Packing Packing Packing!!!

So we're totally excited!!!  Off to my 3rd Paperie Scrapbook Retreat at the Wilds this weekend!  What a treat!  And being escorted by my wonderful Husband Cecil.  All my buddies in St.John's will be there, who could ask for more!  Photos and layouts to follow!  I'm challenging myself to complete at least 20 layouts this time around!  Wish me luck!!!!!

Challenge from Charmaine

So this weeks challenge on Memories Matter was to create a layout that used Kraft paper, scraps, black pen journaling and bling.  So I went on line and searched around for what a Kraft paper layout would look like.  I don't have any Kraft paper in my stash, never ever bought a piece that I can remember.  But I checked just to be sure.  Nope...nada. So I picked out a piece of beige paper that almost resembled Kraft paper. 

I found a really nice piece of pattern paper with circles (which had orange...I was on the hunt for orange pp, I didn't have much) and I found a piece of pattern paper similar in colors that was striped.  Also I grabbed a half sheet of orange and a cut up piece of black that I had. 

I sat down and search all around for things that were cut out of black.  I knew that I would have to cut out my title, because my hand journaling just isn't up to par...and I love cutting. 

I found it.. the Boo.  It was perfect.  Seen it on a layout on Two Peas and drew it with my black pen on my black paper and then cut it out.  Ocieanna sat with me in awe and watched every move I made. 

Then I found another layout with those bats and stars... perfect!  Again with the hand cutting, just eyeing it and it turned out just like I wanted. 

Journaling...where was I to put the journaling?  Well I also seen on a layout on Two Peas what looked like a chip board tree on a Halloween Layout.  So I started with my knife, no drawing this time.  It's hard to cut when your blade tip is broken...but I didn't want to mess around and stop then. 

Placed down my photo, drew the black lines around the photo, Ocieanna placed on the title, placed on the circles, bats, stars and then the tree branches.  Ahh...the perfect place for the journaling, above the branches.  I hate my own journaling style, so I decided to do a creepy squiggly font, that way the messiness was a deliberate one.  :)  Complete!  Oh wait...the challenge asked for bling.  I reached to the bottom of my scrap bag and found some orange glue glitter and did every part of the circles which was orange.  ahhhh....now it's complete! 

And here it is!!!!  I love it.  It's mine, scraplifted elements from Two Peas, and the awe of a little girl on my side.  Perfection!

Now to clean this mess! 

Happy Halloween!!!!

Wow! That came fast and sure went fast. Halloween was here and gone before I even got one single decoration up. Ok ... that's a lie. My dad bought us this scary guy that pop out of some prison bars screaming hey let me out of here, so that was hanging in my hall way...and the scarecrow wreath which I won at our MAI party was hanging. :) So not all bad!

So the kids had a wonderful halloween. Filled with treats of course. Most of the festivities were cancelled due to the H1N1 scare this year. But we still got to go out Trick or Treating. Here are my little vampires!

Friday night however we took a little time out of our busy schedule to carve our pumpkins. The kids had a blast. Jadian did a scary pumpkin, Ocieanna did a cat pumpkin and Kadyn did a pumpkin with 6 eyes!

And then there was mommy and daddy time. Cecil played for the annual Barn Halloween Party
and that meant I got an invitation! I had a ball! And here's my costume...scary???