Kraftin' Kimmie Release Day!

Woohoo! It's finally here!!

Today we are celebrating the spooky release of ALL of t Kraftin' Kimmie's NEW September
stamps!

ALL FOUR new sets are NOW available in the Krafty Shop!

So let's have a big happy hop around the design team blogs and check them all out in action! Grab a nice hot beverage, sit back and relax while you hop around and enjoy all the amazing creations!!

First up is GRIM GRETCHEN...

....then DEVILISH DEBORAH....

and ELECTRIC EVELYN!

Lastly we showed you the fabulous MINI MONSTERS yesterday!!! Eeeeee!

ALL the new sets are available now individually BUT if you HAVE to have it ALL, we also have our September Gimme Kimmies Kit which includes all FOUR of the new sets together and at a discount! But only for a limited time and while supplies last!

Happy hoppin' and happy shoppin!!

I am so excited to be a guest on this release!  Here are my cards featuring Grim Gretchen.

I couldn't resist making a scene card featuring this cute reaper as a trick-or-treater:

Can you imagine opening the door?  Ha ha ha - but don't worry:

and finally, I couldn't help but color her again with her matching gloves.

Your next stop is The Purple Hippo!

Witch Way Is the Candy?

Hello All!  When I first saw this sweet image, it had already been discontinued.  Even though I figured it was a long shot, I cannot tell you how many I checked eBay to see if anyone had listed her .  Of course, no such luck :(  But then, on my day off from work --which is a glorious occasion in itself LOL!--and as I was catching up on my blog reading list, I saw a post that My Favorite Things was going to re-release her!!!! (Witch Way is the Candy?)  I know had to be the first person to place my order - LOL!

I absolutely *love* her and the rest of the stamp set is pretty adorable too.   Here are the products and details for the card:
I used W7, W5, and W3 for the hat, cape, and boots and YR18, YR16, and YR12 for the dress.  Her hair and cat are colored with
C9, C7, and C5
Banner for the sentiment - Mama Elephant Tags A Lot  and that single sparkling clear little sequin is from Pretty Pink Posh
Little spider - Mama Elephant Bootastic.  He was stamped on black cardstock with Versamark ink and embossed with Ranger orange embossing powder
Buffalo Check printed paper - Authentique Bewitched
Candy Corn printed paper - American Crafts Bootiful Nights
Card Frame - Mama Elephant Madison Avenue
Card - Paper Trey Ink Cardstock

Yay! for the upcoming long weekend!  I'm planning to be in the craft room.  Whatever your plans, I hope you have a wonderful time :)

Unicorns and Pumpkins, Yes Please!

Summer is winding down and pretty soon the busy season will begin at work so I am enjoying playing with my Halloween and fall-themed stamps before the hustle and bustle.  I found these super cute Darcie's stamps with the neat tin pin embellies from Ellen Hutson and love they combine my favorite Halloween icon with my favorite mythical one!

I created the background using spiced marmalade and wilted violet Distress Oxide inks and a cloud stencil from My Favorite Things. The image was colored with copics and I love how the fluorescent copic makes the pumpkin's face glow!  The sentiment was embossed on a vellum cloud with purple embossing powder (even though it looks blue in the pic).

I used to stock up- and by stock up I mean hoard-bling but now I'm all about the sequins!  Here's my new favorite storage in my craft room:

Acrylic nail polish racks and bead storage containers make the most perfect sequin storage!  Oh and I found an acrylic cart at HomeGoods to organize my clear stamps:

With the help of a laminator and some letter stickers, I created my own dividers.  Full disclosure, I needed two of these carts to hold all the stamps and luckily, HomeGoods had another cart in a style close enough to this one to work!  I only had to revise my dividers a little to accommodate it.  You can see a little bit of it in the pic below but let's face it, the star of the show is my napping Lily!

Isn't she sooo cute!  I can forget about sharing the chair with her - she's totally claimed it.   She is my favorite!

Have a great weekend!

K-cup Favors

We had a Halloween pot luck at work and I thought these cute K cup favors made such a great "adult" treat.  Since I wore an office-friendly witch costume (purple blouse, black slacks, striped stockings and pointy-toe shoes!), I thought it only fitting to bring a witch-themed treat :)

I used the tutorial here for the holders.  The 4 oz coffee cups came from Webstaurant Store.  I just bought the white ones and then covered them with coordinating paper.  The favors are simple to made and the cups are the perfect size to hold a K cup.  These held a Great Value brand pumpkin spice cappuccino.  They are really good!  The patterned paper is digital paper from the Pininkie Etsy shop (here).

