Halloween 2010: A Brief Encounter

Shocking. I LOVE Halloween. And how much time have I had to craftily spend on it? Not much. Not much at all. Certainly not enough.

I'm so grateful, then, that one of my friends, whose surprise birthday party it was last night, is a punky-metally kinda girl. I used my new skull stamp to make her a card, and a bit of halloweeny inspiration to make her a photo frame. And then I liked the frame so much that I made one for us too. And put the skull in it. So OK, maybe I had a teeny bit of time to make one small Halloween decoration. Ahhhh - that's better.

For the card, I added a small blue heart gem to one of the eyes. I love that. Looks a bit piratey, a bit evil, and a bit lovely too. I also used a very noisy embossing technique - which I'll show you on Tuesday.

I did the same for the skull I put in the frame. 

For the frame, I sprayed some Cosmic Shimmer Mist over some star masks and then stamped a couple of images on in grey ink. And I stamped a couple of other images in glue and covered them with flock.

And of course, I made cookies. I couldn't resist. They went into the spidery bowl for the trick or treaters who have just left - and left me with nothing but crumbs.

And finally, I found a first use for the birdcage...

 I hope everyone had a very happy halloween!

 

Special Guest Appearance

I would like to claim them as my own, but in fact my mum made these amazing additions to our Halloween Housewarming. The pumpkins are so cute, and the bunting read 'Happy Halloween', of course.

Hauntingly Creative

So, we moved into our own place, just in time to give me a few days to prepare for our Halloween Housewarming. Boxes lay still packed while the paper, scissors and glue were given priority.