Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween! We'll be going out Trick or Treating tonight- for our first time in this area- so hopefully we'll have a big haul- erm- the kids will have a big haul and get lots of chocolate that I can share with them. What is your favorite candy? of course the chocolate ones are great- but I like other ones that are harder to find. Sugar Daddies, Mary Janes, peanut butter taffies, you know- the ones that aren't chocolate or soured candy.
Do you dress up to trick or treat. I usually do if we've been to a party or school- I spray my hair, or dress up. I used to love doing cool makeup on my face, but a couple years ago became totally allergic to it- and found out the hard way, for a couple days after Halloween, my eyes were almost swollen shut, and I had dry scaling patches on my face. Oh was I attractive. no more halloween makeup for me- ever!

I felt like doing another digi layout- nope- not going exclusive with it- I just got my desk cleaned off and felt like leaving it clean for a day! These again are all freebies, from shabbyprincess.com and freedigitaldownloads, the title font is from freedigi, the rest is from shabby princess. the buttons are from marcie reckinger.
thanks for dropping in- have a great halloween.
kris

humpty hump, it's wednesday

As a child growing up in the eighties- I listened to a large variety of music. So now I'm sitting here - with Digital Underground in my head just because of my post title.
here's the chorus- if you'd like to hum or sing along with me--
The Humpty Dance is your chance to do the hump. Do the Humpty Hump, come on and do the Humpty Hump - uh- yeah.
of all the music I listen to- this middle class, white bread chick, raised on eighties soft rock and hair bands, I still can say Rap is on of my favorites. Not hard core stuff- the catchy stuff- like Beastie Boys, Snoop Dog, Missy Elliot, and Timbaland. and just to expose myself even more- mind you this is like showing you my soft white underbelly- I love pop music too. Bands like Nsync, Backstreet Boys, Christina Aguilara, even- gasp- I'm gonna say it- Britney Spears.
There- go ahead- laugh behind your hands.. it's ok- I like whats I's likes.

another thing I'm liking? Digi scrapping- tho- I do tend to kind of get tired of being on the puter and spending another few hours on it scrapping isn't always appealing. But tonight- I was in the mood and made this lovely little layout.
Pretty much most of it is freebie stuff- I got some at shabbyprincess.com and some from kits I bought- one is from janelle paige ( flowers and frames), the other is from Marcie Reckinger ( lettering and buttons). I like how my kinda crappy pics look pretty decent on this layout- shrinking them down certainly helps- plus having lots of pics to look at- look at that- 5 pics on this! hope you like! thanks for stopping by!

kris

cards today

Tuesday! it's a rainy cold one here! the windows are all steamed up and I'm sitting here with a hot cuppa coffee. yum. do you have any fun family things that you do? My hubby and I played name that tune last night- or dueling youtube! LOL! my computer and the family computer are across from each other- so he was on one and I was on the other. Then we'd type in a group or singer, and find songs to stump each other. We'd let a few notes play and someone would have to yell out the name of the song. Alizabeth and DH are awesome at this game. Me - well- not so much! I have to hear the song up to the hook to even know what song it is- and DH can name Stairway to Heaven in one note. It's not quite fair- but to be honest- I win any word game. So its a balanced marriage! We used to play Balderdash with his family- it's a game where you guess definitions of words. It became a family joke that I would somewhere in the game, use the definition- a small northamerican bird found in marsh areas. SOMEONE would ALWAYS fall for it! ( the way to get points in the game was to make up a wrong definition and have others pick yours- then you to pick the correct definition of the word when the game master would read aloud everyone's definitions and the correct one. )

today I am sharing some new cards made with some older product- remember these old crate papers- love their line-shabby chic and just the touch antique looking.

I also got out my old We R Memory Keepers embossed punch outs- and used them on both cards. lots of ribbon, twine and rick rack on this one. this is based on Kazan's 12th sketch over at 2s4y. I know Halloween is just right around the corner- but i'm not feeling it this year. So I went with this family theme.

this card is also made with the Crate papers- I used my cricut- then added pearls to the end of the swirl. the flower and LOVE are cut from the embossible diecuts. I used a Martha punch for the scallops- and some bobunny lace that i adore.