I stamped, embossed, and cut out Inkadinkado Witching Hour stamps and glued them to the holder. The sentiment is computer-generated and cut out with a Spellbinders die.  The tiny "happy halloween" is also stamped and embossed.  The sentiment is computer generated and cut out with a Spellbinders die.

It's a tradition in the Jackson household to watch Hocus Pocus every Halloween.  I try to do something a little different every year to announce when we'll watch.  This year, I made this little holder for Jenna because I knew it would make her laugh:

Here's a close up of the image and sentiment:

Hee hee!  It was perfect!  The image is a digital stamp, Skelly Gossip.  The patterned paper is digital paper from the A Scrap of Time Etsy shop (here).

 An inexpensive skeleton stamp set from Michael's created this happy little skellie barista:

I made one just to celebrate Fall using this precious Lemon Shortbread digital stamp (here) and fall leaves digital paper from VMIDigiPapers Etsy shop (here):

The image is colored with copics then I masked it off and sponged the background with Colorbox ink.

These little favors are so versatile - I cannot wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas!  Have a great weekend :)

Halloween Treat/Petite Places - Spook Manor

I have just discovered these tiny houses from Papertrey Ink.  They are called "Petite Places," and there is a whole collection of buildings to include this adorable and not-so-scary haunted house, "Spook Manor."
They make adorable jar toppers but first, here are some photos without the plastic dome

The tiny trick-or-treater in his ghost costume --cuteness overload!  There are coordinating stamps sets to go with the dies so you can create the house and then add accessories. I put the bats on strips of craft plastic so they could "fly" above the house.  I also created a tiny black cat for the fence:

I used a paper punch cat on Shrinky Dink film and shrank it using my heat gun!   

They make the most adorable gift toppers for jars and candles.

I found the candles at TJ Maxx. Isn't this just the perfect adult Halloween treat!? 
Have a great week!

Tiny Couture Witch Hat

Hello All,

I've been back in the craft room and it's been a ball!  I am obsessed with making these tiny felt witch hats and then decorating them in different witchie themes.

I found a pattern online and then customized it to the size I wanted.  These are just under 5" tall. Each hat is cut from felt.  I hand sew the cone and use Spellbinders Nestabilities large circle dies to cut the brims.  I cut three brims, two from felt and one from card stock.  I cut tabs in the bottom of the cone and glue them to the paper brim which is sandwiched between the two pieces of felt.  The cardstock layer gives some stability to the brim.  I also include a ring of  26 gauge wire so I can bend the brim as needed.  Here's what I have so far.  The hats on the pedestals:  A Murder of Crows (left), Deadly Nightshade (center), and Death's Head Moth (right).  The black and white striped one isn't finished but it's so cute, I couldn't help but include it.  These are going to be invitations for a ladies tea!  Each guest will receive a hat box (made using my Cricut) with one of the little couture witch hats inside:

The tag was also made using the Cricut.  It was my first "print then cut" project!

I'm debating whether or not to color up the logo.  I'm also trying to decide how the party details will be conveyed.  I'm leaning toward tucking a small card inside the box with the logo on the front.  My favorite hat is the Death's Head Moth!

It has a black tulle veil and the moths are actually sporting a skull head embellishment (Darice)!

The moth was cut using the Cricut Art Nouveau cartridge and I layered gray and black Bazzill card stock so I could lift the wings.

The Deadly Nightshade hat has a beaded spider that I made from glass beads:

The spiderweb was cut on the Cricut.  I like the idea of the Murder of Crows hat but it's not couture enough - LOL!  But seriously, after looking at the pictures, I want to see if I can add a little more to it. I love the idea of it so hopefully I can come up with something to improve it.  The crows and branches were cut on my Cricut and the feathers are from Spellbinders dies.

I'm also hoping that 3 crows constitutes a murder otherwise I guess I just have an attempted murder - hahahaha.  Each crow has red embellished eyes.  The fuzz you see is from the felt; I didn't realize how much it pills - bummer!

Have a great week!


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Halloween Treat Boxes!

Hello All!

