Monthly Archives: October 2008

Trick-or-Treat! Happy Halloween!! Last Minute Halloween Cards!

Wow!  This morning a black cat ran right across the street in front of my car as I was driving back into my neighborhood!  Is that real Halloween or what?!  I know it is bad luck to have a black cat cross your path, so that freaked me out a little bit!  Hopefully today will be nothing but good luck because I love Halloween (it would help if we had some fall leaves here in Houston!) and I get to see my boys.  One was nearly born a Halloween goblin because he arrived just 45 minutes before Halloween!  But that was twenty years ago!  More about his birthday card later.

I usually have a lot of trick-or-treaters at my house, but it is often about 80 degrees, at least when the kids start out after dinner, sweating in their costumes.  When I was growing up in St. Louis it was often a problem on Halloween with the weather being very cold, and we had to wear a winter coat…..either over our costume, which meant no one could see the costume, or under the costume, which of course looked ridiculous!  "Back in the olden days" we always had to have a joke ready to tell people before they would give us candy.  I don't think they do that anymore.

Here are some Halloween cards I've made (okay, mostly copied from somebody else!) to help celebrate the day!

Halloween Boo Eye card 

Halloween Haunting wheel 

Halloween Owl candy bag 

Halloween test tube 

Origami Bat 

Halloween Haunting Moonlight 

HalloweenCandyWrapper

My San Antonio Regional Swap Cards

Here are my swaps I took to the Stampin' Up! San Antonio Regional held yesterday and today.

AHappyHeartSwapSA 

This one I stamped with a set in the Holiday Mini called "A Happy Heart".  I also used the Spiral Punch on the side of the tic-tac-toe.  The little heart in the middle square is popped up with a dimensional and so is the big heart.  The designer paper is the fabulous Bella Rose.

MrTwigsterSwapSA 

And this one is the famous "Mr. Twigster" in the Holiday Mini.  I guess you either love him or hate him since lots of people say snowmen don't have legs.  But he was quite popular as a swap yesterday and I enjoyed making the card!  I used the snowflakes from "Merry and Bright" and stamped with white Craft ink.  The greeting comes from "Season of Joy".  I added a little Dazzling Diamonds Glitter for the snow at the feet of Mr. Twigster after coloring just a little bit of blue ink with my Aqua Painter.

You can click on the photos to make them larger.

Halloween Witch Hat Card

Here is a picture of the card I made for our demo group swap.  I saw it in a magazine and changed it a little bit.  It didn't give directions, but I just cut two triangles and then the band on the bottom has a fold which holds the triangles together.  The stars are punched, of course, and the big one is sprinkled with our chunky glitter, adhered with some Tombow Multi glue.  Fun card to make!

WitchesHatCard 

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Fall and Halloween Swaps

Our "demo group" meets once a month and we always enjoy making some project, swapping, and having lunch.  We still refer to it as our demo group, even though not everyone is a Stampin' Up! demo, but it is still fun.  That's why not everything you see here is Stampin' Up! but it displays a lot of talent regardless.  So here is a photo of all the swaps I received last week!

OctoberSwaps