Halloween Bunting

Yes I am still making Halloween projects! Today is the start of my bunting. I had a slight problem as I am actually our of card stock, so I went for a rummage and I found a couple of 12 x 12 bits of white card that actually come as the backing of SU paper packs, I always keep them as they come in handy. I worked out I could get 12 large pennants out of 2 sheets and so off I went. I then embossed them with a spider web looking embossing folder and then daubed the edges black and sponged the high areas to really bring out the pattern. With a smaller die I cut DSP pennants to go in the middle and will then top them all with a googly ghoul character (yet to be finished). I had some lovely wide chiffon ribbon which I have threaded through hole punched holes on each top corner.

Not bad from some card that could have been thrown away. I will post again when I have finished all the toppers.
And before I go some of you may have remembered one of my posts "view from the fridge door" back in the summer, when Gary had been night fishing and when I went to get the milk out of the fridge in the morning there was a live lobster in the veggie compartment. Gary had caught the lobster by fluke on his line, well can you believe it, he done it again last night! I had a little more warning this time as word had already spread before I got up and I could hear screams of "aghhh lobster" from downstairs. He is not quite so big, but still a lovely free meal (tomorrow as we have chicken tonight). Here he is, poor thing.

Look at the mess he has a made of my fridge!

I have also been busy on the plot digging the beds a prepping for winter, so pop back later for some recent photo's of the "view form the gate"

Thanks for stopping by

Hayley

More Googly Ghouls

 I just love this stamp set, I am struggling to put it down, I have to order more googly eyes and having run out of the gorgeous little white bags I have had to improvise. They were too large and gorgeous to give to trick or treaters anyway so here is a mini version I have made myself. They fit three chewy sweets in and are perfect for handing on the the special night!

I have also used my "Make a Monster" stamp set to make some addintional ghouls, they are also compatable with the googly eyes. I have made a little template for the bags just drop me a message if you would like a copy.

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Hayley

Googly Ghoul Goodies

Today I have had a lovely quiet day to myself crafting. I picked up my halloween stampin up goodies last week, but I have been too busy to even get them out of their packets. Gary had bought me the new stamp set as an early birthday present and my lovely friend Sarah had put the matching accessories pack in the bag with it, as an early birthday gift from her (thanks again Sarah). Halloween just gets bigger and bigger in our house each year, it all stems from growing so many pumpkins and having something to do with them all. We will have all the family coming over and we are becoming one of the big destinations for all the local children, so I need to make sure I have enough goodies prepared, ( I ran out the last 2 years), so here is what I have been making:

These are little toppers for some long marshmallows

You can just see they fit perfectly in my largest mummy head, which I previously posted.

These are the little bags that come in the accesories pack, they are so cute I think SU should stock them separately.

I love these jars, they are from ikea and come in packs of four. I use them to store carfting bits and pieces, but I always have spare to pop sweeties in as little gifts. Thanks to my lovely Mother-in-law who brings stocks over the water when she comes to stay (we don't have an ikea on the island), so thanks Jenny.

These will only be given to the children in my family as they are far to nice to give to trick or treaters.

And one of the little decorations I have made to go on my spooky tree, I have previously posted others here.

I love Halloween, (almost as much as Christmas and I really love Christmas).SU have surpased themselves this year as the halloween sets in the new Catalogues are sooooo gorgeous. I hope you like what I have made, if you would like to order the Googly Ghouls stamp set then hop over to Sarah, who will be happy to help and she also has a link of the complete new catalogue, which launched on the 1st.

Thanks for stopping by

Hayley

Halloween Rosettes

Although I still haven't got my hands on the new "Googly Gouls" or "Googly Goulies" set, as my Friend Sarah has re named it (now that pictures up an image!) I am satisified as it has been ordered, as an early birthday present from Gary. However Wednesday was our Crazy Crafters night at mine and Sandy who is famous for not only owning every Stampin Up product, but also bringing them all with her to our gatherings had a "Happy Halloween" stamp in her bag and so I finished off some of my Halloween Rosettes, which is amazing as when we are all together we do very little crafting and lots of messing about, gossiping and eating cake. We did however have an important task this week as we had been saving up our stamp share subs in readiness for the new catalogues and and so we all had to choose one product each and the criteria must be that we all like it, but wouldn't necessarily buy it. No mean feit as we all love a majority of the book and Pat usually takes half an hour to decide what drink she would like let alone a product out of all of those pages. After much debating we all chose a product and will now be waiting for next months meet to try them all out. I chose "Memorable Moments"not my favorite set, but one that I think is good value and will come in handy for anniversary's and big birthdays.
Anyway here are some of the rosettes I have been working on:

I have made these with some plain DSP and the frightful sight papers, which I was quite surprised were still available at a discounted price on the retired list, pop over to Sarah's blog if you wanted to order any.

Thanks for stopping by
Hayley