Happy Halloween

Halloween 2018 Mini Album

Happy Monday! Halloween has come and gone. However, I've still been kind of celebrating by working on some Halloween projects. The main project that I have been working on (and finally completed) is my Halloween mini album. I've been going through a creative rut and this project has definitely helped me overcome this.

When I celebrate Halloween, I usually don't just celebrate it on the actual holiday. I celebrate Halloween all month long so I added a few photos from our pre-Halloween celebration as well as a couple of other photos from throughout the month.

Please note that this is a photo heavy post.

This was such a fun, little project to work on. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Supplies Used:

• American Crafts BOOtiful Night 6x6 Paper Pad

• American Crafts BOOtiful Night Puffy Stickers

• Crate Paper After Dark Wood Veneer

• Crate Paper After Dark Puffy Stickers

• Crate Paper After Dark Cardstock Stickers

How did you document your Halloween?

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My Favorite Halloween Movies

It's almost Halloween! I've been watching so many Halloween movies! I've watched a nice mix of family friendly films as well as scary films (that obviously my boys are not allowed to watch). Since one of my favorite movie genres is horror and it's almost Halloween, I thought it would be fun to share some of my favorite Halloween movies. I've included some family friendly films in my list as well.

• Practical Magic: I love this movie so much. I love the Midnight Margaritas scene and the song Coconut by Harry Nilsson always gets stuck in my head.

• Hocus Pocus: A classic. This is a must watch Halloween film. I watch it every year.

• Coraline: This is a creepy movie, but it's so good. There's even a book.

• The Nightmare Before Christmas: We love this movie so much. The boys always ask to watch this movie. We consider this film to be both a Halloween and Christmas movie so we watch it on both holidays. It's become a family tradition and we love it.

• The Addams Family: Another classic. Wednesday Addams is my favorite character. 

• Hotel Transylvania (The entire franchise): We love the entire franchise. This is one of the boys' favorite film series. 

• The Book of Life: Oh my goodness. This is one of my favorite movies. The songs are amazing!

• Coco: This is another one of my favorite movies. I love the story as well as the music. I think everyone should watch this at least once. I've been singing Remember Me a lot.

• Halloweentown (The entire series): I always love watching the entire series during fall and Halloween. It brings me back to my childhood. However, I don't watch the last film in the series as much as the first three films. 

• Beetlejuice: Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!

• House on Haunted Hill: This film used to scare me so much when I was younger. 

• Dawn of the Dead: I've watched this movie so many times and it still scares me every single time! *SPOILER* There's a scene where one of the characters asks why the zombies are coming to the mall. One of the other characters says that maybe the zombies remember the mall (perhaps they still retained some memory of their past life) or maybe the zombies just know that they are there! So scary!

• The Conjuring (The entire series): This entire series is amazing! I love all of the other films in the Conjuring Universe as well. I highly recommend that you watch them all.

• Halloween (The entire franchise): Another classic. I'm sure this is on everyone's list of horror films to watch. 

There are so many other great Halloween movies that I watch during this time of year and I know I definitely forgot to name a few. However, these are my go to films for this time of year.

What are some of your favorite Halloween movies?

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Photo by David Menidrey on Unsplash

Halloween Night Layout-Pumpkin

Hello! Hello! I have been busy making Halloween layouts and working in my Project Life album. I'm hoping to get caught up with my Project Life album by the end of this week so that I can start making a bunch of Christmas and holiday themed cards. I love Fall, this time of year in general, and the holidays, but it does get stressful since I have a ton of stuff to do. This ends up causing me to have a lot of crafting things to get done. I definitely do not want to have to spend part of 2016 working on holiday stuff from this year. So some deadlines and extra planning will be done today. Now that I have rambled a bit...let's get to this Halloween layout.

For this layout, I used DCWV inc.'s Eek-a-Boo 6x6 stack. I really love this collection and am glad that I bought two of the 6x6 stacks last year. Normally, I don't layer my card stocks and patterned papers, but I decided to try to step out of my comfort zone. I love how it came out. 

There was a sheet in the Eek-a-Boo stack that had cut apart cards. I cut the cards and adhered them to the top and bottom of the layout. I tried to not have a lot of white space, but I wanted the cards close together. These pictures really don't do the layout justice. The layout really looks awesome and the Eek-a-Boo papers are so cute!

