Hello Friend Treat Bag

Happy Friday everyone and welcome to another Anything Goes Challenge with the Cardz TV design team.

 

For this week's challenge I created the last of the treat bags I needed for everyone who's playing in our secret pal exchange at work.  In case you missed the other ones that I've created you can find them here, here, and here.

 

To create this week's treat bag I used a cute little ghost from the Boo file by Marjorie Ann Designs.  I then used one of my Martha Stewart punches to punch out the scalloped circle on which I stamped the sentiment Hello Friend from the recently released Favorite Phrases stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps.  The purse form is from Jaded Blossom.

 

Now that you've seen my Anything Goes project be sure to check out the other wonderful projects our design team created for you this week.  Then after you've been amply inspired, create your own project, link up and play along with us for your chance to win a free stamp set.  You have until November 10th.

 

I can't wait to see what you create.

Spider Pumpkin

Yesterday was pumpkin decorating contest day at work.  Now I'm not pumpkin carver, let alone decorator.  Heck I can't even remember the last time we bought a pumpkin for Halloween.  Nonetheless, I thought it would be fun to play along.

 

Using a pumpkin provided by work I decided to turn it into a spider using the Party on Elm Street file from SVG Cuts. 

 

I spray painted the pumpkin black using Rustoleum spray paint.  Then for a couple of days I allowed it to just sit and cure.  After that I cut the legs and eyes out from the SVG Cuts file.  The eyes were cut from vinyl for easy placement and the legs from a sturdy cardstock.

  

After getting the spider put together I created his web using black and white webbing stacked on top of each other.  I was hoping I had some plastic spiders in my 'minis' stash but there were none.  However, I had some little mice so I used those to place in the webbing to add a little extra touch.

Now I'm off to enter this into the Halloween challenge over at Die Cuttin' Divas.

Monstrous Treat Bags

I made a few more treat bags for the folks participating in our secret pal swap at work.  For these I used the different monsters from the recently released Monster Under the Bed file from Marjorie Ann Designs.

These little guys were so much fun to piece together. I loved playing with different prints on some of these guys.  On one of them you can see where I decided to even use a skittle for the eye in place of the black dot.  But then that's all part of the beauty of paper crafting isn't it?  Being able to have fun and create the final product to be what we envision.

The purse forms are from Jaded Blossom and the skittle is from DoubleClick Connections.

Nightmare Before Christmas Halloween Tree

Okay, now before I begin today's post I have a confession to make.  I belong to a couple of Dollar Tree craft groups on Facebook.  There I said it, but I'm not ashamed.  LOL

 

Last week a lady in one of the groups posted a picture of a Halloween tree she made using a mini Christmas tree she found in her local Dollar Tree.  Of course I had to find one of those trees because I was so inspired that I needed to create one for my husband.  After all Halloween is his favorite holiday.  Three Dollar Trees later I finally found one.  ONE.  That's it.  ONE tree and it was the 'display'.   I didn't know it was the 'display'.  Not until I got to the register.  I was scared that they weren't going to sell it to me, but they did and I thanked them profusely for doing so.

 

 

After coming home with my single Dollar Tree purchase I immediately set it outside on my trusty spool where I spray paint all my craft items in need of painting.  I ran in the house, found my black spray paint and sprayed every nook and cranny until my green tree was now black.  Once painted I allowed it to cure for several days before proceeding with creating ornaments to hang on it.

 

Originally I was going to use some of the flat disc ornaments from Hobby Lobby but they were too big.  And since I was not planning to run to a craft store this weekend I thought about the ornaments I'd made years ago using glow in the dark glitter.  I went to the shed, found them and brought them in.  After stripping away the vinyl I'd put on them so long ago I created new designs to take their place.  This time, I'd decorate with Nightmare Before Christmas designs.  I selected pictures from Google, traced them in Silhouette Design Studio, cut and applied.

 

A little fuzzy but they still glow in the dark

Now all I needed was a tree skirt.  So remembering that I had purchased some Nightmare Before Christmas fabric last season I pulled it out of my stash, drew a couple circles, cut them out and stitched the pieces together.  I wished I'd cut it a bit bigger but this one still works well.

 

 

 

With my tree skirt made I was ready to decorate my tree.  Thankfully I had one set of purple lights left from the several I'd purchased at the Dollar Tree a month ago.  The picture doesn't show the lights very well but the lights really help to pull it all together.  And hubby really liked his new piece of Halloween décor.

H-Owl-oween Treat Bag

Who doesn't love a surprise goodie bag full of sweets?  Every Halloween I love making treat bags for people at the office and this year is no exception. 