I have some links for yummy projects too- PC Gourmet is preordering now-

http://community.creatingkeepsakes.com/store/products/paper_crafts_gourmet

this is a darling halloween project and recipe made by Alisa Bangerter courtesy of Paper Crafts.YUMM! I can't wait to try these biscuits- they look delish!

Cheesy Garlic Drop Biscuits
Alisa Bangerter
This is a perfect recipe to pull out if you are short on time because there is no rolling or cutting. The cheese and garlic add extra kick to a plain biscuit, and kids love them. They are the perfect accompaniment to serve with soups or stews, and are great served with a salad.
INGREDIENTS
2 c. flour
2 tbsp. granulated sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2/3 c. butter or margarine
1 1/2 c. grated cheddar cheese
1 1/4 c. milk
Chives (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Mix together dry ingredients. Cut in butter with pastry cutter until mixture is fine. Add cheese and mix well. Add milk and stir until just moistened. Drop by spoonfuls onto greased baking sheet. Sprinkle top with chopped dried or fresh chives if desired. Bake at 400 degrees for approx. 15 minutes.
And the supplies and instructions for the project:
Enjoy Halloween Tag
Designer: Alisa Bangerter
SUPPLIES: Cardstock: (ivory) Dye ink: (Black) Stewart Superior Corp.; (Summer Sun) Stampin’ Up! Specialty ink: (Mango Lemonade color wash) Stewart Superior Corp. Color medium: (black chalk) Craf-T Products Accents: (black brads) Making Memories; (chipboard bat, moon) Melissa Frances Fibers: (black striped ribbon) Pebbles Inc. Font: (Black Family) www.dafont.com Adhesive: (foam tape) Finished size: 3" x 4 1/2"
1 Make tag from cardstock. 2 Crumple tag and smooth out. Spray edges with color wash; let dry. Apply chalk. 3 Ink chipboard moon; let dry. Chalk edges and adhere. 4 Ink chipboard bat; let dry. Adhere with foam tape. 5 Print sentiment on cardstock; trim and tear edges. Chalk edges and adhere with foam tape. Attach brads. Attach ribbon with brad.

have a great tuesday ya'll!
kris

Etsy is now open!

Hello Hello hello- happy friday to everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful weekend- we're supposed to get mega rain this weekend. But I'm going to be painting, still have so much to do. And of course doing laundry- it never seems to be finished does it?
I have an announcement. I have opened an Etsy store to sell my extra items. For those of you who don't know- Etsy is a place to buy and sell HANDMADE things. There are so many wonderful pieces there- it's a real great place to spend hours looking at it all. So here I am, showing you what some of the pieces I've listed are. and of course- hoping you will stop by and maybe buy something. I almost didn't want to part with these ornament sets- they are sooo devine! I love the colors and I love the cute paper piecings I made. The top two sets are both ornament sets- or gift tags if you choose to use them that way. The bottom set is a handmade card set with matching envelopes. Each card has a simple greeting on it- Thinking of You, Smile, Hello, and Just A Note. Thanks for stopping by, and take a minute to check out Etsy>>>>>> the link is over here>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Also check out Bobunny's blog - they are running a contest for adding a link to your blog, or just leaving a comment on theirs- you can win some awesome stuff- and it's not just a single giveaway- there will be multiple winners!
peace!
kris

Reminisce ideas

I get to share today! I finally got my projects done so I can share the new lines that Reminisce has designed! Check out their website at www.designsbyreminisce.com
so today I thought I'd share this mickey ear album first. Cause it's my favorite! The album itself I made, I cut out and designed the ears so sorry- it's not something you can buy. Also I'm not sharing the whole album, in case I want to make a class or something for it. All the stickers and papers are Reminisce, I used a clear album part from Bobunny, and I also traced more of the clear bobunny album pages to make more designs in my album. I also used some Prism cardstock, and some craft buttons and twine.

