BFF Link Party #22 Wrap Up and Features

Another fun party and so nice to see new “faces” as well as of course old friends. Fantastic ideas shared! Here are just a few:
From Janet of All Trades, this fantastic piece of framed Halloween art that is so “Ballardy” (that’s a word right?!)

Jocelyn from Inside Bru Crew Life provides some fuel to keep us going as we craft all of our Fall and Halloween goodies. How great would these be to include in a neighbor treat?

Evie, from Brown Paper Packages shared her “Blingety Bling” pumpkins; I love the tone on tone look of these:

And what Fall outfit wouldn’t ben enhanced by this gorgeous clutch from Charlie at Attempting Aloha?

Charlie has a great tutorial on how to print on fabric. I hope you enjoy these features and thanks so much for linking up and supporting each other!

Happy World Card Making Day

This is the sixth celebration of this event which you can read more about here.
No doubt there will be make and takes or other events at any place that sells card making materials. I thought I’d share a few of my Halloween cards to mark the day!

White cardstock, Me and My Big Ideas and Mambly Prints  background papers, K and Co self adhesive scrapbook borders, DCWV Ghosts and Goblins collection (focal) and of course rhinestones!

White cardstock, DCWV Ghosts and Goblins background paper, silver glitter paper for spider web, stamped and colored pencil focal.

DCWV background paper, stamped and colored pencil focal image, Recollections self adhesive glitter spider.
If you’re already a card maker, have fun! If you’re not, it’s easier than you think with all of the great papers and embellishments…no time like the present!

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BFF Open House Link Party #22. This Week’s BFF: The Barefoot Seamstress!

Happy Friday Eve all! Can you believe that tomorrow is the last day of September? Weren’t we just getting ready for Labor Day and back to school?

I’m so excited that I have several wonderful new blogs to feature over the coming weeks. This week, let me introduce you to Becky from The Barefoot Seamstress.

Becky describes her blog as:

One barefoot girl's adventures amidst wifehood, motherhood and everything in between

and as you might guess from her blog name, she’s quite the seamstress. For example, look at this gorgeous pillow she did for a recent challenge:

I love the mix of patterns and colors. So perfect and crisp for Fall. Or this cute scrunchy headband ( she originally made one for her little one and then decided she needed one too):

You all may know I’m a little banner happy so it should be no surprise that I adore this Fall banner Becky made:

And look how she transformed an ordinary mason jar into something you would easily see at PB:

For these cute projects and more ( did I mention she also bakes and is a photography buff?) and something I should probably consider entering:

YUP…a link party devoted to shall we say less than everything in its place craft spaces…head on over and visity Becky at The Barefoot Seamstress!

Now time to party. Anything goes as long as it was made by you. Please link to your specific page and not your main blog page and make some new BFFs…go visit at least two links and leave some comment love!

More Easy Halloween Decorating

No sooner had I put up my post featuring “Skelly” from The Graphics Fairy, than she waived her magic fairy wand again and POOF , shared an awesome Halloween printable that was screaming to be framed and part of my Halloween décor!

Karin has it in two versions, downloadable ready for framing.

I recently picked up this great black and white harlequin patterned paper by Canvas Corp and I knew it would be perfect for this. I darkened the edges of the graphic in my graphics program and printed it 5x7 on white cardstock.  Cut the Canvas Corp paper to 8.5x11 to fit a frame I keep on my mantel all year, and mounted the print onto it.

I haven’t decided if it’s bugging me enough that it’s slightly off center. I’ll brood over that some more before I undo the whole thing and scooch it over. But I LOVE the effect of the color of the print against the black and white. Thank you AGAIN Karin!

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Easy Halloween Decorating

I’ve been having fun working on things to update my Halloween décor. Heavily black and white/cream, with accents of paler orange tones. Mr. Chocolate’s a little nervous that we haven’t even gotten out the actual Halloween bin(s) yet!

One easy way to decorate is to swap out pictures in frames that are already part of your décor. Easy to bring consistency and seasonal updates together. No one makes that easier to do than The Graphics Fairy! I found this guy whom I’ve nicknamed “Skelly” at Karen’s wonderful site:

How cute is a skeleton in a top hat? Using my graphics program, I gave him a bow tie and a mustache, generated the text, and printed on a sheet of paper from DCWV’s “Ghosts and Goblins” stack. Done and done.

In keeping with the “accent what you have” idea, I had some scraps of paper that I loved and wanted to use them up so I made some pinwheel medallions, combining different papers / patterns. Wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them until I decided to make a “demi-garland” since I didn’t make enough for a full garland. Was passing by a piece of faux stained glass I made years ago (BB…Before Blogging) and….

An old window I picked up and decorated using Plaid’s Gallery Glass.

For the centers, I downloaded a skull image from the internet, printed on cream cardstock and punched with a 2” round punch.

Now to go through those bins!

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Repurposed Dress Halloween Wreath

Yes, all those words really do go together.

I recently cleaned out my closet and while I donated most things to Goodwill, I saved a few pieces because of the fabric. One was a black and white checked dress . I’ve see tons of cute yarn wreath ideas but know I don’t have the patience for all that wrapping. But I thought hmmmm….maybe strips of fabric? Out came the rotary cutter and I cut strips and strips and strips (I think about 20 total) and tied them around one of those green styro wreath forms from Dollar Tree.

 Since I was not at all sure where this was going, or if it was going anywhere, I didn’t take pics along the way. Once I had my wreath form wrapped, I trimmed the edges with pinking shears . I thought it would be fun to give this wreath a back so I cut a circle of Halloween Cardstock from DCWVs “Ghosts and Goblins” pack and hot glued it to the back.

I had a pack of black Halloween silhouette die cuts I picked up at Michaels ( Recollections) . Fingerpainted some glue randomly on my selected images and sprinkled with fine clear glitter and the middle vial of  this stuff I found at Michaels from Art C:

I embellished another bird the same way and went over the spiders with just the glue, glitter and some self adhesive rhinestones.

Finished it off with some ribbon from my stash (one of those after Christmas I know I’ll use it sometime finds at 75% off somewhere!)

What’s in your closet?

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BFF Open House Link Party#21 Wrap Up and Features

Once again, a big thanks to everyone who linked up to Friday’s BFF Open House. As always, so many incredible ideas which makes it hard to highlight just a few but here goes!

You’ll never guess the source of this tres chic grain sack pillow from Charm Bracelet Diva .  I’ll bet  you don’t guess it!

If you have a party to plan , check out these adorable invites Michele at The Scrap Shoppe whipped up with her Silhouette which can PRINT SUFF!!! I didn’t know. As if I didn’t already want one !

This could be adapted to so many themes!

I adore nature projects and using found things. Carolyn at homework shows how to combine both with stunning effect in this twig frame:

Twigs! From. Your. Yard!

Don’t bake but love all the cute cupcake wrappers that are everywhere? Here’s a no-bake way to whip up something sweet. Sarah from Alderberry Hill shows us what to do:

Easily adaptable to any holiday or season.
Have a wonderfully creative week and look forward to seeing you all again on Friday!