Showing posts with label j. October 2010. Show all posts
Showing posts with label j. October 2010. Show all posts

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Finished a project. Yay!

Umm... so I feel weird posting after Marieke's big charm unveiling. Kind of like singing karaoke at a bar after a top American Idol contestant (who hasn't had two margaritas) just had their turn. But my excitement is overriding my feelings of inferiority. While trying to pack for CU I came across my unfinished Halloween album. I only had one year left to do of the Halloween pictures I had, and I just wrapped it up! I don't think I've ever finished an album before, and I am pretty happy with it. Here are 4 more layouts, and three of them have at least one element from Marieke's original October kit. 2003 was the year Shaughn and I got married (we were on our honeymoon over Halloween), 2004 and 2005 were just the two of us being silly, and 2010 was a craziest year yet (as evidenced by a hectic and crowded layout... I need to work on my editing).







Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Theresa's October Results

Layout (4 pages): Steve Skalle

I was quite ambivalent when I started to look through the October kit. I was giddy because there were so many possibilities! Conversely, I was also a bit confounded because I had *no* idea what to do with any of it. The main reason is that I didn't have much in the way of Halloween inspired photos to scrap. None, in recent memory. From this - and a fortuitous trip to BL - the idea of Steve Skalle was born. Did I mention recently developing a crush on the show "Bones"? Ah well - that was part of it too, I suppose.

We carried Steve all around with us the week prior to and of Anthony's birthday. He got jiggy at Anthony's birthday party and hitched a ride all the way to South Lake Tahoe for Halloween weekend. It's a shame he didn't get into the Rock Sugar concert. What I've shown here are the antics that arrived with Steve - giving Anthony and I some of the most unforgettable photo moments this side of 30. In these 4 layouts I was challenged to stretch that 24 inches of black spider border to the full 32 outside inches of the project. Not my favorite end result this year - but I so do enjoy those pictures. :-)

Pages 1 and 2


Pages 3 and 4




Card (1/1)

I couldn't stop with the layout because there are so many more nifty elements in the October kit! Instead, I went ahead and made a birthday card for a good friend. I know it's unconventional - but so is she (so I hope it's a hit!).



Monday, October 18, 2010

Marieke's October Results

Okay, so I know my layout isn't new, but I did manage to get a few cards done this month, too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, another one for Kurt's album, which you've all seen.

No, his album will never be done. I have come to realize and accept this.



The outlining was done with my white Sukura Souffle gel pen. Not really much else to say about this one.


And some Halloween cards:



I drew the ghost and cut him out - I used an image I found online and hand-drew him looking from computer screen to paper.

I did an image search in google for the sheet music and printed out a pic of it onto the lavender paper by copying and pasting it into a word doc. I think it came out pretty cute and I might just do this again in the future.

For the white circle with "Happy Halloween!" written on it, I made the circular text in paint.net (which is a freeware program very similar to photoshop - hey, when you're budget conscious, you gotta know where to go to get the free stuff!). I had to go to the paint.net forum and download a special package of plug-ins to get the the text to go in a circle, but I'm glad this club is pushing me to do more things like that. Might I just say that, like most forums, you'd better use the search function there. People get so snippy when you ask a simple question about curved text. No, I didn't post a question (I know how to use the search function on forums as I've been a member on some where they're equally bitchy about such things) but I ran across some newbies who got chastised for daring to ask about curved text on a help forum. Hello. You're supposed to ask questions on a help forum.



Yeah - not my favorite, but whatever. Done is better than never, as they say.




I came across this thank you paper while doing a search for something totally unrelated - I can't remember what now, but I remember thinking, "What is that doing here?" I liked it and it reminded me of some of the text stuff T has done, so I decided to go with it. Plus, I wanted to make something unrelated to Halloween, so this is it. I used my circle punch for the petals, I just folded under part of the circle, which worked well because it gave the card a 3-D look. Again, I used my Sukura Souffle gel pen to do the dots.

Here's the image of the thank you paper in case one of you wants to make a thank you card with it. First, I made it big by clicking on it, then I just right clicked on it, copied it, and pasted it into a word document. Easy peasy. Next, I hit print. It comes out a little larger than what you need for a 4.25 x 5.5 card (which is one of the most common sizes).

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Claudia's October Results

I *loved* this kit. I have wanted to make a Halloween album, and I took the kit as a sign from above (or up north) to get started. Thank you, Marieke! The album is 8x8, and I was able to make 1 single page layout and 4 double page layouts. (Yes, I went a little crazy.) I used the minitags to label the year, one layout per holiday.

2001: I hid the journaling; the second picture shows the page with the flap open. This was the first time I've used clear stamps, which I really liked. I don't do a lot of stamping, but I can definitely see myself getting into it.



2006: I used the yellow cardstock in to kit to "light up" the felt jack-o'lanterns.



2007 - I used the clear stamps to make the spider border. And I really loved the spiderweb punched border! I used every last bit.



2008: The right side didn't turn out how I had hoped. I know I kept the green cape I made for Gavin, but I can't find it. I had hoped to use some of the fabric on the layout. (Shaughn suggested making a mini-cape as an embellishment, which I thought was adorable... I knew he had the makings of a scrapper!)



2009: Here's the rest of the spiderweb border!



Thank you again, Marieke! Your kit really inspired me.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

October Kit

I'm working a little ahead here. I was so far behind and don't want that to happen again. I know the next week or so is going to be very busy since I have to go back down to California for the wedding. I have a million things to do before then and now, so I thought I would just post this a little early and get one more thing crossed off my list.

I can't believe it's almost October. Yikes! This year has sped by so fast! As for the kit, this was definitely my favorite kit to put together. Not surprisingly, it is the most loaded, too. The only difficulty I had was that Halloween paper is kinda hard to come by in June, though I just found some at Joann's I wish I had known about. (Although, who knows if it was in stock back then.) I had fun and I hope you have fun with it as well. I've already made my layout, but will wait to post it again (it's on my personal blog, already).

Happy Halloween!!!


1. Paper

patterned: Halloween-themed (5 different patterns)

plain: 2 sheets of black cardstock (Not pictured)



Extra paper:

Plain: 2 sheets of lavender printer paper, 1 6x12 orange cardstock, 4 mats (yellow, orange, purple and green).

Embossed: 2 mats - orange pumpkins and yellow skulls



2. Ribbon

1 black polka dot organza

1 orange stitched

1 thin orange and white striped



3. Brads and Bling

4 silver round brads

4 orange flower brads

1 silver witch charm

2 jump rings for use with witch (if she'll fit) or orange tags

5 tiny orange tags



4. Embellishments

1 package of Jolees Halloween costumes

1 m&m's candy shaker box

8 Halloween-themed chipboard embellishments

1 felt strip of pumpkins

2 punched borders of spider webs





5. Titles

1 cricut die-cut title, "Spooky"



6. Sentiments & Phrases

1 sheet of Halloween-themed glitter stickers

1 package of Halloween-themed acrylic stamps