Pam's Spooktacular 40th Birthday Hop

Welcome to Day 1 of Pam's Spooktacular 40th Birthday Hop!

What is more fun than a birthday?

Spooktacular projects made by amazing friends!

We are hopping for 2 days sharing 40 Spooktacular

projects to celebrate Pam of MzLavr2's Creations turning 40!

If you have arrived from (enter person brfore you)'s blog

you are right on track! If you missed the beginning

you will want to head over to the Birthday Girl's blog!

http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com/

Not only are we sharing fun Halloween projects, we

have a lot of fabulous goodies for our trick or treaters!

Our Sponsors are:

Jen over at Girl Boy Girl designs is giving a full digital kit to one luck winner!

Please go like and comment on her Facebook page

and let her know you stopped by from

Pam's Spooktacular 40th Birthday hop!

You can find her stuff at http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Girl-Boy-Girl-Designs/

Pam is on her Creative Team

Scrapbook Stamp Society is handing out 3 digi stamps

to one lucky trick or treater! I know we are all so excited!

Best part is you win digi stamps so there is no shipping!

http://www.scrapbookstampsociety.com/

Little Scraps of Heaven Designs is

giving one lucky trick or treater their

Ghouls Night Out paper piecing pattern set

http://www.littlescrapsofheavendesigns.com/item_709/Ghouls-Night-Out.htm

Erica's Room is giving one trick or treater a Cricut Cartridge!

http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/

There is an overall grand prize sponsored by

Lisa from Scrapping with Lisa Designs.

It is $20 in free Halloween files!

http://www.scrappingwithlisadesigns.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrapping-With-Lisa-Designs/130882060268842?fref=ts

http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Lisa is asking that you become a follower of each blog along the

hop as well as her design team blog

http://scrappingwithlisadesignsdt.blogspot.com/

In order to qualify for the goodies we have listed, please

Comment “Trick or Treat” and let each of us know

what you love the most about our projects on every

blog while trick or treating!

Here is my SpOOkTacUlaR project:

I made this Halloween/Birthday card to celebrate Pam's Spooktacular 40th Birthday!

I started out with my Gypsy and Chic and Scary.  I used this image and hid the witch hat.  I sized the images to 4 inches.

The image on the left was cut out of the striped paper (see below).  The image on the right was cut in black cardstock and had the inner oval cut.  This gave me a black frame for the striped layer.

I sized three witch's boots from Happy Hauntings to 2.33 inches.  I cut them out in green, orange and purple.  I ended up only using the purple and green patterned cardstock.

I cut out these 3D flowers from Art Philosophy in the same three patterned cardstock papers.  I sized the flowers to 4 inches and 5 inches.  I used my tweezers and rolled the flowers from the inside in and glued them together.

I added some stickles on the edges.  I used black, purple and lime green.

I trimmed off the shoe part of the boot in green and adhered it on top of the purple layer.  I pop-dotted the shoe to the card.

I inked the edges of the stocking and shoe with black ink.  I tucked some purple crinkle ribbon behind the frame. 

I used a KinderStampo stamp for my sentiment.

I used glue dots to adhere the flowers and added pearls to the centers.  I also added two pearls to the shoe.

I have a little blog candy for you today!

In order to qualify for my blog candy, #1 be or become a follower or email subscriber and #2 leave me a comment with your favorite Birthday or Halloween memory.

Your next (and final) stop in the hop is JESSI.  I included a complete list of blogs in the hop in case you missed any!!

1. Pam Lavertu - http://mzlavr2.blogspot.com/
2. Jennifer F. - http://wunderscreations.blogspot.com
3. CallyAnn - http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com/
4. Lisa P - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/
5. Pam Lash - http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/
6. Sandy S. - http://simplycraftycreationsbysandys.blogspot.com
7. Robin - http://scrapandchat.blogspot.com/
8. Susanne A.- http://handmade-tear.blogspot.com/
9. Ashley - http://thebloghopprincess.blogspot.com
10. Kris Parsons - http://scrappinbykris.blogspot.com
11. Miranda - http://www.nanasscrapspot.com/
12. Wanda (Deezy) - http://www.deezydoesiteezy.blogspot.com/
13. Tammy B - http://anonymouscricuter.blogspot.ca/
14. Vanessa T - http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com
15. jennifer w. http://cluelesscrafter-jennifer.blogspot.com/
16. Amber http://pixiperfectcreations.blogspot.com/
17. Nicole Elliott - http://teachdanz.blogspot.com/
18. Amy T - http://thebestofme-amy.blogspot.ca/
19. Lori - http://scrappinmystressaway.blogspot.com/****HERE
20. Jessi http://mylifeinartsncrafts.blogspot.com****NEXT

Please come by tomorrow for Day 2 and all new projects!!!  The hop starts HERE!

3 Blog Hops, 3 Winners

I was out of town last week and just now picked my winners!!!  Congrats!!!

#4

Vicki said...

Your plate is so cute! Thanks so much for the tutorial showing how you did it!

#87

Lori Comeau said...


Awesome project! WOW!!!!