 

Today I'm sharing one that I made using one of the Halloween Owl Cuttables from Apex Cuttable Designs.  These spooky hoots sure make up easily and look at how cute this one is decorating my treat bag.  And those bats you see circling around my owl are part of this fun Halloween file.

 

My treat "bags" are really purses from Jaded Blossom.  After piecing together my owl all I had to do was use my Scotch adhesive glue and adhere him to the bag.  Now I have a great, fun gift to give to a co-worker.

Halloween Jack-O-Lantern

Happy Friday everyone!  I don't know about you but I am more than excited about the fact that today is Friday.  It has been a very busy, crazy, exhausting week and I am ready for some down town.  You see in my "other life" I play the role of a Community Association Manager and this week kicked off Annual Meetings with two of my five Associations.  

 

Thank goodness for crafting.  If I didn't have all these crafty hobbies I might go insane.  And - well - now you know a bit about why my blog is named My Spot of Sanity.  LOL

 

So today begins another fun and exciting Anything Goes challenge at Cardz TV.  And let me tell you, our design team has created some wonderful projects to share with you today.  So after you've finished checking out mine be sure to hop over to Cardz TV and check out all the other projects.

 

Today I decided to have fun creating a fun Jack-O-Lantern.  Now if you've been following me for a while you may remember that I created some of these a year or so back.  One of them gets displayed at work and this year it's received a lot of compliments from co-workers, homeowners and vendors that have come in to see us.  So I thought I'd create another one just for you. 

 

The pumpkin is from the Haunted Forest kit by SVG Cuts and the stamped sentiment is from the Cardz TV Stamps set Frankly Frightful.

 

And now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge be sure to check out all the other designs.  Then create your own, link up and play along with us.  You have two weeks (October 27th) to do so.

Witches Warts

We have a secret pal exchange where I work, and every year for Halloween (and Christmas) I like to make little treat gifts for everyone in the exchange.  That way I can break out and share my crafty side without my secret pal knowing I'm the pal.

 

This year for Halloween I'm using these great little purses from Jaded Blossom as my treat holder and then I'm piecing together different Halloween characters to adhere to the front.  For this holder I used the frog from the recently released Hocus Pocus set by Marjorie Ann Designs.

 

The stamped sentiment is from the Jaded Blossom stamp set Pick Your Poison.

 

Now I just have to decide what fun, spooky, cute characters I want to use on my other purses.  It shouldn't be too difficult though.  Not with all the cute Halloween designs that are making their appearance this season.

You Hoo Witchy Owl

I have a Halloween card that I'd like to share with to start off our week of crafty goodness.  This card features one of the witch owls from an oldie but a goodie file from Marjorie Ann Designs.  The file is called Halloween Hoots, and last year I used several of the cuts from this file.  This year I wanted to finish using the others.

 

When I can I like to use papers that have designs on them rather than piecing a lot of intricate pieces together.  Not that the pieces are bad but I find that for me personally it's quicker and still yields a wonderfully fun design.  So for this card I used patterned paper for the hat and socks, and two different designs for the book.  That's a total of three different patterned papers - which is what's required to join in the fun over at Hiding in My Craft Room this week.

 

I also used a card from a pre-made pack of card forms I had as well some eggplant colored skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

 

To finish off my card I used a sentiment from the You're a Hoot set from Jaded Blossom.

 

Now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenge:

 

Designer Paper x3 - Hiding in My Craft Room - Ends September 24th

Just Treats Werewolf

I have a fun Halloween card that I'd like to share with you today.  When I saw that Marjorie Ann Designs had released this Happy Howl-O-Ween file I just knew it was one that I had to have.  These little werewolves are just too cute not to be used on some fun Halloween, Over the Hill or similar style project.

 

And because it has been a while since I used my Cricut machine I decided to dust it off and use the print 'n cut feature for this card.  I've always said that I love how the files from Marjorie Ann Designs includes clipart that can be used for times when you're in need of creating a quick 'n easy project.  This little cutie cut up really well too.

 

For the sentiment on my card I used the Frankly Frightful stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps.

 

I also decided to embellish my card a bit by using some orange skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

Spooky Greetings

Happy Wednesday everyone.  How about another Halloween card today?  This one features the fun, classic Ghostbuster design from Apex Cuttable Designs.

 

Initially when I saw this fun design I thought about making a nightlight with it.  But then I realized that doing so would prevent light from coming through since it's a layered design.   My second idea was to use this ghostbuster and the first "O" in the word Boo for a card but after a couple tries at cutting out the face I realized just how small a cut I was trying to do and my poor eyes couldn't hang.  So then I decided to use the ghostbuster as the main and only focal point for my greeting card.