Up top is the album closed. Down below is the first pages open. You can see now the clear page I used for the front. The Reminisce stickers are cut into cutouts and solids, so they are very versatile. For more pages of the album, I stepped the page lengths to have them show behind each other. This makes it easier to see what to grab when you flip the pages.

This is the final pages of the book- just wanted to show you how I did the ears with the circle stickers. Sorry for the glare on the left side. All these stickers and a lot of the papers are glittered- so this is much more sparkley in person.


Next I have one of the new Christmas Basics diecuts for my background. This is also glittered, and really sparkles in the light. lots of beautiful colors to this set, but I liked the way the silver and red looked with my sepia photos. I cut the flowers from the background, added some michaels pearls and some stickles, tied on a bobunny ribbon and the rest is Reminisce.


Mickey Moments- finally another one done for our Disney album. I'm supposed to be working on that- but I can't seem to get really geared up to do it- so it's slow going. This one is pretty simple and straighfoward. The blue dot paper is pearlized and the red dot paper is pearl and glittered-as are all the stickers- glittered that is- even the cool mickey font lettering. I love it when companies come out with lettering! it's my secret obsession. I pop dotted a lot of the stars to make them stand out.


That's it for now- my hands are getting tired of typing! have a wonderful day and hope you liked my projects!
and as Tigger would say- tata for now!
kris

Middle o' the week

Wednesdays are just not my favorite days- still too much of the week to get through- not a day I usually am raring to get things done and typically can't accomplish much since the girls get out of school early on Wed. Their school lets out at 2 on Wednesday so the teachers have time to get caught up.
I'm sharing bobunny projects today- some layouts that have recently been on the blog- if you haven't gone- check it out the DT is amazing and does the neatest projects! I get inspired so much from them- I hope you will as well. Don't forget to leave a comment on the Bobunny Blog as well. You'll be entered into a drawing for goodies- and there is a good chance at winning!

this card is made with the sketch of the week over at 2sketches4you - laura's 11th sketch. I used Reminisce Enchanted Autumn papers on it- I love the halographic quality of these papers. It's really cool looking- you can kind of see it in the top of the card, how it sparkles. then I used Reminisce branch and owl stickers. Made my own journal spot with Scenic Route paper and a marker. then used MM sticker letters for the greeting. Ribbon is bobunny.

Days like this- I love the bright colors of this layout. Best yet- I used my cricut to cut out that ginormous scalloped frame out- isn't it cool!! papers are all bobunny. what doesn't show in pics well are the glittered leaves from K&co. I also used my martha punch and stamps for the birds and the little journal spot. The flowers are also cut with the cricut, then I used buttons topped with gems for more sparkle. even the letters are cut from the plantain cart.
here is a close up. I used michaels pearls on the stamped image.

Brown Belt- I used sports papers from bobunny for this layout. I typically have trouble scrapping sports but I'm pretty happy how this turned out. I used a star punch then traced it for the other stars. these are futbol papers & cutouts from bobunny's sports line. I also used bobunny for the letters and the chipboard letters.
have a happy hump day- hope you get to enjoy some outside weather today!
kris

Chilly Weather today

Fall has arrived full blast here now- our weather has been in the 60's during the day and even dipping down to the low 30's at night.
I'm sharing some older projects today, because I have been dang busy but can't share anything!
and I get this guilt complex if I don't share for a couple days, I feel horrible about hardly posting anything last week! that's not like me.
I love love this pic of my youngest, I used to be able to sit like that- now if I tried- I'd probably knock something out of joint. Doesn't my front yard make for the best photo op spot! I used a special feature in my photo program, it's called a burn and it makes the edges of the pic darker, I love this effect and can't wait to play with it more.
Here is a nice little way to treat a teacher or a coworker- use a bag, some of those little boxed treats- like junior mints or something. Wrap the boxes and decorate them with a sticker and some twine. then add on a decorative tag to the bag.
all pretty much Flair here. bobunny ribbon on the bag, darice twine, some heidi swapp letters for the BOO and bobunny cardstock.

