Halloween Blog Hop!!!

Hello and welcome to the Joy's Life DT Halloween Blog Hop!  If you just hopped here from the very talented Patty, you are in the right place.  To start at the beginning click HERE. 

Oh man, I am so excited about this blog hop!  I absolutely LOVE Halloween!  It is such a fun holiday, and I think all of the decorations and everything are so cute!  Every year at work, I make some kind of Halloween treat for my co-workers, so.... I wanted to make something that could hold some candy, or Post-its, etc...  I found this cute little treat bag on Mini Monsters and I just had to use it (I love the little arms)!!!  :)

Mini Monsters- treat bag cut at 5.35"

Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns

Creepy Halloween candy (or any other treats)

Well I hope you are enjoying the hop, and I appreciate you hopping by my little blog!  Your next stop on the hop is the talented Megan...  Enjoy!  :)

Joy: http://joyslife.com/
Patty: http://craftykitten1.blogspot.com/
Amy: http://redheadedcrafter.blogspot.com
Megan: http://thoughtsoftraveling.blogspot.com/
Jennie: http://earthyscrap.blogspot.com
Cyndy: http://arcyscraps.blogspot.com/
Laura: http://www.laurascraftsandmore.com/
Stacey: http://staceyscreativecorner.blogspot.com/
Maria: http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/
Lori: http://got2bcrafting.blogspot.com
Sarabeth: http://www.chroniclesofsarita.blogspot.com/

Warts Up Halloween Treat

Hello there!!!!  I have been so busy, and I also got to actually talk on the phone to the that guy in Korea!  He called me on Thursday, and he said that I need to have an adventure and come to Korea!!!!  I actually really want to do it, but the plane tickets are so expensive!  My family and friends are telling me that I would be crazy not to do it...  I think it would be really exciting and fun!  :)  Anywho, I am so excited that tomorrow is the first day of October!!!!  I LOVE Halloween!  My students at school are already getting excited too...  All month long we dance to my favorite Halloween music, they get to dress up on that day, I read all my favorite Halloween books to them, etc...!!!  This week at Joy's Life, we were asked to create a Halloween treat project.  When I was at Target one day, my niece helped me find the perfect candy to use on this project.  It is so creepy and disgusting!  :)  Best of all, the candy has no dairy in it, so my niece can eat some of it...  Okay, here's my Halloween treat...

Mini Monsters- cauldron cut at 2.53"
Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns
Clear tube from Joy's Life
Creepy candy

Hope you're all enjoying your weekend!  Thanks for stopping by!  :)

Halloween Mini Cards

Hello everyone!  I know it's only August (well almost September), but I couldn't wait to make some Halloween cards!  Back around Valentine's Day there was a challenge to create a "mini" card (3 x 3"), and I couldn't believe how cute that size turned out to be!  So....  I decided to make some "mini" cards for Halloween...  Our challenge this week at Joy's Life was to create a project using Cri-Kit pens.  I had never used these before, but they are amazing!  I don't know what kind of gel pens these are, but they don't leave blank spots in the lines like my regular pens do!  It's so fun to watch the Cricut drawing out your image instead of cutting it (I'm easily entertained)!  :)  Here are my cards...

To make these: I used my Gypsy to decide on the size of the image, then I put a 2 3/4" square piece of white paper on the mat, and it drew the images right where I wanted them.  After they were drawn, I just had to tape the white pieces onto the card bases (3 x 6" folded in half), stamp the sentiments, and embellish them a bit.  Easy peasy!!!

Mini Monsters- spider & web drawn at 1.86"

Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns

Cri-Kits pens- glitter set

Stickles- turquoise

Googly eyes

Celebrate with Flourish- witch drawn at 2.22"

Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns

Cri-Kits pens- glitter set

Stickles- green

Rhinestones

Gypsy Wanderings- pumpkin drawn at 1.98"

Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns

Cri-Kits pens- glitter set

Stickles- orange peel

Twine

Graphically Speaking- eyes drawn at 1.86"

Joy's Life Stamps- Halloween Puns

Cri-Kits pens- glitter set

Stickles- Christmas red

Rhinestones

I thought these could be given out to kids, co-workers, family, friends, etc.  Just attach one of these to a Halloween treat and VOILA!  Thanks for stopping by!!!!  :)

You're the Cat's Meow Card

Hello everyone!  I am so thrilled to be a part of the Fantabulous Cricut Design Team!!!!  Today is my design team day, and the challenge is In Like a Lion- create a project any type of cat on it...  I am definitely a dog person, but if I had a cat I would want an orange, striped one, so that's what I created!  Be sure to head on over to Fantabulous Cricut and link up your cat project!  :)

Mini Monsters- card & layers cut at 5.01"
Cuttlebug- distressed stripes
My Pink Stamper Stamps- More Punnylicious
Stickles- cotton candy
Glossy Accents

