirational for your next card project.  It was a quick and easy card to make as the image really does make nice effect on grey CS.  I am sure any stamp that has no particular designs on would be a perfect candidate stamp for a similar technique with different color choices.  It won't be my last one of this technique as it is open to endless possibilities.

Happy crafting and have a wonderful week...

Rubberstamp photos to share

Hi Friends

I have a few photos to share from the show last weekend.  Then I opened a new folder named Rubberstamp Show, card examples.  Keep in mind some are not the best of quality since it is wrapped in transparent envelopes.  But you will get some idea of the cards enough to inspire you.  None of them are my cards this is why I am wrapping them all together in one folder.  So I hope you enjoy.

Here are the pictures of some of the show's stalls.  I took a short video to share but it turned out too dark unfortunately.  But photos are worth a thousand words right?

This is a fun place to shop.  It has many pre-cut cards like the step cards, shaped boxes, specialty paper including shimmer paper, gold, silver and copper CS, cards with cut shapes in the front.  I made a short visit and got some shimmer CS and shaped cards.
Heartfelt Creations booth is one I really like.  They have so many stamps of flowers and nature.  I will have more cards to share with flowers that comes from this company.
Make and take tables, that are now charging a few dollars to sit down and make a card. 

Rubber stamps all covering the wall of all the stalls, and on top you can see the card examples for their respective stamps
Different retailers are everywhere inside.  We get a map of where the merchants are in the hall.
The Convention center entrance, this is where there is a line up before 9 am
Just a little palm trees to warm you up if you are where it is colder.

So don't forget to go see the pictures I am gradually adding of the card examples hoping some of them will inspire you for your next card project.  I know some are really inspiring me...

Happy Crafting!

Have a great weekend

 

Please note that I am still waiting for an email from Photobucket.  I found what the problem was, it has an older email of mine that is not valid anymore, I had to send them a request in order to change it.  So it is taking so far more than 24 hours to get any sign from them.  Thank you for your patience.

 

Today I will share another card

Hi Friends

Well, it is time for another card share.  This one I have made without a plan, which means one element at a time was added and when happy about the look it would stay there until I was totally satisfied with the overall look of the card.  (Tip: Never glue or adhere anything until you are satisfied about the final look) That's a fun thing to do, improvising on a card is a lot of fun, that is when I surprise myself with things I never thought I would add and like.  So if you never tried it, do it, you will be happily surprised and pleased with the results, I certainly was...

So here it is:

 Recipe

White card base A2 size 5.5 in X 4.25 in.  2 digi backing pattern papers were used on this card. Yellow matting CS, pink and white CS were used.  Peel off asterix and Birthday sentiment were used.  Marianne's die cut was used in white and the outside edge of this same die cut was traced and cut out manually to give a matting effect behind it.  I also inked up with some pink before adhering the two pieces together. 

More die cuts were used for the leaves around the flowers.  The flowers were from a set I purchased from Heartfelt Creations, stamped on white CS with pink ink and used stickles to enhance the middle of the flowers.  Which is very effective when making a flat card and cannot stack many flowers to keep it flat.  But again these flowers were cupped to give it some realistic shape on a shaping mat and a stylus.  Fun techniques to do and so effective for flower making.  I then cut out with some Spellbinder Matting basic shapes (rectangles) for the Sentiment cut out a piece of the backing paper to then adhere the peel off sentiment to it.  Simple and very nice girly card.

I have been sorting out some of the pictures I took at the Rubberstamp show this past weekend.  I had to delete quite a few because they use plastic envelopes on their card examples to keep them clean so when you take photos it gives a glare in the middle of the card, I even tried to be careful about it but the cards are way over our heads if you ever attended a show before, it is tricky to take pictures over your head and tippy toes as I am not that tall hee hee.  But you get the picture right?  It is coming soon so keep on visiting to see what I got and will probably add them all to a folder to the right hand side of this blog.  Will let you know when I do add them up for you to enjoy and possibly get some neat ideas for your next projects.

