Thursday, October 20, 2011

Fun Halloween Food, Vintage Printable, Samples, Links, 2 Challenges & Gift Certificate!

Have you seen all the Top Halloween Treats over at www.allrecipes.com ? The witch finger cookies with almonds for fingernails, mummy hotdogs and frozen hand in the punch bowl (freeze water in a latex glove) are 3 of my favs.

With Halloween 11 days away I wanted to share a few more inspiring ideas for décor, cards, treats, costumes and a link to our past Free Halloween Party Printable HERE & 1893 Décor Ideas in case you missed out! 

Also, look at these super cute Halloween Chipboard Houses DT Leader Vicki Chrisman made with her art group ladies party she hosted.  Vic has a bunch of photos HERE on her Blog and check out how cool the damask designs on our CD look printed on orange cardstock!

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I love seeing our products used in fun novel ways and laughed when I spotted this past card Pammyjo designed using a mix of our stamps, stickers, paper and retro lady from Homemade Booklet. The hat, mask and orange glitter fingernails transform her!

HalloweenMaskGirl_by_Pammyjo

How about this cute chandelier Christy made in 2009 using some of our Halloween Vintage Cuts and other supplies. She painted a giant used tape roll silver to use as her rim.

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The trick is to think outside the box for ways you can re-vamp and make something useful to fit your needs.  Look at how DT Member Tammy Roberts changed the word BEAUTIFUL to BOOTIFUL from our Grand Greetings Clear Art Stamp Set. If you don’t have an orange flower, make one from orange ribbon like hers below.

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Look around at all of the stamps and supplies you have and brainstorm different ways and combinations. See how Melisa Waldorf used our Flourish set and a mix of our Halloween Stamps on this fun yet classy Halloween card.
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Click this link you are looking for 25 Really Cute Handmade Budget Halloween Costumes like the baby Moose below posted on blogsbabble.com
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Lastly I wanted to tell you about 2 Challenges including our DT Gift Bag Envi Challenge this Mon, Oct 24. You can watch the video HERE from IncredibleThings.com on how to turn any envelope from small to jumbo size into a cute gift bag! Our DT Ladies are using this idea and will be posting all sorts of fabulous projects in a variety of themes! If you want to play using any of our products you can post on our Facebook page

Joanne Allison is hosting this weeks Crafty Secrets Challenge on Splitcoast to create ABC – Anything But a Card and look how she used our Queen Bee Stamp Set to decorate this lovely lavender bag! Why not join in & post a creation? Check out Darlene’s Nature Challenge last week

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I hope you will come back Mon, Oct 24 to see (and hopefully participate) in Gift Bag Envi Challenge. We will draw at least 1 Gift $25.00 Certificate depending on how many people post bags on Facebook decorated with any of our products!

PLUS – I will be showing a PEEK of Our NEW CD #2, Creating With Vintage Illustrations! I don’t mean to brag but oh my goodness – it’s amazing!
Wishing you joy & creativity

Sandy Redburn    
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4 comments:

Sylvia/LittleTreasures said...

What fun, some wonderful inspiration here. Fall and all its beauty sure can spark some great creativity. Enjoy your day

Christy's Closet said...

Thanks so much for posting my chandelier from 2009! I have it hanging in my hallway and seeing all the vintage loveliness dangling and floating in the breeze makes me happy. So fun and easy to make too. Thanks for all your inspiring products!

*fauve* said...

Beautiful projects!And that Halloween costume is so so so adorable!

tasmania fishing said...

Really Awesome collection. The prints and graphic designs are too impressive and cool.Really great creativity.