Here's wishing you a safe and festive Halloween! My favorite part of Halloween is pumpkins. And roasted pumpkin seeds! I'll be picking the pumpkins from the garden, and roasting up some seeds. Yay!
As for the card details, I still had the sheet music, die cut machine, and glitter out (actually, glitter is everywhere ... had a little glitter "accident") so I put together this cheery little 3.5"x5" Halloween card using many of the same supplies I used to create my gingerbread boy tags, and the pumpkin die cut from Sizzix. The orange and yellow patterned paper is from October Afternoon, and the sentiment is from my Spooky Expressions cling set from Whipper Snapper. The leaves I used on the pumpkins were made using an old paper punch from Anna Griffin called "leaf". Imagine that!
I used big, thick glue dots to adhere the pumpkins to the base of the card, to give them lots of dimension. Chunky pumpkins. Gotta love 'um! And I put a bit of bend in the sentiment banner, just for fun.
Happy Halloween!!
Ooh, I have those pumpkin dies! I love this! Love the pp you used for the pumpkins, the sheet music paper, the glitter! Yummy!
Posted by: Danielle | November 03, 2010 at 07:35 PM
Love those different shaped pumpkin dies! And the papers you used are awesome too! Thanks for sharing.
Posted by: Shellie Daniel | November 02, 2010 at 09:39 PM
Hi Anna! I found your sweet, lovely blog through Crafty Secrets! I'm so glad you're the guest designer for the month, or I wouldn't have met you :) I love your soft, shabby style as I do it as much as I can too. It's not easy to find girls who execute the style this well! Thank you for sharing your lovely creations!
hugs,
Viola
Posted by: Viola Mahr | November 02, 2010 at 03:26 AM
ALMOST inspiring enough to get me to get my act together and create something with the 12 tons of paper that I found when I started to contemplate what was "necessary" in my new home. Key word is "almost"...
Thanks for being one of THE BEST stampers around - - having chickens and DK helps, though.
Posted by: nise | November 01, 2010 at 04:40 PM
I thought the stars and gingerbread people were fantastic, but these pumpkins take the cake!! The OA papers are just perfect for them. I have to go right now and dig through my chip board stash.
Happy Halloween!
Posted by: Anette Eakins | October 31, 2010 at 06:15 PM
Lovely pumpkins and great paper. Mmmmm I love pumpkin seeds!!!!
Posted by: Kimberly O'Rosky | October 31, 2010 at 06:02 PM
I think all this ginger bread and stars and glitter stuff is leading up to another go around with the hand cookies with the folded fingers! Sure you becha! Not since your college days have we had any "finger doodles" cookies. Tis the season!
Posted by: DK Wight | October 31, 2010 at 04:48 PM
Anna!! I love it every time you post!!
Posted by: Janine | October 31, 2010 at 09:42 AM
Hi Kathy!
Nope... thats pretty much what I do, too!
Mmmmmmmmm!!! :)
Thanks!
-Anna.
Posted by: SweetMissDaisy | October 31, 2010 at 09:27 AM
Hi Gabi!!
Its not DP ... its ripped right out of an old book of music.
Hard to do..... but once ya start, it gets easier and easier!!
It made it a little easier that the cover was falling off the book. *grin*
Thanks!
-Anna.
Posted by: SweetMissDaisy | October 31, 2010 at 09:24 AM
more gorgeous stuff with that paper! I love the pumpkins!
Posted by: Dee in N.H. | October 31, 2010 at 07:20 AM
Happy Halloween. Enjoy those pumpkins! Hugs...
Posted by: Carol Dee | October 31, 2010 at 07:01 AM
Thanks so much for the glitter info Anna. I can't wait to make some Christmas tags :)
Posted by: Rachel (Gingerbread Gal) | October 31, 2010 at 06:57 AM
I'm head over heels (again) over your pumpkins on sheet music card. Oh my word, these are fantastic! I wonder if that's regular sheet music or if it's DP you purchased somewhere - reason I ask is because both my mother and my little Minime are musicians. My daughter is a member of the local children's orchestra and performs at the Kennedy Center in DC. I think it's about time I start using sheet music too (for cards). I love your ideas.
Posted by: Gabriela (Gabi With An Eye) | October 31, 2010 at 06:16 AM
be still my heart! you're rockin' the vintage glittered look! (and I have an accident with glitter pretty much every time I use it...I almost pointed out the perma-glitter spots in my craft room tour yesterday).
Posted by: Kelly Bee | October 31, 2010 at 06:00 AM
You did such a great job with this that the pumpkins looked 3 dimensional in the thumbnail.
Posted by: Jill Haddad | October 31, 2010 at 05:42 AM
I still have a ton of OA papers...thanks for the inspiration to see my OA papers in a different season. Beautiful card!
Posted by: Mary Duffek | October 31, 2010 at 05:30 AM
Great card! Love those pumpkin leaves, glitter and sheet music! Would you share your pumpkin seed recipe? I'm wondering if it's better than my way of roasting them with a slab of butter and seasoned salt? Do you do anything different?
Posted by: Kathy Martin | October 31, 2010 at 05:14 AM
Hi Rachel,
On recent projects, Im using Martha Stewart course crystal glitter. It comes in a glass jar, from Michaels.
Ive found that some of the MS glitter kits also have a course crystal glitter, but the glitter pieces in those small kit bottles are much larger than the glitter thats in the larger, glass bottle...
Hope this helps! :)
Thanks!
-Anna.
Posted by: SweetMissDaisy | October 31, 2010 at 01:12 AM
Stunning! I love the sparkle. What kind of glitter are you using? I have to get some. Beautiful card!
Posted by: Rachel (Gingerbread Gal) | October 31, 2010 at 12:52 AM