The Big “O”

Hope every one had a great Labor Day, my hubby worked so I finished my “O” letter banner tags for Elizabeth’s Halloween Banner. This was a lot of fun, once I got an idea….I went with E’s original instructions and made the cards the same as hers, in regards to thickness and size. See Elizabeth’s blog for this info: http://creativebreathing.blogspot.com/2010/08/halloween-banner-swaptag-along_18.html.

I had bought a TON of Daisy D’s Halloween paper a few years ago, and had only used a bit for my son’s Halloween pages. So I pulled it all out and saw that that there were tags already the size I needed! How lucky was that????? I then pulled out my Halloween bag of goodies and found these:

lots and lots of possibilities.

I then got out this:

having only used it twice I was looking forward to getting to know this machine….so I cut out shapes and letters….so much easier!!!!

My next thing to pull on out:

I just LOVE Stickles! You can never mess up with Stickles! It covers a multitude of sins.

And you can’t do Halloween projects without this:

From Kris Hurst at Blissfull Elements last year. So I spent a few hours just cutting out the three layers, it takes awhile with my arthritis, but I played my tunes and the time went quickly…..and I started putting the items together. And this is what emerged:

I swear I just let go….didn’t think too hard and quit worrying about mistakes….A black cat eye stamp pad helped that a lot! :)

So what was I going to do for the backs???? I save Halloween images and such to a folder on my desktop and I had this image:

I put it in Adobe Photoshop Elements and I did this:

I know it isn’t much but for a newbie, just putting my name on something was fun. First I used the stamping tool and got rid of the words at the bottom and then I used the text tool and added my name….Meri aren’t you proud of me?????

And since this was a vintage sucker tag, well…I got suckers!

Sorry this photo is so washed out it is cloudy right now….

The darn flash had to be on…..

And I glued these to the backs of the tags….I feel very happy with the results! But there is one more thing I need to say….

I HATE POP DOTS!!!!!! The darn things end up everywhere but where I want them!!!!! I ended up using double sided tape. Does anyone else have this problem with the stinking little things???? LOL

Thanks for popping in!