this is an older one. I still just love it tho- I bought the frame el cheapo on clearance and decorated the outside with anna griffin papers, lots of craft buttons, some anna griffin letters, and 3d stickers and a tiny bit of bobunny lace trim. I love love love the color combo of the pale sage green with the dark wood of the frame. esp inked like that- it speaks to me- have more babies, more babies, decorate their nursery with these colors- more babies.

oh well - no more babies in my future..

a quick and cute birthday tag, all bobunny leftovers- make your own gift tags this year for christmas, you can do it so much cheaper- I bet you have TONS of scraps! I know I do!! use a stamp for sentiment- or print them out in dozens on a piece of white cardstock- I bet it would awesome to have some friends over- everyone make several tags and trade!
Everyone have a wonderful day- try to use those scraps up- in cards, tags, giftbags, etc..

and coming soon- my etsy store- a great place to buy some of the altered projects and cards you see here!

love, kris

2sketches4you card

this is my beautiful 10 year old- is it me- or doesn't she look much older? I am so happy I finally discovered how to use the priority setting on my camera- see i have no patience for reading the camera directions- tho normally i'm a directions reading kinda girl. DH and I have put together many a piece of furniture and I believe I could now be a pictogram champion- well- I'd give the champion a run for his money- or I could just attend a pictogram championship. if they have those.
so I finally figured out that I could change the white balance on my priority setting - up to now- everything was blue tinted- because apparently the default setting is incandescent, or the camera people just want to mess with me so I think I'm taking pics of smurfs.
I forced A to lay in the grass- where she was afraid of ants and stink bugs and spiders and all manner of the insect world we have encountered here - crawling up her arms and scaring her. she's a real nature girl. not so much. and for the record- nothing did crawl up her arms.
and I got some great pics of her - much better then the school ones I just paid for.

I'll confess- I worked on my design team cards before i did my sketch this week. but I guess I'm keeping those secret so I'll share my sketch card and a couple others I did yesterday.
this is kazan's sketch 11- and I used some sei papers, a around the block circle sentiment. a bobunny rubon ( cherish) lots of sanding on the papers, a ribbon from american crafts, some prima flowers and some half pearls from micheals.
When i went to Micheals this week- I got a martha stewart punch and these wonderful bird stamps, all for 30% off - so I was pretty happy about that. I love larger stamps- and I stamped these onto some nice quality cardstock, and played with my watercolor pencils and waterbrush and colored them in. I felt like I was painting again, which made me pretty happy. After they dried I cut them out to use as I would like. So I made this one with flair papers, the martha bird stamp and border punch. I sewed some around the edges, added a couple prima flowers a button, twine and a small tag with a rubon from Creative Imaginations.




and because I wanna keep it real, I'm putting in my last card, which I don't like at all, but at least the saying is fun and I'd totally send it to my sister if I had one- or maybe to my bff- who would love it. the papers are SEI and the saying is around the block. the flower is prima, letters are Bobunny, ribbon is craft supply and chipboard is bazzill.
have a wonderful day!
kris

New projects

Thought I'd share what my mornings look like right now- I took these yesterday, it was a glorious sunrise. I think that is one of my favorite things about fall, the sunrises are just so much richer. I never truely appreciated sunrises til we moved here- and now each day I make sure to take a few moments and watch the sun come up and the sun go down. Every sunrise and set is different- but some are stunning in color.
As I moved the camera away from the sun, the mists over the trees were another moment of ahhhhh. For some reason we didn't have geese out there yesterday- tho they were back last night. I love to hear the soft little honks as they awaken, I know many times they are quiet, just standing there. But in the morning they call softly to each other. I love the way the mist is heavy in the shallow spots, it makes it look like an ocean, with waves gently breaking the surface.
ok, now for the projects I promised! this is a baby box, it's not huge, but would hold some small things. would be nice for a gift box as well. these are Anna Griffin papers. A martha stewart felt sticker, Anna G sticker flower and rubon word. Lace is craft supply and the heart chip is MM. the ink I used is Kaiser Craft and the pearls are Micheals.
This is a Flair card, the papers are all Flair. Felt and glitter leaves and rubon are Me & My Big Ideas. Stamp is another Martha purchase - check out Micheals this week- they were having an awesome sale on martha stuff. pearls is Micheals too and those buttons are Darice.
thanks for looking!
enjoy your day!
kris

