Holiday Recipe Cards Swap

I am participating in a Holiday Cookie Recipe Card Swap. I was to make  a recipe card with a fave cookie and send to 3 people. Well, apparently, silly me read make 3 recipe cards and send to 3 people. LOL  Better more cookies than less, right? SO here are my 3 recipe cards.

 #1 is my Great Grandma's Molasses Cookies.....wouldn't be Christmas without them for our family.

#2 is my always requested White Chocolate Macadamia Temptations Cookies....soooo good.

 #3 is a favorite from a friend for Scrumptious Peanut Butter Cookie Pop.....fun AND delicious.

  

Here is the coordinating envie I made for them! Anywho....enjoy.

Twisted Sister Gift Package

I recently had the pleasure of joining a "Twisted Sister Halloween Secret Package Swap. Here are the goodies I made for my Twisted Sister.

Before and After Resin Tombstone from Dollar Tree



Lenticular pic embellished (scary view)



Lenticular pic embellished (normal view)



Candy Goodies




Candy Label




Test Tube 'Potions'




Maniacal Laughing coffin with 'skelton' key :)




Outside of Coffin




All packaged up in a GITD Pumpkin Treat Bag



Halloween Card for a friend....

....I sent a care package to a far away friend for Halloween. Here is the simple, but I think effective card I made for her!!  :) I LOVE this graphic!!  The inside simply says:  If the shoe fits....

2 new altered composition book journals for lotteries

I have 2 ART groups with monthly winner take all lotteries. The themes for this month were "Birds" and "Celebrate Life, Make ART."  Here are my entries for the lotteries.

First up is for the Bird Lottery:




Front




Back


And here is the Celebrate Life, Make ART entry:




Front



Back

I really enjoy making these journals.

Dia de los Muertos Shrine



Here is my entry for a recent Dia de los Muertos ART Shrine swap. I used a cigar box for my base and went crazy from there. :)



Front



Close up

Close up

Inside Right

Inside left

Inside



Spine







Back



I LOVE Dollar Tree & Halloween on the worktable....

Okay......I LOVE Dollar Tree!!  But that's not the first time you've heard that, right??  Thought I would share what is on the worktable today and some of the goodies I found at Dollar Tree.

First I found this creepy black cloth that makes great cobwebs and backgrounds.

I can't get enough of these skeleton garland guys....isn't it funny how the one guy is raising his leg.....looks like a Spooky Rockettes Line!!  LOL

I think these creepy hands are cool too.....the can be linked together too.....

One of the coolest finds are these resin (?) tombstones....they are uber spooky!! They are about 6 inches tall. I have begun embellishing two of them. :)

But the best are these "glamorously" framed lenticular pics.....totally cool to find @ D.T.  Lenticular pics look like a normal portrait until you tilt them or change your line of vision and then the image changes. I was mesmerized and inspired. Best part was went I checked out and I had $13 worth of goodies.....how 'bout that?? 

Also on the table are last years 90% off clearance goodies like ribbon, spooky eyes napkins and bags of smalls (bats, skellies, spiders, rings.....).

I am working on a mixed media cigar box shrine that you can see in the works. So far I have painted it gray, sprayed it with Walnut Hollow black antiquing spray and sealed it with matte acrylic sealer. The inside has an all over spooky eye napkin Mod Podged  into the back and sprinkled with glitter. It was too bright so I antiqued it as well.

I have made 2 hanglie danglies (ART Piece with something that, well, hangs or dangles from it). I am psyched......and having fun with Halloween on the table for today anyway!! 

Altered Patriotic Cabinet Cards

Just thought I'd stop by and share my latest foray into the world of ink, glitter and glue. I signed up to create 3 Patriotic Cabinet Cards. It was my first attempt at altering them. I think there is good and bad in the results, but they are finished and ready to go postal tomorrow. Without further fanfare.....here they are:

Playing with Paper.....Woot! Woot!

Playing with paper??  Who knew!!  I have been super busy making goodies for our new business:  ARTful Salvage. (I should be updating that blog today or tomorrow too!) I wanted to participate, as I can, in my 2 Yahoo ART groups. So without further ado....here are my latest creations.

I signed up for another round of corner bookmarks. They are fun and quick to make. These were created from a text print handmade envie and embellsiehd with Miss Mona, photo corners, postage stamps, dymo labels and sequins. You can find the directions here and view my other bookmarks in my previous post.

Each of my 2 groups have a monthly lottery with a chosen theme by the past month's winner. Lottery #1 was themed "Nature". I took a composition book and made a journal using some of my gorgeous stash of Mariposa paper. It is embellished with ric-rac, acrylic stamps and my always present glitter. :)

Journal #2 was for the theme "Patriotic". I used an amazing wallpaper border for collage pieces and pen stitched them. Again, ric-rac and glitter finish it off.

Both journals are tied up with ribbon clousres and have coordinating liner pages. Hope you enjoyed a peek at my latests ART. Now, I am back to making stained glass windows, etched mirrors and bowling gazing balls for ARTful Salvage. See 'ya!!