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!

Trick or Treat Vinyl Project (BugBytes)

I love Halloween Month (aka October) and today I am super excited to be the Guest Designer on The Bug Bytes!!  I made a fun little Halloween vinyl project!

I started with a 4x12 piece of staple back canvas from Michaels.  I painted it with orange acrylic paint.

Next, I got my gypsy and looked for a Halloween phrase.

I used this phrase from Happy Hauntings and sized it to 11.39 width x 3.59 height.

I wanted a purple spider, so I copied and pasted the phrase and used Hide Contour to hide the "Trick" and "Treat" and moved the "or" to the bottom left quarter of my mat.

When cutting vinyl, I set my Expression to 3-3-3 (speed, pressure and needle depth) for a nice kiss cut.

If you want a more detailed Vinyl tutorial, please go HERE.

I carefully trimmed the spider off the "r" after I weeded the extra vinyl away.

I used my transfer tape to put the purple spider on top of the black spider.

Now my layered vinyl is ready to transfer to my canvas.

I used my black and white Smash Tape to edge the canvas.

This was a fun little project that I will add to my decorations on my entryway table!!

Thanks Pam for having me over today!!!

EEK Banner (Doily Challenge at Frosted Designs)

This week at Frosted Designs, our challenge is to use a doily in your project.  Halloween is my very favorite holiday so I chose to create my doily out of black paper and include it in my EEK banner!!

I used Happy Hauntings for this witch shoe and shoelace layer sized to 5 inches.

I used double sided K and Company Halloween paper.  I flipped two of the shoelace layers and one of the shoes to utilize both sides of the paper.

I used Birthday Bash for the banner flags and sized them to 7.24 inches.  I used K and Company Halloween paper (in purple) for the banner flags.

I used Creative Memories Reminisce Accents for the doilies and sized them to 3.82 inches.  I cut them out of black cardstock.

Here are my pieces all cut out.

I inked the boots with black ink and a blender pen.  I also inked the banner flags.

I cut out the word EEK from the font on Happy Hauntings at 2.88 inches.  I used lime green cardstock and covered the letters with lime green stickles.

I used twine to "tie" the boots.  I used sparkly lime green ribbon wrapped in white tulle to string the banner together.

Here is my EEK banner ready to hang up!

Thank you for stopping by!!

3D Halloween Card

Happy October!!!  I am super excited to be the Guest Designer at She's A Sassy Lady today!!  I made this fun 3D Halloween card to share with you.  I saw a birthday card that was similar to this and just had to figure out how to create it!!  Since Halloween is my favorite holiday (not to mention today is October 1st) I just had to Halloween-ify it!

I started with a rectangle with a rectangle window from Gypsy Wandering.  I put two on my mat sized to 5.5 inches.  I welded them together.

  I copied and pasted another set on my mat because I needed three of these pieces to make my card.

I used some K and Company Halloween paper to cut the cards out.

I scored each card at 3.5 inches and creased the fold.

This is a view from the top of the three card pieces scored and folded.

I cut out these phrases from Happy Hauntings in black cardstock.  

I adhered one phrase on each side of the card at the bottom.

From the Pumpkin Carving cartridge, I cut out two each of the witch, bats and haunted house out of lime green, purple and black cardstock.

I adhered the pieces together with twine in between.  I used stickles to create eyes for the bats and to color the moon.

I adhered the cards together one side at a time.

This card can also be used as a center piece!

I hope you have a wonderfully spooky Halloween month!!