Haunted House

Hello Bloggers

This is my Halloween in Wonderland Haunted House, it is an exploding box made out of envelopes. If you haven't figured it out by now i Love Laura from The Paper Trail this was a kit purchased and blogged previously from her Etsy store - i heart Etsy!.

I like the finished house but not quite in love with it, needs some tweaks but I'm getting all Halloweened out so will leave it for now save the risk of spoiling it and go back to and finish off when i can, its for me to kept so no rush. 

Here are the remaining sides...

Not sure about this side, i wanted the tree to pop out but it didn't end up how i planned.

All the sides are meant to have pockets like this one but the inside has so much space for tags etc... i didn't mind losing a few if it meant keeping Alice in full form as above.

This is the explosion when you take the roof off, hidden pockets and tags everywhere.

Some close ups of the inside. I just love the little decks of cards as below!

Currently these remaining cards sit as a pack to look through in the centre - i laced the chain with ribbon and like the outcome. I think i am going to make a 3D pumpkin for the centre and attach these cards to the outside of my house (some how) - need to get some Orange card first and see how that plan turns out.

Talking of pumpkins, how do you like mine?

After work tomorrow have to carve the Funny face my daughter wants in hers and we have some bat shaped cookies to decorate :)

Wish me luck

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xx

Halloween

Hello Bloggers,

Halloween 7 sleeps!!

I got the Halloween decs out today, don't have many (need to fix that) the children got so hypa Tamsin has been dressed up as a Witch ever since!

I wish we lived overseas where Halloween is a huge holiday I LOVE HALLOWEEN.

My Etsy order came recently i was sooooo excited i began crafting with it straight away - still need to finish off the exploding Halloween house but will try to post by Sunday

The kit was amazing - Thanks Laura (the paper trail)

The Envelopes and card stock

Stickers/Labels

Ribbons, Flowers - love Prima!

The Gorjuss papers - Halloween in wonderland. I so need to buy the full Paper Pack!.

How cute are these little deck of cards...

These mini advertisement's i love...

As i said hope to post my finished project by Sunday.

Today i made some other bits and bobs to add to the decorations...

I have seen these mini Witches brooms on youtube and blog hopping (sorry i totally forgot where)

Inside the shredded bag is another brown paper bag, full to the brim with sweets - the bags are bunched together and secured with raffia - for the handle is a stick i found on the school run, much to Tamsin's bemusement - lol

Was planning to make a few but im not sure of the finished outcome, my other half didn't quite get what it was - however i think its a cute one off and it sit happily on my shelf.

The following i made for the kids next door, a change from a mini bag of sweets direct from Tesco!

I have plenty of cello cones left from last Christmas, have filled with a glow in the dark skeleton, split two huge bags of ozzie eyeballs from the pound shop (loads left) and tied with a ribbon and scary tag!

I think they are great, i made one for my Halloween obsessed mate in work (who loved it) and another friend has requested if i could make one for her son as they are super cute and i agree!

Lastly i made this little hanging decoration (sorry not a great picture)

They are little bits or bods shall we call them that came on my over half Christmas pressie - a remote control car - they fixed the wheels in place (yes he is over 30 i know!). I was going to bin them but they made me think of Witches hats - so some star stickers and silver cord...job done, however i wish i had more lol

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Sorry for the long post

Will save the Pumpkins for next time!

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x x

Hello Bloggers

I have put my Halloween makes to one side this week and caught up on a few Christmas Cards,

 ONLY 73 MORE SLEEPS!.

Last year i left them all to last minute and was sick to the sight of christmas cards by the time i finished, however this year im doing ok (behind with my plan but ok).

Here are a few from the past few days....

This is form me Cousin who LOVES me to you, the background is a cardborad envelope that i have cut down to make a card base, the tatty teddy is raised on some foam pads, some sparkles - Done.

Again a tatty teddy, the image as previous is a purchased card from the sale cut down - the picture is my otherhalf to a tee - stuffed after a mince pie binge, lol.

Just for a change i decided to make an easel card, broke out my forever friend christmas stamps (sale bargain last year) and got out the heat gun i had forgotten about for some embossing!.



Lastly two cards for the children to give each other - the same but not so they cant moan. Tamsin's big sister card has a more pink toned backing paper/ rub on and Morgan's little brother card is more bright red/green traditional - although the photo is not the best. I now LOVE good old brown packing paper - im sure this will seen more in future projects!!

Hope your all doing well with your Chirstmas crafts

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xx

Remember this?

Hello Bloggers,

I HATE MONDAY MORNINGS!

Anyways, remember this.....



This is the smarties tube that my cousin raided my stash to decorate for her Majorette challenge - she had to decorate the tube then fill it with raised funds.

She came over with a plan in her head to make the tube into a Majorette, complete with baton - she did all the work i just helped her with the supplies.

She told me this week SHE CAME FIRST in the competition!!.

Paige was so pleased, she won a bar of chocolate and five pounds!

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xx

I heart Etsy

Hello Bloggers,

I have discovered Etsy - could get lost for hours looking through the site :)

I have just bought this kit.....



from followthepapertrail. I love the Halloween in Wonderland paper and i am sooooo excited for it to arrive.

The aim is to make an Alice version of this house for Halloween....





my Daughter loves Alice in wonderland (me too)!


If you are not a follower already hop on over to Laura's blog. She has some AMAZING projects.

I made her super cute Sunburst Mini. I have mine with a Christmas Theme for last years Christmas Elf photos and to keep a record all the naughty little things 'snowtoes' got up to while he was here on holiday - i do hope he comes back this year!! I was VERY pleased with the outcome and plan to make more.













The Christmas tree is made from a HUGE amount of punched flowers, folded in half and layered, (i think the white bits of the double sided paper peeping through looks like snow) i had to cover the tree with glossy accents to keep it all in place and sparkle some. Not my idea either :( i found a tutorial on youtube.



Thank you Laura!

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xx

Halloween

Hello Bloggers,

I thought i had the hang of this blogging lark but how long since my last post!?

I love this time of year, bye bye summer - hello children's birthday's, Halloween, Bonfire night and CHRISTMAS!!

This post is full to the brim with pic's - I have been creating a Halloween mini album and I LOVE how it has turned out. I plan to fill it with pictures of the children dressed up for trick or treating. I wish the UK celebrated Halloween like America i cant wait to make the house spooktacula for the children :)

How cute are these...




For my mini album I used the Haunted kit from My Minds Eye, rub ons from Basic Grays Eire collection, making memories brass embellishments and the skeleton/rose on the cover is from Sainsbury's.

The covers are chipboard, the pages are black card stock - i could have gone on and on but literally ran out of paper have a few scraps and i mean scraps left.









I added a pair of acetate pages to make best use of the rub ons and tried to add a good few pockets in the album for me to journal or place hidden pictures.













The kit came with a Halloween countdown and pre made tags for Tamsin to help me fill in - such as how many treats they collected, what they both dressed up as and why they loved Halloween.



















I love how this page frames the house with the rub on tree and spooky bats.

I have left plenty of room through the album for photos.






i LOVE this paper collection, i am very tempted to buy another kit - some of the paper is flocked and some of the images such as the witch, spiders, crow and house have a great added texture.

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xx