 

This was a fun design to put together and I love how easy it was to do so.  Well, once I went for a size that wasn't too small for my eyes.  LOL  I think this would even be a fun one to use on a glass block or a t-shirt.  (If only my birthday would hurry and get here so I can get that heat press I'm itching for)

 

The sentiment on my card is from the Halloween Panels stamp set from Jaded Blossom.  I also used this set along with a sentiment from Pick Your Poison for the inside of my card.

 

To add a bit of "texture" to my card, I used some of the stream colored skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

Scaredy Cat

I don't know about you but my holiday weekend was full of crafting.  Guess it helps when you're not feeling well and don't want to do much of anything else.  Well that and at least one and a half days of nothing but rain.  Otherwise we'd be out running around town like no tomorrow.

 

I've been creating a lot of vinyl projects lately as you all know.  Just doing something different from always creating greeting cards.  But this weekend I made a couple of different cards and today I'm sharing one of the Halloween ones I created.

 

This one uses the recently released Scaredy Cat Shaped Card from Marjorie Ann Designs.  While I haven't created all of the shaped cards she's released I love every single one that I have created.    It's always fun to step outside of the traditional folded card and play with a new design.  And Marjorie Ann Designs has the best ones I've found.

 

The sentiment on my card is from the Frankly Frightful stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps.  Given the cat on this particular card this was of course the perfect sentiment. 

Till Death Do Us Part

Today I have a nightlight jar to share with you.  This one can be used for Halloween or it could even be for everyday use.  After all I know a couple of people who love skull themed items.

 

To create my jar I used this wonderful Gothic framed skull silhouette called Till Death Do Us Part.  It's from the Silhouette store and was designed by Jamie Koay.  Best part is if you purchase it before midnight tonight it's half price.  (For personal use)  She has some other great designs that I've purchased and you'll see those in later projects.

 

The verbiage on my jar was created in Silhouette design edition.  I love that I learned how to create curved text.  Doing so made this addition to the jar easy.

 

 

Now I'm off to enter my Halloween light into the following challenges:

Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Goes - Ends Sunday, September 4th

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Any Holiday - Ends Saturday, September 3rd

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends Wednesday, August 31st

Happy Haunting

I'm a bit late with my post for today.  We decided late last night that we were going to hit the gym early today.  I mean like before 6AM early.  Now that our granddaughter is here we've been doing a lot of babysitting while mommy and daddy work and that's meant a decline in gym time.  So like everything else we came up with an alternate plan.  Go in the morning.  It won't be every day that we do it - just those when we need to.

 

And that leads me to posting today's project this evening.  Granddaddy is playing with Ocean (that's our granddaughter's name) so that I can come play with you for a few.  :)

 

So for today's project I have a Halloween card that I'd like to share.  This one was made with the newly released Marshmallow Bear Happy Haunting file from Marjorie Ann Designs.  She has some great Halloween files and this one is no exception.

 

For my stamped sentiment I used the Ghostly Greetings stamp set from Craftin Desert Divas.  The spider is from the August 2014 Peachy Keen Stamps release, set PKSC-32.  On the inside of my card I also used Peachy Keen Stamps and these are all from the Trio of Girl Ghosts.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

 

Die Cuttin' Divas - Anything Goes - Ends Sunday, September 4th

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Any Holiday - Ends Saturday, September 3rd

 

Jo's Scrap Shack - Cut it Up - Ends Friday, September 2nd

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends Wednesday, August 31st

Mummy Yummy

Happy Monday everyone.  It's Barbara from My Little Spot of Sanity (everyone has to have somewhere to go so they can stay sane, and for me it's my craft room). It's my last day to guest design over at Jaded Blossom Stamps and it has definitely been an honor and a privilege to do so.  So to everyone at Jaded Blossom - thank you for the fun-filled and exciting opportunity you've given me this August.

 

Now for my project today I thought I'd share a little Halloween treat box.  I purchased this  Mummy Candy Bar Box from the Silhouette store last year so that I could use it in conjunction with the Pick Your Poison stamp set but never got around to do so.  And now I have finally done it!

 

 

 

To make my project I had to rework the box a bit since I bought a king size Hershey bar.  After I got everything the size I needed, I used the script embossing folder from Cricut's Cuttlebug line to emboss my little mummy, added my sentiment from Pick Your Poison and viola.  My Hershey bar holder is complete.

 

Thanks for checking in and thanks again for having me as a guest designer this month!

Witching Spells

I have a fun Halloween card that I'd like to share with you today.  This one was made using the Halloween Hoots file from Marjorie Ann Designs.  I've now used four of the seven characters in this file and each one has been easy and fun to piece together.

