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

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Wonderful Halloween “Primitives”

I received this catalog in the mail today, and even tho’ I am not into the Primitive Country look, I wanted to share this with all of you!

This place ahs great vintage primitive holiday decorations! And as you can see they have one of the elusive Halloween Feather Trees!

There are quite a few pages of new fall, Halloween and Christmas decorations….if you go to their website you can see it all!….enjoy!!!!

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