Forever since I've blogged!

well, blog readers, I can't believe it's been almost a week since I've blogged. I feel like I'm at confession- forgive me bloggers for I have sinned, it's been a week since I've last blogged.
to make matters worse- I have no new projects to show you today! I've been working- just not on anything I can share. I do hope to have some new stuff done this week, but that's if I can get creative feeling today.
I have, however, some pics to share from the weekend. We took the girls- A's best friend tagged along- down to a shopping plaza that was doing a costume contest, treating, and some other nice neighborhood things. None of the girls placed, Barbie in a Box won, then was followed by Mouse in a Trap and R2D2 costumes. NONE of which I'd want to have to lug around trick or treating! we saw some really cute and creative costumes tho, one girl was a bust- complete with pedestal! there was also a blue hen baby- since we're right here in the midst of Fighting Delaware Blue Hens country, and a Christmas tree with gift boxes on her feet.
We had a splendid time tho! the stores were giving out candy, there were free hotdogs, soda and chips, plus free pumpkin decorating and cupcake making.
I thought I'd share some pics of the costumed trio. A's friend doesn't typically dress up for Halloween, so I told her to wear some old clothes, and she could be a dead girl. only took me about 30 minutes to do her face up, she looked in the mirror and scared herself! LOL!
M even asked someone to go back in to A's bedroom with her, so her halloween self didn't scare her regular self!
A was a typical dirty cave girl, this is the same costume from last year - but we didn't really do anything last year b/c of house hunting, so she decided she wanted to wear it again.
Lil A was Red Riding Hood- I loved the costume, but when I had her try it on- the skirt was wayyyyy to short- so I added a couple layers of eyelet lace to the bottom, with some awesome love that stuff- craft goop- no sew- and I've told ya about my aversion to actually sewing fabric!
have a great one!
kris

Tuesday - it's sketch time

nummy nummy - omygosh heaven. I thought of the idea to make these brownie bites a couple weeks ago. the only hard thing about them was finding rolos candy. sometimes they can be hard to find around here. I guess they aren't the most popular candy. I am thinking tho- that those little bite size milky way bars would be a good substitute here- tho they aren't round and as asthetically pleasing with the round fluted edges of the bites.

oh- you want to know what they are- Brownie Bites- basically a good brownie mix- I love Ghirardelli- but you could make your own or use another mix that you like. The bites have Rolo candy in them, so they are caramel and chocolate and fudgy delights!!

speaking of which- I found this adorable fluted edge pan at Joanne's - it's a Wilton product- silcone too- so even the ones that didn't want to pop right out- I could push them out. My guess is that they are more for small tarts- but hey- these morsels just pop right in your mouth!
this is the one-
http://www.amazon.com/Sil-Bite-Size-Daisy-Cav/dp/B0019IGM3G/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1223405600&sr=8-1

I found that I liked them best- just out of the oven, when they were just cool enough to pick up- I sampled a few that way- ok- 5 or 6- but really- they were a great dinner! LOL!
after I made them and stored them- I just heated them in the nuker for a few seconds to warm them again. I could also see them piled on some melty vanilla ice cream!
hope you'll try them - the teachers certainly seemed too- one ate them for breakfast! LOL!

next- just as sweet- but not so chocolatey- is my sketch challenge for over at 2sketches4you.

I changed it up a bit this week- I went for a round card, added some bobunny scraps I had, a cricut cut scallop square, a prepunched glittery felt moon and stars, some buttons with twine, and a super super old Making Memories rubon. I also inked everything with some KaiserCraft ink.