I hope you enjoyed.  Let me know, before you leave, a comment to us bloggers means more than you know.  It really encourages us to give you more regularly.  So don't be shy we love a word from you.

Have a great day and Happy Crafting!

Back for another card sharing....

Hi Friends,

Thanks to the fantastic TypePad team members they have fixed the problem I was having posting images, they are so quick at helping out.  Thank you team!

Now for today's share I am adding another pinkish or girly card that I really enjoyed the look once I was all done with it.  It was what I call a labor of love from the start to finish.  So I hope you enjoy it too...leave a comment by letting me know!

Recipe

White base card, Shimmer CS in pink for Swiss dots embossing folder use.  Corner punches I had in my stash of SU Punches, ran through the swiss dots embossing folder as well before adhering the double corners.  White CS for the Die cut Marianne Creatables.  I added some Peel off dots to all pointy ends.  Then I cut out a double size circles with my Spellbinder classic circles so it leaves me with a perfect open circle, then once again I ran it through the Swiss dot embossing folder to get the same coordinated look on the open circle and added more peel off dots on the circle randomly so.  Peel offs of Happy Birthday and a present were chosen for the middle of the circle which is directly adhered to the Marianne's die cut only after the circle has been adhered in place.  I then added some butterflies to all corners...It was easy. 

It looks so much better in the flesh, as shimmer paper is hard to fully capture the beauty of its shimmer without the light exposure trace.  Daylight photos seem to be much better.

Have a fantastic day!

Happy Crafting  

After the Rubberstamp show...

Hi Friends,

Well, we are back!  As always, when we are away, even just for a few days I find myself playing catch up but, half the fun is getting there.  Photobucket has decided to slap a Beta version of a new album software to try on there so I need to go in there and sort out the Beta to get the images back for use again.  So I am well aware of the problem, just know that as soon as I am able to fix this I will let you know.  Please look back here in a few days.  I will write about it.  Sorry about the inconvenience.

I have taken loads of pictures at the Rubberstamp show so I will need to sort through all the photos and decide which ones are looking good enough to post for you to see.  There were a lot of new cards to me, so I made sure to take many pictures so I could share a few on here.  So this is what I will be working on for the rest of the week.  I have my work cut out for me.  I didn't see anything I can call new for techniques, but my interest was on stamps, die cuts, and card ideas so I can feed my mojo for more cards to make hee hee.  Any little bit helps.

So hang in there, I am looking forward to adding more cards I made as well.  I could be adding one more tomorrow it all depends on how much time I have, but will do my very best to add another one.

Have a great day!

Happy Crafting

 

 

 

 

Rubberstamp show today

Hi Friends

Here is another card to share

Recipe

(Thank you for all the lovely comments)

White card base, white layer with Swiss dots embossing folder.  Spellbinder Die cut in white, I traced up the outside edge of the die cut so I could have a matting piece in white, which I inked up in pink before adhering the flower paper to it.  Another piece was cut and embossed to sit behind the window (leaves embossing folder in stash).  The fan is one of my older stash I decided to take out and color with 3 tones of pink with Prismacolor pencils and Odorless Mineral Spirit technique with a paper stump.  I then added stickles around the edges and the lines into the design and added a cute little bow.  Die cut a small label from Spellbinder and used a Birthday peel off as well as the corners.

Thanks for dropping in.  I love all the comments, keep'em coming, it goes so well with my first cup of coffee in the morning, thank you so much...

Happy Crafting!

Hi Friends, here is my Halloween card I made this year

Hi Friends

Here is a card I made for Halloween this year I thought you may enjoy it:

Quickie recipe

My base card is caramel, for matting I have used black and the pattern paper was from my Halloween past years stash.  I also added a tag which is from another pattern paper with shimmering black print.  A rubber stamp Happy Halloween, some black cord, some black Fun Flock, black embossing poweder,embossing ink, tacky glue, opaque white pen and two Memory Box die cuts, one is called dangling spider and the mini shopping bag.  Some orange and green ink for tag edges and bag edges with a sponge dauber.

