TE Blast from the Past Blog Hop!

I'm excited to be part of Taylored Expressions' Blast from the Past Blog Hop.  This month's theme is Trick or Sweet.  I've had my projects finished for a couple weeks now and am excited to finally be able to share them!  Enjoy!

The sketch design is by Sankari Wegman, one of the members of TE's Baker's Dozen Design Team.  I had a great halloween paper pad with very unusual choices in it as well as some Scrabble tiles from a themed game one of my kids never played with.  So ... together they created a very halloween-y card!

During one of my frequent trips to Michael's, I found this set of little jars - perfect for "thinking of you" type gifts.  So ... here is what I came up with ...

... Eat at Your Own Risk ... yes, a little creepy!  I couldn't resist using the "drippy" punch to go along with the gorey eyes.  Finding small "eyeballs" was the biggest challenge as not too many would fit in the jar otherwise!  (These are actually bubblegum rather than the chocolate ones.)

... Witch's Pot ... aren't these candy corns unusual?!  Since they seemed "girly" to me, I had to create a witch-themed jar.  The bubbles are glazed although they don't show up too well and the hat ... well ... it just had to have feathers on it!

... and lastly ... some Spooky Treats ...

Enjoy the hop! 

A few Halloween cards

Now that most of the cards have been received, I can post them.  When I saw this card on Laurie's blog (http://www.justgivemestamps.typepad.com/), I knew I had to make it!  I ordered the stamp set (from Waltzing Mouse) and with my Halloween paper pad, twine and buttons set to work.  Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the inside as it was great too.  I love the end results!

Been working on some holiday gift ideas so will be back to post those after I get some pictures taken ...

Thanks for looking,

Cindy

Halloween Window

As much as I loved the Fall themed window, I had to change it for Halloween as I have some cute things to put out.  So it was time for a new banner and to get out the cute spider placemat!  The banner embellies are from K&Company - love their stuff!

SSSC136 Challenge

For this challenge I thought the forest paper from Basic Grey's "eerie paper pad" went so well with the gal from the Waltzing Mouse stamp set. Doesn't she look as if she's creeping through the woods and the bats hanging from the limbs ... eerie!

SSSC135 Challenge

Aren't these Halloween PTI dies the cutest?  The paper is a pad they had last year and of course had to use my cobweb embossing folder for the background on the circle.  I used some white ink to make the webbed image show up a little better and made the bats wings 3D.  The fangs on the pumpkin make me smile!

It's Halloween...enjoy every bite!

When I saw Lynn Put's card using this stamp set, I loved the skeleton as it made me laugh every time I saw it. So...finally I found it as it wasn't available in Stampin' Up's catalog. Although the picture of my version didn't come out clearly (and I already sealed the envelope), you get the idea! At the last minute I remembered all these Halloween brads I had so the bats were perfect!