I actually made this card first- for the bonus sketch from Carla there at 2S4Y. super scraps to the use on this one! colobok tearout journal paper, AtB saying, basic grey chipboard, I cut a flower from black felt and put in a doodlebug brad, some punched flower petals around the saying and some bobunny rubons finish it up.

thanks for dropping by today - and the winner for the World Card making day is....

jennifer- your post said
Jennifer said...
I love all of these cards, but I have to say that the 3rd and 4th cards are my favs! Thanks for the chance to get a RAK. Crossing my everythings b/c I love that paper!
October 05, 2008

please email me at ibescrapinkris(at)comcast(dot)net with your addy so I can get that out to you!

have a great day!
kris

World Card Making Day!

I'm posting this early- in case anyone wants to print them and take them to a crop or something.
Hopefully you blog readers will find something inspiring here! LOL!
Keep reading down- I have something special at the end of this post!

I recently have been going through old papers and been pulling out these wonderful Around the Block sentiments papers. I only used a few of the sayings, but all the card save the christmas one use them. I managed to do every one of these cards today- so they helped speed up the process.

you'r3 the best card- Around the Block (AtB) saying and swirl paper, bobunny cardstock and ribbon, Colorbok chipboard and stickles glue around the flower.



little flower card- bobunny cardstock, ATB saying, dollar store felt flower, prima flower, craft supply buttons, darice twine, colorbok heart sticker, WRMK cutout butterfly, bazzill border and craft supply ribbon.
unique card, bobunny cardstock and papers, I cut the flowers from the reverse print, Anna Griffin twill, craft supply buttons, DMC floss, craft supply gems, colorbok heart and white colored pencil for the detail. ATB saying as well- I like this one- states the obvious- and is kind of snarky- would be great for a friend! :)

Enjoying life, more of the bobunny paper and cardstock, the ATB sun, colorbok heart, craft supply buttons, I quick did the paper pieced tree and added some red brads for apples. the little bird is a cut out from We R Memory Keepers.

Happy Spring, another ATB saying- some more WRMK cutouts, some cricut swirls with stickles glitter glue, a prima flower and button. I used my deco scissors on the edges and distressed them with sandpaper! the trim is WRMK as well.

Happy Birthday! again- a lot of the same supplies- using up those scraps!

Bobunny papers, SEI graph paper, cricut swirls, ATB saying, some coaster stars from Imag. Project. and gem strips from prima.

Congrats- ATB saying, some cricut leaves and craft store flowers, bobunny papers, SEI graph paper and WRMK trim.

this one took on a life of it's own- i'm not real happy with it- I think I can only do so many cards and I start getting stale- so take this one as an "it's ok"- so I'm sharing it.

papers are Anna Griffin, swirls from the cricut, ribbon from bobunny, diecut from Anna Griffin, rubon from bobunny, small sticker strip is SEI- to which I added some gems to it.

Last but certainly not least! I am giving away another RAK!

This will be for comments from now until Sunday night.

this package is a huge SEI pack of papers, with matching stickers

and punch outs. along with it is some matching ribbons, flowers, felt

flowers, some little yellow bike brads and some bling stickers

from Around the Block along with some punctuation brads from ATB as well.

this is a pretty nice rak- so dont' miss out!
happy happy World Card Making Day tomorrow- hope you get to make at least
one card, and dont' forget to send them - make someone's day!

thanks for stopping by!

kris

Big Day tomorrow

Happy Friday everyone! tomorrow is World Card Making Day! and tomorrow I will have something special to share, along with lots of cards I'm working on. So check back tomorrow to see.
in the mean time, I thought I'd share some older cards I haven't put here yet.

This card is made with scenic route papers, CI rubon frame and zig zag, and flowers. I stickled the HS letters.
The you are so cool card is made with
bobunny papers, a Imagination proj. chip, bobunny rubon and K&Co letters.
























the last card is made with bobunny papers and rubon, the heart is a piece I cut out, colored with marker and glued lots of buttons on. there is also a bobunny chip bookplate and ribbon.
thanks for checking in today! excited for tomorrow!
kris