 
#19 is Shawnee!!! (actually is was me, so I went with 20)!
 
Shawnee said...


Beautiful wall hanging. I love the ribbon and embellishments.


Please email me your addresses!!!  lori.apgar@gmail.com

Disney/Pixar Blog Hop ~ Toy Story Layout

Welcome to the Much Anticipated Disney/Pixar Blog Hop!!!  You should have arrived from Tami's blog.  If not, please go to Shawn's BLOG to start at the beginning so you don't miss anything!!!

For those of you who don't know me, I am a HUGE Disney fan!!  We have been to Disney 4 times in the last 3 years and we are planning a Disney Cruise in October 2011!

I made a Toy Story layout from our September 2009 trip since Tanner dressed up as Buzz Lightyear for Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.

I do have some Blog Candy detailed the end of my post!  Just in case you get lost along the way, here is the order of the hop!

Shawn

Melissa

Sarah

Madison

Ellen

Tami

Lori YOU ARE HERE!

Lena

Marlo

Cindy

Amy

I wanted to make a laser cut look layout.  I have three different versions of this basic layout saved on my Gypsy.  I have a tutorial HERE that shows how I made them.

I took one of my layouts and used it to create my 2-page layout.  For the first page, I welded the blackout shadow of Woody (3.62w x 6.54h) in the big open space on the left.  I welded he blackout shadow of "Toy Story" (4.42w x 3.15h) at the top.

For the right side, I flipped the page side to side and welded Buzz into to large open space (5.29w x 6.77h).  I cut out both pages in black.  If I were to do this layout again, I would not have cut them out in black because the bottom layer of the characters is black.

I copied the layers for "Toy Story" onto another layer.  I sized them to match the blackout shadow, then ungrouped them and separated by colors.

I did the same for Woody. 

Nine different colors for Woody!!!  I cut them out and then glued them on the black base with my Martha Stewart glue pen. 

I did use a black pen to color some of the highlights.

I put the pieces for Buzz on a 12 x 24 mat to size them then separate them.  I had enough pieces that I needed two 12 x 12 mats, so I grouped, copied and pasted half of them onto another layer.

Here is one page.

Cut out.

Here is the other page.

Cut out.  Notice all the tape ~ I did not want to take a chance at having to recut all my scraps and then recut the cuts!!  Eleven colors for Buzz!  This was a lot of work, but they look great!

After I put Buzz together, I used Glossy Accents on his helmet.

I outline the space first, then fill it in.

When it dries it is very shiny and is dimensional.

The layout had too much white space for me, so I added a couple of Army men.

I have been much better about journaling (yay for me) so I decided it would be fun to journal on the planet.

Here is a close up of "Toy Story".

Here is the two-page layout.  I got the background paper from WDW.  Tanner is dressed up as Buzz Lightyear in the pictures.

And here is my blog candy!  All you have to do to qualify is be or become a follower and leave me a comment on your favorite Disney Character or Disney memory!!

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Your next stop on the hop is LENA!  Enjoy!!

French Manor Blog Hop

Welcome to the French Manor Blog Hop!! 

You should have arrived here from Sherrie's blog.

If this is your first blog, please go to see Jana to begin the blog hop.

I am so excited to be part of this!!  First of all, this is my first official blog hop!  Second, I have not really used FM and this really challenged me to do just that!  Third, I have Blog Candy (see below)!!!

I was inspired by a card I saw in a magazine last January.  The original card was a Valentine's Day card.  I used the Flower and shadow as well as the small doily from the French Manor Cartridge.  I also cut out Merci. 

My card is 6x6 so I sized the flower inside a 6x6 grid on my Gypsy mat.  I put two flowers on the mat and used Hide Contour to hide one of the center cuts (see screen below).  I also put Merci and three small dioly shapes on the mat. 

For the leafy part, I used a swirl border and stretched it a bit.  I turned off the Aspect Ratio Link (yellow chain located between the words Width and Height on the Basic Menu) and left the height at 1.00 but changed the width to 4.07.

Taking care to line up the mat with the arrow on the left side, I placed my papers where I wanted them.  I used My Mind's Eye 29th Street Market paper found at Michaels.

I used my paper trimmer to cut out 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch squares out of the coordinating paper.  This paper is two sided and has a solid color on the back.  I used two of the doilies and part of the center of the flower on three different squares.

I used my Tim Holtz Distressing tool to distress the edges of the squares and flower. 

Here are the edges distressed.  Next, I used brown stamp ink on the edges of the squares and the flower.

I added some ribbon, a bow, some pearls and Merci to the card and here it is!!  This is not my normal style (a bit girly) but the more I look at it the more I LOVE it!!

Here is my Blog Candy!!  I am giving away some Tim Holtz Grungeboard shapes and 5 stamp pads for inking!  All you have to do to qualify is 1. be or become a follower, and 2. leave me a comment.  I will draw the winner and announce Monday morning as the blog hop goes through Sunday evening.

Thank you for hopping by!!  Your next and final stop in the blog hop is Gaby.   Thanks for hopping with us!!