HALLOWEEN BOOKS, BANNERS AND BOOS!

Greetings, dear readers!

As I had hoped, my banner from Elizabeth at Creative Breathing came to my door today! It's an amazing collaborative effort to make what is usually a gory and scary holiday, CUTE! Behold:



Elizabeth at Bluebird Papercrafts (aka Creative Breathing), Julie at A Vintage Chic, Mimi of Dandelion Wishes



Lisa from Always Home, Sandy from 521 Lake Street, Joyce from Scrap for Joy



Betty from She's Sew Pretty, Yours Truly, and Viv from Viv Out On a Whim



And the backs of each were not neglected either:

Also, look at this FABulous prize I got from Heather Hudson at MyArtisticAdventures.com. I just LOVE her stamping and "grunging" skills!

Heather's tag book "style" is very similar to my own...stuff sticking out EVERYWHERE!

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The paperbag album and vintage images are just the sweetest...and all original!

And my favorite piece? A little owl who peeks out over the front flap of the book...I just LOVE him!

Check out more of Heather's art here!

I'll be back with a new album idea!

Hugs,
Paula clare

CARRIED AWAY AND RAKs!

Greetings dear readers! (I've tried out other things, but I keep coming back to this. It's an odd salutation, I realize, but it seems to suit me best...)

Since most of the recipients have received their RAKs, I'm going to show you what I sent out (literally all over the world)

I filled them with coffee candy and chocolate creme savers. :-) I also sent a few other little goodies, which you can ogle here, here, and here. How sweet of you all to post about them! They came from the wonder-full Seneca Pond Crafts...which made them easy peasy to create. Print, cut out, glue and fill! Quick and painless. Truly. The sweet tags came from her shop too.

Now for the "carried away" part...as you all know, I am part of the Artsy Mama Sweet and Sinister Swap. WELL, the basis for the swap is Halloween. And, well. As I've said before, I'm not much of a Halloween person...but this year I've gone a little "ape"...

I made this from the Making Memories new Spellbound line.

It came in a kit...and it is enormous. Probably 5-6 feet long. Truly a banner for a grand hall or wall or something...this is the shot from the package...I just LOVE that it says "All Hallows Eve" instead of Halloween. Sounds more spooky, don't you think?

Of course I can NEVER make anything like the instructions tell me. I have to add my own little embellishments and such...my mom always said, "You can never leave well enough alone..." Well, 'well enough' isn't ... ME.

Here I've photographed each letter, to show you what MY version looks like. It's very similar, but there ARE differences (this is starting to sound like a "Where's Waldo" episode) AAAAAaaaaaaannyway,

And of course because I CAN'T leave well enough alone, I'll add more embellies before all is said and done.

I also made this: (please ignore my hideous, HIDEOUS door). I printed letters and vintage pictures on tagboard, then cut them out, punched holes with my handy dandy Cropodile, and wove orange furry fiber through to finish. Voila! Banner!

I'm also in the throes of creating witch's wand noisemakers (rattles) and spooky hooks. Here's a sneaky peeky:

OH! I haven't forgotten about the announcement...stay tuned!

More soon!

XOXOXO



Paula Clare