 

For the stamped sentiment I used the Frankly Frightful stamp set from Cardz TV Stamps.

 

I also used some Purple Twilight skittles from DoubleClick Connections.  I think I have just about every color available because I love using these gems as accents on my card every chance I get.

 

And now I'm off to enter my card in the following challenges:

 

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends August 26th

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Jaded Blossom Release - Day 4

Can you believe this week is almost over?  Can you believe we are on Day 4 of this fabulous Jaded Blossom release?  If you didn't purchase the Gotta Have It now package that means you have to wait a couple more days before you can purchase your stamps and join in on the fun.

 

Today we are spotlighting the Happy Hello Add On.  For my project I used the following Jaded Blossom products:

Happy Hello Add On

Gable Boxes

 

 

 

I also used my Martha Stewart Drippy Goo punch and the cute Frankenweenie file that is from a past SVG Cutting Files blog hop.

 

Here's a peek at the Happy Hello Add On set

 

 

I can see a lot of fun use coming from this stamp set.

 

 

Hello There Pumpkin

I have a Halloween card that I'd like to share with you today.  This one features an adorable pumpkin right out of one of Marjorie Ann Designs files.  This one is called Halloween Hoots.

 

I personally love Marjorie's owls.  They're right up there with the Gingerbread.  And while this card doesn't have an owl the pumpkin is still one of the components and is just as cute.  I mean c'mon look at those crazy eyes and mouth.  Sure makes me smile just looking at it.

 

The stamped sentiment on my card is from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled Frankly Frightful.

 

And since I was following this sketch -

 

 

 

for this week's Die Cuttin Divas challenge, I also used some black skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

 

Now I'm off to enter my card in the following challenges:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - August Sketch - Ends August 7th

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Ghoul's Best Friend

Today we end the week with a 3D challenge.  A 3D Cardz TV challenge to be exact.  Our challenge for this week is to create a project that has a pumpkin.

 

For my project I created this wonderful jack-o-lantern from the Haunted Forest kit from SVG Cuts.  This is a fun project to put together and I love how you can decorate not only the hat but the pumpkin depending on your style. 

 

I used a variety of papers from a couple of different mat stacks, added some boa fur around my hat, skittles on the eyes, and then pop dotted up the sentiment in the center of my flower.  My sentiment is from the Trick or Treat Stamp set.

 

And now that you've seen my take on this week's challenge be sure to check out the other fun designs our team has created for you.  Then after you've been inspired, create your own project, link up and play along with us.

 

I can't wait to see what you create.

And now I'm off to enter my pumpkin into the following challenge:

Die Cuttin Divas - Happy Halloween - Ends November 1st

Halloween Tealights

Today I have a fun, non-card related project for you.   I had some extra tea lights hanging around from another project I did and instead of letting these guys sit around I decided to decorate them up for Halloween.  Of course it didn't hurt any that I saw these newly released patterns by Jamie Cripps in the Silhouette store.

As you have probably already guessed one is the Mummy Tealight Holder (#99672) and the other is the Pumpkin Tealight Holder (#99684).  Both were very easy to piece together.  However, I did have one issue and that was that there was not a cut out for the bottom cover so that you could turn the tealight on and off.  In the grand scheme of things this was not a deal breaker as it was easily remedied.

If you have a Silhouette machine there are several other designs for various holidays available.  I'm sure I'll be making some of them myself.  In the meantime, I'm off to enter these into the following challenges:

Die Cuttin Divas - Picture Inspiration - Ends October 25th

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Hiding in My Craft Room - Favorite Cutting Tool - Ends October 24th

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends October 23rd

Scary Tree

I had a little time to play in my craft room this weekend in between all the cleaning and organizing so I decided to pull out my Silhouette Cameo and play around with a couple of Halloween files I purchased earlier this month.  Today I'm going to share with you the card I made using the Scary Halloween Tree file (Design ID #95200) by Miss Kate Cuttables.

It was a fun tree to put together but as I sit here and look at the picture I took I notice that some of cuts did not cut quite as clean as I thought.  Don't you just hate it when that happens?

I decided to use a couple of yellow skittles in my night time sky and the stamp face on the tombstone is from the Peachy Keen stamp set titled Trio of Girl Ghosts.

And now I'm off to enter my card into the following challenges:

Double Click Connections - Spooky Fun Challenge - Ends October 27th

DL Art - October Linky Challenge - Ends October 31st

Hiding in My Craft Room - Favorite Cutting Tool - Ends October 24th

Jo's Scrap Shack - Anything Goes - Ends October 23rd