Birthday boys and a snowy day

Saturday Morning we woke to this out our windows.
We got a total of 4 inches before it was over.

It was sunny by afternoon in time for my Grandsons' Birthday Party.
Blake was two on Saturday and Brady will be 5 soon, so a combined party was in order.

The afternoon was full of family, friends, fun, balloons, presents, and cake.
And two very happy little boys...

The 5 year old has been loving Geo Trax since he was two, and I found him a "Cars" Geo Trax.

Blake really like his new retro cash register - you remember the one with the big plastic coins and hand crank to open the drawer. -no lights, music, or batteries..., but lots of fun for busy little fingers.

Their mom made this adorable car cake for Brady

Here Blake is waiting patiently for his cake ( I did not get a picture of it, in all the hassle. It was a 2 layer chocolate cake.

A fun day with two very special boys.

Elizabeth

Haunted

Here are three pieces made for the new Halloween stamps from Oxford Impressions called "Haunted" Check here to see the entire plate.
This first one is on a chipboard hanging moon. - lots of black glitter and hangs with a black wire.

The following piece is on heavy chipboard. It has lots of texture. It is kind of hard to see the black on it. She is holding black roses and there is a black glittered spider in the top left corner and more roses in the right corner with wrinkled black ribbons also and a wire hanger.

The last piece is a necklace and was made in the style of Lisa Guerin. I loved her little girl necklaces from her blog and then saw them again in the current "Life" magazine by Stampington. So, I decided to try my hand at a Bat girl style for Halloween. She has lace top and black velvet skirt.

Thanks for looking.

Elizabeth

More Halloween

Above is a Halloween advertisement from one of my old magazines

and below are some more decorations.

Elizabeth

Family Halloween projects & a Winner

The winner of the stamps from Oxford Impressions, shown below, is-

"TxScrapAddict"

I will be emailing for your address and this package will be out to you right away.

Thanks to all that commented. We appreciate it very much.

And now for some Halloween decorations. I made these for my daughter with her children's pictures. They are last year's costumes. They don't all have their costumes for this year yet.
This is a garland with a section for each child.

This one below hangs by itself. It is about 9" across.

This one is made in a little box spray painted black and decorated.

My daughter had a picture of Brady after having eaten some blue candy. I cut it out, decorated it and put it on a magnet for the frig. He loves it and I do too!

Brady was a bat so I cut his picture out and attached it to the bones and it hangs upside down - like a bat!

Elizabeth

Give-a-way for Alice in Wonderland Stamps

Free Grab bag of stamps-Post a comment below

Here are cards and projects that I made for Oxford Impressions with two of her new Alice in Wonderland stamp plates.




I have some extras of the individual stamps from the "Wonderland" plate. You can see a picture of the entire sheet here. I will be giving away just some of the stamps on this plate. Here is a picture of the "grab bag" to be given away. I have trimmed all of the stamps and they are ready to stamp, just by attaching them with a piece of double stick tape to an acrylic block.

If you will leave a comment on this post from now until Wednesday night Sept 30, at midnight central time, we will announce a winner on Oct. 1. Please be sure we have your e-mail address.
Thanks for playing along with us.

Elizabeth

Fabric Book Pages

These are pages from a Silver Bella fabric book swap that I have been working on. They are all a little different because of the crazy quilt fabric. The little girl image is on a fabric sheet that I purchased from Paper Whimsey. -- Lots of trim and beads added on top.

Below is the back of the page. The image here is on my "Moo" cards that I have hand sewn on the back. You can flip it over to see the contact info.


Thanks for looking.
Elizabeth

Dance among the Shadows

Here are some Halloween pieces that are all made with stamps from Oxford Impressions. Check out all her Halloween stamps here.

This is a vintage bottle on which I adhered stamped papers. Then I sealed them with wax. The back has some rub-ons. Then some tiny black beads were placed inside. A metal piece was used as a stopper and sealed with more wax.

The skull below was stamped and embossed with white powder onto vellum and then cut out and placed on the round stamped dial piece. It was placed onto a black crepe paper round ruffle with silver glitter on the edges. Then it was placed on scalloped black glitter paper.
A couple of cards below


And finally, a simple bookmark - just right for the season.
You can click on any of these images for a closer look.
Lots more Halloween ideas to come
Elizabeth