I had to build the shopping bag which had many steps and before assembling it I inserted some black cording for the handles I also had to ink emboss my Happy Halloween on the bag before closing it.  I fold it as flat as I could so it wouldn't be too bulky in the envelope.

The spider I die cut and glued with tacky glue and applied some Fun Flock in black to give it a furry look, creepy isn't it?  I prepared my tag and inked up the edges to add dimension to it and make it stand out more as a tag.  I then applied some tacky glue with a toothpick to the dangling part to stick to the tag applied the bag just under the spider grab making it look like it is reaching for what's in the bag.  I also ran across the sides a white opaque pen and the card was finished. Inspired by a website I have seen throughout the week.

Hope you enjoyed it.  Please leave a comment on what you think of this card.  If questions or suggestions please constructive criticism is always appreciated.  If I need to reply to a question I will email you back in a timely manner.

Have a great day!

Happy crafting

How was your Halloween?

Hi friends,

Well I have to tell you about our first Halloween here at our house.  It was so so so funny, I have to share with you this fun experience we had.

We had modestly decorated the front with some spider webbing and small black plastic spiders in the web and some orange lights in them thrown quickly to stick into the webbing.  Had pumpkins by the door sitting on some apple baskets just beside my big antique wooden doors.  We could hear from the afternoon on that the neighbors were preparing their garages for a hounted house effect with strobe lights and red lights flashing not far from our house.  So, DH kept saying we will be stuck with so much candy make sure you pass it all tonight so we are not tempted to eat some of it, (he was already into trying everything) LOL, yep, I will give it all away not to worry "I replied".

It wasn't more than 1 1/2 hour later after the first group came to the old doors, that we had to close down shop quickly so we didn't have to tell them we ran out of candy LOL.  They were showing up by more than a dozen at once.  We got loads of compliments on our house, doors, garden, etc....  You know how kids can be blunt?  Well, this one stood there not interested in candies, he was saying: "WOW guys, are you rich or something?  We both were laughing at his question....Then when I was expecting nothing else DH replied: " Well, kid, when you buy a house like that you instantly become poor".  I was laughing so hard, the kid was standing there trying to see more passed me, ah ah ah!  That was so so funny. 

So I was able to make a little sign that wrote "RAN OUT OF CANDY, SO SORRY" with a sad smily at the bottom of the note".  We came into the house and we heard no more door bells after that.  So we were able to enjoy the rest of the night peacefully.  I will continue to put up a sign at the end next year.  It sure was working for us.  But I will make sure to get more candy.  We are on a popular street we found out quickly. 

It was a successful turn out on our street and the kiddo's were so pleasant!  The last little guy we had, was accompanied by his Mom.  I looked in my cauldron and I had nothing left so I told him, a 3 year old little guy (if that old) he was sooooooo A-DO-RA-BLE!!!!!!!!!!!!  "We have no more candy so sorry".  He had this very serious face on, not even cracking up a smile for me LOL.  So his Mom said: "Don't worry, he would be happy to get a "HIGH FIVE" if you want.  So with no time to waste, I went to him, he high fived me and Mark, we were laughing, his costume was the Clark Kent guy, before he turns into Superman LOL not into this stuff so forgive my missing the name, but you know what I mean right?  He had a white shirt on, slightly opened up, enough to show the "S" for Superman and she had crayonned a pair of round glasses around his eyes.....I told her your son is SUPER ADORABLE ON STEROIDS she laughed thanked us, and they left.  Her little guy never cracked up a smile after all the compliments I was throwing at him.  That closed off the night on such a funny note.  I want to do more next year, I caught the BUG of giving candy now.

I will post a card soon.  I have so much to do and getting ready for our Anniversary, so as soon as I can add a card I will.  Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Have a fun day!