Mini Clip boards craft

From plain and boring to bursting with color!  I found these adorable mini clipboards at AC Moore.  I knew I could have fun with them!  So, I purchased some acrylic paints and some Mod Podge, came home and got to work!  I used a sponge brush to paint the front and sides of the clipboard with acrylic paint. I used my "effervesence" border punch to decorate the edge of the K and Co. decorative paper (berry sweet stack).  I "mod podged" the paper to the clipboard and then put two coats of mod podge over the top of it and the sides.  I then used my terrifically tacky tape and stuck it around the entire side of the board and carefully sprinkled hot pink glitter on top of it.  I tied a bow around the clip and hot glued it into place. Finally, I cut my daughter's initials out of vinyl using SCAL and the curlz font and placed it at the bottom of the board.   If I make another one (which I KNOW I will), I will shortern the paper and place the intials on just the painted surface so they show up better.  On the back I put strips of magnet down the sides so she can hang it in her locker!  :)  Isn't it cute?? :)

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King Charles Cavalier Spaniel card for my mom:)

My mother's birthday was this past Friday and she got a beautiful King Charles Cavalier Spaniel.  His name is Ringo... appropriate since my mother is English and grew up during the Beatles craze!  I found a clipart of the spaniel online, imported the bitmap into Inkscape, traced the bitmap and then imported it into SCAL and messed around with it, breaking it apart, and pulling out just the pieces I thought would cut well.  Wow!  what a hassle!!  But, I think the end result was great!  The background newspaper cardstock was from K&Company's "life's a journey" stack, as is the blue scalloped edge paper that reminds me of an English garden!

Halloween Treat Bags- Pumpkin Poop!

Good Morning!  I went to the Dollar Tree this weekend and found little ziplock bags with candy corn printed on them and just HAD to buy them... I knew there would be a craft out there that I could use them for!  I was right!  Kerry's Paper Crafts had one!  I've made 40 of these now for my girls to give to their classmates.
I'm entering this little idea for Momo's Tuesday Challenge- to make anything EXCEPT a card.

The Pumpkin Poop poem is found easily on a google search.  The pumpkin font I found at fontspace.com.  The jack-o-lantern came from Paper Doll Dress Up and was cut at 1.5 inches.  I just know those preschoolers and 4th graders are going to get a giggle out of these!! :)

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Halloween Wall Hanging

I'm having so much fun with the cute craft ideas everyone is coming up with for Halloween!  Mary at CardzTV made a wall hanging and I wanted to make one for my daughter's teacher... I hope she llikes it!

Click on each photo to see it enlarged and in more detail.

The cute Halloween characters came from SVGcuts.com.  The "spooky" font is called Bacon... yep, that's grease that's drippin', not blood! LOL!

My Halloween Wreath!

Over a week ago, I saw Momo's Halloween Wreath and fell in love!  I don't have the Mini Monster's or any other halloween cartridge, but there is quite a bit on the Paper Doll Dress Up cartridge for halloween.  I cut out a bunch of little halloween stuff, found an SVG file for Happy Halloween, and handcut BOO from a piece of printed cardstock.  That pile was sitting on my craft desk for over a week!!  FINALLY, yesterday, I hit Hobby Lobby for the first time ever!  WOW!  The store just opened Friday and it was packed!  I was able to find the grapevine wreath, the black glitter tulle, the orange glittered wire ribbon and the grosgrain ribbon quickly.  So, here it is first thing Sunday morning and I hot glued it all together!  Thanks for the great idea, Momo!