Have a great day & thanks for stopping by!!!!  :)

Candy Corn Card

Happy Halloween everyone (well, what's left of it)!!!  I came home from work today and I just really wanted to make a card for Halloween while I still had the chance....  It was fun at work today, the kids always love this holiday!  They were actually really calm all day, you could have heard a pin drop during math!  :)  They had a costume parade and we had a party with lots of goodies...  This card was really fun to make...  I like the way that candy corns look (they are super cute), but I don't really like to eat them!  I'm more of a chocolate kind of girl...  :) 

Crazy 4 Challenges- include candy
Peachy Keen LFIF Challenge- creepy cute
Paper Playtime- anything goes

A2 sized card
Mini Monsters- candy corn girl cut at 3.82"
Peachy Keen Stamps- Everyday Character Face Assortment
My Creative Time Stamps- All Around Halloween
Stickles- yellow, star dust, black diamond
K & Company paper
Brads

Here's a picture from the Tarantula Festival that I went to this weekend.  It was a really fun festival, and I just can't get over the proud feeling I have for letting that spider crawl on me!!!  It is a seriously huge fear of mine, and I don't know why I felt compelled to let this HUGE guy walk on my hand!  I'm so glad that I did!  :)  This picture is of me and my mom...

AAAAAHHHHH!!!!  See you soon!  :)

Halloween Greetings Card

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Hello and happy Saturday everyone!  I am so glad that it is the weekend!!!!  Woo hoo!!!!  This next week is going to be super busy for me because of Parent/Teacher conferences...  I would really like to start crafting and posting more, so hopefully I can after conferences are over!  :)  For today I have made a Halloween card to enter into a few challenges.  I have already mentioned that I love Halloween, so this card was very fun for me to make!  Hope you enjoy!

My Sheri Crafts- use stitching (real or faux)
Card Patterns- use the sketch
Lily Pad Cards- use bling
Crazy 4 Challenges- Halloween
Creative Cutter Room- Halloween- faux stitching, sticker (the bling is a sticker), ribbon (I used twine)

This is an A6 size card- 9" x 6 1/4" folded in half

Mini Monsters- monsters cut at 1.71"

My Creative Time stamps- All Around Halloween

K & Company paper- orange piece 3 1/2" x 4 1/2", green piece 4 1/4" x 6"

Martha Stewart border punch

1.5" Circle punch

Rhinestones

Twine from The Twinery

White embossing powder (a la mode)

White gel pen

Hope you have a SPOOK-tacular day!!!  :)

Halloween Candy Bucket Card

Hello there everyone!  Hope everyone had a wonderful extended Labor Day weekend!  I know that I sure did enjoy my extra day off today!  :)  It allowed me the time I needed to clean up my house, relax, and get some long overdue time in my craft room...  I have really been wanting to make a Halloween card for a while now...  Halloween is one my favorite holidays, I just think it's so cute!  My students also really love Halloween (I'm sure you can imagine)!  I love when they get to wear their costumes to school, and we have a little costume parade...  I also love dancing with my students to classics like "Ghostbusters", "Thriller", "Scooby Doo", etc...  It also really cracks me up when the boys wear a costume that has muscles built in to it!  They look so hillarious sitting at their desk with these huge biceps!  I could go on and on about Halloween, but I will save some of it for October!  :)  Anywho, before I get to the card I wanted to say thank you to Nita @ http://niftynitanotes.blogspot.com/, Maribel @ http://ilovescrapping.blogspot.com/, and Candace @ http://mypassion4scrappin.blogspot.com/ for passing the Butterfly Award to me!  All 3 of these ladies have amazing blogs, they are such great crafty friends, and I really do appreciate them passing this to me!  :)

This card is going to be entered in a wonderful challenge called "I Feel the Love" that Madison @ http://funkycards.blogspot.com/ is hosting.  The challenge is to make a Halloween card that can be passed out to the children at Pediatric Specialty Care.  You should really check out her blog to find out more about this....  I am also going to enter this at the Woodware USA challenge- Anything Goes.

Mini Monsters- card cut at 5.47", monster cut at 2.41", lollipop cut at 1.35"

George and Basic Shapes- orange circle cut at 4.29", oval (to show candy) cut at 2.88"

Cuttlebug- d'vine swirls

Sentiment: Scrappy Moms Stamps- A Haunting We Will Go

Peachy Keen Stamps- Monster Mash Face Assortment

Patterned Paper- K & Company

Candy Stickers: Stickety-Doo-Da

Stickles- star dust

Glossy Accents

Have a wonderful day, and I hope to see you around soon!  :)

**I'm also submitting this in the Craft Junkie Too's TGIF Linky Party!  :)  http://www.craftjunkietoo.com/