I also added some journaling at the bottom of the layout. I thought about adding some enamel dots, but decided that the papers would be enough. I think there's enough color, phrases, and journaling for this layout that nothing else is really needed.

Supplies Used:

• DCWV inc. Eek-a-Boo 6x6 stack

• Tombow Xtreme Adhesive

*Edited to add: This layout was also my take on The Awesome Ladies Project 1.2 challenge. This challenge was a recipe challenge. The ingredients are: Orange, Two Patterns, Squares, and something sticky. I used orange papers, several patterns, a few squares, and my Tombow Adhesive was the only thing sticky that I used. You can find out more about The Awesome Ladies Project here.

Are you working on any Halloween projects?

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Halloween Greeting Cards and Tags

Happy Sunday! Today, I made a couple of cards and tags. It took me less than an hour to make these tags and cards. I honestly think it did not take so long because I knew exactly what I wanted to use on my tags and cards so I didn't feel overwhelmed by having a lot of products in front of me.

The tags were very simple to make. I just used my Freckled Fawn stamp set, Ranger Archival Ink pad, and some enamel dots. I recommend that you stamp your image on some scrap paper first so that you know how you should stamp your image onto your project. 

The cards were also simple to make. I decided to use two of the tags that I made for part of my card. To make the cards, I used some washi tape and applied it to the middle of my card. I took the string off the tag and then added a brad onto each of tag. Then I used some foam dots on the back of the tags and stuck them to the center of the card. Below are a few close ups of the cards.

I plan to make a few more batches of Halloween cards and tags as well as some other Fall themed cards.

Supplies Used:

• American Crafts DIY Shop kraft tags
• Recollections Enamel Dots
• Halloween Washi Tape
• Crate Paper After Dark Accent Stickers
• American Crafts Elements-Halloween Brads
• Freckled Fawn October 2014 stamp

What have you been making?

Until next time...

Halloween Project Life Cards

Hey! Hey! I seriously love Fall and have been in the Halloween spirit. I have been making lots of Fall and Halloween projects left and right. Today, I want to share a few Halloween Project Life cards that I made.

To make my Halloween Project Life cards, I used some Halloween themed Project Life cards from Me & My Big Ideas and some left over skull, black cat, and pumpkin "confetti". I used some pop dots to add some dimension. I thought about adding some enamel dots and maybe some washi tape or stickers, but decided not to. I'm afraid if I add anything else, it will make the Project Life pages a bit too bulky and the cards might not even fit in the pocket due to the bulk if I add anything else.

I'm not sure why the manufacturers of the embellishments decided to call them confetti because they are little too big to be confetti. However, they are so cute and I'm glad that I still had some more left. Last year, I blogged about how I used the confetti in my art journal. You can check that out here.

Supplies Used:

• Me & My Big Ideas Specialty Cards-Halloween
• Skull, Black Cat, and Pumpkin "confetti"

Are you in the Halloween spirit? Have you been working on some Fall or Halloween projects?

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Me & My Big Ideas Handmade Cards

Hello there! Today I'm sharing two more cards that I made using Me & My Big Ideas (MAMBI) products. I'm seriously obsessed with Halloween (my favorite holiday!) and so many of my friends are pregnant or have given birth recently so it only made sense that I would make Halloween and baby boy cards. 

I love that you can use MAMBI, Project Life, and other brands of journaling cards for things other than Project Life albums. I use my cards for my album, handmade cards, mini dashboards, etc. There are just so many different uses for these cards.

So here are the two cards that I made with my MAMBI cards and elements...

Halloween Card

I use two MAMBI Pocket Pages cards (Months of the Year). I also used some Soft Spoken Halloween embellishments as well. I just layered the cards and added the embellishments on top. Super simple and really cute!

Baby Boy Card

I used one of the MAMBI Embellished Cards. These cards are seriously awesome! It really helps when you do not have enough time to make cards or work on layouts since the cards are already embellished. All I had to do was just glue the embellished card onto the base. Then I added some of the Recollections enamel dots. Again super simple and easy to make. 

What have you made today? Feel free to share!

Until next time...