Here are the tiny Library Clips and the Gold Elastic cord in the Holiday Mini!  The clips are very cute, much tinier than you can imagine!  The cord is very fine and shiny!  I was excited to see the glistening roll of it!

Here is the new holiday Designer Wrapping Paper.  Two rolls are included in each assortment.  Besides wrapping beautiful gifts, this paper can also be used like designer paper on other stamping projects!  I chose this pattern, Celebration, because it can be used for other occasions besides Christmas.  I also love the plain white wrapping paper in the Fall/Winter Collection 2007.  It can be stamped or rolled with a wheel to suit any gift-giving occasion!

The Apple Cider Designer Paper in the Holiday Mini is also fabulous!  The colors and designs can be used for much more than just the fall season!

This is the Dashing Designer Double-sided Paper in the regular catalog.  It will look fantastic for lots of Christmas projects.  However, it can also be used for other occasions as well.

Here is a cute little box to make for any occasion, called the 2-5-7-10 box on Splitcoaststampers.  Click here for the tutorial on their site.  It really was easy to make.  Again I used the Booglie Eyes stamp set, first to stamp tone on tone on the Pumpkin Pie cardstock to make the box, and then used the witch on the front piece of cardstock.  To make the scalloped edge, I used the corner rounder punch.  To make the scalloped edge show up, I decided t just stick a strip of black cardstock underneath it.  Really fun to make!  Try it!

This was a fun and easy card I actually made after seeing a photo of it from the Stampin’ Up!(R) Louisville Regional meeting.  I just used an Old Olive cardstock base, then tore strips of Whisper White paper to form the strips.  Our punches made this card SO easy!  The eyes were made with circle punches and the tongue with the large oval punch!  What a fun card to send to someone for Halloween!

I have often seen stand-up pop-up cards like this one but this is my first try.  The card actually folds flat (as you will see in the second photo) to fit into an envelope but when you pull on the greeting, it stands up on its own base.  And it is very easy to make!

This one is made with the fun Booglie Eyes stamp set, colored in with Stampin’ Write Markers, along with the always useful Itty Bitty Backgrounds stamp set.  On the top of the base, I stamped some circles from the stamp set Priceless and used a strip of Creepy Crawly Designer Paper for a little interest on the side of the base.  The ribbon colors are retired but were the most Halloweeny I had on hand at the moment.

Here is the same card folded down into the base.

Remember, you can click on any of the photos for a larger image.

Here is another one I made!  I used the Home is Where the Haunt Is stamp set.  The words at the bottom are from the Creepy Crawly Designer Series Paper.  I have to admit I had a “Duh!” moment when I realized words I saw on a similar project were from the paper, not from the jumbo Batty wheel!  I kept looking at the words on that wheel in the catalog and wondering where these other Halloween words came from, if they were on the backside of the wheel or if I was forgetting about some other wheel!  But no, they are printed on the Creepy Crawly paper and you have a large assortment of different size words to choose from!

Now that the children are all back in school, we know it is time to start thinking about the upcoming holidays.  I always find that once I get past September the fall season is just a blur all the way into Christmas.  School activities get into full-swing, there are craft shows to go see, some fall birthdays thrown in and before you know it  Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas all come in close succession.

Ever since I ordered the Stampin’ Up!® Creepy Crawly Designer Paper  I have been in the mood to stamp some Halloween projects!   This week on Splitcoaststampers the tutorial was about making Criss-Cross cards.  I decided to try it and this is what I came up with using several different stamp sets plus the new Creepy Crawly DS Paper.  For the pumpkin, I used the new Year After Year set and colored it in with my Aquapainter and Stampin’ Write Markers.  On the inside card, I used Party Punch and  Booglie Eyes .  I just love the Booglie Eyes set!  And of course to make the little tab at the top, I used the Round Tab Punch.