**updated to add a THANK YOU! to MADE IN A DAY Halloween Spooktacular Linky Party for featuring my witch boot floral arrangement this week!  There are so many awesome ideas in this party you have to check it out! **

With Halloween just a couple days away, here are some treat boxes I made.

There are 16 of them

I used several different stamps but the sentiment was the inspiration :)

"When all the world is sleeping and the moon is riding high, if you peep between the curtains you'll see witches flying by."  It's from Waltzing Mouse Stamps.  The witch is from one of the dollar stamps sets from JoAnns a few years ago.  The black cat is from Hampton Art Graphic 45 Clear Stamp Set Happy Haunting Halloween (I just masked off the moon).  The gate is from a Penny Black clear stamp set called "Haunted Halloween" .  The tree was cut on my Cricut (October 31 cartridge).  The moon is a Spellbinders circle die and embellished with Stickles yellow glitter.

The box is from Mygrafico from Lindsay's Stamps Stuff - Halloween Favors Set.  I modified mine to hold two Ghirardelli mini chocolate squares.  I sponged white cardstock with gray, blue and purple ink, on both sides and then printed the template on it.  I hand cut them and the assembled them (so the template lines didn't show).  They are very simple to make and I'm impressed with how sturdy they are.

Happy Halloween!

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Practicing Thriftcraft: A Bewitching Centerpiece!

Hello All,

Back in August when my sister and niece came to visit, we went thrifting and I found this glass boot:

It was $5.  I thought it would be fun to try making it a stylish witch boot for Halloween like I did with this more traditional looking witch boot and this one.

I went to Michael's and picked up some supplies:

The boot was hollow so I also bought a Styrofoam block that I cut in half and shoved down inside to hold the flowers in place.  Luckily, all Halloween florals were 60% off and decorations were 40% so I went a little overboard :)  The witch hands were a must.  I wasn't sure how I would use them but they were inexpensive and just so cool!  Plus, they reminded me of the hands I used to decorate the witches table from last year so they got tossed in the cart!  After a lot of snipping and bending and fussing, I came up with this:

I thought it was finished but... the more I looked at it, the more I thought it looked like those hands were conjuring!  LOL!  So, I set out to find something magical to float between them.  Like this:

Cool, during the day.  But as the sun sets...

Hocus Pocus!  A magical spell is brewing!

In the dark, the orb bathes the table in a purpley light that of course I can't get a good picture of - darn it!  It looks pretty awesome.

The orb is a "starsphere" from Save on Crafts.  But let's just pretend it's magic.

Have a great week!

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Coffee Filter Garland

Hi All!

I know this is Halloween-themed but I didn't get to share it then and I don't want to wait until Halloween 2016.  So thanks to Pinterest, I have a new obsession.  Coffee filter garland!  This is really easy (a little time consuming) but totally worth it.  It's just so fluffy!

Those Williamsburg hurricanes are a thrift find!  They were $15 each and I believe the bases are actual brass - score! The pumpkin planter is another find from the Goodwill outlet.  At 59 cents/pound, it was probably free - LOL!  I digress - the coffee filters are from the dollar store.  They were dyed using food coloring diluted in water.  The colors for the garland were decided the minute I found the mini-pumpkins!  Aren't their colors just beautiful?

I used food coloring diluted in water and dyed the filters but have since read you can use acrylic paint diluted in water.  

How gorgeous would this be in pink, blue and yellow for a baby shower!?  Or tea-stained, just for vintage goodness?  Think of the possibilities!  

More Witchy Decorations

Hello All,

October is whooshing by!  The mantel in the family room got the "witchy" treatment too!

I used most of these decorations last year but this year, it was all about the potion bottles.

I thrifted most of the stuff shown --the only things that weren't are the tall(er) purple glass votive holders, the spiders jar, and the green, purple, and orange bottles. 

The small, purple bottles to the right of the toad are old bitters bottles and are in the shape of a ball and claw.  The clear glass bottle next to them is so stinkin' cool - it's an old (1940s-ish) Fly Ded insecticide bottle!  It actually has "Fly Ded" embossed on the bottle. 

I don't know anything about the iron candle holder but I really love it; I wish I had a pair of them!  The attached witch hat-shaped snuffer is so cool.

I put green lights behind everything on the mantel and then light the votives in the purple holders and it makes such a lovely glow!

Are you ready for Friday?!

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